Travellers in a Strange Land
in which John Metcalf visits the museum at the end of the world, Carrie Synder dives in the dark, and Shoshanna Wingate walks on the other side of the tracks.
+ THE WRITER AT LARGE: Mark Anthony Jarman in Rome
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Travellers in a Strange Land, There's a transport of thim in this issue. What are they doing? Trying to ward off stray dogs, child soldiers, unsettling insights, diarrhea. Forging temporary alliances. Attempting to crack the code of an unfamiliar, sometimes threatening culture. How are they travelling? Through space and time--foraging in the dustbins of memory where their younger selves try to divine something of the strange and estranging world of adults, discovering that memory itself is in motion, buffeted by need, longing, loss, misinformation, misunderstanding, or omission.
In this issue: We await the revolution with Patricia Robertson, avoid projectile party vomit with Mark Anthony Jarman, plunder the past with Carrie Snyder, explore imagery with Shoshanna Wingate, visit the museum at the end of the world with John Metcalf, and scan the heavens with Erling Friis-Baastad. Plus fiction by Mark Rogers, and poetry by M. Travis Lane, Patrick M. Pilarski, Susan Stenson, and Tom Wayman.
RELATED READING: Travellers in a Strange Land
"A Vietnam Story" by Ethan Parke, on teaching English and learning Vietnamese. (Web Exclusive)
During my five weeks in Vietnam I never met another American. I liked it that way. I stayed mostly in Ho Chi Minh City-home to 11 million people. I lived in an 8-room hotel well away from the tourist areas. I ate in basic open-front restaurants, took a motorbike taxi when I wanted to go somewhere, and above all, I met people and talked. I met so many wonderful people-young and old-I could hardly bear to board the plane for the long journey back to Vermont.
Why was I in Vietnam? Everywhere I went I was asked that question and I never had a sufficient answer. Read full text here.
Inside this Issue
Features:
Carrie Snyder: the juliet stories
7 Rat
16 The Ecstatic
25 How Hot the Sun
35 Afterword: On Writing the Juliet Stories
John Metcalf: A Life in Letters
72 David O’rourke - In His Corner, Still Standing: John Metcalf at 70 (Interview)
92 John Metcalf - The Museum at the End of the World
In Shoshanna Wingate’s Secret Garden
52 Barbara Carter - In Shoshanna Wingate’s Secret Garden: an Interview
60 Shoshanna Wingate - Three Poems
Fiction
37 Mark Rogers Bloemgracht
Poetry
65 M. Travis Lane - Four Poems
69 Patrick M. Pilarski - Three Poems
116 Susan Stenson - Two Poems
120 Tom Wayman - My Wounds
Magazine as Muse
122 Erling Friis-Baastad - My Journey To The Exoplanets
126 Patricia Robertson - Aiding and Abetting
The Writer at Large
133 Mark Anthony Jarman - Party Barge
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