Issue 138
Summer & Fall 2010
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Welcome to the debut issue of TriQuarterly Online. After a distinguished history as an international literary magazine, this university-sponsored print journal, which has been edited by Charles Newman, Elliott Anderson, Reginald Gibbons, and Susan Hahn, now launches in electronic form. You'll find outstanding new fiction, creative nonfiction, poetry, and drama, plus book reviews, interviews, commentary, and a lively blog. The electronic format also allows us to present work from TriQuarterly's extensive print archives. We hope you enjoy this new form of what has been one of the premier literary journals of the nation, and we look forward to receiving your comments and responses on our blog.
Faculty Advisers: Gina Frangello, Susan Harris
Managing Editor: Cheryl Reed
Technical Adviser: Matt Wood
Copy Editor: A. C. Parker
Staff: Charles Berret, Danielle Burhop, Aaron DeLee, Tedd Hawks, Julianne Hill, Sarah Jenkins, Mimi Nguyen, Dana Norris, Hana Park, Lana Rakhman, Ankur Thakkar, Stephanie Tran, Gina Vozenilek, Jeremy Wilson, Whitney Youngs, Nate Zoba
The Body Electric
Plot me: (x,0) (0,x) on the body
the body pumping: blood type O (one hopes) the body
processing: O (element)
Proofs for Spring
I.
Descending frost to freshet, vernal-laved
deluging—Had we empty hands we’d shred
delphiniums and let the petals (frayed,
depleted), hard perfume the waterbed,
Ode on Pride (In Triplicate)
turn
There is nothing to be said about it.
Streamed wind and waterspray duetting hard
against the house. These days are clipped
from someone’s fowler’s snare—that is,
with cruel abandon, rags and bones (no heart).