her toes are not the lobes of autobiography (An ingrown toenail?) that is, a history (An ingrown toenail?) like Ginger Rogers in Swingtime this: the flooding into the flooding and shriek! shriek! God must have a big eye to see everything that is, a history A shipwreck in Haven a shape made of links, elongated […]
Issue 63
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton: Interview with a Comic Strip Diva
We sat down with Olive Oyl at her home in Chester, Illinois. We were struck by the graceful reserve with which she served us herbal tea, her quiet yet sparkling generosity. MS: Ms. Oyl, you’ve been called the skinniest thing in boots. Do you find this interferes with your self-esteem? OO: Did you ask General […]
Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton: Hillbilling and Cooing (1956)
Olive gulps spinach when a hillbilly gal steals Popeye the Sailor away from her and lays Swee’pea on her shoulder like sacked flour, cooing in her Patsy Cline legato: I’m the bitch goddess who’ll break your heart. Kudzu blooms (this episode takes place in the South) and everyone, even Wimpy, drinks fresh lemonade. Olive’s victorious […]
Nate Chinen: On the Eve of John Coltrane’s 70th Birthday
and what is this that what is what is this that this that holds us together keeps the morning after lover the springtime walking a fine line the other guy the someday my two hips the smoking on the bus choking like the too hip junkie the wise one the always transcendent ultraviolet incandescent the […]
Amy Beeder: Blanca
She used to make him eggs with flowers. Wild white bulbs, pearl & ivory blossoms, beetle and night’s moth-mated buds that opened in the quick exchange of liquid yolk for omelet. Now when he hears her name he thinks of creamy flower buds unfolding sour & reluctant among fiddleheads or flame softening into fragrant oily […]
Scott Walden: Unsettled: Photographs of Newfoundland’s Resettled Communities
In Newfoundland during the 1960s you could look out over the ocean and see houses floating by. But natural disasters weren’t the explanation for such odd sights, governments were. For soon after Newfoundland joined Canada in 1949 the federal and provincial governments colluded to centralize the island’s population, moving people from isolated fishing villages to […]