Issue 29 | Fall 2023
and finally, life emerging
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu
Translated by Domnica Radulescu
from its shell the golden sand—
what rapacious
dream
troubles my solitary
cold
: everywhere a prophet
the lines the crosses
the circles
*
under the eyelid the city is swarming
the trains are stopping and leaving
a tear is shining
a stone is falling :
the gestures the words
the metaphors
don’t move
daylight will arrive
eternal daylight
About the Author
Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, a Romanian-American poet with a PhD in French, is the author of many collections of poetry published in the United States, Romania, and France. She writes poetry in English, French, and Romanian, though she does not translate any of her work between languages. Her poems have appeared in a variety of literary magazines in the United States, France, Belgium, Luxembourg, and Romania. Her two latest poetry collections, I Scrape the Window of Nothingness (2018) and Traveling With the Ghosts (2021), were published by Orison Books. A Cry in the Snow, translated from the French by Luke Hankins (Un cri dans la neige, Editions du Cygne, Paris), was published in 2018 by Seagull Books Press.
About the Translator
Domnica Radulescu is a Romanian-born American writer and distinguished service professor of French and comparative literature at Washington and Lee University. She is the author of three critically acclaimed novels, Train to Trieste (Knopf 2008 & 2009), Black Sea Twilight (Transworld 2011 & 2012), and Country of Red Azaleas (Hachette 2016), and of award-winning plays. Train to Trieste has been published in thirteen languages and is the winner of the 2009 Library of Virginia Fiction Award. Radulescu also published fourteen nonfiction books, edited and co-edited collections on topics ranging from the tragic heroine in Western literature to feminist comedy to studies of exile literature, and three collections of original plays. She is twice a Fulbright scholar.
Prose
Excerpt from novel-in-progress Plastic Soul: On the Destructive Nature of Lava James Nulick
About the About Mary Burger
Ellipse, DC Denis Tricoche
Excerpt from My Women Yuliia Iliukha translated by Hanna Leliv
In the East John Gu
Fire Trances Iliana Vargas, translated by Lena Greenberg and Michelle Mirabella
Excerpt from Concentric Macroscope Kelly Krumrie
Autumn Juan José Saer, translated by Will Noah
Pen Afsana Begum, translated by Rifat Munim
The Game Warden Michael Loyd Gray
Current and Former Associates William M. McIntosh
Take Care Laura Zapico
Poetry
I am writing the dream Stella Vinitchi Radulescu, translated by Domnica Radulescu
and finally, life emerging
and the night begins
Letter to the Soil Skye Gilkerson
A Flight Adam Day
The World Ariana Den Bleyker
What We Held in Common Justin Vicari
The Shame of Loving Another Poet
How to Keep Going Rebecca Macijeski
How to Lose Your Fear of Death
How to Paint the Sky
Eternal Life Cletus Crow
Cover Art
Deep Dive Ayshia Müezzin