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Our Pushcart Nominations for 2018

Your Impossible Voice is thrilled to announce this year’s nominations for the Pushcart Prize."The Rapist’s Dog" by Sara Kachelman (Your Impossible Voice #16, Winter 2018)"In the Garden of Earthly Delights," by Luisa A. Igloria (Your Impossible Voice #16, Winter...

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Issue 18 | Fall 2018

Issue 18 features work by Joanna Ruocco, Miguel Barnet (translated by George Henson), Ricardo Piglia (translated by Robert Croll), Lise Gauvin (translated by Aliya Esmail), Dia Felix, Brooks Sterritt, Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada, Molly Yingling, Silver Damsen, Rob McClure Smith, Amitai ben-Abba, July Westhale, Martina Reisz, Thomas March, Adam Clay, Elizabeth Spires, and Mia Ayumi Malhotra. Cover art by Sean Casey.

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life of i

Elizabeth Spires

i.
i left the capital hurrying away i carried nothing
a dark night before me a dark dark night
but when morning came i stood free & alone
casting a seven-league shadow west

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I

Elizabeth Spires

You stand so straight and tall
and from afar you could be
a column, but up close I can’t tell
how tall you are. I run my hands

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Bind yourself to us with your impossible voice, your voice! sole soother of this vile despair.

—Arthur Rimbaud, “Phrases

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