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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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Effigy

Roberto Rodriguez-Estrada

On Friday she decided to risk the blessing of her mother’s beating. Left the washing on the clothesline out back despite the rain. She knew well what was coming, her retribution: her mother’s handprint on her cheek, bruises stamped round her throat, welts branded on her thighs.

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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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