Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Prose and Commentary
Volume 13
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Cover Art
Linearly/Painterly I (detail), Cara Romano,
Mixed media painting and collage on canvas
68” x 68”, 2005–06
(see page 63 for a view of the installation)
- Comments on Steve Myers’
“Bloc: A Theology in Four Movements”
Lia Purpura
- 2006 Robert J. DeMott Short Prose Contest Winner
Steve Myers
Bloc: A Theology in Four Movements
- 2nd Place: Amy Locklin
Gallus gallus and Their Vanishing
- 3rd Place: Cynthia Reeves
Crossing to Minister’s Island
- Maureen Seaton
Lorraine Hansberry’s Grave
Illinois
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Derek White
This All Could Fit in a Wadded Tissue
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Bonnie Emerick
The story of any hunter.
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Mary Domenico
Infidelity: Mathew’s Algorithm in Three Parts
- Ángel Crespo (tr. Steven J. Stewart)
Tropical Impression
The Lavender
- Girija Tropp
Body Heat
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Daniel Hales
Guided Tour
- Cynthia Nichols
Notes Toward Fearlessness
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David Lazar
Ballad of a Narrative
Nocturne II
When I Married Johnny Reno
Xmas
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Roy Scheele
The Sledgehammer
Bucket of Snow
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Lily Hoang
News: October 11, 2005
- Artwork
Annette Gaspers
a stillness
a stillness (detail)
breath
breath (detail)
a single line . . . (detail)
a single line . . . (detail)
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Cara Romano
School of Athens (detail)
Linearly/Painterly I, II, and III (installation view)
Seven-Hour Sunrise
“How the mists do fly about”
“How the mists do fly about” (detail)
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Adriane Shramm
Belly in my Brain, Brain in my Belly
Panic Waits in the Bone Cage
Cream Wet Whips
Cream Wet Whips (detail)
Intestinal Festival
Squirms Get Free
- Interview
Catherine Taylor
Interview with Susan Stewart
- Julie Stotz-Ghosh
Haiku Sequence for Snow
Ultrasound
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Bill Rector
homage to Zbigniew Herbert
Fuck School
heartland
particle or wave goodbye
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Gary Noland
Old World Capers: A Chamber Vignette for Narrator and Ad Hoc Variable Ensemble (Op. 75)
- Jill Sisson Quinn
Sugaring Off
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Steve Myers
Woodcut with Three Figures
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Leif Erickson Rigney
The Writer’s Guide to Making Toast
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Book Reviews
Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker, edited by Amy Scholder, Carla Harryman, and Avital Ronell
Review by Michell Ward
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Claire Bateman’s Leap
Review by Carrie Oeding
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John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise
Review by Erin K. McGuire
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Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and
Incredibly Close
Review by Kurt Sampsel
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Genichiro Takahashi’s Sayonara, Gangsters
Review by Megan L. Titus
- Contributors
- Tribute
Robert J. Demott