Quarter After Eight: A Journal of Prose and Commentary

Volume 13

• 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
  
• Derek White
  This All Could Fit in a Wadded Tissue
  
• Bonnie Emerick
     The story of any hunter.
  
• Mary Domenico
  Infidelity: Mathew’s Algorithm in Three Parts
  
• Ángel Crespo (tr. Steven J. Stewart)
  Tropical Impression
  The Lavender
• Girija Tropp
  Body Heat
  
• Daniel Hales
  Guided Tour
  
• Cynthia Nichols
  Notes Toward Fearlessness
  
• David Lazar
  Ballad of a Narrative
  Nocturne II
  When I Married Johnny Reno
  Xmas
  
• Roy Scheele
  The Sledgehammer
  Bucket of Snow
  
• 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)
  
• 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)
  
• 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
  
• Bill Rector
  homage to Zbigniew Herbert
  Fuck School
  heartland
  particle or wave goodbye
  
• Gary Noland
  Old World Capers: A Chamber Vignette for Narrator and Ad Hoc Variable Ensemble (Op. 75)
  
• Jill Sisson Quinn
  Sugaring Off
  
• Steve Myers
  Woodcut with Three Figures
  
• Leif Erickson Rigney
  The Writer’s Guide to Making Toast
• Book Reviews
  Lust for Life: On the Writings of Kathy Acker, edited by Amy Scholder, Carla Harryman, and Avital Ronell
  Review by Michell Ward
  
• Claire Bateman’s Leap
  Review by Carrie Oeding
  
• John Hodgman’s The Areas of My Expertise
  Review by Erin K. McGuire
  
• Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud and
  Incredibly Close
  Review by Kurt Sampsel
  
• Genichiro Takahashi’s Sayonara, Gangsters
  Review by Megan L. Titus
• Contributors
• Tribute
  Robert J. Demott