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WESTERN HUMANITIES REVIEW
Volume LXII,
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Number 2
Editors'Note
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Passion Play: The City ............
Passion Play: The King
Passion Play: Song for the Royal Concubine
...................... 6
The Return
Servitude
Kate
Lim
10
Untitled (print)
Fall-Out
.. Caitlin Dube
........
Chad
45
Tolley 47
Fayre Makeig 12
Sacrum
The Second Nighf
(print)
..........Steve Lockett 48
Walking on the River Amur
From the Proofreader
From A Song of llan (a novel) ....Contest Winner in Prose..... Jacob Paul 49
First Impression: The Anonymous
From Ray of the Star (a
RadioFlyers (print)
Digging Up Alberto
Tip (print) ......... Elizabeth DeWitte l5
novel)
..... Laird Hunt
.........
TrentCall
Caeiro
Surfaces and Depths: Literary
Personhood
........
Untitled (print)
Corresponding Parts (print)
16
Panis Angelicus
23
Untitled
(print)
65
Patrick Madden 66
.. Alison Derryet
77
...........
Alice DeBerry Kane 78
Angus Fletcher 25
Flow
(print)
...... Todd Anderson 94
David Wasoner 32
At the Canyon's Closing ......Contest Winner in Poefi....... Mario Chatd
94
Driving the Mountain Road
You Will First Hear Footsteps
Sandy Brunvand 98
Portal (print)
Scams
Triple Dead Heat
..
...
Tolley
Blog
I
Spam
Chad
Jonathan Coppola 24
Sandy Brunvand 31
How to Live ............
Helping the Home Patient Fall Asleep
.........
......... Bruce Cohen 34
(print)
.......... Adam Larsen 35
Voyeurs
John Struloeff 36
Mike White 98
Go Around
The Apron of the Baker
There Was a Line She Had Crossed
Berryman
Tolstoy, at Age Sixty-Seven, Learns to Ride a Bicycle
The Yellow Streetcar with No Name
.
..
Yuriy Tarnawsky
38
Littte Misptaced Ambassadors (woodcut) . ................... Stefanie Dykes 4l
Genre Painting
.................
The Nested Object
The Case of Lydia
dawn lonsinger 95
ischemic cascade
Secondary
2of 2 (print)
..... ..........
.
Lisa Hubbart 101
Susannah Nevison 42
Motel Six
Vermont for Elena
Window Portrait
Night Guest
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Ava C. Cipri 106
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Queen of
Swords
King of the Couch (print)
Ava C. Cipri 108
........
Erik Brunvand 109
York
Said in New
Transport
Day Since
Joseph Spece 106
Yucca
Daniel Wolff t14
Common Loon
Tankers
Baltimore Oriole (Nest)
Medieval Land
..........
.......... Steve Tomasula
Towers, Statues, and That Beer in the Ten Bells
Ex
Machina
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(print) .. Justin Diggle r28
Sarah
V. Schweig
133
The Sunset District
Meanwhile in Our City of Abandon
Our Ancestors Are Buried Here
(print)
Catechism
....
Joseph Ostraff 133
......... Ranei McNeil 134
Innominate.
Blues Farm Road
Later & Farther Away
The Way
As Far As
Julian Hensarlins
Like Pine Trees Lining the Winding Road
The Vanishing Point
One Small
Thing
.........
.... Camasin Middour
138
Island View
A Parable, I
Untitled
BACK COVERPRINT Love At First
A Last Poem
Foot Printer
COUERPRINT
(print)
Suppose
Ì;Ndllk (etching)
................
Ed Bateman 138
Vanessa Place t42
.......... Ed Bateman 150
Contributors' Notes .........
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........ Julian Hensarling
Sight
. Antonia Nelson
COVER DESIGNby PJ Carlisle
All the prints in this issue are the work of the Saltgrass
Printmakers, a non-profit organizarion located in Salt Lake City and dedicated to the art of printrnaking. Members are offered open access to professional facilities, gallery exhibitions, and beginner through master classes in the
Sugarhouse Studio. See member's portfolios online at:
www.saltgrassprintmakers.org
ARTWORK:
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AVA C. CIPRI
AVA C. CIPRI
Vermont for Elena
Queen of Swords
dragonflies weave through mule grass
skim the pond fasten
l.
carp surface scale-like moons
open mouths
one
you are the curator the loud
pass
custodian
one set ofkeys
single access
you stand guard at the gate
you
we sit moored to shore
no other entrance no other may come
glistening brown
the water cycle comes to mind:
moisture reabsorbs into sky off your body
not quite dry I force my linens (words day) back on
before us from your garden dill-hummus and lavender hand salve
ll.
if you are looking for the protagonist
woman of reticent character by this name [H.] you will not find her here
fast forward
a
fast forward nor
no time
will you find
her
heath . .
.
I write it down
Night Guest
rewind I will not witness
like Magritte's gesture: name sung
quake
I want
bleach
light to wash
lll.
breach
the sky pinches back from its
her one fine long hair
caught in the drain
is this asking too much . .
closure/ past
I know your window from the bus shelter and the hour
it crests the wall then the snow heaves the way I
corners
fast forward
.
violet-musk rain:
unwashed pillowcase, soy/ rice milk,
broken candle pink razor black ankle boots
& tube-socks . . . who would have known
watched the end from outside myself steeping
from that porch dismantled for three full seasons
lv.
it's the photograph I continue to pick up the one my grandmother never
displayed
still her
this place
name sung
the clank of
clogs
morning cough
& thimbles of turkish coffee
too often declared the futility of being a writer and want of spontaneity
photography at my command to have a camera around my neck
yesterday there was a tall blond aÍnazon her hair tightly pulled back in a
leather-band
the season halts from November's edse
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AVA C. CIPRI
your
door
ERIK BRUNVAND
and the season
it cuts the city the way a dancer
his partner clipped in the distance vanishes
into night into dreams too far
I return from your absence and limp into my life
knowing terror for the second time
overhearing the scream
vi.
for two Septembers I walk out into traffic
wonder the month it stopped-you finding my hair in the drain behind the
stacks of books
under the suitcase which was our table
vll.
the walls of you the way you pulled me into those voice-filled fields until
no one could make you come as hard fast with the trains extinguishing
behind us
King of the Couch
108
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Erik Brunvand
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CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES
ED BATEMAN
TODD ANDERSON received an MFA in printmaking from the University
of New Mexico in Albuquerque. Todd is the Area Head and Assistant
Professor of Printmaking at Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville. He
will be a visiting artist in 2008 at the Robert Blackburn Printmaking
Workshop in New York City, and in 2009 at Hole Press (Newcastle, UK)
where his artwork
will also be published.
ED BATEMAN received his MFA from the University of Utah and teaches
there as an adjunct professor. As a child of "the space age," he was torn
between becoming an artist or a scientist. The computer allowed him to split
the difference when in 1983 he first began using computers to create images.
By the early 90s, he was working professionally in the field of digital imaging and has, for many years, taught and lectured on the subject.
ERIK BRUNVAND is the press technician at Saltgrass Printmakers. He also
holds a Ph.D. in computer science and is on the faculty of the School of
computing at the university of utah. Brunvand works in woodcut and relief
processes and enjoys printing on antique printing presses.
SANDY BRUNVAND received her MFA from the University of Utah in
2003. She is co-owner and co-founder of Saltgrass Printmakers located in
Sugarhouse. Her artwork (paintings, prints and mixed media) is based on
and inspired by her daily excursion into the foothills of Utah. Sandy is
adjunct faculty at the University of Utah, teaching art and art education
since 2004.
TRENT CALL was born and raised in Salt Lake City, Utah and graduated
from the university of utah ín 20o4. He has been publishing the locaì art
zite, Swinj, off and on since 1998. Earlier this year he released a small publication of drawings titled, Drawsquare: "Milk & Honey." Trent's work
combines formal academic painting with comics and contemporary street art.
MARIO CHARD's poems have recently appeared in Íhe South Dakota
Review and Georgetown Review. He received a B.A. in English and Creative
'writing from weber State University and he will be attending the creative
writing program at Purdue University this fall. He lives in Ogden with his
wife and son.
Ed Bateman
AVA C. CIPRI teaches at Duquesne University, armed with an MFA from
Syracuse University. At Syracuse she served on the staff of Salt Híll.
Forthcoming and published work appears in 2River View, New Zoo Poetry
Review, and Whiskey Island Magazine, among others. Since her Chinese
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CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES
rdiac animal is the rat and 2008 is the year of the Rat; she is currently very
stidious and unusually early for all her appointments.
RUCE COHEN is the director of the Counseling Program for
tercollegiate Athletes at the University of Connecticut. He has two books
poetry forthcoming, Swerve from Black Lawrence Press and Disloyal Yo¡ from Dream Horse Press, winner of the 2007 Orphic Prize. His poems
Lve appeared or are forthcoming in The Georgia Review, The Harvard
zview, The Indiana Review, Ploughshares, Poetry, Poetry East, Prairíe
'hooner &.TriQuarterly. He lives in Coventry, Connecticut with his wife
CONTRIBUTORS' NOTES
Since receiving an MFA in painting and printmaking from the University of
Utah in 2005, LISA HUBBERT finds herself drawn to images that express
her experience ofplaces and landscapes with which she has developed a personal connection.
LAIRD HUNT is the author of The Paris Stories, The Impossibly, Indiana,
Indiana, The Exquisite and Ray of the Star (forthcoming from Coffee House
Press in 2009). His writings, reviews and translations have appeared in
Bomb, Ploughshares, McSweeney's, the Believer, Rain Taxi and Boolcforum.
He teaches in the University of Denver's program in creative writing.
,d three sons.
)NATHAN COPPOLA is currently attending Columbia University and
,es
in New Jersey.
ALICE DBBERRY KANE discovered her muse in her mother through a thirty-year correspondence. Despite Clara's death, Alice posts daily letters to
cyberspace. A Bennington MFA graduate, she teaches writing at Southern
Utah University.
-IZABETH DeWITTE received her MFA from the University of Utah.
re a
friend of Saltgrass Printmakers who lives in Ogden, Utah.
ADAM LARSEN received his MFA in printmaking from Wichita State
University. His artwork translates commonplace occurrences into intimate
fSTIN DIGGLE currently teaches at the University of Utah. He received
s BA from Bristol Polytechnic, England, and his MFA from Southern
inois University. His primary medium of choice is intaglio.
visual dialogs. He is currently an Assistant Professor of Art at Snow College
in Ephraim, Utah.
\ITLIN DUBE lives in New York City.
IJniversity. She lives in Brooklyn.
She is
an MFA candidate in rhe
KATE LIM is currently a student in the MFA V/riting Program at Columbia
riting Program at Columbia University.
The late STEVE LOCKETT, who passed away in January 2007, received his
-EFANIE DYKES is the
co-founder of Saltgrass Printmakers, a non-profit
intmaking studio and gallery located in Salt Lake City. Stefanie received a
re arts degree from the University of lJtah in 2003. She has exhibited both
tionally and internationally. Working primarily with woodblock prints and
:hings, she explores personal relationships through imposed structures and
undaries.
BFA from the University of Arizona and his MFA from the University of
Utah. He worked mainly in lithography and monotypes and taught as an
adjunct instructor at the University of Utah, and at Saltgrass Printmakers.
DAWN LONSINGER has an MFA from Cornell University and is now in
the PhD program at the University of Utah. Recent poems have appeared in
American Letters
\GUS FLETCHER, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of English
and
rmparative Literature at the City University of New York Graduate School,
the author of such groundbreaking works of literary criticism as Allegory:
'eory of a Symbolic Mode; Colors of the Mind: Conjectures on Thinking in
terature; A New Theory for American Poetry: Democracy, the
,vironment, and the Future of the Imagination: and, most recently, Time,
ace, and Motion in the Age of Shakespeare (Harvard UP,2001).
'LIAN HENSARLING is a mixed media artist currently studying
for his
&
Commentary, DIAGRAM, New Orleans Review, and
Smartish Pace.
PATRICK MADDEN teaches at Brigham Young University and edits
http://quotidiana.orgl, an anthology of classical essays and essay resources.
His own essays have been publishedinThe Iowa Review, Northwest Review,
Portland Magazine, and other journals, and anthologized in The Best
American Spiritual Writing 2007 and The Best Creative Nonfiction vol 2.
His first book, Quotidiana,will be published next year by the University of
Nebraska Press.
FA in Printmaking at Indiana University, Bloomington.
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