Volume 37, Issue 1
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Featuring work byPOETRY Eneida P. Alcalde • Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán • Seth García • Megan Garr • Morgan Hamill • Shannon Hardwick • Angie Macri • Nathan Manley • Sandra Marchetti • Ted McCarthy • L.S. McKee • Sarah Fawn Montgomery • Katie Darby Mullins • Andrew Peters • Bo Schwabacher • Carrie Shipers • Audrey Spina • Simone Muench and Jackie K. White • Julia Kooi Talen • John Walser • Danae Younge FICTION Alyse Bensel • Sarah Carey • Lisa Compo • Aran Donovan • Jordan Escobar • Vanessa Tamm • Greg Tebbano • Gregory Wolff NONFICTION Rebecca Lehmann • Eddie Vona ART Marc Gaba
Eddie Vona
It was Christmas Eve, so my mother was killing lobsters in our kitchen sink. I stood mesmerized by their slow, balletic movements as though they were still underwater. Their antennas searched the air for clues while their dark claws, bound by thick blue rubber bands, clacked against metal.
My mother plunged her knife into the back of the first victim. Dragging the blade slowly from sternum to tail, she split him in half to make room for the crab-meat stuffing that would go in the center. No boiling here. She preferred this quicker method so both the stuffing and the lobster could bake in the oven at the same time.
“Don’t you dare tell anyone I’m doing this,” she said to me, holding the knife aloft, while the second lobster flashed her a B-movie look of horror.
“I’m telling everyone,” I said.
I was as far away as I could get from the massacre happening at the other end of the kitchen but ultimately could not bring myself to leave the room, a conflicted adolescent witness to this one-sided battle of woman versus beast. The least she could do was take off the rubber bands and make it a fair fight.
READ MORE>Marc Escalona Gaba’s art examines junctures of passages where meaning is configured as a site of response. While concentrated on oil painting, particularly “apertural” paintings, his practice encompasses installation, video, books and photography. His subjects have been as broad ranging, exploring public space, the Internet, Catholicism, antiterrorism, language, and abstraction itself.
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Featuring work byPOETRY Eneida P. Alcalde • Ahimsa Timoteo Bodhrán • Seth García • Megan Garr • Morgan Hamill • Shannon Hardwick • Angie Macri • Nathan Manley • Sandra Marchetti • Ted McCarthy • L.S. McKee • Sarah Fawn Montgomery • Katie Darby Mullins • Andrew Peters • Bo Schwabacher • Carrie Shipers • Audrey Spina • Simone Muench and Jackie K. White • Julia Kooi Talen • John Walser • Danae Younge FICTION Alyse Bensel • Sarah Carey • Lisa Compo • Aran Donovan • Jordan Escobar • Vanessa Tamm • Greg Tebbano • Gregory Wolff NONFICTION Rebecca Lehmann • Eddie Vona ART Marc Gaba
Eddie Vona
“It was Christmas Eve, so my mother was killing lobsters in our kitchen sink.”
READ MORE>Marc Escalona Gaba’s art examines junctures of passages where meaning is configured as a site of response. While concentrated on oil painting, particularly “apertural” paintings, his practice encompasses installation, video, books and photography. His subjects have been as broad ranging, exploring public space, the Internet, Catholicism, antiterrorism, language, and abstraction itself.
