autumn/winter 2010-2011
Aptitude tests, a creaking storm, the deep mist, baked goods, insects…there’s something haunting in the new edition of Chaparral. Not that these writings are filled with ghosts or supernatural beings, but rather the speakers are obsessed with a lingering spirit—a memory, moment, or single image. And like most hauntings, these works lead us to where every reader hopes to go: a destination that’s both surprising and yet strangely familiar.
Arrow-smith
Outrageous Stars in the Bedroom
Line of Sight
Her Last Garden
Indio
Croton-on-Hudson
A Political Tale
To the Woman Who Came in Through the Pet Door
Disaster Play
Cockroach
Phyllorhodomancy
A Blurred Photograph Of The Sunlight That Murdered Your Father’s Hiddenness, Or How Light Takes Leave Of The Body