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From Matthew Olzmann’s “The Tiny Men in The Horse’s Mouth”:
The war is ending. Achilles is dead.
Paris lives on in shame.And one man
plays piano as the city burns.I’ve been there. And because I didn’t look,
I never saw it coming.
Olzmann’s poem “Sir Isaac Newton’s First Law of Motion” appeared in NER 30.4.
The new issue of New England Review has just shipped from the printer, and a preview is available here on our website. Order a copy or subscribe today to receive the full content of this beautifully printed issue of NER.
In these pages, you’ll find new stories by Peter LaSalle, Zana Previti, Katya Reno, Caedra Scott-Flaherty, Gregory Spatz, Megan Staffel, and David Yost, appearing alongside new poems by Larry Bradley, Adam Giannelli, Janice Greenwood, A. Van Jordan, Laura Kasischke, Matthew Olzmann, Jacques J. Rancourt, and Carrie Shipers.
In nonfiction, Eileen Pollack revisits the ranch house of her childhood, Theodore Leinwand contends with Charles Olson contending with Shakespeare, Robert B. Ray asks if movie stars are ultimately unskilled workers, and Jonathan Levy makes a case for the use of dialogues in learning. Plus a new translation of Virgil’s Aeneid Book 5 by Ian Ganassi, Samuel Butler‘s thoughts on memory, Norman Davies on “How States Die,” and cover art by Tim Fitts.
Vol. 32 / No. 4 Cover art by Tim Fitts
Middlebury College is home to both NER and the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference. On this site, NER posts an audio highlight from Bread Loaf's many readings and lectures as a regular feature. Here is Lori Ostlund, "Talking Fowl with My Father."
