“A Good Six-Two,” by Kiki DeLancey, originally printed in A Public Space 12, winter 2011. Reprinted with the permission of the author.
“Outside Is the Ocean” from Outside Is the Ocean by Matthew Lansburgh, forthcoming October 2017. Copyright © Matthew Lansburgh. Printed with the permission of the University of Iowa Press, uipress.uiowa.edu.
[“De endurecer la tierra”], from Las piedras del cielo, by Pablo Neruda. Copyright © 1970 by Fundación Pablo Neruda. Reprinted with the permission of Fundación Pablo Neruda.
[“To harden the earth”], translated by James Nolan, from Stones of the Sky. Copyright © 1970 by Pablo Neruda and the Heirs of Pablo Neruda. Translation copyright © 1987, 2002 by James Nolan. Reprinted with the permission of The Permissions Company, Inc., on behalf of Copper Canyon Press, coppercanyonpress.org.
Art Credits
Cover illustration Creatures of the Order Anura © Kelsey Oseid Wojciak.
“Blood”: featured image © Banc de Sang, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.
“The Descent”: featured image © Renée Y. Labonté, used with permission.
“Metamorph”: featured image © Rebecca-louise, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.
“Another Life Initiative”: featured image © Megan Ellis, used with permission.
“The Whitest Girl”: featured image © Jason Eppink, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.
“I Want to Feel Close to You When I Read”: featured image © F. Morgan Davis, used with permission.
Conjuring, Willing, Napping © Dahlia Elsayed, 2011, acrylic on paper, 29˝ x 40˝.
“Revisiting a Journal Taken to Mount Talol / Pooksaus / Tahoma / Tacobeh / Tacoma / Rainier”: featured image © Martin Kraft, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons.
“Outside is the Ocean”: © S Pallavincini, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.
“Garni-Geghard”: © Uwe Brodrecht, CC BY-SA 2.0 via Flickr.
“A Beautiful Song, Very Melancholy and Very Old”: © Bill Smith, CC BY 2.0 via Flickr.
Creatures of the Order Anura © Kelsey Oseid Wojciak.