Welcome to BWR 47.1
Who knows when or how this issue has made its way to you, but we hope that you are doing okay and welcome you to BWR 47.1.
47.1 Feature: “Midnight Saturn Bass Note: Afterword to A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure” by Hoa Nguyen
Midnight Saturn Bass Note Afterword to A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasureby Hoa Nguyenfrom BWR 47.1I set out to write A Thousand Times You Lose Your Treasure years ago. Decades, really. Writing this, I’m wondering if it is as simple as that sentence I have said...
2019 Nonfiction Contest Runner-Up Sophie He
"Corrective vision surgery takes on a whole new meaning in 'Chinatownland.' The result is a cartography that includes our blindspots. In 'Chinatownland,' juxtaposition, one of disruption’s favorite tools, simultaneously blurs and focuses our vision so that we might...
From the Archives: “The Coffin, the Ship” by Mel Kassel
At dawn, I look out the porthole and wait for my vampire.
From the Archives: “The Empty” by Panpan Song
This much was true: nothing very bad happened. Nothing big.
46.2 Feature: “Socratic Wig” by Sara Kachelman
Socratic Wigby Sara Kachelmanfrom BWR 46.2I found my mother’s hair on a foam head at Wigland. It lit up the downtown window display. Above it a sign said: the last true redhead. It was referring to my mother. She was the last true redhead, and now she was dead. We had...
46.2 Feature: “Extermination” by Mónica Ramón Ríos (trans. Robin Myers)
Exterminationby Mónica Ramón RíosTranslated from the Spanish by Robin Myersfrom BWR 46.2The Extermination showed up a few weeks before the machines came to Zanjón de la Aguada and drained the swamp (rank, fetid, black). That’s what I called him because he didn’t scare...
46.2 Feature: “Bereavement Table for a Top Model Imagined” by Stine An
Bereavement Table for a Top Model ImaginedStine Anfrom BWR 46.2 For a PDF click here.1993. 10. 24 (Reward) :: Die for one’s country, little woman, like hometown patriot martyr Ryu Gwan-sun, MissKorea In Memoriam Again: propagate your post, a coronet casket, a...
45.2 Feature: “Planetary Bodies” by Naima Yael Tokunow
Planetary Bodies Naima Yael Tokunow from BWR 45.2 Click here to read Planetary Bodies as a PDF. Naima Yael Tokunow is an educator,...
From the archives: Last Days, Part 1 by Tamiko Beyer from BWR 45.1
In Tamiko Beyer’s “Last Days, Part I,” literature and poetry become, for a few revolutionaries, “a system of belief, a way to navigate the dissolving world.” For the world, during these “last days of empire,” is indeed dissolving, into a melange of “synthesized...