Conjunctions #49, A Writers' Aviary

Conjunctions #49

by Bradford Morrow (Editor)

Magazine. Essays. Fiction. Poetry. Edited by Bradford Morrow. Published in the Spring and Fall of each year by Bard College. The forty-ninth issue of CONJUNCTIONS is called A WRITERS' AVIARY: REFLECTIONS ON BIRDS and features of work of Peter Orner, Howard Norman, Yannick Murphy, Anne Waldman, Tim Dee, Arthur Sze, Sylvia Legris, Merrill Gilfillan, Forrest Gander, Diane Ackerman, J'Lyn Chapman, D. E. Steward, Micaela Morrissette, Rick Moody, Eric Linsker, Nathaniel Tarn, Elizabeth Robinson, Maureen Howard, John Kinsella, C. D. Wright, David Shields, Melanie Rae Thon, Joseph Campana, William H. Gass, Martine Bellen, Catherine Imbriglio, and Sven Birkerts. Also includes a special John Ashbery Tribute edited by Peter Gizzi and Bradford Morrow.

455 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2007

About the author

Bradford Morrow has lived for the past thirty years in New York City and rural upstate New York, though he grew up in Colorado and lived and worked in a variety of places in between. While in his mid-teens, he traveled through rural Honduras as a member of the Amigos de las Americas program, serving as a medical volunteer in the summer of 1967. The following year he was awarded an American Field Service scholarship to finish his last year of high school as a foreign exchange student at a Liceo Scientifico in Cuneo, Italy. In 1973, he took time off from studying at the University of Colorado to live in Paris for a year. After doing graduate work on a Danforth Fellowship at Yale University, he moved to Santa Barbara, California, to work as a rare book dealer. In 1981 he relocated to New York City to the literary journal Conjunctions, which he founded with the poet Kenneth Rexroth, and to write novels. He and his two cats divide their time between NYC and upstate New York.

Visit his website at www.bradfordmorrow.com.

Reviews

[Mike Zinn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really like Conjunctions, but this one left me a bit cold. About the last hundred pages were devoted to at tribute to John Ashberry, and it seemed to me to be like reading a bunch of college freshman english papers than the usual stuff that I'm used to in Conjunctions. The first 300 pages were the usual good stuff, but that ending dragged me down.

[Craig Morgan Teicher · Rating 4 out of 5]

love the ashbery section

[Mark · Rating 3 out of 5]

i'm not really enthralled by essays about birdwatching, but the fiction is quite nice. haven't reached the ashbery section yet.