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LAR 24 is out today!✨
Our newest anthology includes 2020’s “best of” poetry, translation, fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews as well as 2020 LAR Awards winners.
We’re so excited to finally share this with you!
Get your copy of LAR 24 here:
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ALT Text: Our long-awaited 2020 print edition is out today! LAR 24 includes 2020’s “best of” poetry, translation, fiction, creative nonfiction, and book reviews as well as our 2020 LAR Awards winners. We’re so excited to share this with you & to celebrate our contributors alongside you! The anthology is available to purchase on the LAR and Red Hen Press websites. We hope you enjoy LAR 24! The LAR Editorial Team
“Everything in Lubbock wants in—the wind, the grit, the longing that has nowhere to go”
Taylor Light from “Lubbock Lung”
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“Her eyes looked past him into a future he couldn’t see, just like the beautiful woman’s at the bottom of the lake.”
Dorian Elizabeth Knapp from “The Promise”
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“Is this what love looks like at the smallest scale—duty mistaken for tenderness?”
“Path Integration” by Allison Cross is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/path-in…
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“I’m scared, Father. Beautiful things— / they scare me. // Like the smell of incense that fills an empty mourning house, / hard to shake off—”
Susan K’s translations of poems by Park Soran are up on LAR today! Read them here: losangelesreview.org/five-po…
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“I’m generally not a screamer, but this was a haunted occasion, as evidenced by the leader’s minimal reaction to my maximum one.”
Dinah Cox from “Pastoral”
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H.L. Hix reviews David Breskin’s “Timestamp” (pub. Canisy Press) on LAR today!
Read the full review here: losangelesreview.org/timesta…
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“I wondered if I would / be there / asleep in the privilege of slumber”
Janice Lobo Sapigao from “When My Auntie Asks If I Think a Baby Will Make Things Better Between Us”
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“and there it was: the heavy exaggerated exhale. It was resignation confirmed and emphasized, bad news always expected, and always internalized.”
Elizabeth Weinstein from “COMEDY”
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“Sometimes, when I was a child, his eyes appeared so large and wet that I could see clear-through to another animal within him, one that was helpless and in need of something it could not articulate.”
Garth Robinson from “Animal Planet”
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“I yearned for an immediate, violent mishap, an indefinitely postponed hunger, and a halt to the indefinite postponement of my death.”
Michael Day’s translation of Yang Hao’s short story “Shuangshuang” is now up on LAR! Read it here: losangelesreview.org/shuangs…
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“He’d grown up treading the sawdust in the Big Top, learning a bit of clowning here and cleaning there, taking turns on the high wire”
Geraldine Clarkson from “FLAME”
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Sara R. Burnett reviews Wyn Cooper’s “The Unraveling” (pub. White Pine Press) today on LAR! Read Burnett’s review here: losangelesreview.org/the-unr…
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“to accompany the ancientness
to unstop the faucet of a twilight,
so that by day spouts
all the water that passes at night.”
from Mario Domínguez Parra & Michael Lee Rattigan’s transl. of LII-LVI from Trilce by César Vallejo on LAR
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“Look at any branch in the family tree, and you’ll see a leaf in mourning.”
Rocio Anica from “The Mayor of Villa de Los Robles Has a Good Poker Face” is available to read on LAR today: losangelesreview.org/the-may…
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“Your mouth is an empty cave / that’s only good to come home to.”
Elizabeth Lukács Chesla’s translations of three poems by Réka Ágnes Tóth are now up on LAR! Read them here: losangelesreview.org/three-p…
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“the twin-engined plane
caught in a perpetual fall,
its nose dug into the dirt,
on a heading towards East Jesus”
“Slab City” by Laura Ribitzky is up on LAR now!
Read it here: losangelesreview.org/slab-ci…
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“The first pull gets nothing. The second gets the taste at once. Metal. Chemical. Bitter enough to make your jaw lock.”
Brandon McNeice from “Reserve”
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“I often think that I’d like to live to the ripe old age of—Oh, I don’t know—infinity? And so, the awareness of impermanence, of my inevitable separation, grows with each passing day.”
Read “Deep Remission” by Gaetan Sgro on LAR today!
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Helen Han Wei Luo reviews Antoine Volodine’s “The Monroe Girls” (transl. Alyson Waters, pub. Archepelago Books) on LAR today!
Read the full review here: losangelesreview.org/the-mon…
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“she was carrying a whopping mortgage on a house that had sprung more leaks than the Titanic. No way would she go down with the ship without first confronting the iceberg.”
Janis Hubschman from “Vanessa”
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