a Perimeter

10/26/2016

We feel very lucky to be able to present a selection of detailed and distinct drawings and works on paper by Austrian artist, Natalie Neumaier:

http://aperimeter.com/issue4/neumaier.html #1

10/22/2016

"Sarah Vaughan has a voice for these conditions."

a wonderfully odd new poem by Kayla Krut in our fourth issue, enjoy!

Look at god, galateal. Tipped bowl of your wire-veined palm. Reluctant to join the host but joined regardless. Before we start we split a joint under an umbrella. I'd happily lose my teeth to birds or foxes or to a second man for your wrists, which so well bear repeating.

10/21/2016

"all ability is
benign old scatter"

from "aye aye" by Ossian Foley, a selection of which we are happy to have in our fourth issue

10/19/2016

Nathaniel Mackey, one of the most accomplished writers of his generation, needs no introduction. In late August, 2016, a Perimeter sat down with Mackey in his Durham, NC home, to talk about his work in many of its forms—as a writer, editor, and teacher.

Read the in depth conversation here: http://aperimeter.com/issue4/mackey2.html

as well as a new poem from his ongoing Song of the Andoumboulou:
http://aperimeter.com/issue4/mackey1.html #1

10/18/2016

We are pleased to have this selection of unique drawings/cartoons from Lara Odell in our fourth issue!
http://aperimeter.com/issue4/odell.html #1

10/11/2016

''...
5. My hope was to become less and less prepared as time went on, like walking into a snowdrift. My reasons had to do more with self-preservation than carelessness.
6. But she did not want to take off her costume....''

Wonderful new work from Laynie Browne in our fourth issue

01.08.161. Reserve each morning as a blank sheet of snow. 2. Don't worry that every word may lose you. 3. How can I read from the book I just gave away? 4. Where to find affordable upcycled behavior? 5. Am I? 6. This puzzle is impossible to solve but let me put it this way: let's guard this flower.…

10/05/2016

"Robert Walser could have said: What is small is enormous. Maybe he did say it or write it somewhere. Reading Ernst Meister's poems he would have found reassurance or a smaller word: yes."

-from Austrian author and translator Peter Waterhouse's wonderfully unique and detailed essay on the recently completed three volume Ernst Meister translations from Wave Books in the new issue of a Perimeter

Ernst Meister, In Time's Rift, trans. Graham Foust & Samuel Frederick, Seattle, WA: Wave, 2012. 104pp. Ernst Meister, Wallless Space, trans. Graham Foust & Samuel Frederick, Seattle, WA: Wave, 2014. 144pp. Ernst Meister, Of Entirety Say the Sentence, trans. Graham Foust & Samuel Frederick, Seattle,…

09/30/2016

After a long pause... our newest issue is finally up! With new work from Nathaniel Mackey, Laynie Browne, Kayla Krut, Natalie Neumaier, Lara Odell, Kylan Rice, Ossian Foley, Judah Levenson and Peter Waterhouse. Enjoy!

http://aperimeter.com/

10/16/2015

"the garden ended, no cloud, no sea,// no sand, no second, the morning woke up" - Peter Giebel http://t.co/Y6Y7cIuQTd

the garden ended, no cloud, no sea, no sand, no second, the morning woke up to war, he snickered, the sights inferior to shared pain of the useless, a light on, no dresses left, sewn to sheets to wrap up immediately the wounds having been here before, he remembered, the brutal egg we're trying to ha…

10/14/2015

"Sometimes animals don't commit su***de they commit murder." - Angela Veronica Wong http://t.co/b52Rsdalbc

Each subway line has its own quirks, its unique lighting. The lighting of this A-train is an unknown. It asks: are you a human being? Are you someone who lines your trash can with a plastic bag? I stare into the local train and wonder about the last time I sat in a local train. Did I have more time…

10/12/2015

"In a moment, water destroyed// the sky, slamming upwards." - Lindsey Webb http://t.co/IQitXRxdkl

I saw a light out the window through a hole in the curtain, a tiny suggestion. I approached the water trembling—I saw a window in the grass. Forgetting myself, I claimed knowledge is a vehicle between futures and saw the forest darken in argument. Did I discover a great monument; and, if so, what el…

10/09/2015

"still attached to its source// Although aching for another measurement of life." - Roberto Tejada http://t.co/XROT0KLucX

Occasion for us criminals all day the statute of limitation Venus a polygon in the cloud-form battalion Every pixilated scale of your skin in aerospace it radiates they swallow As for the legislators who make barbarous and refute They listless in measure to a person they requiem Six times a map whet…