160 pages. The authors are published in Conjunctions, Threepenny review, Prarie Schooner, Crazyhorse, American Poetry Review, Iowa Review, etc. This is their first issue to have the fiction section dedicated to Flash. I find the poems difficult, in the way that I find most contemporary US poetry difficult. It's probably good, but I can't judge. E.g. Rae Gouirand's "Bucklebury" begins with "On less I would live/ a greater specificity.// Like broth before mouth/ I would turn out salt,// choose what determined/ that self." I'm more comfortable with Aiden Heung's "The Architect" and even Jory Mickelson's "[This is the formula for loving all things]" which ends with "All our losses mix, like salt/ and water, with joy; our lives are estuaries".
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