Noah Eli Gordon
SOME INFORMATION ABOUT FORTY YEARS OF EXISTENCE
- 1. Minuscule blossoms
- 2. Light
- 3. Verticality
- 4. Sleep, mostly
- 5. Tumescence
- 6. In which the villain’s wardrobe belies his goodness
- 7. Insecticidal sheen
- 8. Early ostracism
- 9. Divisive stirrings
- 10. Lessons in gravity & aggression
- 11. An X for each empty square
- 12. Masturbatory camaraderie
- 13. Burgeoning addiction to nostalgia
- 14. Pugilism
- 15. Fruition
- 16. Moves to South Florida
- 17. Thrusting & lunging, mostly
- 18. Minimal fame
- 19. Stoicism perfected
- 20. Buys a suit to circumvent liquor laws
- 21. Anarcho-syndicalist leanings develop
- 22. Psoriatic deflation of vanity
- 23. Romanticism
- 24. Carbuncular affliction
- 25. First book completed
- 26. Disappointment
- 27. Minimal fame, again
- 28. Computers
- 29. Moves to Denver
- 30. Briefly considers switching mediums
- 31. Drops out of PhD program after three weeks
- 32. Gainful employment
- 33. Irreconcilable differences
- 34. Love
- 35. Alcoholic bliss
- 36. Walks often around the city without encountering others
- 37. Replication
- 38. Briefly switches mediums
- 39. Dionysian failure
- 40. First exposure to “irretrievably broken” as legal term
NOAH ELI GORDON is an associate professor in the MFA Program in Creative Writing at The University of Colorado--Boulder, where he teaches courses in creative nonfiction, publishing, and poetry, and currently directs Subito Press. His collection The Word Kingdom in the Word Kingdom was published by Brooklyn Arts Press; other books include Novel Pictorial Noise and The Frequencies.
ISSUE THREE features fiction by Elisa Albert, Kathleen Alcott, Miriam Cohen, Su-Yee Lin, Josip Novakovich, and Lee Upton; nonfiction by Jone Connor, Elizabeth Kadetsky, and Brandon Shimoda; film writing by Claire Cronin and Kristi McKim; poetry by Meena Alexander, Gabrielle Bates, William Brewer, Cynthia Cruz, Chelsea Dingman, Anaïs Duplan, Nick Flynn, Noah Eli Gordon, Richie Hoffman, Erika Meitner, Amanda Nadelberg, Aimee Nezhukumatathil, Mary Ruefle, Natalie Scenters-Zapico, Natalie Shapero, Nikki Wallschalaeger, and Phillip B. Williams; Fady Joudah’s translations of Ghassan Zaqtan; and an interview with Elisa Albert.