elimae

Deron Bauman, founding editor, 1996-2004

Deron Bauman

Bang!: the Notion of a Literary Canon

False Positive: Cormac McCarthy's Cities of the Plain & Don DeLillo's Underworld

Original Intent: A Question of Authorial Autonomy

What is Better than What is Seen? American Literature in the Twentieth Century

Robert Castle

A Mobius Universe

Creative Restraints

Switch Back Effect

Gilbert Purdy

The Enigma of W.D. Snodgrass

Het nieuve wereldbeeld: the Magical World of Guy Davenport

B. Renner

Critics with Clay Feet

Garner Redux: A Look at Alan Garner's Red Shift and The Stone Book Quartet

Jack Gilbert, a Reappraisal: Part One, Part Two, Part Three, Part Four

A Look at Johannes Bobrowski

The Objective Correlative and the Biographical Error

A Rant against Contemporary American Verse

"Twinges of Old Wounds": Thomas Hardy's "Panthera"

Wallace Stevens' "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

Tom Abray

Wendy, Field Guide

Stephen Anderson

A Cheap Con: Actual Correspondence from a Fink Abroad, as Emailed by This Author for Two Cigarettes and a Pilsner

Stephen Ausherman

A Swallowing Artist

Rebecca Beegle

Texan Drowns in Vegetable Oil

Susannah Breslin

H is for Hardcore

Geoffrey Brown

Slowly, Back and Forth

Lynn Canavan

Found Sentences

Mathew Derby

Tatiana Dolgushina

Richard Brautigan: a Journey

Brian Evenson

Alan Garner

Thursbitch Extract

Brandon Hobson

From The Levitationist

Michael Ives

Curriculum Reform

Exuviae of the Chitonous

The Internal Combustion Engine

Reverse Phoenix

Jonathan Kessler

Husbands Anonymous

Edward Kim

Michael Kimball

Living Anymore in Mineola

Going to Heaven, Where We Were Going to Live After When We Got Up to Heaven, What People-Families Need to Have Inside Them, and the Giants We Were Going to Grow Up into and Live Them

Some More Ways to Make a People-Baby, Some More Ways Dolls Keep People Alive, and How You Go Away from Dolls to People and Bigger

Marc Kipniss

Lynn Kozlowski

Historical Markers -- Upstate

Red Horse Gas with Wings

Telephone Survey

Linda Legters

Stacey Levine

Eugene Lim

Gordon Lish

How the Sophist Got Spotted

Norman Lock

The Aerodynamics of Dreams

African Follies

The Anguish of Houdini

Beyond Recognition

A Few Grim Tales

Nine More Grim Tales

Nostalgia for Africa

She Has Been Put Away Among Thorns to Keep Her Always In Our Eyes

Gary Lutz

I Used to Love LPs

Peter Markus

Eugene Marten

Doesn't Anybody Here Speak English?

Jan Meissner

The Man from Nogales

Greg Mulcahy

Dennis Must

The Rabbi's Wife

She's a Little Store Inside

Bryce Newhart

Attention 136A: Please Listen Up

Attention All Sleepers: A Proposal

An Important Note To All Sleepers

Close Your Eyes, Be Patient

Memorandum to 136A

Note to Sleepers

Recent Office Improvements

Regarding Herbert and Stanley

Regarding Recent Problems and Concerns

What To Do About Dream Thoughts

David Ohle

Der Kroetenkusser

Dawn Raffel

Must I Tell You Again?

Kathryn Rantala

Instruct Liquid Intern

Something Something There

Victoria Redel

Jim Ruland

The Jabberwock Rules

Shya Scanlon

Tom Sheehan

Parkie, Tanker, Tiger of Tobruk

Ken Sparling

Have you seen pigs?

I Remembered I Was Going To Die

Terese Svoboda

Jane Unrue

Will Hunt Most Marshy Areas

Allan Wasserman

Finkelstein the Bear

Derek White

Diane Williams

Ecstasy or Passion

I Must Eat My Dinner

Large Organization

A Set, A Group, A Large, An Extremely Important, A Pair of, A Large, Two Similar, An Unusual

Andrew Wilson

Aaron Winslow

new yorker cartoon #1

Thomas Wooten

Two Stories of Turning in the Tabloid City

Barton Allen

The Bounded Outward Circumference

Brian Beatty

The Marx Brothers and the Moment of Epiphany

One Hat Is Never Enough

Aaron Belz

Bangladeshi Mongrels

The Bungee Cord Experiment

Hidden Pulleys on Balcony Four

The Man with No Hat

Harold Bowes

I Ask the Clerk

Shanna Compton

Captions 2: Theodora's Accident

AnnMarie Eldon

Cooper Esteban

Achilles in Hell

Así Geht the Guerre

The Book of Ruth

Cancion del simbolista

The Eunuch's Apology

For James Dickey, in Spite of Himself

Fragments of Baedeker's Artemis

From Achilles' Pyre

The Gates of Hell

I spoke the short language

I.M. Kingsley Amis

Letter to the Coast

A Line from Donald Justice Mangled

Orpheus: After the Attempt

[Orpheus Speaks]

Persephone's Confession

Persephone from Hell

Pieta: Thetis Bathing Achilles

Samaritan Ivory

Marc Kipniss

The Difference Between Misreading Gertrude Stein

Timothy Liu

Treasures on Earth

Catherine Moran

Christopher Mulrooney

it's a direct deal

Nathan Parker

Vice and Season

Christian Peet

Kathryn Rantala

Birds of History

three views of the moon

John Rubins

Three Haiku (of a Science-Fiction Bent)

M Sarki

Borrowed from Death Row

Bouncing on the Node

Closing on the Vine

Could be Astigmia, or a Phantasmagoria

Gaffe's Inquiry

The Heart Pleads

In My Difficulties with Direction

My Finnish Grandfather

On the Occasion of the Acquaintance of Frederick M. Garfield

Piccadilly at the Fair

A Pinchcock Adored

Rune in Montparnasse

Sault Saint Marie

The Third Kentucky Lunatic Asylum

Untimely is this Nomad

Wretched Paint of the Latter Houses

Ken Sparling

From the 1976 Works Department Annual Report

Mike Topp

How to Break Up

Three Poems and a List

Jack Williams

Edgar Lee Phillips Recounts Attending a Stranger's Funeral

Thomas Wooten

Four Panels of Maurice

Jorge Luis Borges

Introduccion a la literatura inglesa

Introduccion a la literatura norteamericana

The masked dyer Hakim of Merv

Anne Carson

Autobiography of Red and "Mimnermos: The Brainsex Paintings"

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Canterbury Tales

Samuel Coleridge

Guy Davenport

The Cardiff Team: Ten Stories

Da Vinci's Bicycle

Objects on a Table: Harmonious Disarray in Art and Literature

Michael Drayton

Penelope Fitzgerald

The Means of Escape

E.M. Forster

The Celestial Omnibus and Other Stories

Alan Garner

Barry Hannah

Bats Out of Hell

Thomas Hardy

Life's Little Ironies

Under the Greenwood Tree

Nathaniel Hawthorne

"The Devil in Manuscript"

H.D.

Ernest Hemingway

Men Without Women

Michael Kimball

The Way the Family Got Away

Gordon Lish

Dear Mr. Capote

Self-Imitation of Myself

Norman Lock

A Review of Norman Lock's Marco Knauff's Universe

Eugene Marten

A Review of Eugene Marten's In The Blind

Cormac McCarthy

Cities of the Plain

Herman Melville

The Piazza Tales

Paul Metcalf

U.S. Dept. of the Interior

Tim O'Brien

The Things They Carried

Dawn Raffel

A Review of Dawn Raffel's Carrying the Body

M Sarki

Zimble Zamble Zumble

Louis Simpson

Ken Sparling

Dad Says He Saw You at the Mall

Tom Stoppard

Arcadia and The Invention of Love

William Vollmann

Eudora Welty

The Wide Net and Other Stories

Diane Williams

Romancer Erector

The Stupefaction

1996 � 2008