Two Lines 25
Fall 2016
Out of Print
Unobservable obscenizable. Desire alone knows how to contemplate, desire of lover desire of artist the desire of the engorger, desire of elsewhere.
—from “Nude Enumerated” by Jean-Luc Nancy, translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell
Strip everything away and writing is really just about creating a record—trying to make something permanent out of all this impermanence. As I read the stories and poems in this issue of Two Lines again, I kept coming across characters or speakers who were fighting, as the title of Bradley Schmidt’s translation of Ulrike Almut Sandig’s story succinctly puts it, “Against Disappearance.” —CJ EVANS
Table of Contents
Fiction
Eni Furtado Has Never Stopped Running
Translated from Spanish by Andrea G. Labinger
The Kid That Liked Dynasty and Wrote a Soap
By Kobi Ovadia
Translated from Hebrew by Yardenne Greenspan
Poetry
Living Things | Summer | Garden Songbird
Translated from Japanese by John G. Peters
Essay
Stones: Dedication | General Morphology of Minerals | Dendrites
Translated from French by Elizabeth Deshays