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FIONA ALISON DUNCAN is a Canadian-American author and artist. Her debut novel Exquisite Mariposa won the 2020 LAMBDA Literary Prize for Bisexual Fiction.

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Interview with Fanny Howe

Interview

Issue No. 29

FIONA ALISON DUNCAN

Interview

Issue No. 29

Fanny Howe’s bibliography is as bewildering as her itinerant biography. Born in 1940 in Buffalo, New York, the poet and author grew up in...

Interview

January 2020

Interview with Jamieson Webster

FIONA ALISON DUNCAN

Interview

January 2020

Jamieson Webster serves as a torchbearer for a field out of popular favour. Her practice, psychoanalysis, was last century’s...

If I were young again I would forego Tahiti and move to America to begin a new life in New York, a city both human and classical in its geometric modernity, as I have discovered much too late, on my passage to the Pacific Nonetheless I pay homage to the lovely Polynesian women and tour the scenery dutifully I search out Gauguin’s son, Emile, living the life of a fisherman, with no wish for European ways and a contentment unknown to his father They are filming a movie here, Taboo, and its directors, FW Murnau and Robert Flaherty, invite me to live for a week in their camp on an idyllic cove more lovely than any I have seen before   Still I find myself eager to depart for the outer islands, the far Tuamotos, eager to escape Papeete with its film of dust and colonial snobbery   For three years I have painted nothing at all I have abandoned my wife on her sickbed to travel half-way around the globe in search of what— jungle flowers, an exotic cast of light? Why does my heart remain loyal to art alone?   My dearest Amélie, let me tell you about the Tuamotos: night is a wash of stars in ash-blue ether, dawn the rustle of trade winds, glitter of flying fish at the horizon Days, I swim in the lagoon amidst marvelous creatures of preposterous vividness,   seahorses, anemones, plumed aquatic ferns   Imagine a life stripped clean of every artifice, nothing but a small house on white sand amid coconut palms, and all of it, everything, subordinated to those two vast, borderless fields of color—   the sky and the sea   It would require a new medium to equal their purity, and at this I age I doubt myself capable of more than these sketches of tropical foliage, shapes and notations toward a project I sense at the furthest horizon of consciousness,   a voyage   to the outer islands within   the far Tuamotos of myself   moon-stroked atolls across an endless gulf of molten gold   oarless brushless   a voyage undertaken without promise of safe passage or realistic hope of return

Contributor

June 2019

FIONA ALISON DUNCAN

Contributor

June 2019

FIONA ALISON DUNCAN is a Canadian-American author and artist. Her debut novel Exquisite Mariposa won the 2020 LAMBDA Literary...

Exquisite Mariposa

Fiction

July 2019

FIONA ALISON DUNCAN

Fiction

July 2019

I broke three contracts in 2016. The first was verbal, a monogamy clause. But he was fucking around too, and I knew, because everybody...

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poetry

Issue No. 3

The Far Shore

Michael Hampton

poetry

Issue No. 3

Windblown: gone with the summer wind. Windblown: gone with the autumn wind. Windblown: gone with the winter wind. Windblown:...

Interview

Issue No. 10

Interview with Jacques Rancière

Rye Dag Holmboe

Interview

Issue No. 10

Jacques Rancière came into prominence in 1968 when, under the auspices of his teacher Louis Althusser, he contributed to...

poetry

September 2012

Crossing Over

Eleanor Rees

poetry

September 2012

As he sails the coracle of willow and skins his bird eyes mirror the moon behind cloud. Spring tide...

 

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