Margin: Exploring Modern Magical 

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authors A through M

Navarro, J.L.
    "The Blood Cake Vendor" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story has also appeared in Shadowkeep, Cafe Irreal and BIGnews; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Nelson, Paul
     "September's Search for Duende" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Nickerson, Sheila
     "A Ghost Tour in Beaufort, SC" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

     "Brendan, His Daughter, the Horses" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

     "In the Shadow of Butterflies" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "The Rooster in the Cemetery of St. George the Martyr, Tortola" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

     "Visit to Funchal, Madeira" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "The Winning Entry, Combined Fruits Category, Flower Show at the Botanic Gardens, Tortola" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Nogg, Ozzie
    "Blue Plate Special" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

O'Brien, Dorene
    "El Niño" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-1/02]

Ochsner, Gina
    "POINT/COUNTERPOINT: The True World: When Consensual Reality Is Not Enough" (debating Adrianne Harun) © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

O'Dell Carol D.
    "Did You See The Moon Last Night?" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Okorafor, Nnedimma
    "Biafra" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

    "The Palm Tree Bandit" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in Strange Horizons in December 2002; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Olivas, Daniel
    "After the Revolution" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Orem, William
    "Zombi, You My Love" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in Zombi, You My Love: Stories of Haiti [1999, La Questa Press]; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Ortese, Anna Maria and Henry Martin, translator
    "The Great Street" (an English translation of "Grande via") copyright © 1998 by Henry Martin. The original story, "Grande via," is copyright © 1950 by Anna Maria Ortese. This translation was originally published in A Music Behind the Wall: Selected Stories, Volume Two, (Kingston, N.Y.: McPherson & Company, 1998), and later in archipelago in 2003. Permission to reprint granted by McPherson & Company.

Osherow, Jacqueline
    "The Stork in the Heaven" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem previously appeared in Western Humanities Review and, most recently, in Osherow's book of poems, The Hoopoe's Crown (2005: BOA Editions); permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Overton, Mary
    "Butterfly Girl" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in The Wine of Astonishment (Woodside, CA: La Questa Press) in 1997; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Mother, Machine" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in The Wine of Astonishment (Woodside, CA: La Questa Press) in 1997; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "The Wine of Astonishment" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in The Wine of Astonishment (Woodside, CA: La Questa Press) in 1997; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Parent, Stephanie
    "In Ophelia's Garden" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Parker, Mary Elizabeth
    "Footings" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Sex Girl (Asheville, NC: Urthona Press) in 1999; permission to reprint granted by both the author and the publisher. [E-none]

    "Lake Woman" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Earth and Soul: An Anthology of North Carolina Poetry in 2001; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Not To Leap In" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Sex Girl (Asheville, NC: Urthona Press) in 1999; permission to reprint granted by both the author and the publisher. [E-none]

    "Prayer Riding Out Of Detroit" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Sex Girl (Asheville, NC: Urthona Press) in 1999; permission to reprint granted by both the author and the publisher. [E-none]

    "Selling Light" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Sex Girl (Asheville, NC: Urthona Press) in 1999; permission to reprint granted by both the author and the publisher. [E-none]

    "Skinny Girl" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Sex Girl (Asheville, NC: Urthona Press) in 1999; permission to reprint granted by both the author and the publisher. [E-none]

Patrick, Oona
    "Capturing The Untranslatable: Saudade's frustrating beauty" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "The Fatal Weight of Memory: Discovering Portugal's Antunes" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Grounded Magical Realism: Or, How To Fly A Kite Along The Edge Of A Drifting Continent" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Notes from the Word Scratcher: Patrick Chamoiseau" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "The Past As Bad Dream: When Worlds Collide, Sometimes It's For The Better" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Peabody, Richard
    "Are There Any FBI Agents in Heaven?" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Pendery, David
    "Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon: Depictions of Conscious Experience as Magical Realist Technique" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Perchan, Robert
    "Pieta" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Crab Creek Review (2005); permission to reprint granted by the author.

    "Yo, Borges, Dapplegänger" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in 5 AM; permission to reprint granted by the author.

Perchik, Simon
    "untitled" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "untitled" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Pérez Estrada, Rafael
    "El Ojo" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem appeared in its original Spanish version, alongside its English version, in Devoured by the Moon, Steven J. Stewart's collection of translated works by Pérez Estrada, in 2004; permission to reprint granted by the translator [E-none]

    "La Puta Florecida" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem appeared in its original Spanish version, alongside its English version, in Devoured by the Moon, Steven J. Stewart's collection of translated works by Pérez Estrada, in 2004; permission to reprint granted by the translator [E-none]

    "Los Manos" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem appeared in its original Spanish version, alongside its English version, in Devoured by the Moon, Steven J. Stewart's collection of translated works by Pérez Estrada, in 2004; permission to reprint granted by the translator [E-none]

Picciuolo, Jon
    "Farmer's Market" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Pierce, William
    "Fabulously Real" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This essay originally appeared in AGNI 59 in 2004; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Poché, Reggie
    "A Shadow in Poughkeepsie" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in Zahir in June 2005; permission to reprint granted by the author.

Pope, Robert
    "Tuxedo Bird Spring" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Price, Lia Scott
    "Without Wings" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in the anthology, The Spirit of Writing, Classic and Contemporary Essays Celebrating the Writing Life (2001:Tarcher Putnam); permission to reprint granted by the editor and author. [E-none]

Priest, Christopher
    "Christopher Priest's Favourite Slipstream Books" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This article originally appeared in The Guardian in 2003; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Raab, Lawrence
    "Vanishing Point" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Visible Signs: New and Selected Poems in 2003; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Rabassa, Gregory
    excerpt from Chapter 15 (in translation) from Master of the Sea (written by José Sarney) © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. Permission to reprint excerpt granted by the publisher.

    Chapters 11 and 12 (in translation) from "My World Is Not Of This Kingdom" (original text: "O Meu Mundo Não é Deste Reino" by João de Melo) © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Ratto, Amy
     "Conception" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Reyes, Carlos
     "Taking a Shower with Miguel de Cervantes" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Nightmarks: Poems by Carlos Reyes in 1990; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Richman, Shira
     "Phantom Limbs" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Robinson, James Miller
     "Córdoba Guitar" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Rodriguez, Alicita
     "The Boy Who Breathed Water" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Rogers, Bruce Holland
     "Don Ysidro" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in Polyphony in 2003; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

     "A Rough Guide to the Rest of the Markets" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This article originally appeared in the Winter 1997 edition of the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America BULLETIN; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Rommel, Marjorie
    "Absence, Presence and Magical Realism" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "October" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Ghost in the Garden (GodZillah Gospel Press) in 1995 and Poets at the Kent Canterbury Faire (The Northwest Renaissance) in 1989; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Roney-O'Brien, Susan
    "Hephaestus Surveys His Handiwork" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Rosser, Larri Ann
    "A Gift for Brother Coyote" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Rowlan, Garrett
    "Cortázar's Reality: Another Kind of Magic" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Caribbean Magical Realism: A Distilled Magic?" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Magical Realism and Film: Degrading the Image" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

    "Nemesis" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Saramago's Others" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Viewfinder" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Rutkowski, Thaddeus
    "Songs From An Urban Mermaid: Janice Eidus, 'As It Could Be' " © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Ryan, John
    "Andrew Chow's Bakery" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

San Miguel, Susan
    "Obsidian" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-2/01]

Sax, Boria
    "N. SCOTT MOMADAY: Native America's pragmatic magical realist" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This review previously appeared in H-Net: Humanities & Social Sciences Online in 1998; permission to reprint granted by the publisher.

Scherer, Catherine
    "Spent Earth" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Schiaffini, Patricia
    "Reconsidering the Origins of Tibetan Magical Realism: Lo real maravilloso and magical realism in Tashi Dawa" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. A shorter version of this essay was presented at the conference "Authenticities East and West," Society for Intercultural Comparative Studies, Princeton University, 2001. For more on this topic see Patricia Schiaffini-Vedani, "Tashi Dawa: Magical Realism and Contested Identity in Modern Tibet," Ph.D. Diss., Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 2002.

Schlegel, Lois
    "Chicken Scratch" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Schumacher, Matt
    "Resurrection of the Queen, Drowned at Sea" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Selden, Anne
    "The Fist" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Sellman, Tamara Kaye
    "AMERICAN TOP FORTY: Magical Realism's Leading Ladies (an incomplete list)" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "The Beauty of "Torment:" New Storytelling Frontiers from Paulo da Costa" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Blue Stockings and Yellow Wallpaper: How women have stretched (and will continue to stretch) the boundaries of Magical Realism" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Dancing for the Conquered and the Slain: Vedette, a flamenco heroine for our times" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Distortion Comes From the Truth: Just Ask Aimee Bender" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Dream Tribute to Pessoa: Tabucchi's Requiem" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Emerging Poet Series ~ Introducing: Carolyn Moore" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "First Dance With Peter Damian Bellis: Toward A North American Magical Realism" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Glimpsing All That Lies Beneath: Hermine Meinhard, organic practitioner of duende," © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Half a Century Later: The Leaf Storm's Still Blowing" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Happily Living in Mystery: Frank X. Gaspar's natural familiarity with the magical," © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Heroines in blue stockings: Magical realism's debt to America's female scholars," © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "If You Could Pick One Book... A Student's Quest Ends, Then Begins Again" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Imaginative Fiction: Extreme Fiction's Deliciously Perilous Landscape" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Is it Magic or Magical Realism? Why Knowing The Difference Matters To Literature" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Jewish Magical Realism: Writing to Tell the Tale" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    Letter from the editor, Autumn 2005 © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Like Water For A Bedouin" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Madam's Curse" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in Words of Wisdom in September 1999, and was given Best of Entries distinction in a short story contest sponsored by Whelks Walk Review in 1998; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "MRTV: The Twilight Zone and Her Offspring" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "NALO HOPKINSON: 'All Fiction is Fantasy' " © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Of Ghosts, Gods and the Raw Ingredients of Human Experience: Mary Overton Discusses Magical Realism" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Ordinary Enchantments: Wendy Faris further refines a subject she's already mastered" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "On the Road with Good and Evil: The epic exodus that is Carnivale" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "One Well-Seasoned Morsel From A Well-Seasoned Translator" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Paola Corso: Magical Realism as Memory, Voice and Vision" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Rob Johnson and the Haunted Valley of Fantasmas" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

    "Sailing Home: M. Eliza Hamilton Abégúndé navigates cultural memory in THE ARIAN'S LAST LIFE " © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "The schizophrenic reviews of Melancholy Whores" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Songs of Connectivity: Native America's magical realist women" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "A Study in Salt" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Tilting the Field of Civilization: Wilson Harris pitches for a "true" Caribbean history © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "What Do American Readers Know About Magical Realism? A Book Group Infiltration" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Year One: Tentacles Poking From An Overnight Bag" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Senior, Olive
    "The Birth of Islands" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Poetry International Web; permission to reprint this poem granted by the poet. [E-none]

Setton, Ruth Knafo
    "Gypsy Moth" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Sheldon, Erik
     "The Question Remained" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Siciliano, Stephen
    "Real Magicalism in The Family of Pascual Duarte" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Simic, Charles
    "A Landscape With Crutches" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Selected Poems 1963-1983 by Charles Simic; permission to reprint this poem granted by the author. [E-none]

Sloat, Sarah
    "Grassland" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Snow, Jan C.
    "Wind Shift" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Sojfer, Isabelle
    "The Fridge" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.[E-none]

Soniat, Katherine
    "An Aerial Meander" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Triquarterly; permission to reprint granted by the author [E-none]

    "September Sentence" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Denver Quarterly in April 2001; permission to reprint granted by the author [E-none]

Sonnenfeld, Sandi
    "Sunkissed" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-10/01]

Spollen, Anne
    "Field" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-1/02]

Stanley, Jodee
    "Railroad Bill: A Tale" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Steckel, Jan
    "The Christening of Alonso" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Stewart, Steven J.
    "The Eye" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This translation of the Rafael Pérez Estrada poem, "El Ojo," originally appeared in Devoured by the Moon in 2004; permission to reprint granted by the translator [E-none]

    "The Flowering Whore" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This translation of the Rafael Pérez Estrada poem, "La Puta Florecida," originally appeared in Devoured by the Moon in 2004; permission to reprint granted by the translator [E-none]

    "The Hands" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This translation of the Rafael Pérez Estrada poem, "Los Manos," originally appeared in Devoured by the Moon in 2004; permission to reprint granted by the translator [E-none]

Suárez, Virgil
    "Horse" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Taylor, Bruce
    "The Baker" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in The Final Trick of Funnyman and other stories (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press) in 2001, and before that, Matrix; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "A Brief History of Magic Realism" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This essay originally appeared in Prescience and the SFWA Bulletin; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "The Coat" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in The Final Trick of Funnyman and other stories (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press) in 2001, and before that, On Spec; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "The First, Last and Only Painting of Pablo Caso" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in The Final Trick of Funnyman and other stories (Auburn, WA: Fairwood Press) in 2001, and before that, Matrix; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    Introduction to "The Baker" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    Introduction to "The Coat" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "The Paradox of Truth: British magical realists tell it slant—on purpose" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

    "Whatever Happened to Avon Bard?" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Thornbrugh, David
    "After Reading Lorca's Letters Home from America" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in both PoetsWest (Winter 2000) and Talking River Review (Winter 2000). Permission to reprint granted by the poet. [E-none]

    "Cartoon Thought Balloons" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Thumper
    "Twisted Truth: Touré's edgy take on African-American magical realism" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This review previously appeared in the African American Literary Book Club website; permission to reprint granted by the publisher.

Topal, Carine
    "The Moon Has No Shoes" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Tropp, Girija
    "Gina is in Trouble" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Tursi, Mark
    "Surviving Simulacra: The Realities of the Ridiculous" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Ude, Wayne
    "The Haunting of Thomas Longbull" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in Buffalo and other stories (Amherst, MA: Lynx House Press) in 1975; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Ulysse, Katia
    "Heritage" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Vando, Gloria
    "Learning My Name" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem previously appeared in Promesas: Geography of the Impossible in 1993; permission to reprint granted by the author.

Vannatta, Dennis
    "The Death of Borges (and the Death of Borges)" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Vaz, Katherine
    An excerpt from "Add Blue To Make White Whiter" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. Text originally appeared in Fado & Other Stories (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press) in 1997; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    An excerpt from "Fado" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.Text originally appeared in Fado & Other Stories (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press) in 1997; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    An excerpt from "Original Sin" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. Text originally appeared in Fado & Other Stories (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press) in 1997; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    An excerpt from "Saudade" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. Text originally appeared in Saudade (New York: St. Martin's Press) in 1994; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "The Journey of the Eyeball" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in Fado & Other Stories (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press) in 1997; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "The Remains of Princess Kaiulani's Garden" © 2000, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in Fado & Other Stories (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press) in 1997; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Vogel, Constance
    "Forever" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem previously appeared in River Oak Review in 2003. Permission to reprint this poem granted by the poet.

    "My Father's Hats" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem previously appeared in Blue Unicorn in 1993. Permission to reprint this poem granted by the poet.

Warnick, Melody
    "Before I Died" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

Warren, Rosanna
    "From the Notebooks of Anne Verveine, VI" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Imaginary Poets [2005, Tupelo Press]; permission to reprint granted by the publisher, the editor and the author. [E-none]

Weed, Tim
    "The Foreigner" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in The Compass Rose Review; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Weekley, J. Marcus
    "Pretty Soon April Will Be Here" © 2006, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Wells, Janet A.
    "Embrace" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

Whitney, Joel
    "On Translating the Prince of Wits" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This interview originally appeared in Guernica in 2005; permission to reprint granted by the publisher. [E-none]

Wild, Ian
    "The Woman Who Swallowed The Book of Kells" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in From the Bering Straits and Other Stories (County Cork, Ireland: Fish Publishing) and the Barcelona Review, both in 1999; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Williams, CK
     "Biopsy" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Repair (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 1999); permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Woods, Christopher
    "Notes from the Conch Mountain" © 2004, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This story originally appeared in Under a Riverbed Sky.

Wright, Franz
    "The Beforelife" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Beforelife (New York: Alfred A. Knopf) in 2001; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Church" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Beforelife (New York: Alfred A. Knopf) in 2001; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "First Light" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems (Ohio: Oberlin College Press) in 1998; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Loneliness" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems (Ohio: Oberlin College Press) in 1998; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Metaphor" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems (Ohio: Oberlin College Press) in 1998; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Morning Arrives" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems (Ohio: Oberlin College Press) in 1998; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Occurrence" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems (Ohio: Oberlin College Press) in 1998; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Prescription" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Beforelife (New York: Alfred A. Knopf) in 2001; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Say My Name" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems (Ohio: Oberlin College Press) in 1998; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "The Shore" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in Ill Lit: Selected & New Poems (Ohio: Oberlin College Press) in 1998; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Thanks Prayer at the Cove" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Beforelife (New York: Alfred A. Knopf) in 2001; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Thinking of France" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. This poem originally appeared in The Beforelife (New York: Alfred A. Knopf) in 2001; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Zapata-Whelan, Carol
    "The Difference Between Fantasy and Imagination: A Conversation With Isabel Allende" © 2001, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. [E-none]

    "Tierra y Libertad" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.This story originally appeared in El Andar in Summer 2001; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

    "Conviviality" © 2002, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism. A slightly different version of this manuscript originally appeared in The Raven Chronicles in spring 2002; permission to reprint granted by the author. [E-none]

Zimmermann, Jane
    "The Return" © 2005, Margin: Exploring Modern Magical Realism.

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