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Aaron Peck is the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis and Letters to the Pacific.

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The Abyss Echoes Back: Judith Schalansky’s ‘An Inventory of Losses’

Book Review

January 2021

Aaron Peck

Book Review

January 2021

Early in Judith Schalansky’s An Inventory of Losses, the narrator describes the way an ancient form of writing survived oblivion. The soft clay tablets...

Book Review

May 2018

Harry Mathews’s ‘The Solitary Twin’

Aaron Peck

Book Review

May 2018

Imagine a small fishing village on the edge of the world. Its inhabitants are progressive and content. The surroundings...

Obscene Intimacy My soldier was found unresponsive restrained In his cell death being due to blunt force injuries To lower extremities complicating coronary artery Disease contusions & abrasions on forehead Nose head behind ear neck abdomen buttock Elbow thigh knee foot toe w/ hæmorrhage On rib area & leg blunt force injuries resulted In extensive muscle damage muscle necrosis & Rhabdomyolysis electrolyte disturbances primarily Hyperkalæmia elevated blood potassium level & Metabolic acidosis occurs within hours of muscle Damage massive sodium and water shifts occur re – sulting in hypovolemic shock & casodilatation And later acute renal failure the deceased’s un – derlying coronary artery disease would compromise Ability to tolerate electrolyte & fluid abnormalities Underlying malnutrition so it’s likely dehydration Only exacerbated the effects of muscle damage Mere bones of desolation now things   — my love restores   False Communiqué One civilian detainee was found Unresponsive with a ligature Or plastic band around my cock A bottle ring pops pigeon death In cell behaviour health unit joint Task force Guantanamo 2200 hours When the ligature gets cut I come Without remorse on the source Of light his electric body being Banished to mulch organic comp – osition capital dividing luminous Flux a rumour a burden of labour Having fallen away from the tend – ency of profit to rise and fall w/ The quality of radiance his cock The way any man will use my hands Like vitreous fluid his urine emits So diffused a glow no needle-like Beam thru pores of junk no evi – dence of trauma resuscitation Efforts begging immediate organ – isation to turn blood back To military cargo my skin Now shares  — with a tank

Contributor

May 2017

Aaron Peck

Contributor

May 2017

Aaron Peck is the author of The Bewilderments of Bernard Willis and Letters to the Pacific.

Gloria

fiction

May 2017

Aaron Peck

fiction

May 2017

Bernard, whenever he thought of Geoffrey, would remember his gait on the afternoon of their first meeting. Geoffrey walked with the confidence of a...

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poetry

May 2013

Ad Tertiam

Saskia Hamilton

poetry

May 2013

Rows of pines, planted years ago – so many, were you to count them on your fingers, you would...

fiction

September 2015

The Afternoon

Wolfgang Hilbig

TR. Isabel Fargo Cole

fiction

September 2015

Nothing new on Bahnhofstrasse! — These are the first words to occur to me upon arrival. With the word...

fiction

January 2016

The Bees

Wioletta Greg

TR. Eliza Marciniak

fiction

January 2016

On Sunday right after lunch, my father began preparing muskrat skins and cut his finger on a dirty penknife....

 

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