Issue 13

Editorial
Issue 13
By Editors, No Man's Land
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Poetry
ultimatum
doctor Benn
the magpies
blues in b
flourishing realism
conversation with the stone
By Yaak Karsunke
Translator: Gregory Divers

Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
Farewell, Dear Comrades and Lovers!
By Carmen-Francesca Banciu
Translator: Elena Mancini

Special Feature: Audio Drama
ILLEGAL HELPERS
By Maxi Obexer
Translator: Neil Blackadder

Poetry
Crumbs
At Friedl’s
The Missing
By Friedrich Ani
Translator: Alexander Booth

Poetry
I pass oranges over the scanner
there’s a new special offer
me and the cat on the lawn
aunt lucia
By Michelle Steinbeck
Translator: Jen Calleja

Poetry
flourmouthed
swarmedthrough nights
hamster at heart
wolfsblue
the other
point. making.
By Kathrin Schmidt
Translator: Jamie Osborn

Poetry
World Image I
The Turning Point
Changing the Wallpaper
O Chicago! O Contradiction!
Mine
Marlboro is red. Red is Marlboro.
By Volker Braun
Translator: Robert Lemon

Poetry
First of January, Resolutions
Berlin, City of Childhood
My Grandmother
Walk in May 2016
In Winter
By Michael Krüger
Translator: Karen Leeder

Poetry
Ode to muesli
The expanding nature of the task
Not even an implosion
Every morning (unplugged)
Every morning (plugged)
The embrace
By Matthias Politycki
Translator: Margaret May

Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
They’re Shooting Again
By Elisa Wächtershäuser
Translator: Helen MacCormac

Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
Constellations
By Marića Bodrožić
Translator: Deirdre McMahon

Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
The Fortress
By Peter Schwendele
Translator: Cornelius Partsch

Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
In the Sleeping Car
By Gert Loschütz
Translator: Emily Banwell

Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
Those Present
By Dorothee Elmiger
Translator: Alan Robinson

Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
Quick Mitzvah with a Seaside View
By Dmitrij Kapitelman
Translator: Jeff Clingenpeel

Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
Friedinger
By Stefan Kutzenberger
Translator: Vincent Kling

Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
The First Night Song
By Yoko Tawada
Translator: Lúcia Collischon

Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
Mothers
By Clemens J. Setz
Translator: Mandy Wight

Poetry
stagnant
swapped
mute till a minute ago
winter is so pure and simple, hung out
By Kathrin Schmidt
Translator: Sue Vickerman

Fiction / Creative Nonfiction
All that Glitters
By Marie Gamillscheg
Translator: Johanna McCalmont

Poetry
Tríptico
By Mário Gomes
Translator: Jordan Lee Schnee