Fence Issue #40 Winter 2023    Poetry.  Fiction.  Translation.   &.  Other.     Super-contemporary literary incitements since 1998.   Shipping Mid-March 2023 To Libraries, stores, Subscribers, and Members   ◊  ◊  ◊  F E A T U R I N G  ◊  ◊  ◊   ♦ An Editor’s Note from Issue 40-41 Visiting Editor Edgar Garcia. […]

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On the basis of what I took to be his vandalized spirit, he could have been my father. “Can you help me?” he said. “Follow me,” I said, absent the intonation of a leader. I wanted to go to the top—but this man, he looked as though he had fallen. (On his jeaned knee, some […]

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And Paris Is Beautiful Too Katherine says we should tell the world the Gold Coast is beautiful, a real find, and I say Paris too, we should tell everyone we know, and she says we should also tell them about Rome and Florence, and I say München and Berlin, we should definitely tell everyone we […]