BAX 2020: Best American Experimental Writing

by Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, Carmen Maria Machado (Editor), Joyelle McSweeney (Editor)

Overview

BAX 2020, guest-edited by Joyelle McSweeney and Carmen Maria Machado, is the sixth edition of the critically acclaimed anthology series compiling an exciting mix of fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and genre-defying work. Featuring a diverse roster of new and established authors—including Anne Boyer, Alice Notley, and Raquel Salas Rivera—BAX 2020 presents an expansive view of high-energy writing.

from Okazaki Fragments
        by Kanika Agrawal

These proceedings in nature
These proceedings in cold biology
These proceedings in chemical society
These proceedings in physical communication

We refer to the concentration of residues
We observe that one sediments
        faster than the other
We presume as fact that most of what we do
        is in growing incomplete
                short chains
We further support the conclusion
We indicate direction also
        by another method

We are grateful to Drs.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780819579591
Publisher:	Wesleyan University Press
Publication date:	12/08/2020
Series:	Best American Experimental Writing
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
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About the Author

SETH ABRAMSON, an assistant professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at the University of New Hampshire, is the author of fourteen books. His most recent works are the New York Times bestsellers Proof of Conspiracy and Proof of Collusion. JESSE DAMIANI is Deputy Director of Emerging Technology at SNHU and a Forbes contributor. CARMEN MARIA MACHADO is the author of the story collection Her Body and Other Parties and the memoir In The Dream House, both from Graywolf Press. JOYELLE MCSWEENEY is the author of ten books of poems, fiction, drama and essays, and is the co-founder of the international press, Action Books.

Seth Abramson, an assistant professor of Communication Arts and Sciences at the University of New Hampshire, is the author of fourteen books. His most recent works are the New York Times bestsellers Proof of Conspiracy and Proof of Collusion.
Jesse Damiani is Deputy Director of Emerging Technology at SNHU and a Forbes contributor. He lives in the Greater Boston Area.
Carmen Maria Machado is the author of the story collection Her Body and Other Parties and the memoir In the Dream House both from Graywolf Press. She is a fiction writer, critic, and essayist whose work has appeared in the, New Yorker, Granta, Tin House, Guernica and elsewhere. She is Writer in Residence at the University of Pennsylvania, and lives in Philadelphia with her wife.
Joyelle McSweeney is the author of ten books of poems, fiction, drama and essays, and is the co-founder of the international press, Action Books.

Table of Contents

Guest Editors' Introduction Carmen Maria Machado Joyelle McSweeney ix

Series Editors' Introduction Seth Abramson Jesse Damiani xi

From Okazaki Fragments Kanika Agrawal 1

Translated Rachel Galvin Alejandro Albarrán Polanco 17

Cowboy

Confusion

From I Lick Everything at Target: Meditations for Making Peace with the Moral Ambiguities of Consumerism and Reconciling Your Need for Things with the Ravages of Global Capitalism Emily Anderson 22

Translated Jasmine Haj Asmaa Azaizeh 29

Do Not Believe Me Were I to Talk to You of War

I Didn't Believe I Would Ever Learn to Die

From Nympholepsy Lisa Marie Basile Alyssa Morhardt-Goldstein 34

Death and the Maiden Anne Boyer 38

Little Skin Bag Bridget Brewer 53

From Kids of the Black Hole Marty Cain 67

From "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major" Seo-Yound Chu 69

From Airport Novella Tom Comitta 86

Forced Center Robert C.L. Crawford 98

The Lovers Deuyn Defoe 99

Girls, Monsters Jaquira Díaz 107

Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red Adam Dickinson 110

It Turns Out the Starting Material for the Earliest

Forms of Life is a Carcinogen

Hormone

From Venus Edamame Donald Dunbar 115

Bronze Glitches

Thy Shade Shines So

From "Shigeko, Let's Hitchhike to Japan" Anaïs Duplan 124

The Enormous Radio Leah Sophia Dworkin 130

Anabasis Amal El-Mohtar 134

Understory Ethan Feuer 137

Engendered:: Non[fiction] Sarah Gallien 144

From Fortune Adam Greenberg 150

Translated Todd Fredson from Think of Lampedusa Josué Guébo 153

Battery Jane Eaton Hamilton 157

Memoirs of an Imaginary Country Maria Dahuana Headley 161

About the Poem I Feel Most Black Error 404: Binaries Not Rendered Kamden Hilliard 175

For the treatment of ear-ache Aua Hofmann 178

Crisis Actor Harmony Holiday 180

From SKY WRI TEINGS Nasser Hussain 181

From frequency modulations Olivia Ingram 190

For Your Pleasure Negesti Kaudo 193

Injsaður Aaron Kent 200

Flat Heimurinn

Petal

One Hour, Every Seven Years Alice Sola Kim 203

Translated Ji yoon Lee Johannes Göransson Don Mee Choi Kim Yideum 217

Construction Contractor

The Aria from the Rice Chest

From Sonnet Infinitéismal n°3 / Matérial Girl n°8 Aris-Justine Kirby 219

Unfurl/ed Matthias Klein 230

You've Seriously Considered This Samantha Lamph/Len 237

As sunlight Sade Lanay 240

As watercolor

From The Green Record Carlos Lara 242

Byzantium Lisa Locascio 245

Their Green Going Carole Maso 253

It all melts down to this: a novel in timelines (chapter 12) Ben Miller Dale Williams 260

COLON |KoL&rmcgreve;N| Ui Khi Nao 269

Days of Broken Lead Nathanaël 273

Schrödinger's Ovaries Em North 276

Malorum Sanatio Alice Notley 281

I dwell in the road to the sea everyone travels and dwell in your house preparing to haunt you if I'm not doing much later and dwell on your face and if you don't aggrieve me I or my daughters might could come back Danielle Pafunda 287

Sick in "America" Alan C. Pelaez Lopez 290

From Force Drift Jeffrey Pethybridge 291

Anarcha and I Negotiate Trauma Xandria Phillips 297

Edmonia Lewis and I on Academic Leave

Translated Sherilyn Hellberg from Celestine Olga Raun 299

Fragmentos de "la cinta" / fragments from "the ribbon" Raquel Salas Rivera 304

Walking along the Avenue of the Suicides, the Cockroach Kit Schluter 314

While the Two Slugs Take Turns Drinking Shots of Vodka

Path Dependency Eric Schmaltz 320

Revenge Porn Aurvi Sharma 323

Ecdysis Germán Sierra 335

Like Stride Cedar Sigo 340

Thrones

Suspended Sentence

Au Black Kyra Simone 344

Blue Moon

Test Group 4: Womanhood and Other Failures SJ Sindu 347

[YSL] Haute Couture Maybe The Cubicle // Is Another Incarceration Christopher Soto 351

Odette. Joseph Spece 353

Translated Sasha Dugdale from "War of the Beasts and the Animals" Maria Stepandva 363

Foreign Body Ear Amital Stern 368

Black Dog Alex Terrell 377

[Untitled Tweet] Jia Tolentino 390

Videoteca Fin del Mundo Ava Tomasula Y Garcia 391

On the Problem of Replacement Children Debbie Urbanski 398

Christmas Genital Self-Examination Sarah Vap 414

From "Assimilation Rooms" Vanessa Angélica Villarreal 419

Cleeve Abbey Suite G.C. Waldrep 425

Shock box Candice Wuehle 430

Bijoux in the Dark Shipboard Entertainment John Yau 432

Acknowledgments 437

Contributors 443