The Georgia Review

Spring 2018

Kate Ballantyne, Rick Bass, Marvin Bell, Tamiko Beyer, Elly Bookman, Traci Brimhall, Elizabeth Cantwell, Victoria Chang, Kevin Clark, John Cotter, Carrie Esposito, Gary Gildner, Elton Glaser, Jeff Gundy, Paul Hamill, Jane Hirshfield, Blair Hurley, Sarah Key, Rachel Kincaid, John Lane, Naguib Mahfouz, Maura Mandyck, Julian Randall, Monica Sok, Amy Steinberg, Phillip Sterling, S. A. Stirnemann, Jennifer Stock, Raymond Stock, Nick Sturm, Robert Thomas, Betsy Fogelman Tighe, Jeanne Murray Walker, Roxanne Halpine Ward, & Art by Truong Tran.

Studies in Darkness by Traci Brimhall
“There’s something about black,” said Georgia O’Keeffe. “You feel hidden away in it.” Louise Nevelson said she fell in love with black: “You can be quiet and it can contain the whole thing.” Somehow this is true for me, . . .
I Came Here to Be Alone by Carrie Esposito
I paced back and forth in my art studio, not taking my eyes off the drawing on my long white desk. I ’d just finished penciling in the eyebrows of a third African tribesman. . . .
The Book of the Dead Man (Dylan’s Names) by Marvin Bell

Live as if you were already dead.
—Zen admonition

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.
—Bob Dylan

. . .
on When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir by Patrisse Khan-Cullors and asha bandele by Rachel Kincaid
A necessary tension in memoir is that between the individual at the center of it and the broader context—the cultural or historical moments shaping the author’s trajectory into our lives. . . .

Spring 2018