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H\R 91: Interventions in Blood | A. Molotkov

February 26, 2021 Hawaiʻi Review
Interventions in Blood Cover

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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements 5

Infinity 7

A Collaboration 15

Forty Billion Miles 29

The End of the War 37

At the Same Time 45

Around the World 53

Destination 65

The Lion 83

Fear 99

Round Trip 117

 

Images

Recovery 6

Credibility 15

Misexpectation 28

Remember Us 36

Fast Lane Memory 44

Eye 52

Entrance 64

Freeway in the Sky 82

Foolfillment 98

Language 116

The Wheel of Misfortune 132

Reminder 134

 

Author Bio 135

 

Acknowledgements

Round Trip, winner of the E. M. Koeppel Short Fiction Award,

published by Writecorner Press

Fear published by December

Destination published by Inkwell

Around the World published by Fixional

At the Same Time published by Cantaraville

The End of the War published by SugarMule

Forty Billion Miles published by Gival Press

A Collaboration and The Lion published by Cumberland River Review

Infinity published by The Hawaii Pacific Review

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Author Bio

A. Molotkov’s poetry collections are The Catalog of Broken Things, Application of Shadows, Synonyms for Silence and Future Symptoms (forthcoming). His memoir A Broken Russia Inside Me about growing up in the USSR and making a new life in America is due out in 2022; his work appears in Prairie Schooner, The Triquarterly Review, Kenyon Review Online and most other quality journals. He co-edits The Inflectionist Review; his prose is represented by Laura Strachan at Strachan Lit. Please visit him at AMolotkov.com.

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Editor Statement

"I think of literary genres as different dances a dancer might practice, each expressing its joy and message in its own way, but sharing the same moves, relying on the same muscles."  —A. Molotkov (October 5, 2016 Hawaiʻi Review Interview)

The current collection, Interventions in Blood, challenges notions of the relationships between genres, between dream and waking; between linear time, circular time, and the time of the now; and between characters, narrators, authors, and readers. The use of “you” implicates the reader in the unfolding of these stories and landscapes. These pieces, alternately whimsical, complex, richly layered, and existential, prompt the reader to reconsider connections between time and space, and to erase the dividing lines between past, present, and future. The characters find themselves tethered to multiple spaces of possibility, motion, embodied experience, and subjectivity. The interactions between word and image offer the reader possibilities for considering textured relations between landscapes and soundscapes.

 

A. Molotkov has been a previous contributor to Hawaiʻi Review, as well as having won 2nd Prize for the 2011 Ian MacMillan Award for Poetry for the poem “Being,” published in Hawaiʻi Review Issue 74. He was also gracious enough to allow us to review his haunting poetry collection The Catalog of Broken Things in 2016 and conduct an interview with him on the collection and on his work. He mentioned on social media that he had been working on putting together previously published fiction pieces into a collection, and I reached out to ask if he might consider Hawaiʻi Review as a venue for a short book-length work. Happily, he was willing to work with us and provided all of the thought-provoking images contained in the collection as well.

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