THE RUNNER
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When I last saw her, months ago, she told me
she’d bought an oxygen tent on Craigslist from an ex-Olympian. Each night, she zips herself in and sleeps at the altitude of a Chilean mountaintop. |
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OVERLOOKING THE ATLANTIC
Without the ocean, she said
she would have been bereft.
This was funny
because she’d lived all her childhood
before she’d seen it.
Is it possible to miss
something essential but ―
as yet ―
unknown to you?
The relentlessness of that changing grey-blue,
once felt,
she said, she could not part from.
she would have been bereft.
This was funny
because she’d lived all her childhood
before she’d seen it.
Is it possible to miss
something essential but ―
as yet ―
unknown to you?
The relentlessness of that changing grey-blue,
once felt,
she said, she could not part from.
Emily Frisella is a London-based freelance writer, editor, and educational consultant. She writes both poetry and nonfiction, and takes a special interest the intersections of literature, pop culture, history, and politics. Her work has been published in Pedestal Magazine, The Adroit Journal, 30 N, The Establishment, GOOD, The Wellesley Review, and Oxford University’s The Isis Magazine.
Based in Brooklyn, New York, Amani Willett’s photography is driven by conceptual ideas surrounding family, history, memory, and the social environment. His first monograph, Disquiet, (Damiani, 2013) — a meditation on starting a family in a time of social unrest and uncertainty in America — was selected as one of the best books of the year by PDN, Photo-Eye (Todd Hido), and Conscientious (Joerg Colberg). Willett’s photographs are featured in the books Bystander: A history of Street Photography (forthcoming, Phaidon), Street Photography Now (Thames and Hudson), New York: In Color (Abrams), and in a wide range of publications including American Photography, Newsweek, Harper’s Magazine, and the New York Times. Amani completed an MFA in Photography, Video, and Related Media from the School of Visual Arts in 2012.