Jungle Planet and Other New Stories

Series Editor Frank Stewart.
Guest Editors Bruce Fulton, Eric Gamalinda, Leigh Saffold, Arthur Sze, and John Whalen-Bridge.

Jungle Planet and Other New Stories features new works of fiction, biography, and drama, plus artwork. These selections span time and place: a young man encounters a palm reader on a San Francisco bus; an old woman recalls the Japanese Occupation of Malaysia; a group of Cheyenne Indians journey to the edge of the known world; and, in the title piece, a child enjoys exotic animals on cable television as the outside world disintegrates.

Among the writers are Lysley Tenorio, Bay Anapol, David Borofka, Eddie Chuculate, Dionisio Velasco, Mark Panek, Robert Barclay, Wayne Karlin, James D. Houston, and Andrew Lam from the U.S.; Huzir Sulaiman from Malaysia; Marcelino Freire from Brazil; Lakambini A. Sitoy from the Philippines; Kim Yongha from Korea; and Manjushree Thapa from Nepal. Translators include Claude Henry Potts and Dafna Zur.

Artwork from Carlos Almaraz, David Botello, Margaret García, Wayne Alaniz Healy, Adan Hernández, Ester Hernández, Leo Limón, John Valadez, Patssi Valdez, and George Yepes has been reproduced for this issue. Back-cover art: John Valadez, Pool Party. Front-cover art: Carlos Almarez, Sunset Crash.

216 pp., winter 2004 (16:2), $20
ISBN 978-0-8248-2906-3
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