Bread Alone

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Bread Alone Bread Alone Kim Jensen Syracuse University Press ~~ ~ Copyright © 2009 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5160 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2009 09 10 11 12 13 14 6 5 4 3 2 1 “Song of Qana” and “Sea Sickness” appear in the May 2007 issue of Left Curve. “Confession” and “Hello” appear in the September 2007 Blood Lotus online journal. “End of the War” appears in Liberation Literature, Summer 2008. “Long Shelf Life” appears in the anthology Hunger and Thirst, San Diego City Works Press, 2008. “Rock Bottom” appears in the anthology Come Together: Imagine Peace, Bottom Dog Press, 2008. “The Curse” appears in Coe Review, Winter 2008. “Confession” appears in the anthology Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, Gival Press, 2009. ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press. visit our Web site at SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu ISBN-13: 978-0-8156-0945-2 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Jensen, Kim, 1966– Bread alone / Kim Jensen. — 1st ed. p. cm. ISBN 978-0-8156-0945-2 (cloth : alk. paper) I. Title. PS3610.E568B74 2009 811'.6—dc22 2009026125 Manufactured in the United States of America Dedicated to the memory of Karla Baldwin Jensen Kim Jensen is a writer who has lived in France, California, and the Middle East. Her first novel, The Woman I Left Behind, about a turbulent affair between a Palestinian exile and an American student, was published in 2006 by Curbstone Press. In 2001, Kim won the Raymond Carver Prize for Short Fiction, and her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies , including Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, the Baltimore Review, Al Jadid, Rain Taxi Review, Come Together: Imagine Peace, Left Curve, and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. She currently lives with her husband and children in Baltimore, where she is associate professor of English at the Community College of Baltimore County in Maryland. ...