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Communion Anthropoid, Joshua Stanek
Communion Anthropoid, Joshua Stanek
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In National Lampoon's Vegas Vacation, a man of good will offers all he has to a dear brother-in-law--recognizing the snakes he keeps as toys, the camper, the stones, dirt, and arid shrubbery are likewise dear to him. They go out to the desert at night and dig shallow holes, seemingly at random. Their imprecision is surprisingly fruitful. Imagine the constellation they made for the stars. In Communion Anthropoid, I am digging shallow holes in the dark with a mind to unearth what I believe I have lost. The dearness, I suppose. These poems vary in form from eight …
Disaster And Hope In The Comic Universe Of 'Gardening In The Tropics', Molly Mosher
Disaster And Hope In The Comic Universe Of 'Gardening In The Tropics', Molly Mosher
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In this paper, I explore ideas of dominion and how Western canon has helped propagate ideas of human domination of the natural world. Using Joseph W. Meeker’s The Comedy of Survival, I trace a line from the advent of the literary tragedy to the climate crisis. To contrast, I use his idea of comedy as the antidote to domination — a way of thinking that might inspire collaboration with the natural world. I will explore the comic with, predominately, Olive Senior’s Gardening in the Tropics, alongside Jamaica Kincaid’s gardening studies and Mona Lisa Saloy’s essay on environmental destruction. To …
Lighter Than I Remember, Shane Hayden
Lighter Than I Remember, Shane Hayden
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It is pointless to track one's progress along the energies of the cosmic sea, when independent of the immensely malleable sonic waves, and erase the cessation of elevation. The release never reaches the essence and the static repels them when they are devoid of the white dwarfs or their spiral arms: there is nothing tangible in not exploiting the mind/body connection. At last the summit is exalted. Miniscule solar rays expand into darkness, unhinged and must be nurtured, thought by thought, until magnified in nerve impulse and then put to rest by the still water, thus more quickly compiled, constricted …
Bellevue, Sean Edgely
Mythopoeia: A Biography, David Corliss
The Place Is Prologue, Natalie Caro
Scarecrone, Melissa Broder
Three Words: Foreign, Nina Stojkovic
Things I Know, Tomoko Sawada
Poetic Instructions On How To Stretch Brain Muscles & Examine Carnal Desires, Guil Parreiras
Poetic Instructions On How To Stretch Brain Muscles & Examine Carnal Desires, Guil Parreiras
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