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Bread & Water; Love's Body, Elizabeth Spires Aug 2014

Bread & Water; Love's Body, Elizabeth Spires

Ontario Review

Elizabeth Spires of Baltimore is the author of two books of poetry, Globe and Swan's Island, the latter forthcoming this fall from Holt, Rinehart and Winston. She teaches at Goucher College.


After The Fact; Precisely Now (Translated By Edmund Keeley), Yannis Ritsos, Edmund Keeley Aug 2014

After The Fact; Precisely Now (Translated By Edmund Keeley), Yannis Ritsos, Edmund Keeley

Ontario Review

Yannis Ritsos, the distinguished Greek poet, has published many volumes, including Parentheses and The Distant.
Edmund Keeley of Princeton, New Jersey is the author of a recent novel, A Wilderness Called Peace, and translator of a selection of Ritsos's poems, Exile and Return, to be published this fall by The Ecco Press.


The Scientist's Wife Has An Opinion On Her Rival, Jana Harris Aug 2014

The Scientist's Wife Has An Opinion On Her Rival, Jana Harris

Ontario Review

Jana Harris has published a novel, Alaska, and her most recent book of poems is Manhattan as a Second Language. A prize-winning horsewoman, she now lives in Seattle.


Skiing Home At Dusk; The House Not Home; Solstice, Entering Capricorn, Jay Parini Aug 2014

Skiing Home At Dusk; The House Not Home; Solstice, Entering Capricorn, Jay Parini

Ontario Review

Jay Parini, who teaches at Middlebury College, is the author of several books including Anthracite Country (poems), and Theodore Roethke: An American Romantic.


A Letter To Andrew And Jonathan And Other Poems, Laurence Goldstein Aug 2014

A Letter To Andrew And Jonathan And Other Poems, Laurence Goldstein

Ontario Review

Professor of English at the University of Michigan and editor of The Michigan Quarterly Review, Laurence Goldstein has published in Poetry, Southern Review, MSS and elsewhere. He is the author of Altamira (poems) and Ruins and Empire (literary history). The Flying Machine and Modern Literature (criticism) will appear in December from Indiana University Press.


Touch, John Ditsky Aug 2014

Touch, John Ditsky

Ontario Review

John Ditsky of the University of Windsor is the author of numerous poems, critical essays, and reviews that have appeared in many North American literary magazines. His most recent book of poems is Friend & Lover (Ontario Review Press).


Alternative Lives; Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) And The Two Blue Glasses, Constance Urdang Aug 2014

Alternative Lives; Benjamin Robert Haydon (1786-1846) And The Two Blue Glasses, Constance Urdang

Ontario Review

Constance Urdang's most recent book of poems is Only the World. The University of Pittsburgh Press will bring out her new and selected poems in 1986. She teaches at Washington University in St. Louis and was a visiting lecturer at Princeton in 1985.


The World; The Arena Of Civilization, Jon Davis Aug 2014

The World; The Arena Of Civilization, Jon Davis

Ontario Review

Jon Davis recently completed an MFA at the University of Montana, where he won the Academy of American Poets Award and edited Cutbank. His chapbook West of New England received the Merriam Award (1983), and he has published lately in Poetry, Georgia Review, Tendril, and elsewhere.


The Wedding; Cracow, Ruth Whitman Aug 2014

The Wedding; Cracow, Ruth Whitman

Ontario Review

Ruth Whitman, a resident of Brookline, Massachusetts, is the author of several volumes of poery, including The Marriage Wig, The Passion of Lizzie Borden, and Permanent Address.


Rene's Husband; The Shawl, Frederick Feirstein Aug 2014

Rene's Husband; The Shawl, Frederick Feirstein

Ontario Review

Frederick Feirstein, a New Yorker, most recently published Manhattan Carnival: A Dramatic Monologue. "The Shawl" is from a new manuscript, Stubborn Spring; "Renee's Husband," from a book-length poem in progress, The Psychiatrist at the Cocktail Party.


Shadow Bands, Jeanne Schinto Aug 2014

Shadow Bands, Jeanne Schinto

Ontario Review

Jeanne Schinto, a former OR contributor, has published also in Ascent, Cimarron Review, Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. A story of hers appeared in The Best American Short Stories 1984, edited by John Updike.


Distant Friends, Greg Johnson Aug 2014

Distant Friends, Greg Johnson

Ontario Review

Greg Johnson, a former OR contributor, has work in recent issues of Virginia Quarterly Review, Georgia Review, Prairie Schooner, and other journals. His critical study of Emily Dickinson was recently published by the University of Alabama Press. He lives in Decatur, Georgia.


Baby, Joyce Carol Oates Aug 2014

Baby, Joyce Carol Oates

Ontario Review

Joyce Carol Oates's most recent books are Solstice, a novel, and Last Days, a collection of short stories.


A Conversation With Joseph Brodsky, Tom Vitale, Joseph Brodsky Aug 2014

A Conversation With Joseph Brodsky, Tom Vitale, Joseph Brodsky

Ontario Review

Tom Vitale, producer and host of the public radio program "A Moveable Feast," is also an assistant professor of broadcast journalism at The College of White Plains, Pace University. He lives in New York City. Joseph Brodsky's works in English translation include A Part of Speech (poems) and Less Than One (essays), the latter just released by Farrar, Straus and Giroux.


Dreamers: Stories, Eddie Wayne Malone Aug 2014

Dreamers: Stories, Eddie Wayne Malone

Dissertations

The short stories in Dreamers explore American masculinity in the twenty-first century. They also examine and complicate Asian-American identity at a time when decades-old stereotypes persist in the culture. In the title story, a war veteran returns home from Afghanistan to find an American landscape that has the feel and texture of a terrible dream. In other stories, men fixate not on women but on each other. In “Still Life,” the middle-aged main character is preoccupied with a friend who died over fifteen years ago. The main character in “At War with the Insects” pursues a man who was both …


Post Subject: A Fable, Oliver De La Paz Aug 2014

Post Subject: A Fable, Oliver De La Paz

University of Akron Press Publications

Ecstatic and obsessive, the prose poems that make up Oliver de la Paz's Post Subject: A Fable reveal the monuments of a lost country. Through a series of epistles addressed to "Empire" a catalog emerges, where what can be tallied is noted in a ledger, what can be claimed is demarcated, and what has been reaped is elided. The task of deposing the late century is taken up. What's salvaged from the remains is humanity.


Because A Fire, A Lover's Quarrel: Poems, Clifton Clyde Ward Aug 2014

Because A Fire, A Lover's Quarrel: Poems, Clifton Clyde Ward

Master's Theses

This thesis comprises poems written and/or revised over the past two years. They mark the development of my aesthetic and writing ability thus far and are representative of the training and practice incited by my own efforts and those of my professors during my enrollment in the Master of Arts degree in English, Creative Writing emphasis. The majority of these poems are written in an open form, and all of them fall under three general categories: autobiographical, absurdist, or formal.


Variation Within Uniformity: The English Romantic Sonnet, Thomas Hamilton Cherry Aug 2014

Variation Within Uniformity: The English Romantic Sonnet, Thomas Hamilton Cherry

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

The English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century wrote numerous poems from genres and styles all across the poetic spectrum. From the epics of ancient origin concerning kings and fanciful settings to the political odes on fallen leaders and even the anthropological histories of what it meant to live in their time, these poets stretched their stylistic legs in many ways. One of the most interesting is their use of the short and rule-bound sonnet form that enjoyed a reemergence during their time. Though stylized throughout its existence, the sonnet most often falls into a specific form with guidelines …


Fire Watcher By Vivian Demuth, Anna Banks Aug 2014

Fire Watcher By Vivian Demuth, Anna Banks

The Goose

Review of Fire Watcher by Vivian Demuth.


Isaac Watts And The Culture Of Dissent, Andrew Eli M. Yeater Aug 2014

Isaac Watts And The Culture Of Dissent, Andrew Eli M. Yeater

Masters Theses & Specialist Projects

Although Isaac Watts wrote hymns in the early eighteenth century, some of his hymns, such as “Joy to the World,” “Alas! And Did My Savior Bleed?,” and “When I Survey the Wondrous Cross,” survive today as well-known hymns. However, little has been written about the rhetorical effects of his hymns. This thesis demonstrates that, like any other literary work, Watts’ hymns can be analyzed rhetorically. This thesis analyzes Watts’ hymns with the aid of Louis Montrose’s New Historicism, showing how Watts’ hymns were impacted by the English culture in which he lived and how they impacted the religious culture to …


Next Year In Juarez: Stories, Christopher Michael Brunt Aug 2014

Next Year In Juarez: Stories, Christopher Michael Brunt

Dissertations

This creative dissertation comprises a collection of short fiction and a critical preface. The preface explores the concept of variousness as it affects the contemporary production of literary fiction. Reference is made to a range of twentieth century writers in order to position the dissertation in a context of literary history. The piece titled “The Essay on Longing” is the first chapter of a novel-in-stories.


Ornithologies Of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, And Don Mckay By Travis V. Mason, Maureen Scott Harris Aug 2014

Ornithologies Of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, And Don Mckay By Travis V. Mason, Maureen Scott Harris

The Goose

Review of Ornithologies of Desire: Ecocritical Essays, Avian Poetics, and Don McKay by Travis V. Mason.


Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, Pamela Herron Aug 2014

Supplying Salt And Light By Lorna Goodison, Pamela Herron

The Goose

Review of Supplying Salt and Light by Lorna Goodison.


Late Moon By Pamela Porter And The Family China By Ann Shin, Lindsay Diehl Aug 2014

Late Moon By Pamela Porter And The Family China By Ann Shin, Lindsay Diehl

The Goose

Review of Late Moon by Pamela Porter and The Family China by Ann Shin.


The Polymers By Adam Dickinson, Camilla Nelson Aug 2014

The Polymers By Adam Dickinson, Camilla Nelson

The Goose

Review of The Polymers by Adam Dickinson.


The Shell Of The Tortoise: Four Essays & An Assemblage By Don Mckay, Tonia L. Payne Aug 2014

The Shell Of The Tortoise: Four Essays & An Assemblage By Don Mckay, Tonia L. Payne

The Goose

Review of The Shell of the Tortoise: Four Essays & an Assemblage by Don McKay.


Caraway & Pippins By Harold Rhenisch, Laura Castonguay Aug 2014

Caraway & Pippins By Harold Rhenisch, Laura Castonguay

The Goose

Review of Caraway & Pippins by Harold Rhenisch.


The Forest Unseen: A Year’S Watch In Nature By David George Haskell, Brigette Bernagozzi Aug 2014

The Forest Unseen: A Year’S Watch In Nature By David George Haskell, Brigette Bernagozzi

The Goose

Review of The Forest Unseen: A Year’s Watch in Nature by David George Haskell.


Where I Belong, Joy E. Weitzel Aug 2014

Where I Belong, Joy E. Weitzel

All NMU Master's Theses

This project compiled research of my family history to present an honest and creative portrayal of my family’s journey, connecting the stories of my ancestors to the common struggle, movement, and growth of humanity. The Duckworth’s were farmers who came to West Virginia from Maryland in the 1830s. Five pieces follow the course of the Duckworths, who witnessed the growth of industrialism, the toils of migration, the extension of the B&O railroad, and the eruption of the American Civil War. The lives described in this thesis are the patriarchs of the Duckworth family, beginning with Henry Duckworth migrating to West …


Seasonal Roads, Lynn K. Fay Aug 2014

Seasonal Roads, Lynn K. Fay

All NMU Master's Theses

Lynn Kimball Fay has been publishing for twenty-five years under the pen-name L. E. Kimball.
As a writer, I’m interested in the way Truth seems to me—intuitively—nonlinea. I’m interested in story cycles that examine Truth from different points of view, usually nonlinearly; and I’m interested in the way setting reveals Truth and how it reveals character. I’m interested in Faith—a kind that is not irreconcilable with science, the kind it takes to put that foot in front of the other.
The kind we have in one another.
I have always, therefore, been fascinated with layers of Time, the nonlinear and …