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Mechanical Angel: Carolyn Forché And The Material Projection Of Messianic History, Alan Clinton

Reconstruction: Studies in Contemporary Culture

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The work of Carolyn Forché has always retained a political edge, with works such as the exploration of her Czech background in Gathering the Tribes (1976) and her account of visits to El Salvador in The Country Between Us (1981). Forché has been one of the leading poets who, in her own words, has combatted the self-censorship operative among American poets and writers that seemed to preclude writing about...historical events when those events were still unsafe (qtd. in Stein 147). Her third book of poems The Angel of History (published 13 years later), however, represents a new turn …

Commonthought Vol. 13 (2002), Commonthought Staff

Commonthought

This issue features works created by Lesley University students and covers a broad range of topics. The work itself crosses many disciplines from creative writing to visual arts.

Kerry Shawn Keys Folio, Kerry Shawn Keys

Corresponding Voices

An English-language folio of poetry, entitled "Maya-Song," by Kerry Shawn Keys.

Corresponding Voices Volume 1 (Complete)

Corresponding Voices

The full issue of Corresponding Voices volume 1, featuring Michael Jennings, Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde, Suzanne Shane, Kerry Shawn Keys, Lila Zemborain, and edited by Pedro Cuperman.

Suzanne Shane Folio, Suzanne Shane

Corresponding Voices

An English-language folio of poetry, entitled "Indian Summer," by Suzanne Shane.

Michael Jennings Folio, Michael Jennings

Corresponding Voices

An English-language folio of poetry, entitled "Sometime Before Words Perhaps," by Michael Jennings.

Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde Folio, Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde

Corresponding Voices

An English-language folio of poetry, entitled "Thirteen Horses in Twelve Stables," by Edgar Paiewonsky-Conde.

Preface, Pedro Cuperman

Corresponding Voices

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Study/Statues, Leonard Gontarek

Bryant Literary Review

Philadelphia slips its branches
through the dusk. The statues flake off.

The Secret Agent Held Over At O'Hare, Bill Sweeney

Bryant Literary Review

It was nice to see Chicago
on the way to Santiago

Kathleen Mary Mccarthy, Jason Starbuck

Bryant Literary Review

chrysanthemums carnations red roses babies breath
mahogany casket golden lattice work dustless satin pillow etchings

Fat Tuesday, Rosalynde Vas Dias

Bryant Literary Review

tonight
Jesus is in New Orleans
warm with good red wine

Tribute To Dr. Harold Horton, Trevor L. Clement

Trotter Review

Poem by Trevor Clement on the passing of Dr. Harold Willard Horton, Sr., to whom this issue of the Trotter Review is dedicated.

Everyone, Barry Ballard

Bryant Literary Review

Everyone is born. Everyone grows, wonders,

In A November Woods, David James

Bryant Literary Review

Along the ridges
A white moth

North Korea Threatens To End Talks, Test Missile, Ace Boggess

Bryant Literary Review

Westerners point fingers;
Japanese wave their arms

Swell, Gary Maggio

Bryant Literary Review

If
all he could move were
his eyes

Study/Leaves, Leonard Gontarek

Bryant Literary Review

I once understood it.
It was something you scraped off.

The Mad Girl Can't Bear Change, Lyn Lifshin

Bryant Literary Review

In a year where
that's all there is.

May Day, Ken Mccullough

Bryant Literary Review

It happens when I feel myself
turning into a cottonwood

Flush, David Jauss

Bryant Literary Review

My father didn't throw the hammer at me,
just toward me. I told myself it didn't hurt

Tremors, David Jauss

Bryant Literary Review

The night I heard you have Parkinson's
I dreamed I was walking through the meadow

Lessons, Ronald Thorpe

Bryant Literary Review

I cannot remember
a day when I did not think
about dying.

School Spirit, J. Tarwood

Bryant Literary Review

Has anybody here ever cheered
A high school quarterback

Frog Legs, Robert Samarotto

Bryant Literary Review

They lie on my plate
like dismembered Barbie Dolls.

The Middle Years, Walt Mcdonald

Bryant Literary Review

Planning a family, we thought heaven would be
four collie pups, two acres without a fence

"Tiny, Delicate Fishbones...", Peggy Lin Duthie

Bryant Literary Review

Some January days, every scrap of sky
sparkles needle-sharp blue and clean

The Gerbils, Rustin Larson

Bryant Literary Review

Happily busy in the middle of the night
Destroying their cardboard tube. To sleep

On The Horizon, Bill Sweeney

Bryant Literary Review

Girls measure their shadows across a tiny courtyard;
above, telephone lines, aerials, antenna

Walking Home From The Cemetery, Peggy Lin Duthie

Bryant Literary Review

I dreamed that corpses did not rot
but recomposed, chose new disguise: