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Hands That Drew Them As They Are, Unity Durieux

Bryant Literary Review

These hands have delved in ruin,

plumbed lovers' pockets, availed

themselves of coldcuts, goodbooks

The Sparrows, John Grey

Bryant Literary Review

It's not their flight but how they

alight on the gutters where I might live.

Dyslexic, Will Nixon

Bryant Literary Review

The year I learned the hangman's noose

I tied it everywhere: tire swings, clothes lines,

The Baker's Secret, Kathy Anderson

Bryant Literary Review

The town baker wakes at dawn, stands in his silent shop, with floured hands slaps rounded balls of dough

The Word Box, Christopher Brookhouse

Bryant Literary Review

We can't sleep.

I'm hungry, she says.

I know what she wants.

The Day After, Patricia Dobler

Bryant Literary Review

So I walked back to the place we'd found him,

needing to see the blood stains and my hands

in the place his head had lain.

Places, Mark Brazaitis

Bryant Literary Review

Salcajá, Lanquín, Purulhá:

the places we made love.

Consider, Mary Crow

Bryant Literary Review

Consider the polar bear

whose every white hair is a heat pipe

Fan Letter, John Mann

Bryant Literary Review

Dear life, dear earth, dear season of snow.

"Ich Suche Ein Unschuldiges Land," Reading History In The Poetry Of Ingeborg Bachmann, Kathrin M. Bower

Languages, Literatures, and Cultures Faculty Publications

In this brief monograph based on her dissertation, Leslie Morris sets out to achieve a series of aims: to contest the alleged divide between Bachmann's poetry and prose, to counter "the myth of her apolitical poetic voice" (10), to address the presence and absence of history in her poetry, and, finally, to consider how to read Bachmann's poetic ceuvre in light of historical developments in Germany and Austria in the 1980s and 1990s. In a sense, Morris is also trying to rehabilitate post-war aesthetic modemism from a reductive, binary mode of criticism that separates aesthetics and politics. Following in the …

Haunting The Corpus Delicti: Rafael Campo’S What The Body Told And Wallace Stevens’ (Modernist) Body, LáZaro Lima

Latin American, Latino and Iberian Studies Faculty Publications

What the Body Told You, a volume of poems by the Cuban-American poet Rafael Campo (b. 1964), addresses how formal poetry may give form to loss and memory in the age of AIDS by structuring an exchange between the literary institutions that privilege poetry as a representational medium and the inability of language adequately to account for and remember loss. Campo’s What the Body Told haunts modernism’s legacy by construing it as the corpus delicti, literally the body of the crime, where “crime” is conceived as the insufficiency of modernist aesthetic agencies to give evidence of the “truth” …

Lights And Shadows - 2001, University Of North Alabama

Lights and Shadows

Art and Literature Magazine

The Lantern Vol. 68, No. 1, Fall 2000, Olatokunbo Laniya, Monica Stahl, Padcha Tuntha-Obas, Susan Goll, Lori Kruk, Jeff Church, Michael Keeper, Matthew James Terenna, Chris Tereshko, Ryan Mcleod, Thomas Lipschultz, Laura Phillips, Chris Calderelli, John Ramsey, Genevieve Romeo, Aly Jones, Daniel Gallagher, Philip M. Malachowski, Corey Taylor, Tina Benson, Shawn Witt, Jason Fischer, Christine Spera

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• In Attempting to Imitate J. Agard (III)
• Headstones
• Calligraphy Grace
• Fifty Years
• Morning
• The Millstone
• Quick Stop-Off
• Jesus Wept (SuperBuick Bodybag)
• Just a God
• Amy
• Silver Doubloons
• Ogbanje
• Left Behind
• Asymmetrical Smile
• Sundays
• Pie in the Sky
• No Surprises
• Bill Gooden's Son
• Downcast Eyes Meet Tablecloth
• Wetlands
• Desperate Actions
• Receiving End
• A Pack of Matches
• Coffee

Calliope : Fall 1999/Spring 2000, Calliope

Calliope

Calliope - The Greek Muse of Epic Poetry

Et Cetera, Marshall University

Et Cetera

Founded in 1953, Et Cetera is an annual literary magazine that publishes the creative writing and artwork of Marshall University students and affiliates. Et Cetera is free to the Marshall University community.

Et Cetera welcomes submissions in literary and film criticism, poetry, short stories, drama, all types of creative non-fiction, photography, and art.

2000 Spring Quiz And Quill Magazine, Otterbein English Department

Quiz and Quill

No abstract provided.

The Lantern Vol. 67, No. 2, Spring 2000, Padcha Tuntha-Obas, Caleb Prescott, Christine Spera, Oana Nechita, Daniel Gallagher, Jeffrey Church, James Clark Robinson, Lilly Afshari, Rosabelle Diaz, Andrew Gerchak, Ben Jackendoff, Susan Patton, Harry Michel, Genevieve Romeo, Corey Taylor, Ashley Claus, Michael Edwards, Amber Frame, Tom Lipschultz, Aly Jones, Philip Malachowski, Anthony Ciarlello, Lori Kruk, Tom Howard, Mike Keeper

The Lantern Literary Magazines, 1933 to Present

• Dearest Yarn-Spinner
• My Poem, This Tongue In Your Eye
• 15th & Rodman
• Vision
• Linguistics
• Casting Cartesian Shadows
• On the Defensive
• Sea Sick but Still Docked
• Urban Dreams
• Wolf of the Steppes
• Josephine
• Happy Birthday to Me
• I Have Never Been to Africa
• Pa-pou
• Onion[s]
• Intimacy
• Three Trick Pony
• Blazer
• In My Tea
• Emmaless
• Dreamcatcher
• Repetition
• With the Turn of the Reel
• Fault Lines
• The Shrink Is In
• The dancE
• Exam
• Another Post-Apocalyptic …

Commonthought Vol. 11 (2000), 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.

Itinerary, Susan Wallack

Bryant Literary Review

On a freshly tarred, single-lane highway, a snaky
blue line parts here from there,,

Smoke, Rénee Olander

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Excerpts From "Death Journal", Nancy Olthoff

English Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.

Handwriting, Ace Boggess

Bryant Literary Review

In the Fourth Grade, my teacher--
that aptly named Mrs. Johnson,

The Word Box, Christopher Brookhouse

Bryant Literary Review

We can't sleep.

Fair Trade, Cathleen Calbert

Bryant Literary Review

Young women turn to older men for power,
acclaim, and money. In exchange, they offer beauty,

The Flummoxed Flummoxer, Thomas Dorsett

Bryant Literary Review

Speckled guppies, young and old,
almost worthless, 12 cents each,

Bread, Sean Thomas Dougherty

Bryant Literary Review

I transmutate from the dead leaves
of late autumn
into a loaf of bread,

Daughter, Richard Dry

Bryant Literary Review

I saw a father and daughter
playing catch

House On Munday Road, Trent Busch

Bryant Literary Review

Where the road curves back
against the hill to miss

A Bright Summer Day In Boston, Geoffrey Jarok

Bryant Literary Review

The tubes that lead to nowhere.
The boredom of the sunshine,

Black Jellies, Eggs, And The Pearling Of Ovaries, Cathleen Calbert

Bryant Literary Review

The fire is stoked, kindling set in triangles.
Black jellies are sealed with wax, and loaves