...Nellie Wong IRONING, NellieWong IRONING FOR TILLIE OLSEN Like a drunken fool I pick out the wrinkled linen shirt, the foam-green dress, the black, long-sleeved T and I drink ice cold glasses oflemon tea as the temperature lingers at 90 plus degrees When I ironed as a 12-year-old, I listened...

... a crack, enough to see the wrinkles in the bedding where a body should have been. She pulled the covers toward herself, wrapping her body in them, turning on her side away from where she knew the bed was cold. But a little light had seeped in through her blinds. And she's never forgotten that little burst...

... into a pot of rice that will end up in the trash because of its spice. Stare as I shake the wrinkles out of faded cotton panties and boxer shorts— the lingering heat of the dryer taking me to a bedroom I never wanted to be in. Sweat beading at the bridge of my nose, I accept the clothes...

... that will end up in the trash because of its spice. Stare as I shake the wrinkles out of faded cotton panties and boxer shortsthe lingering heat of the dryer taking me to a bedroom I never wanted to be in. Sweat beading at the bridge of my nose, I accept the clothes she collects in trash bags for my daughters...

... body pam's hair was too shaggy. she smelled like piss & beans n weenies, had dirty fingernails, sloppy handwriting, wrinkled homework. mrs. ostrov's eyes said trash & always looked past her. it's the clean girls who make it in this world. 4· at twelve i recognized folks by scent. mommy & her sisters...

... legs while he got the mail." She fussily pulls the dress down over her knees. Beads of perspiration at her temples suggest she has rushed, not leisurely walked the two blocks to the school. "Youshould go back." The sunglasses balanced on her hair like a headband reflect my brow wrinkled in impatience...

...-up-with-white cover" (40). Later, the protagonist expresses her joy at getting rid of books, "which had on their covers a picture of a wrinkled-up woman wearing a crown on her head and a neckful and armsful of diamonds and pearlstheir pages so coarse, as if they were made of cornmeal" (40...

... postcolonial literary critic Bruce Robbins's book by the same name, FeelinJGl lobalI:nternationalismin Distress(Robbins 1999). 9. "Sexy" in fact opens by alluding to Miranda's pale and wrinkle-prone complexion while at a department store cosmetics counter, where she meets Dev. Upon "assessing Miranda's...

... rose is lowered into a glass of acid and comes out shriveled and grey. Her whole body felt like wrinkled pigeon’s feet resting mutely on a shit-encrusted grate in the rain. In spring, crew-cut Robbie Stone accosted the teen, his prodigious belly bouncing like a down pillow under a tight plaid...

... the other’s subjectivity. The wrinkled old face, the mad person’s face, the evil face, the feminine face, the “Asian” face, or the beautiful face could tell us something about the person and how we would feel about them. The meanings of their faces seem so evident that we rarely question where or how...

... on Deleuze and Guattari's argument, a "loc[us] of resonance" (Deleuze and Guattari 1987,168)that allows us to make meanings out of forms of subjectivity played out in these ads. The face is a source ofinformation through which we approximate the other's subjectivity. The wrinkled old face, the mad person's...

... this final night” (70). The “lines” she refers to denote both wrinkles as well as the lines of text she simultaneously reads and composes. The “final night” alludes to the telos of death but hints that such finality may not be absolute. As one oft-quoted psalm meant to offer hope reads, “Weeping may last...

... or on other means. With all the efforts to reclaim his masculinity defeated, he ends up "lying in the tub, his eyes closed, holding his penis, a soft, wrinkled lump" (170). This delineation of Mulberry's relationship with I-po critiques Chinese patriarchy by further elaborating on male violence against...