...Jeanne Bryner the minnesota review Jeanne Bryner For My Husband's Finger Cut Off in a Steel Mill Accident By the bridge, my husband's finger sits too tired to thumb a ride, it watches cool water swirl, counts herons diving...

...Darren Donate © 2020 Darren Donate 2020 Darren Donate All Boys with Cut Tongues share a mouth a broken jaw the part in the story when someone said: let s make a man out of the boy. some boys make it difficult. hold still they say. no one ever wants to get their tongue plucked but why didn...

...Wang Ning The issue of modernity with regard to the function of translation has been one of the most cutting-edge theoretical topics in both Chinese and international contexts, especially in dealing with globalization and world literature. As we know, modernity functioned both politically...

...Lisa Fink © 2011 Lisa Fink 2011 Lisa Fink The Horse Pasture two sisters cut burdock milkweed and long grasses leaning on an electric fence two sisters play house between trees these two trees are mine those three are yours these homes are thick...

... up to recognize these prioritized config- urations/separations (a “cut together/apart” in Barad’s words [2010, 240 naturalizing insidious assumptions and hierarchies of value. And so “connect[ing] what’s been dangerously disconnected” (Rich 1987, 214) is directly political. Re/cognizing...

... in pieces, stuffing the legs in the trunk of its car. In the painting by Cézanne, for example, the apple sits in front of the skull like a taunt for those who are done eating. Cut in half one way, an apple is two halves of an apple. Cut in half the other, it’s a star...

...Jasmine V. Bailey © 2011 Jasmine V. Bailey 2011 Jasmine V. Bailey Charon The Saudi bracelet I wore from four to ten finally had to be cut from my wrist by a jeweler out of place in the mall in Hamilton, New Jersey where he worked. Not often did he help a girl...

...Laura Wetherington © 2013 Laura Wetherington 2013 Laura Wetherington To fight means to fight what you’re doing after Christophe Marchand-Kiss In a moment, I’ll be talking to you about gender. How it’s all cut up, collaged, re-pasted with sticky tape to my man parts...

... order of alu paratha how I cut lines in my poems. The most honest answer is that I don t know it is not possible to say this any more than it is possible to explain intuition. The second most honest answer is that my lines break on their own, depending on how I breathe and so I share this second most...

...Arisa White © 2010 by Virginia Tech 2010 Arisa White It was easier to manage I started kindergarten that fall you went off to Guyana. Granny cut off my dreadlocks. She knew how to press and curl, ponytail and cornrow but palm roll locks till the roots stiffen with beeswax...

... minnesota review 79 (2012) DOI 10.1215/00265667-1708466  © 2012 B. T. Shaw 51 52 the minnesota review with a cut-out moon, and it’s time. The exam has only one question: After death, what is our phylum? You know...

... spirit ricocheting away. Such cuts run in our family , I tell my lover, less a wound, more just a tendency for things to get in. Suppose my desire is someone else s disaster. What we have in common is our biggest secret. Once, I scraped moss off a mountainside and carried it home. If I am to be swollen...

...Daniel Ruiz © 2015 Daniel Ruiz 2015 Daniel Ruiz Walking in the Motherland Puerto Rico, the earth’s cut toenail in the sink, where my mom’s drunk dad ignored the blade that cut his gut because his skin was lined with the courage to protect Armando. He...

... the shard of glass had cut. On a nice night like this, he knows, Mom and The Pricks will be sitting on the back porch, no one inside that can see him out front, so he takes out his pack of Virginia Slims and lights one with a match. The pack of matches has the Dickens insignia on the front...

... that followed the parchedness remained, no matter how much I drank, and I couldn t stop thinking about this strange thing that used to happen when dad and I lived together. He had coarse, wiry black hair that he kept cut close not quite a buzz cut, more like a month back from base camp. It was sharp like...

...Michael DuPuis © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Works Cited Arizona State University Office of Public Affairs . “ Budget Cuts .” Arizona State University . Feb. 2009 . < http://asu.edu/budgetcuts/ >. 5 May 2009 . Arizona State University Office of Initiatives . “ New...

...! and edges toward Carole. Eliot gallops to the block area and chants Cut, cut, cut while he kicks down Sam s tower. Sam cries. Eliot glares at Gina. September 19, morning drop-off: Gina s mother tells me her daughter is afraid to go to school because of the scary things Eliot says. She won- ders if Gina...

...- ing a kitten like iridescent burlap. I watch my mother grasp each tiny wet body that comes, cut the umbilical cord with blunt-end scissors, then tie off the placental scrim with dental floss. When she ceases to squat and pant, we believe they’ve all arrived, two toms squalling from...

..., minnesota review 87 (2016) DOI 10.1215/00265667-3630892  © 2016 Virginia Tech 139 140 the minnesota review the desire has been to cut the bind of life and labor, to free life from labor, and to return to an excess of life beyond metaphysical...

...: something waiting to fill our heads with ash, to make us reconsider what heat is. We used to dig in the yard: at first with our hands and then with small spades and shovels. We would cut through the frozen ground, dirt under our fingernails, our pants damp from the melted snow. We would dig until we...