... enough; Never enough to just be a damsel Tied with an umbilical cord to the tracks; tracks snaking through the mouth; Teeth breaking through the ties; enamel mangling iron; Iron stinging like ice; ice is only lovely When it turns back Into water; To be human Is to be a villain; Is to be a nurse...

... George . 2016 . “Commons ”. In Keywords for Radicals: The Contested Vocabulary of Late-Capitalist Struggle , edited by Fritsch Kelly O’Connor Clare Thompson A. K. , 95 – 102 . Chico, CA : AK Press . Châtelet Gilles . 2018 . To Live and Think like Pigs , translated...

...Robin Gow Copyright © 2020 Robin Gow 2020 Robin Gow small! town! what would you like everything! on the menu!! thank! you! yes! i say bring me!! plate by plate because i m american i m thinking! of the diner! in my hometown!! everyone! has a diner hometown! a clatter! of white heavy!! plates...

...Mark Jenkins 2005 the minnesota review 2005 the minnesota review Mark Jenkins It's On Days Like These When I Stare At The Chainsaws I want to pull the display chainsaw off the shelf to cut myself in two. Each half will cover two...

...Jonathan Barrett 2005 the minnesota review 2005 Jonathan Barrett Like Hungry Gnats She walks with spry steps. A grocery sack slung over her shoulder. Her boyfriend follows a few feet behind, mutters son of a bitch...

...Tanner Pruitt Tanner Pruitt Like a Bag of Cheetos Popping I’d never killed a thing I didn’t really want to die. I looked down the van’s hood to where the grille licked the asphalt. A turtle cocked its head and took its last slow step. Though I’d once...

...Adrian Matejka © 2014 Adrian Matejka 2014 Adrian Matejka Like Adrian Dantley I split any bit of sunlight in that land of sweaty tees & patriotic wristbands, escalating to the rim’s mezzanine like every player on that court did at the mall on weekends. Every bit...

...Adrian Matejka © 2014 Adrian Matejka 2014 Adrian Matejka Like Emily Dickinson I love poetry slipping through the spindles of happenstance, its em dashery like the closed eye of a winking man used as a record needle. I love my suede kicks when the laces undo...

...Marisa Crawford © 2015 Marisa Crawford 2015 Marisa Crawford Lady Gaga Looks like Aunt Linda Two teen girls on the corner in matching violet puffers. Two white lions arched inside the bags underneath my eyes. Aunt Linda was all, life sucks let’s go shopping. You can make...

...Laura Wetherington © 2013 Laura Wetherington 2013 Laura Wetherington I take my time like it’s only mine after Christophe Tarkos Whiteness is a state of mind. A roof is pitched like a commercial. We give our lives accordingly. I position myself above...

...Laura Wetherington © 2013 Laura Wetherington 2013 Laura Wetherington When you come open, liquid like the morning lake, I swallow up the shadows I play cold moon after Paul Claudel A little younger, a little window, what little else to do. A brute mansion...

... immigrant students, and her recent book on Proust. She reads Proust politically, situating him historically in relation to Freud and Dreyfus, and then takes him on a journey through Palestine by way of Jean Genet and Samuel Beckett as well as Middle Eastern writers like Elias Khoury or filmmakers like...

...Bruce Holsinger This essay investigates the compelling affinities between the premodern mythographic tradition and the various schools of thought grouped under the rubrics of speculative realism, object-oriented ontology, and vitalism. Like mythography proper, much of this work entails...

... like “society,” “history,” and “divinity.” Adorno and Aquinas are concerned with abstractions, with describing how categories like “sensation” or “beauty” function within historical or theological structures of understanding. Chaucer, conversely, is immersed in the particular; not only does he create...

..., ghostly in their objecthood and object presence; third, the “connective desire” where plastic becomes the “plastic subject” and initiates manifold becomings through instances like the plastiglomerates, the plastic-rock that expands the human-nonhuman affective arc of transmedial existence. Invested in art...

... boundary, thus opening the impersonal realm of our shared zoetic life and its multispecies potential. Throughout, the authors play at something like an interchangeability of Kraus and Weil, as a performative response to both Weil’s call for the impersonal and Kraus’s complicated relationship to autofiction...

... of literature — the side of Socrates least likely to appear in contemporary apologies for the humanities — to bear upon his paradigmatic contribution to the genre of apology. Beginning by remarking the violence of Socrates’s claim that “the unexamined life is not worth living” (the most often quoted line...

... authors and activists like Fatou Diome, Shailja Patel, Abdourahman Waberi, and Igiaba Scego contribute to a new literary, cultural, and political genre called migritude. Migritude initially indicated a group of younger African authors in Paris but has since expanded to include Europe beyond France...

...Marie-Luise Angerer Throughout a large part of the twentieth century, the body was interpreted as a field of signs, the meaning of which pointed to an unconscious dimension. At the height of the popularity of structuralism, Jacques Lacan deemed the unconscious to be “structured like a language...