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...Holly Jensen © 2015 Holly Jensen 2015 Holly Jensen Lost Footnotes of the Gospels 1. Actually, every ghost is holy. 2. And fish do feel pain. 3. The fallen angels did not fall, they rose like a feathered cyclone off the highest bluff of heaven. 4. Or if you...

...Rob Cook © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 Rob Cook The History of the Lost Voices He paces the kitchen waiting for the river to empty its boatload of shadows. There’s only water playing at the theaters, people silent and holding hands because of the rain which is how...

...Matthew Yeager Matthew Yeager From The Gut Sonnets Take 2: Should I Kill and Eat Chi-Ko or Not, or Alone in Rage the Self Is Split, Lost No more! I’m sick of living! (ripped like this), torn Like a note that needs both halves for sense. Night after night, I turn...

...Jason Berger This essay examines how Slavoj Žižek’s conception of fantasy may open up new approaches for political, literary, and aesthetic criticism. Taking In Defense of Lost Causes (2008) as a case study, I demonstrate how Žižek’s method provides a much-needed consideration of form. Moreover, I...

... of solidarity on the left, Dean laments the contemporary Left’s inability to say “we,” a reluctance that, she argues, makes political action impossible. She finds that leftist currents such as radical democracy and radical pluralism have lost the conviction that capitalism must be overturned. However, her...

..., and the overwhelming embarrassment slipped off the skeleton to reveal an epidermal layer of guilt. I began to think I was lying to myself about the ultimate goal of the whole Lost Museum thing. But last week, I saw an opportunity to abolish the shame. It was muddy and raining on the day of Maria's housewarming party...

... and Designs . Ed. Lynn Mary Johnson Grant John E. . New York : Norton , 2008 . Chomsky Noam . Aspects of the Theory of Syntax . Cambridge : MIT P , 1965 . Fish Stanley . Surprised by Sin: The Reader in Paradise Lost . 1967 . 2nd ed. Cambridge : Harvard UP , 1997...

...Michelle Donahue Copyright © 2019 Michelle Donahue 2019 Michelle Donahue A Complete Birding Guide for Montana I found the bird the day my daughter lost her words. She opened her mouth, eyes unblinking and innocent as the cows in the meadow. How strange and instinctive to ascribe innocence...

...Matthew Litman Copyright © 2021 Matthew Litman 2021 Matthew Litman Diamonds from the Jersey Shore I lost my chapstick. It s been a habit of mine to carry it with me in my front jeans pocket ever since grade school. If I misplaced it even for a moment my lips would seem to dry out and I d...

... time to take back what was lost a thousand times over take back a name we rarely say for fear. She stands and says Allahu Akbar in front of the library. * minnesota review 96 (2021) DOI 10.1215/00265667-8851086 © 2021 Ayesha Shibli 4 5 for Our Three Winners When I enter the Waverly Giant in my knit...

.... The roof caved in. The snow blower broke. My wife here wants to get a new one. Who can afford that? I can’t wait until summer. Summer’s too hot, winter’s too cold. You can’t win. It’s a cat-and-dog life. “You lost your cat?” I turn around and see a young girl in purple mittens that are too...

... and blow away, never to be heard from again? At the top of the stairs, she entered the passport office, where a uniformed guard gave her a paper to sign. He looked at her Xerox copy, frowned, and asked her to raise her hand and swear to her true identity. She told the man, "I've lost...

... copies of himself, all of them pursuing us. It has been twilight for days now. I don’t know how many. I’ve lost count. But the ice is blue, the snow is white, I am grey and the whale is black. I know this. Our pack pulls the sledge from one end of the park to the other. Enok and I are the dogs...

... open. Ahead of me drove my neighbors from the beach, Playa de Coco. As we neared the rancho, my anxiety ramped up. A gringo, I was unfamiliar with the customs and the dialect of Costa Rica. I often found myself smiling and nodding while lost in Spanish conversation...

... down the terminal corridor at a quick pace, he turns into the restroom. He leans over the gray faux-marble sink and splashes water on his face. The cool, silky water contacting his face is so refreshing that he swashes it over and over again. He becomes lost in its soothing...

... at whisper distances, they dug deep into their wounds, scattered woes, and wallowed in each other’s rue and pity. This was a weekly Jelepara routine, a noisy gathering of women revel- ing in often exaggerated tiger accounts, ensnared by the grief of their lost or missing husbands. “So...

... it hanging from the rearview mirror in the car they lost their virginity in. Remember the first time the wasp nest took flight and chased you around the yard. Remember it like you remember the first time you swung on a swing set, those chains and you swung so high...

... the faintest yes in between denials; minnesota review 89 (2017) DOI 10.1215/00265667-4175797  © 2017 Jim Redmond 3 4 the minnesota review lost in the storm clouds, the pull of a kite string attached to a key attached...