...: crawling with amateur adventurers who can afford it and littered with the corpses of those who do not make it down. Indeed, the mountaineer summiting Everest has become the ultimate figure of human achievement, a sort of mascot of upward mobility. Today’s climbing body is more often than not presented...

..., and recent neo-Darwinian and poststructuralist theory. Copyright © 2018 Virginia Tech 2018 Nietzsche overcoming John Keats A. R. Ammons mountain climbing Works Cited Ammons A. R. 1963 . Expressions of Sea Level . Columbus : Ohio State University Press . Ammons A. R...

... . Gestures . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press . Grebowicz Margret . 2018a . “ The Problem of Everest: Upward Mobility and the Time of Climbing .” minnesota review 90 : 91 – 99 . Grebowicz Margret . 2018b . “ The World’s Most Difficult Mountain May Soon Be Fully Conquered...

..., as if you’re a mountain worth not only climbing, but build- ing a language unto, you should know that I’m with you, reader, but there’s no page to turn to. Sometimes you’re the yodeler. Sometimes you must carve the mountain yourself. ...

... play along, my mother said, although I knew better. The seminar was led by a rangy ex-SEAL wearing Realtree camo and a buzz cut. He told stories about covert ops in foreign countries without ready extraction, being stranded in the Alaskan wilderness and fending off grizzly bears, deadly mountain...

... of blood eased down the whitewashed boards, the fierce yel- low gleam draining from its iris. Sull and Marion heard a shrill cry breaking in two parts, then three. The eagle’s mate was banking to the clouds above Fenwick Mountain. As she climbed updrafts on stiff wing beats, the circle she made grew...

... to climb Camelback?” My hands were grasping invisible rocks, and Jacob, too, made corny gestures of ascent. “Zombies can’t wait,” said Tommy. So Jacob and I climbed without our boy. The rocks were in the shape of a red mountain. The sun cream mixed with my sweat, making a salty oil. Jacob...

.... Her most recent book is Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. the End of the World (2021). She is the founding editor of the Duke University Press book series Practices. Zachary Low Reyna is currently doing comparative fieldwork at several utopian intentional communities in North America and Europe. He...

... outside the door. Mamou. Kaju breaks the code. If this is about me Kaju, I don t want to hear it. You don t need to worry about me. I have had a long, good life with you as proof of the divine. I ve taught you everything. When they come, then you need to go. Get away from here. Climb the mountains...

... choose not to come back. Eventually a meeting is called. We gather in the usual place, where the ground is marked by an ugly gash of ice lunging upwards, a miniature mountain tipping over. Its edges are polished razors, its skin opaque like the moon, and it has been here for as long as we can...

..., the deck of my board bouncing upside-down a few feet away. In the sky above the mountains, the round white disk of the sun showed itself just before setting. When I got back home, Grandma sat on the couch fully clothed and sipping Gallo. Her eye looked even worse; black...

... with the hollow end of a toilet paper roll held up to one eye, a compass you d unearthed from the camping supplies in hand. You swerve your cardboard spyglass this way and that, taking in laundry piles that are secretly mountains, a Christmas tree that marks the border of yet another endless forest, a sink that s...

... of Silesia in Poland and a visiting scholar at the Center for Philosophical Tech- nologies at Arizona State University. She is the author of Whale Song (2017), and her new book Mountains and Desire: Climbing vs. the End of the World is forthcoming in 2021. Contributors 141 Bryan Yazell is assistant professor...

.... Usually, when Taliban fighters were closest, they d manifest as muzzle flashes from mountains a kilometer away. I d only glimpse a figure and fire back with my head down, throwing out rounds to suppress. A kill from those distances would be like winning the lottery. Once, I saw Taliban clearly...

... grazed his shoulder like clouds resting on mountains, her fingers passed over his hands lightly as breath, and she became the body of his ex-wife back in Chile, his first girlfriend in the sand and hills of Isla Negra, all the roundness and softness of the lives he lived...

.... The simultaneity of disparate planes, of the x,y-axes, the horizontality of the floor and the verticality of the mountains, that is how his narrative walks. A blank page follows this chapter, but it is a part of the chapter as caesuras are to music. This is where the lost indefinite paths are, for when we come...

...,” Shelley said. “I don’t like it,” I said. “He sounds like a game show host.” Miller 13 On TV his face and hands did half the talking, and his voice climbed up a couple stories. In my living room he spoke softly and seemed almost...

... and then Laos, and never a single inch of extraditable soil. He makes love to her and thinks of a train rushing through mountains, a skua plummeting through the sky. But with only five days to go he can’t deny that doubts are thickening in his mind. He imagines Vikona overtaking them...

... conversation as always. Mountain Dew and an inhaled cheeseburger ensuring I’d fly all over the map. Word soup. Spraying monologue, losing the plot, discussing his forays into plotte (kooch). While he got me food from the vending machines, I scanned the room from...

... nods. It’s a long road back, and she feels suddenly tired, like when she begins climbing the tilting stairs to the apartment her father moved into last month. I just need some time, her father said about it. Pringle-Toungate  31 Sort of ironic...