...Rasaq Malik Rasaq Malik What They Remember Abdul Rashid remembers his father reading a newspaper at the facade of their house before bullets tore his body, before they came —​ two men, their hands heavy with machine guns, their voices quaking the earth...

...Paul Nemser © 2013 Paul Nemser 2013 Paul Nemser My Aunt Remembers Whose desire, Mama, drove a fiddle like a bird out of a thicket and across the sea, thinking only of beautiful claws? Papa, who made arks of baling wire and balsa and tied up the Yiddish books...

...David Cerniglia; Jeffrey Williams Remembering Fred Pfeil Remembering Fred Pfeil (1951-2005) Fred Pfeil was a mainstay of -the minnesota review. Over the past twenty- five years, he served as editor, fiction editor, and a key advisor...

...Jonathan Holden © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Remembering Fred Pfeil Remembering Fred Pfeil (1951-2005) Fred Pfeil was a mainstay of -the minnesota review. Over the past twenty- five years, he served as editor, fiction editor...

...Greg Robinson Robinson Greg Robinson Remembering Lillian Robinson Lillian Sara Robinson, feminist scholar, critic, and activist, Professor of Women’s Studies, troublemaker and mensch, died on September 20, 2006. She was born April...

...Bruce Robbins © 2006 the minnesota review 2006 Remembering Fred Pfeil Remembering Fred Pfeil (1951-2005) Fred Pfeil was a mainstay of -the minnesota review. Over the past twenty- five years, he served as editor, fiction editor...

... concludes with a meditation on Paul Celan’s “aschen-glorie” and remembers that the Empty Throne is not empty, it is covered in ash. © 2013 Virginia Tech 2013 Works Cited Agamben Giorgio . 2005 . The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans . Translated by Dailey...

...Cameron Barnett Cameron Barnett The Drowning Boy’s Guide to Water Remember the strength of chlorine, the indoor pool, swim class clinging to the kickboard then jumping from the ledge into the arms of the smiling white lady, only mostly sure she would catch you...

...Karen J. Weyant © 2007 the minnesota review 2007 12 the minnesota review Karen J. Weyant The Union Steward Tries to Quit Smoking Two months without a contract, he is thinking about money when he remembers the taste of cheap cigarettes...

... dreamed it real. minnesota review 89 (2017) DOI 10.1215/00265667-4175845  © 2017 Charlotte Covey 20   21 iv. cancer we watched the moon, forgetting it’s only full once a month. i remember your voice...

... into a horrible car accident.” “Is she all right?” “Sweetie, I swear I told you this. Mrs. Morgan told me right after it happened—they stayed very close, you know—I mean it's been years , Jessie. You don't remember?” “You didn't tell me, Mom.” My mother sighed. “The accident made an invalid...

... had money for the one year, so I did the master’s courses in theory and history, and joined the English Studies Group. Hazel [Carby] was in three groups, if I remember correctly, while she was there: the English Studies Group, the Media Group (which...

... to be rediscovered years into the future. He explains that people do it so they can be surprised by how much things have changed, or to remember things that may soon be forgotten. Which is why, he says, it is so impor- tant to make memories, so you will have something to put into the time capsule. Later that week...

... 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...

... above us, shedding its glass & plastic skin, but the hard part is praying to be made of that same permanence. Nothing here leaves on its own. Discolors, only wilts at the name; structures intact. What had no agency still has no agency & with it no death. I don t remember the name of the man I hurt. I...

... of milk. Mick buys a quart of 2 percent because you don t need to go for skim if you have enough cocaine in your diet. You don t need to buy shampoo, either, when rich girls with blond bangs and eyes that flicker sex always leave theirs behind. They want Mick to remember them by the scent of jasmine...

... me. We are torn. The teeth of a locust are the teeth of a lion are the teeth of carbon. The pattern maker. Maybe you are free because you are free to remember or because you remember as if you were a mother. I can t remember which is true. You speak every day of your life. As if we crossed...

... that they would eventually turn out to be the kinds of men our fathers were. All of us remember Belle. She is someone we loved, and her face shimmies to the surface in our dreams. But our stories of her are as much about that time in our lives as anything else. About the way the living, lost...

... he wore his other set of clothes and used Momma’s iron to get the wrinkles out of the ones he hung out to dry last night. Working on a ship kept him in practice for doing housework. The things you remember best was his teeth, which was set straight in his mouth and bright white, and how...

... the living dead. For Wells, books are remembered or forgotten; academic hoodoo, performed by trained impostors, can sap the living texts of life and raise the dead from their slumber. In their Obeah hands, Homer nods and Shakespeare, desiccate, lies silently beside...