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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 142–156.
Published: 01 May 2020
...Rosemary Haskell; Ashna Ali; Christopher Ian Foster; Supriya M. Nair Novelist Fatou Diome, Senegalese migrant to France, in 2019 reached the twenty-fifth year in her adopted country. Silver-anniversary motives encouraged the author to chart the quarter century of progress of this “megaphone...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 53.
Published: 01 November 2016
... green field, we drink warm milk from cracked teacups painted with tiny yellow birds. She unknots the twine from a blue Rosenbloom’s cake box. I remember sugar cubes perfectly stacked in her silver caddy. Its delicate silver tongs. One lump or two, angelah? The way she would sing to me...
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the minnesota review (2023) 2023 (101): 21–22.
Published: 01 November 2023
... in the reservoir of time. The grass bleeds silver, prisms of dew collapse at the risk of their translucent hearts. Birds cower in the Sydney sky, push into the horizon s viscose, that all too-still night like the wrong shoe. Atmospheric with wreckage, I sift through the junkyard s silver, ask the past for a moment...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (102): 3.
Published: 01 May 2024
..., then, and the twisting silver bracelets. the gown of watered silk so fine it scorched in sunlight. more? the diamond collar from her throat, gold rings like turtle bones, the pearl stud in her left ear, and then the ear itself, fleshy and curled like a seashell, carved away so sweetly, hardly any blood...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (80): 119–130.
Published: 01 May 2013
..., we shall say to them in our tale, you are brothers, yet God has framed you differently. Some of you have the power of command, and in the composition of these he has mingled gold, wherefore also they have the greatest honour; others he has made of silver, to be auxiliaries...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 14.
Published: 01 November 2016
... about what my husband said: Stop calling it stripper-obics. You’re not going to strip. And then, Are you? We walk in hands covering our grins, disappear behind a silk slip of curtain to place our keys, our silver rings in darkened drawers. You dim the lights, your loose...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (89): 52.
Published: 01 November 2017
... & its signatures of heat. I weeded myself from my we. I wept not. I offshot each pigeon winged by buckshot into the still, into the shardness of clay. I forgot to forgive. I fought but law won. Sterling, I was silvered as a fish in an ocean’s thunder. I salted the wounded while birds pissed...
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the minnesota review (2022) 2022 (98): 1.
Published: 01 May 2022
.... The corrido begins like this: declare you re about to sing one voy a cantar. First verse, Glock against the smuggler s jaw. Ford Conquistador speeding away in the second. Third & final, as silver trumpets sway, you hear tall pines crying on their ridge. But before all that, the corrido begins in commerce...
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the minnesota review (2012) 2012 (79): 23.
Published: 01 November 2012
... everything I touched turned slippery. So rarely do we know the names for things that happen to us. That night, we collected bits of the wreckage caught in the moonlight like silver minnows. Morbid, our parents said once we made them into jewelry. In that sense...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 56.
Published: 01 November 2016
...Elise Berrier © 2016 Elise Berrier 2016 Elise Berrier In the Cadaver Lab There lay the cadavers. There lay the cadavers and they settled with purple around their nipples like my father. There lay the cadavers and they sunk in silver lunchboxes in the lab. There lay my father and he...
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the minnesota review (2016) 2016 (87): 29.
Published: 01 November 2016
...-rust she was vigilant to Indian-rope-burn raw. Her spit-soaked bullet-poke scrutinized our whole future like a comet or a shining rocket. We’d have to learn better how to look our own selves over. Get right up close in the mirror, she warned us. She polished us like silver...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (65-66): 31–32.
Published: 01 November 2006
... intricacies of the absolute cornfield, the unsure surfaces rinsed silver, the whammy put on desire, the vision assayed by reckless endurance. In practice the smaller portions appear. Moderation, sharing, the sparse trophies of communal experiment are old luck...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (80): 16.
Published: 01 May 2013
... shone there, golden in the broken wood, his head a wick heavy with coal oil as the flash- pan ignited to ash, and on the black-bright canvas that was his skin was written the complaint men’s faces made as they clamored, white brims and silver shovels, stock chain, and the one black eye forced open...
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the minnesota review (2005) 2005 (63-64): 54.
Published: 01 May 2005
...: Mortars, AK's, Bouncing Bettys, Rocket Propelled Grenades, even bamboo pungi sticks had snake eyes for my flesh.That' s the way it was. Starlight shadows and one-eyed jacks. Prayers to Elephant and the God of rock n' roll. A silver crucifix to save...
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the minnesota review (2024) 2024 (103): 42–43.
Published: 01 November 2024
...-stained teeth, silver fog spilling over analog oceans, the ocherous smell of dipspit in a copper bowl, canned peaches floating in too-thick syrup, chokecherry branches, persimmoned light. A man named Will, gone now, whose dipspit filled the copper bowl. A handful of Hot Tamales and popcorn...
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the minnesota review (2005) 2005 (63-64): 23.
Published: 01 May 2005
... of hurrying citizens, with gold or silver teeth displaying each specific time of the planetary day. This is while his shadows double, dressed in a gray Penneys work suit, steers the fire ladder wheel just in time for the in-barreling train to pass without a scratch, beyond notice. His dog...
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the minnesota review (2017) 2017 (88): 3–4.
Published: 01 May 2017
... of silver maples and sorghum, the fiery scarlet oaks. My father’s hair was still dark, mine still curled into ringlets, and the trees in our yard were saplings, supported by stakes and strings, roots not yet set. ...
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the minnesota review (2013) 2013 (81): 14–15.
Published: 01 November 2013
... in some silver goblet of Trust me, baby. I’d give it all to tattle, to break covenant and run        from the strange feel of love’s snapped neck in the dark. I know the weight of betrayal. But I also know the sound of a death rattle, that these ladies’ walls        quake like Solomon’s...
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the minnesota review (2020) 2020 (94): 29–30.
Published: 01 May 2020
... I can fall in love in the length of a dreadlock just by chewing on the word Alright and here comes No Woman, No Cry and Vanessa in 2000 in silver sandals sliding across the asphalt toward me and not bleeding from her wrist and not bleeding from her wrist and I feel the way the reggae rhythm...
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the minnesota review (2006) 2006 (67): 24–25.
Published: 01 November 2006
..., not even changing Out of yesterday’s socks, caught in a paperback Trollope’s sticky pages. Will Violet Effingham marry “comely” Phineas Or the red-bristled reprobate, Lord Chiltern? I jerk the silver band up to my knuckle and back, the letters Of our...