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...Vasantha Sambamurti Copyright © 2021 Vasantha Sambamurti 2021 Vasantha Sambamurti I Inspire Song in White Women I inspire song in white women. Unblinking they sing at me: Doll! Pet! Knit this child a store-bought dress. Daily I dream of scooping her up. Skin sherbet smooth. Store her...

...Jean Theron [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Jean Theron 2022 Jean Theron Dreamliner s Song Around the port, the water changes color: blackwater river, marsh sage, ocean ink. This land, our future selves might say, was the first to go under, reeking to hell of jet fuel...

...Cody Ernst © 2016 Cody Ernst 2016 Cody Ernst If There Were a Song about This Car Ride it would start:  love didn’t exist yet  or:  love was but a child then, the winter I discovered self-destruction:  whiskey, stout beer, and cigar leaves muckied the atmosphere  I had a hopeless crush...

...W. Todd Kaneko © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 W. Todd Kaneko Pop Song Remember junior high school when we were thirteen going on twenty, our Adam’s apples blossoming in throats like swamps. Our bodies refused to be defined by our undergarments because we were so hot...

...Hollis Taylor; Jon Rose Abstract This article's authors record, transcribe, and analyze Australian pied butcherbird songs much as a musicologist might study any human music. They also arrange some of these vocalizations for human musicians. Here, the authors detail a recent interspecies engagement...

...Chelsea Lemon Fetzer © 2016 Chelsea Lemon Fetzer 2016 Chelsea Lemon Fetzer Even the Far-Out Songs Emily’s drunk on three-dollar wine. Backbones crooked again, her tower of fists, so she has to lie flat on the floor, says I could spend ten years...

...Grace Q. Song [email protected] © 2023 Grace Q. Song 2023 Grace Q. Song Light-Years I m so bad at life and love men. Yesterday I bought too many onions from Morton Williams. I forgot plans for lunch, and then it was all over, right there at noon. The truth is I ll take compliments...

... Johnson notes that “many observers were struck by the fact that as slaves departed [for the markets in New Orleans] they were often singing.” And he refers to a nineteenth-century account of a slave trader whipping the slaves “to make them sing as they left, for the songs were meant to prevent...

... . Elizabeth Maddock Dillon The Plantationocene and the Performative Commons A Brief History of Uncommoning Recently discovered manuscript papers of the Jamaican planter Charles Long record the words of a song, Guinea Corn, written and per- formed by enslaved Africans in Jamaica in the late eighteenth cen...

...) W. H. Auden s poem Orpheus (1940), and Anne Carson s (1995) essay The Gender of Sound. I have also included references to Dutch dictionary entries, Korean exhibition texts regarding porcelain moon jars and placenta jars from the Joseon dynasty, loose transcriptions of bird and insect songs...

... than the beats so/ it ain t working / the first time you punched me in, the night swallowed the breeze of its own fear and left me there/ brailled: myth/ no one ever will/ this party is a time warp/ i can t ever get the song out of my head/ i keep letting you back in/ how can i explain myself? i...

... is a complete snore, and it only gets really interesting toward the end. At one point during the old aunts’ party, Gabriel sees his wife kind of daydreaming on the staircase while someone is singing a song called “The Lass of Aughrim.” Gabriel gets all sappy and romantic watching his wife listen...

..., whole canons of movement expunged from the record of our country nights. We know this while she scorns stillness, taking the stand with her, belting out a song that is so fantastically and poignantly like that other song. minnesota review 84 (2015) DOI...

... is at a party at the home of a 210 the minnesota review Western intellectual favored by the country’s dictator. Two or three couples are dancing in the tastefully darkened room. There is music playing, Joan Baez is singing “Barbara Allen.” And then other songs. Here’s how...

... unrequited, or I am the star of my own music video, men chasing after me in rainy streets but never catching up. On this trip, I am trying to perfect “Part of Your World,” the mermaid’s wish to be human. I remember the summer before fourth grade when I heard that song...

... national anthem, the most popular Tagore line would perhaps be Aekla chalo re. It is a quasi refrain in a song that is, in the end, about walking alone: Jodi tor daak shuney keu na aashey / Tawbey aekla chalo re (If no one responds to your call, / walk alone). Bengali children are exposed...

...— Gust of wind pushing the car to the shoulder. Traffic report. Weather report. War report. Inaudible pop song. Little white crosses on the shoulder. Blue guitar rift. High hat. hey, hey, hey—  The cigarette’s cherry bouncing, signaling in the rearview mirror. No one...

... shot. Even then I had the feeling of something large and cruel sliding slowly to a halt. I like to think of my cat suspended inside some continuous dream, orbiting his little brain like a love song. Inside the song the earnestness of the boy who used to write me bad poetry. And inside that probably...

... Yìxiāngchuán” [Yi-Shang’s account of Tang and Silla Dynasty] . In Sòng Gāosēngchuán [Old masters in song] , edited by Zànníng , 76 . Beijing : Zhōnghuá Shūjú . ...

... or how we could understand the stories. Bee dances, whale songs, and canine olfactory maps could all proceed through narrative-like structures. While all sorts of living beings communicate—through sound, movement, gestures, emotional expression, mating displays, nest building, bioluminescence...