...Nathalie Blanc Nathalie Blanc The Strange Agencies and the Seaside (on Stacy Alaimo, Exposed: Environmental Politics and Pleasures in Posthuman Times) Let us start with the following observation: we are immersed in mat- ter, we are invaded by streams of living and technological...

... emerges in one postcard only over time, like an eye softens to darkness. This is the barbeque we had last night my picture is to the left with a cross over it Your son Joe Southern trees bear strange fruit Blood on the leaves and blood at the root Though the day smoldered, he must have...

... testimony to Polly s bereft state ( by a hair and as an heir), in strange anticipation of his separation from himself and all the world. In the same breath I ve said twice now, with a thought to mark how writing and reading come to life in a doubling or multiplication of voices, how a word...

...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...

... seeks to define a new domain of the supernatural, “a strange new world filled with shocking possibilities for twenty-first-century philosophy” (2). Objects “are coy,” Bennett writes, “always leaving hints of a secret other world” (2012, 225). We might identify this openness...

... in the luxury, the cocoon of the warm sheets. As she continued to lie there, however, and the five more minutes she had promised herself in bed ticked away, awareness of her own death filled her slowly, like light filling a room. It did seem strange to her that this transformation from living to dead had taken...

...Sumana Roy [email protected] Copyright © 2022 Virginia Tech 2022 Works Cited Chaudhuri Amit . 1991 . A Strange and Sublime Address . London : Minerva . Chaudhuri Amit . 2016 . A Strange and Sublime Address , anniv . ed. New Delhi : Penguin Random House...

... into the twilight, and you mentioned a Frost poem —​how people come to the sea and stare out across it at nothing. I looked at the chewed up forest behind us, at the gnarled cagey branches of toppled trees at the back of the beach, at the strange botanical architecture of dead, dried palmetto fronds...

.... Bennington Geoffrey . Chicago : U of Chicago P , 2009 . ---. “ Passions: ‘An Oblique Offering.’ ” On the Name . Ed. Dutoit Thomas . Trans. Wood David . Stanford : Stanford UP , 1993 . 1 – 31 . ---. “ This Strange Institution Called Literature .” Acts of Literature . Ed...

... in this strange heat that burns through our houses and our clothes. They pop tops and laugh, drowning out the darkness. When the towers fell, when the last war started, they were out drinking, shouting, shooting...

..., the way it appears at first that cutting hair should hurt. Understands the phantom hanging against the hand, the strangeness of the bangle puttable in a box. He seems to know how hard life will be, how often unadorned, how many necessary operations, beautiful things...

... at our heels, bark us into motion—colleagues, familiar from a morning hello, a shuffle of paper, are suddenly strange, imbued with command. I thought they were sheep like the rest of us shufflers, but, heated by conflict, they’ve shrugged off...

.... What will be left when a new season comes isn’t for me to know. I am the one on a plane, a strange voice telling me to put my mask on first. I am not land -locked, but has a body ever been free of the sky? In my yard, vultures fighting over the flesh...

...Tyler Kline © 2016 Tyler Kline 2016 Tyler Kline in this town i’m sleeping under every green light for the dream of your ponytail / your lipstick teeth falling on asphalt like rain from the bed of a pickup / in this town / too many weathervanes point south / strange miracles happen...

... Works Cited Adesanmi Pius . 2005 . “ Redefining Paris: Trans-Modernity and Francophone African Migritude Fiction .” Modern Fiction Studies 51 , no. 4 : 958 – 75 . Ahmed Sara . 2000 . Strange Encounters: Embodied Others in Post-Coloniality . London : Routledge . Balibar...

... 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...

... by fourteen: A midnight glint and roar through the Atchafalaya, Buick fast and arcing as a meteor. Dad was a prophet of obedience in the Strange land of his own house. He pointed guns, as if by example the barrels Could torque a bent son straight. Under pecan trees, You huffed gas...

... but as a lack of oxygen, an eroticism for the strange landscape of life lived. At that moment I dipped my hand under her skirt, pulling her body up against mine, her lips to my lips. I could smell her black hair, not like lilacs at all, but like burnt waffles, the kind he and I made when nine inch...

... Memory. In these, readers see a strangely different world than their own. Both Pritchard and Fussell recount, for instance, that they benefited from the old-boy network in receiving their first jobs, albeit in a job market that was barely competitive—almost everyone had a job offer, often before...

.... The Queer Art of Failure. Durham, NC: Duke Univer- sity Press. Hong, Grace Kyungwon, and Roderick A. Ferguson, eds. 2011. Strange Affinities: The Gender and Sexual Politics of Comparative Racialization. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Kester, Grant H. 2011. The One and the Many...