...Jeffrey H. MacLachlan © 2013 Jeffrey H. MacLachlan 2013 Jeffrey H. MacLachlan The Vanishing Child I’m leading you to her. Pay attention to what I’m saying. Doesn’t the night sky look like a giant one-way mirror? As a child, we’d go to the planetarium for school trips and create water...

...Brianna Noll © 2017 Brianna Noll 2017 Brianna Noll Beyond the Vanishing Point In a single-line drawing, there is no beginning, and an end only where your own eye stops tracing the path of the artist’s hand. The wind can do this, too...

...Phil Gruis © 2009 the minnesota review 2009 Phil Gruis Healer I’m not the kind to scuttle behind a celebrity, hoisting an umbrella to shade a swollen head. Yet I will vanish utterly into the shadow of this rock-star dog, this black bear prancing...

... of English at the University of Iowa: Volume One 1861-1961 . Iowa City : The Maecenas Press , 1995 . Jameson Fredric . “The Vanishing Mediator; or, Max Weber as Storyteller.” The Ideologies of Theory: Essays 1971-1986. Volume 2: Syntax of History . Minneapolis : U of Minnesota P , 1988...

... to be the most beautiful waitress —​ we had a car that dressed in high school gowns. A year after she died I watched a man jump from forty-two stories and vanish into a plummeting window. Adrian’s thirty now, spends his time crawling around in the sky which he says is a kind of soil...

... more and the next day you’ll for- get him a little more. All in service to the larger vanishing. Let me put it like this. Have you ever had a bad acid trip? The kind where you spend eight hours crying in a bathroom, thinking of everything out- side your heart that is not your heart of which you...

... what’s ours to pray for —​ all of us, sumptuous vanishing points. Cloud of breath, heavy dew. © 2012 by Virginia Tech 2012 ...

....” Rev. of The Return of the Vanishing American, by Leslie Fiedler . New York Times 17 Mar. 1968 : BR4 . Sale Roger . Rev. of The Collected Essays of Leslie Fiedler, by Leslie Fiedler . New York Times 10 Oct. 1971 : BR 6 . Sheed Wilfrid . “The Summer of 1960.” New...

...: “Everywhere one looks one is surrounded by the absence of animals Spectral animals recede into the shadows of human consumption and environmental destruction” (1). This “perpetual vanishing” under which animals exist only at the dim margins of our increasingly humanized spaces has underpinned...

...-sounding economic and political terms. Literature, broadly conceived, is not vanishing, and I am not even sure it is retreating, either. Global readership is on the rise. Pub- lishing is on the rise, and not just Harry Potter (which Brzezinski dis- misses). But whatever the fate of literature...

... the hole in what you want. I ripped the moon. I asked the moon to go and so it vanished into its canyons but the canyons raged like a faceful of acne,    and, bubbling, they grew the moon anew. 16 the minnesota review As you say, Mother —​ I put my brothers to sleep. My...

... and Sherry Lee Linkon, eds., New Working- Class Studies [Ithaca: ILR P, 2005]; Eric Schocket, Vanishing Moments: Class and American Literature [Ann Arbor: U of Michigan P, 2006]) In March 2002, Larry J. Griffin and Maria Tempenis published an article, “Class...

... for the seventh extinction—the one where we vanish. Time is held by tongs. We are the exhaust of the 20th century. Hi, I'm Thomas Hardy. Hi, I'm the hole my sisters dig. Forgive us. Hi, I'm Heraclitus. The end of the road is the beginning of time. The sky sizzles with fear and celebration. Hi, I am my...

..., as if its fuse burnt out. She hears Hank exclaim how he just saw one go, and then Sam says a reddish light Mars, most likely vanished. They catch more and more disappearing. The three of them point and call out for a little while, but then they stop and just watch. They silently gaze up in wonder...

... of the nonfiction book Cerulean Blues: A Personal Search for a Vanishing Songbird (Ruka Press, 2011), which was a finalist for the Southern Environmental Law Center’s Reed Award for Outstanding Writing on the Southern Environment. Fal- lon’s essays have appeared in a variety of literary journals and maga...

... power of ten. The outline decreases in size as it moves toward the vanishing point, creating the effect of sliding along a giant invisible ruler in space. Leaving Illinois behind, in the words of the narrator, “we are able to see the whole earth.” Next, we leave the solar system altogether...

... all else away. Squared off and low-ceilinged, it's a dull, metal cell with scattered remnants—a carton of cottage cheese the minnesota review spilling its guts, a sour cream container crushed sideways, a pierced tub drooling yogurt. The rest is vanished as Christmas presents, nothing left...

... of an appropriately gendered instructor. Ours, Mr. Warner, abandoned us between units, our stack of Diet & Nutrition tests vanishing with him. So while across the hall Mrs. Singleton handed our future procreative partners mimeographs of cross-sectioned testicles and fallopian tubes— those...

... in a slaughter- house, and few things excited him now that his children had gone on. The doe put forth a tentative hoof. The crosshairs leapt and a peal of thunder rattled the woods. Wrens vanished from the sumac into that pure balance: receding echoes, an expanding silence. A fox had taken five...

... the lack of many a thing I sought, And wail time's waste: I can drown an eye For precious friends hid in dateless night, And weep afresh love's long since cancell'd woe, And many a vanished sight: I can tell o'er The sad account As if not paid before...