November 21, 2012 – Michigan Quarterly Review

November 21, 2012

Wandering Albatross (Diomedea exulans) in flight, East of the Tasman Peninsula, Tasmania, Australia

“Albatross Diagram” Selected for Best Australian Poetry 2012

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Gig Ryan’s “Albatross Diagram,” which appeared in the Summer 2012 issue of MQR in our feature on new Australian poetry, has been selected for inclusion in this year’s edition of Best Australian Poetry.

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Gig Ryan’s “Albatross Diagram,” which appeared in the Summer 2012 issue of MQR in our feature on new Australian poetry, has been selected for inclusion in this year’s edition of Best Australian Poetry.

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As Brave as Ducklings

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by Greg Schutz

“What if, looking at those ducklings, we saw not some reflection of human bravery, some mental state for which we already have the words, here and now, in our gas-guzzling postindustrial lives? What if, instead, we recognized the ducklings’ abandon, as Wendell Berry calls it—the wordless, mindless, absolute passion with which the need to leave the nest has been not merely accepted, but embraced?”

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by Greg Schutz

“What if, looking at those ducklings, we saw not some reflection of human bravery, some mental state for which we already have the words, here and now, in our gas-guzzling postindustrial lives? What if, instead, we recognized the ducklings’ abandon, as Wendell Berry calls it—the wordless, mindless, absolute passion with which the need to leave the nest has been not merely accepted, but embraced?”

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