Essay – Page 4 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Essay

庞纪眉 PANG JI MEI

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 “We, like most of the 汉人 (han4 ren2 – Han people), do not have a legacy. Our culture got all screwed up. Our people departed from the Chinese traditions. We might look Chinese, but the history made us nastier and more cut-throat, with less consideration and wisdom.” That was […]

庞纪眉 PANG JI MEI Read More »

Published in Issue 62.4: Fall 2023 “We, like most of the 汉人 (han4 ren2 – Han people), do not have a legacy. Our culture got all screwed up. Our people departed from the Chinese traditions. We might look Chinese, but the history made us nastier and more cut-throat, with less consideration and wisdom.” That was

Daily Papers

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 The scrapbook I found after my father died was wedged into a row of books in the living room, where books were shelved two deep in floor-to-ceiling bookcases. Some of the shelves had books crammed in horizontally too, and it was in one of those stacks that I found

Daily Papers Read More »

Published in Issue 62.3: Summer 2023 The scrapbook I found after my father died was wedged into a row of books in the living room, where books were shelved two deep in floor-to-ceiling bookcases. Some of the shelves had books crammed in horizontally too, and it was in one of those stacks that I found

Conjoined Orbits: An Invitation

This issue offers invitations: dock with us to explore the tectonics of somatic imaginations. Fly with synesthetic energies, grounded in delicious sensory embodiment. Enjoy as the genres mix and flail in hyperdrive. Our travel themes twine around the cyber avatar, spaceship architectures, steampunk air messages from the multiverse. To assemble this flight crew, we asked

Conjoined Orbits: An Invitation Read More »

This issue offers invitations: dock with us to explore the tectonics of somatic imaginations. Fly with synesthetic energies, grounded in delicious sensory embodiment. Enjoy as the genres mix and flail in hyperdrive. Our travel themes twine around the cyber avatar, spaceship architectures, steampunk air messages from the multiverse. To assemble this flight crew, we asked

NIGHT MILK

On the subject of milk: Gayle tells me about Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen, which she is able to quote readily, having read it often with her kids. I’m visiting her in Saint Louis and finally meeting her two children, who are now five and three. We’re well into the pandemic, and Gayle and

NIGHT MILK Read More »

On the subject of milk: Gayle tells me about Maurice Sendak’s In the Night Kitchen, which she is able to quote readily, having read it often with her kids. I’m visiting her in Saint Louis and finally meeting her two children, who are now five and three. We’re well into the pandemic, and Gayle and

MOVING THE INCONSEQUENTIAL LOOP: SOMATICS, FEMINISMS

Here is a story, particular in its expression, common in its effect. In 2009, I was on a panel at an experimental writing conference hosted by the University of Buffalo, NY. The panel had been convened by a friend and writer I admire. It was titled: “Inconsequentiality: Why It’s Important.” I was presenting alongside this

MOVING THE INCONSEQUENTIAL LOOP: SOMATICS, FEMINISMS Read More »

Here is a story, particular in its expression, common in its effect. In 2009, I was on a panel at an experimental writing conference hosted by the University of Buffalo, NY. The panel had been convened by a friend and writer I admire. It was titled: “Inconsequentiality: Why It’s Important.” I was presenting alongside this

lsa logoum logoU-M Privacy StatementAccessibility at U-M