Volume 63: 2024 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Volume 63: 2024

Excerpts From Skyside

Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here. The return to the center sometimes takes detours, passing byretreating waters, heading towards large mammals, displacedseeds, a path of straw. So many days diverted for a shadow. I wait to recognize a reason, a meaning.At the boundary: mute hands. In the face: all […]

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Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here. The return to the center sometimes takes detours, passing byretreating waters, heading towards large mammals, displacedseeds, a path of straw. So many days diverted for a shadow. I wait to recognize a reason, a meaning.At the boundary: mute hands. In the face: all

black and blue butterfly

The Dream

Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here This nocturnal butterflyglides over our headslike a vulture over a carcass.(Our model specimenexhibited here is the everyday dream.) Nevertheless,management promises by year’s end,or even sooner, maybe,a choice parcel of dreamsas many for men as for women. Five boxes of tsetse flieswere ordered the

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Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here This nocturnal butterflyglides over our headslike a vulture over a carcass.(Our model specimenexhibited here is the everyday dream.) Nevertheless,management promises by year’s end,or even sooner, maybe,a choice parcel of dreamsas many for men as for women. Five boxes of tsetse flieswere ordered the

Eros statue

Stations in Translation: Power, Eros, and Betrayal (After Gaza)

Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here An original version of this essay was given as the Saif Al-Ghobash Lecture in Translation, an annual lecture held by the Banipal Trust of London, and was delivered on February 8, 2024. As the parenthetic part of the title suggests, this essay was

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Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here An original version of this essay was given as the Saif Al-Ghobash Lecture in Translation, an annual lecture held by the Banipal Trust of London, and was delivered on February 8, 2024. As the parenthetic part of the title suggests, this essay was

The Easy Part

Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 Who wouldn’t want to marry a minor character? said Marcos. And he thought that someone should have written first about Raúl’s rust-colored eyes, or at least have had the urge. They were on the small terrace behind the restaurant, a cement square between three buildings where the coworkers who’d

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Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 Who wouldn’t want to marry a minor character? said Marcos. And he thought that someone should have written first about Raúl’s rust-colored eyes, or at least have had the urge. They were on the small terrace behind the restaurant, a cement square between three buildings where the coworkers who’d

To-Do Lists

Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here Wake up, don’t get up“America” doesn’t need youOpen and reopen social mediaFollow the news as they breakyouThink about your family in GazaThink about how much your nephews and niecesgrew without your doses of annoyance Think about your friendsThink of the ones you forgotto

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Published in Issue 63.4: Fall 2024 You can purchase our Fall issue here Wake up, don’t get up“America” doesn’t need youOpen and reopen social mediaFollow the news as they breakyouThink about your family in GazaThink about how much your nephews and niecesgrew without your doses of annoyance Think about your friendsThink of the ones you forgotto

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