Special Issue – Michigan Quarterly Review

Special Issue

“Rhea” and “Iaboura”

Rhea* black body bird on the ground black body bird running hunted on the ground black body bird running hunted on the ground take the sky take the galaxy and stir it black body bird evade the hunter and the cross black body bird delicious to the broken jaw black body bird pursued by name […]

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Rhea* black body bird on the ground black body bird running hunted on the ground black body bird running hunted on the ground take the sky take the galaxy and stir it black body bird evade the hunter and the cross black body bird delicious to the broken jaw black body bird pursued by name

THE ORCHID

1. Even during his lifetime Wang Xizhi was considered God’s gift to calligraphy. According to historic records, his career took off in Earth Year 352, when Master Wang invited forty-two literary figures of the day, who also happened to be his closest drinking buddies, to gather along a gently flowing stream. Small cups, fashioned from

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1. Even during his lifetime Wang Xizhi was considered God’s gift to calligraphy. According to historic records, his career took off in Earth Year 352, when Master Wang invited forty-two literary figures of the day, who also happened to be his closest drinking buddies, to gather along a gently flowing stream. Small cups, fashioned from

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

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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

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

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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

At My Niece’s Birthday Party, 1,431 Miles North of Guantánamo

six-year-olds play “Tape the Heart on the Tin-Man,” red cardboard held out to a concrete wall. They’re blindfolded but unbruised, protective parents gathering close behind, whispering about waterboarding & imperialism’s risks, the possibilities one day these kids might do the blindfolding. Gretchen slaps her ripped heart upon the gray space destined for it, a blood-red

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six-year-olds play “Tape the Heart on the Tin-Man,” red cardboard held out to a concrete wall. They’re blindfolded but unbruised, protective parents gathering close behind, whispering about waterboarding & imperialism’s risks, the possibilities one day these kids might do the blindfolding. Gretchen slaps her ripped heart upon the gray space destined for it, a blood-red

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