Summer 2012 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Summer 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.

Poetry by Cleopatra Mathis

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INTERSTICE

1. Between Grief and Sorrow

Grief staggers around the house

some thief has emptied.

It wants to tell you everything

all over again; blame is the story

grief hammers, hammering until your leg shakes,

your right foot won’t stop tapping.

It’s a dance for the shaken,

strung out with waiting, and now look

who’s back to guard the door:

Poetry by Cleopatra Mathis Read More »

INTERSTICE

1. Between Grief and Sorrow

Grief staggers around the house

some thief has emptied.

It wants to tell you everything

all over again; blame is the story

grief hammers, hammering until your leg shakes,

your right foot won’t stop tapping.

It’s a dance for the shaken,

strung out with waiting, and now look

who’s back to guard the door:

“Cross,” by Rebecca Makkai

There was garbage on the lawn, or maybe a construction sign, or (now that she was close enough to notice the flowers and ribbons) detritus from a prom. But it was late August, not spring. And no, it wasn’t prom garbage, but a small cross.

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There was garbage on the lawn, or maybe a construction sign, or (now that she was close enough to notice the flowers and ribbons) detritus from a prom. But it was late August, not spring. And no, it wasn’t prom garbage, but a small cross.

MQR 51:3 | Summer 2012

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Robert Marshall on the gap between the man and the myth of the 1970s’ phenomenon Carlos Castaneda; Allison Schuette on the moment a marriage actually breaks; Amy Lee Scott on coming to terms with her Korean middle name; Francine Prose’s Hopwood Lecture on character and language, “Complimentary Toilet Paper”

Fiction by Rebecca Makkai, Aaron Hamburger,

MQR 51:3 | Summer 2012 Read More »

Robert Marshall on the gap between the man and the myth of the 1970s’ phenomenon Carlos Castaneda; Allison Schuette on the moment a marriage actually breaks; Amy Lee Scott on coming to terms with her Korean middle name; Francine Prose’s Hopwood Lecture on character and language, “Complimentary Toilet Paper”

Fiction by Rebecca Makkai, Aaron Hamburger,

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