Winter 2014 – Michigan Quarterly Review

Winter 2014

“Otherwise Known As: A Legend in Words & Pictures,” by Rachel May

And the old ones, the ones who were afraid, looked at each other and sat down, and cried. They threw up their hands. They said, You’re going to do it, anyway, aren’t you? And the new ones said, Yes. And the old ones said, All our work? And the new ones said, We’re sorry. And they all knelt down, and began to pull back the grass.

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And the old ones, the ones who were afraid, looked at each other and sat down, and cried. They threw up their hands. They said, You’re going to do it, anyway, aren’t you? And the new ones said, Yes. And the old ones said, All our work? And the new ones said, We’re sorry. And they all knelt down, and began to pull back the grass.

MQR 53:1 | Winter 2014

Pearl Abraham on family, Yom Kippur, and the rites of forgiveness; Martha S. Jones on family, race, and identity; Michael A. Chaney on the slave craftsman Dave the Potter; Susan Kushner Resnick on the lingering emanations of a 1943 coal mine disaster; Amy Bernhard on her mother and the Amish; Natania Rosenfeld on shame; James Morrison on Edmund White.

Fiction by Gabriel Brownstein, James Brubaker, Margaret Eaton, Brady Hammes, and Rachel May.

Poetry by Stephen Cramer, John Hart, Shara Lessley, Travis Mossotti, Mary Peelen, Stephanie Pippin, Martha Serpas, and Ruth Williams.

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Pearl Abraham on family, Yom Kippur, and the rites of forgiveness; Martha S. Jones on family, race, and identity; Michael A. Chaney on the slave craftsman Dave the Potter; Susan Kushner Resnick on the lingering emanations of a 1943 coal mine disaster; Amy Bernhard on her mother and the Amish; Natania Rosenfeld on shame; James Morrison on Edmund White.

Fiction by Gabriel Brownstein, James Brubaker, Margaret Eaton, Brady Hammes, and Rachel May.

Poetry by Stephen Cramer, John Hart, Shara Lessley, Travis Mossotti, Mary Peelen, Stephanie Pippin, Martha Serpas, and Ruth Williams.

“Henry Ford (1904),” by Campbell McGrath

*poetry by Campbell McGrath* From curiosity comes dynamism, from obstinacy drive.

From the drawing board, from tinkering, from the machine shop in the old barn come pistons and cams.

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*poetry by Campbell McGrath* From curiosity comes dynamism, from obstinacy drive.

From the drawing board, from tinkering, from the machine shop in the old barn come pistons and cams.

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