Recently added articles from Chicago Review:
4H.(Short story)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Hands I heard a story once about a boy who, with his own hands, felt through the mass of steaming alfalfa in a windrow looking for his father's fingers cut clean off by the baler. His father had walked back to the yard to sit in the metal glider and wait for the helicopter but ...
From Night-Jar.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> Hawking for moths at dusk: the night-jar in the fen near the worn stone markers of the old bishopric: thence ceded to sentries of the forest: thence the fall, one by one: thence centuries under- foot of branch and brush and peat. Near you, but where, it has gone: past the rides ....
Yahweh Swallowed Three Letters, Between I and I and E.(Poem)
Mar 22, 2009; ... <Pre> To walk on the air is round and virile. To tremble near coffee and smear one's eyes. First knock on the dog's door. The door will open. First pick up yellow flowers in the middle. These are nets. This is Sunday. This is a monkey climbing upstairs with a paw of ...
Four Ironies.(Short story)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Not Ironic You know the scene. A great ocean liner is about to depart on a transatlantic cruise. The ship's orchestra plays "Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean." Passengers lining the many decks dockside wave and wave flags, throw, toward the mass of well-wishers stories below, ...
Life of Spinoza.(ANNE CARSON)(Play)
Mar 22, 2009; ... Day 1 How we have waited! we frontline fighters get more than our share of food and clothing. Time to repay. Water looks cloudy. Rumours sweep our vessel. Will we steam boldly south out of the Channel? Day 2 ...