Recently added articles from Michigan Quarterly Review:
DANCE OF THE SENSES: NATURAL VISION AND PSYCHOTIC MYSTICISM IN THEODORE ROETHKE'S POETRY
Jan 01, 2009; ... The poetry of Theodore Roethke springs almost entirely from his early, formative experiences in the Saginaw Valley of central Michigan. Although he traveled in Europe and taught for many years amid beautiful landscapes, from Pennsylvania's Delaware River Valley to the Green Mountains of southern ...
FOUR WINDS
Jan 01, 2009; ... (1995) Hannah Rosenthal didn't see how she could move reluctant members of Congress to vote for a universal healthcare bill, short of injecting large doses of compassion into their wizened hearts. Still, she made the long trip from Marquette, in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, to join ...
RIDING WOODWARD AVENUE, 1981
Jan 01, 2009; ... Holly squinting, reapplying pink lipstick in the rearview. Me puckering, reapplying by touch in my grandfather's spew-green Impala rattle-trapping south toward Detroit, riding Woodward like a dime-store pony ten below the limit, never mind the ...
WILD STRAWBERRIES
Jan 01, 2009; ... Saturday, late and but for a handful of neighborhood girls skitting in the street, nothing doing. I cut the back, brim the yard-cart. The air is thick with the scent of wild strawberry's mown flesh. This ...
WOODSMOKE
Jan 01, 2009; ... I buy this woodstove ("Big Boy," Birmingham, AL) in a clearance sale for the hut we're fixing up at the top of the garden. For weeks all three legs, twenty rusting bucks of it hogs the patio. It looks like some wild ...
TO LIVE IN THE BIRD GUIDE, THE YELLOWTHROAT'S
Jan 01, 2009; ... To live in the bird guide, the yellowthroat's down thicket and hedgerow, like any storybook would have it. And maybe his witchety witchety witchety is love my life! times three. It could be steely: how dare you and what do you know of migration and ...
ON DAYS GOD HAD NOTHING TO SAY
Jan 01, 2009; ... On days god had nothing to say, a dog still howled, children burst brightly to pixels in the roadside bomb. A woman out of Wal-Mart got robbed, the young man polite at first. Days of presettlement oaks, all bulldozed for a Dairy Queen. The sky ...
THE RESPONSE OF AMERICAN POETS TO 9/11: A PROVISIONAL REPORT
Jan 01, 2009; ... In Falling Man, Don DeLillo's novel about the aftermath of the traumatic events of September 11, 2001, one of the characters muses on the therapeutic options available to her fellow survivors: "People read poems. People I know, they read poetry to ease the shock and pain, give them a kind of ...
BUILDERS, OCTOBER 2001
Jan 01, 2009; ... They're laying foundations of concrete and steel to steady the new building, firm braces to hold the old façade in place, that little bit of the past through which present light keeps launching itself into the future - slabs of it ...
BONOBO MOMMA
Jan 01, 2009; ... That day, I met my "estranged" mother in the lobby of the Carlisle Hotel on Fifth Avenue, New York City. It was a few weeks following the last in a series of surgeries to correct a congenital malformation in my spine, and one of the first days when I could walk unassisted for any distance and ...
WAITING FOR RAIN, FOR MUSIC
Jan 01, 2009; ... 1 Burn me some music Send my roots rain I'm swept dry from inside Hard winds rack my core A struggle at the roots of the mind Whoever said it would go on and on like this Straphanger swaying inside a runaway car palming a notebook ...
NOW WHERE?
Jan 01, 2009; ... Heinrich Heine was born on December 13, 1797, in Düsseldorf, Germany; he died in Paris on February 17, 1856. The child of assimilated Jews, he studied law in Göttingen, converted to Christianity-"the ticket of admission into European culture" and to the professions-and wrote. He gained fame as a ...
TROUT OPENER
Jan 01, 2009; ... Sometimes nothing interesting happens The difference between youth and old age. It was snowing in Cadillac, raining in Kalkaska The way the stream muscled up so quickly A remembered face, a remembered torso But it's really shit when your health ...
ANNALS OF CAREGIVING: DOES EMMA WOODHOUSE'S FATHER SUFFER FROM "DEMENTIA"?
Jan 01, 2009; ... 1 Rereading can reveal our life-course changes with striking clarity. When I first discovered Proust's In Search of Lost Time at eighteen, an age when I craved authoritative information about desire, I read it for the stories of unrequited love. Then for two decades, happily married and ...
MARTINIQUE
Jan 01, 2009; ... Fort-de-France He sits on the beach watching the Caribbean sun sink in the bay, sink in the indigo. What do we really know about the one we love? Her dreams? What did he really know about her, who died that night in a terrible crash at sweet ...
AGAINST LEAVING HIM
Jan 01, 2009; ... ". . . [Ric] Hoogestraat was never much of a game enthusiast before he discovered Second Life. But since February, he's been spending six hours a night and often 14 hours at a stretch on weekends as Dutch Hoorenbeek, his six-foot-nine, muscular, motorcycle-riding cyber-self . . . marital ...
MARRIAGE (A RAMBLE THROUGH THE BRAMBLES)
Jan 01, 2009; ... This well-dressed, overly well-dressed man for San Francisco's Tenderloin, was slowly making his way down Ellis Street. Although his fine linen, Oxford shoes, recent haircut, and general comportment - Yale, I thought, or maybe Princeton - are not rare, and can even be found here, something about ...
ZOO
Jan 01, 2009; ... For a long time-too long-a book of black-and-white photographs called Zoo has lain in my house unattended. I have carried it from room to room; I have looked into, but not in it; I have even taken it to class to see what my students say. But I owe this book a greater debt, or rather, I owe its ...
COLD WAR COMICS
Jan 01, 2009; ... COLD WAR COMICS The Ten-Cent Plague: The Great Comic-Book Scare and How It Changed America. By David Hajdu. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008. Pp. 435. $29.95. Honors and awards have fallen on recent work by Alison Bechdel, Marjane Satrapi, and Ben Katchor, all creators of comic ...
IT'S NOT ALL TRUE: ORSON WELLES AND HIS CRITICS
Jan 01, 2009; ... IT'S NOT ALL TRUE: ORSON WELLES AND HIS CRITICS It's All True. Orson Welles's Pan-American Odyssey. By Catherine L. Benamou. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2007. Pp. 400. $60 (hb); $25.95 (pb). Despite the System. Orson Welles versus the Hollywood Studios. By Clinton ...