Michigan Quarterly Review back issues from October 2005:
THINKING ABOUT DOCUMENTARY: NOTES TOWARD A LECTURE
Oct 01, 2005; ... Before Jonathan Raban gave the keynote address at the University of Michigan's conference "Doing Documentary Work" in March 2004 he prepared a set of notes and sent a copy to the editors for safekeeping. Our reading of these after the conference caused us to ask for permission to publish the ...
INTRODUCTION
Oct 01, 2005; ... The work on this special issue of Michigan Quarterly Review grows from a couple of decades of conversation between the editors about the places where the social sciences and the arts intersect. What started as discussions over the backyard fence about methodology and passionate involvement with ...
THE BIG RHYTHM: A CONVERSATION WITH BARRY LOPEZ ON THE McKENZIE RIVER
Oct 01, 2005; ... Barry Lopez's body of work is too big and wide-ranging to sum up in a few paragraphs. The beauty of it is in the details. In the high Arctic, Lopez walks among birds who, in the absence of trees, nest on the ground. "I gazed down at a single horned lark no bigger than my fist. She stared back ...
FRAGILE: THIS SIDE UP
Oct 01, 2005; ... On the doorstep of Madame Judith's R.V. trailer is a package from her father's attorney in Phoenix. Judith has a pretty good idea what it is. Her father passed away three months ago and this would be the sum total of her inheritance from the man, probably some gold panning equipment and his ...
FOUR UNPUBLISHED POEMS BY THEODORE ROETHKE
Oct 01, 2005; ... Theodore Roethke's childhood home at 1805 Gratiot Avenue in Saginaw is filled with family furniture and possessions that local supporters have tracked down and returned. On the back porch, the day I visited, his father's galoshes stood next to a chair where you could imagine he'd just sat to ...
LAND BESET
Oct 01, 2005; ...[Author Affiliation] THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) is one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. Born in Saginaw, he attended the University of Michigan and ...
THE TUTORED CHILD
Oct 01, 2005; ... Your mother, whom the mirror-world has claimed, Plucks at the tell-tale hairs with violent hand And thinks time backward to a brassy song, Rolling the grape of hysteria under her tongue. Your father, in whom two ambitions rave, Like stations wrangling on ...
TO BE AMONG THESE ELEGANT VOICES
Oct 01, 2005; ... for the dedication of Highland Township Library This image of the plump-faced peasantry all knees and codpieces dancing round someplace in Belgium at a wedding I found among the B's in Artists-European. The way the book is printed, how it's ...
LOS PINZONES
Oct 01, 2005; ... Cayo Piedras del Norte The little pear-shaped island of Cayo Piedras del Norte is located four kilometers off the northeastern end of the Hicacos peninsula near Varadero. Cayo Piedras is the last island on the western end of the Archipiélago de Sabana, situated at the entrance to the ...
MONTGOMERY
Oct 01, 2005; ... In the Dexter Avenue King Memorial Baptist Church where he found his mission his voice If you will protest courageously the church that earlier met in a former slave traders pen the church that was built with bricks discarded by workers paving the street courageously and ...
SAYING SOMETHING NOW: DOCUMENTARY WORK AND THE VOICES OF THE DEAD
Oct 01, 2005; ... 1. A Cemetery in Georgia In the winter of 2000, my freshmen students and I began a restoration and documentary project of the old African American cemetery in the small town of Oxford in Georgia's Newton County, forty miles east of Atlanta. Over the course of the next two years, we ...
READING, GLACIERS, AND LOVE IN THE BOTANICAL EXPLORATION OF CHINA'S BORDERLANDS
Oct 01, 2005; ... May your spirit and your virtue serve the meaning of the earth. . . . Man and Man's earth are still unexhausted and undiscovered. Nietzsche1 1. Making nature, making places, and making persons are ineluctably social and incorrigibly intertangled processes.2 Making nature, ...
THE QUATORZIÈME*
Oct 01, 2005; ... The quatorzième enters late. The others have been waiting. And are grateful: So pleased to see you, my dear, to round us out, you look so hale and hearty, just like the one who could not join us tonight, I swear I did not hear him cough at all when I saw ...
DOCUMENTS OF THE HOLOCAUST
Oct 01, 2005; ... DOCUMENTS OF THE HOLOCAUST The Destruction of the European Jews. By Raul Hilberg. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2003. 3 vols. Pp. 1388. $150 hardcover; $17.95 paper. "Hier ist kein warum." A camp guard to Primo Levi 1. Early in the nuclear arms race, ...
NARRATIVE AND CRIME
Oct 01, 2005; ... NARRATIVE AND CRIME jane: a murder. By Maggie Nelson. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2005. Pp. 200. $13.95 paper. Jane Mixer was murdered in 1969. A student at the University of Michigan Law School, the twenty-three year old told her parents she was getting a ride from Ann Arbor to her ...
GASSED
Oct 01, 2005; ... after John Singer Sargent They might as well be walking toward a firing squad, blind folded, single file, a guide wire strung between them, each man a wounded Theseus crawling back up from the underworld, though this thread leads only to the infirmary, where the ...
AT SPRINGHILL FARM
Oct 01, 2005; ... For many years I worked at Shaman Drum Bookshop, a small independent store half a block north of the central campus of the University of Michigan. We described our market niche as "academic and scholarly books in the humanities." Many of our customers were professors and graduate students, but ...
BOONDOCKS
Oct 01, 2005; ... According to the 2002 Encyclopaedia Britannica Book of the Year, the Philippines has the fourth-largest population of English speakers in the world, ranking after the United States, India, and the United Kingdom. To show our appreciation for your gift of language, we'd like to ...
NO WORD
Oct 01, 2005; ... Through portal and through peristyle Her phantom glides, whose secret mouth, The absence of whose flagrant smile, Hangs on my chimney like a wreath of cloud. I prod the coals; my tortured faith Kneels in the blaze on melting paws; Jeweled with ...
BARRIER BROKEN
Oct 01, 2005; ...[Author Affiliation] THEODORE ROETHKE (1908-1963) is one of the most important American poets of the twentieth century. Born in Saginaw, he attended the University of Michigan and ...
LOCAL HEROES
Oct 01, 2005; ... The Feast of All Souls, 2001 Some days the worst that can happen happens. The sky falls or evil overwhelms or the world as we have come to know it turns toward the eventual apocalypse long predicted in all the holy books- the end-times of old ...
TEXTUAL
Oct 01, 2005; ... Night of snow of north wind sixty miles an hour Deer tracks rabbit a sparrow walked where the orange cat walked The snow reads as if they were a team a strange gang I kneel touch the whip marks of weeds in snow touch the tiny dunes of snow ...
THE HOUSE OF THE WORLD
Oct 01, 2005; ... Beth Olem Cemetery lies within the fenced-in grounds of a General Motors manufacturing facility larger and more sprawling than many college campuses. The company allows the public access only twice a year, from ten until two on the Sundays before Passover and Rosh Hashanah. On the Sunday before ...
A FRIEND OF DR. REIS
Oct 01, 2005; ... She didn't look like a woman who inspired dreams. She kept her eyes down and bit her fingernails. When I sat next to her I felt her shrink away, as if the merest touch of my shirt sleeve offended. Forgive me, her companion said to her, if I speak with this nice man for ten or fifteen minutes ....