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- 1From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction Srinivas Aravamudan posits that the mere act of "defining" the novel as "hetroglossic" and "unfinalizable" is contradictory at its heart, and the modern "institutionalized" definitions that we nowadays...
- 2From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedBefore I die, I want to learn October's language with its colorful accents and somber tones. I want to speak with the soft baritone of the wind sweeping through ocher woods and the clear consonant of the acorn's drop....
- 3From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedSometimes the world will lose its hearing. It then calls us in closer. That sound? Not yet nothing. Wide water sloshing through skulls. Waves swallowing years. Gulls swooping from sight. Hints blown across the blue. The...
- 4From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedCan't remember now the year he died. It might have been April. Two years ago? I saw on Facebook he was in a coma. I read that they might amputate his feet. It was too much and I turned away. Who wants all that displayed...
- 5From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis box isn't normal with you in it. Feel its sides with each elbow, its roof with each knee. But bending acts like a tourniquet, little inhuman secret. Your body is a hoarder too. You can hear back through dull years...
- 6From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Emmett Memorial Award and the Emmett Memorial Lecture are sponsored by the Emmett family, the PSU English Department, and The Midwest Quarterly . The award and lecture are named in memory of the late Dr. Victor J....
- 7From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction With the publication of Hilary Mantel's latest novel, The Mirror and the Light , in March 2020, the incredibly successful Wolf Hall trilogy came to an end. And so does the career of the main character of...
- 8From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThis is how we should always live-- our days unclouded and easy. Now, while a veil of late summer haze softens a trestled and towered skyline, we watch white sails cross a blue horizon and waves lather glistening sand....
- 9From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction In a 2010 National Public Radio article titled "Search for a Final Theory: A Holy Grail?", Dartmouth University physicist Marcelo Gleiser tells the story of string theory's emergence from insignificant...
- 10From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAnd though it has no name this puddle is full, was fattened on those afternoons the rain stopped by to hear for itself how much each splash sounds like the sleeves as they emptied thread by thread stripping her arms to...
- 11From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedAnd though you left the sheet blank the police are still investigating it as some make-shift wall left in place when the day after tomorrow arrived all at once--they're waiting for the lab to come up with how the ink...
- 12From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedEntertainment education research has shown that television programs can communicate important health information to viewers, for better (e.g., Murrar & Brauer, 2017) or for worse (e.g., Serrone et al., 2018; Thomas et...
- 13From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedYou can't find Tirana, Gjirokastër, or Ksamil on a map of Nebraska. But they are there. When you drive off Interstate 80, on the shoulders of your thoughts, on the outskirts of your imagination, you will reach a country...
- 14From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe first time I had sex was in a barn. He laid me down like a blanket, smoothed me over. My edges were tucked. Windows wide, I saw I saw the trees sway, heard the horses moan. The April fields of lavender looked...
- 15From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIntroduction HIV/AIDS to date remains one of the important health challenges facing most developing countries in sub-Saharan Africa. For example, UNAIDS (2012) sero-prevalence survey in Sub-Saharan Africa shows that...
- 16From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedIn the wrecked landscape of Fukushima a white telephone booth shines pristine with many panes of glass in the hinged door and a man steps in dials the cell number of his wife's phone, of course unanswering-- she was...
- 17From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedOn Memorial Day 2021, a national holiday, U.S. flags fluttered, as they typically do, to memorialize the fallen soldiers. "Thank you for your service and sacrifice. We will not forget you," is the sentiment that brands...
- 18From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedThe Stephen Meats Poetry Prize will be awarded once each year, starting in 2017. The prize is named for poet and Professor of English Stephen E. Meats in recognition of his service as Poetry Editor of the journal from...
- 19From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedJohn Singer Sargents women, never nude-- John Singer Sargents women, never nude, their curving creamy flesh in clothes enclosed. Their curving creamy flesh in clothes enclosed; in clothes they're John Singer's...
- 20From:The Midwest Quarterly (Vol. 63, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedA man on the radio tells me "Its never too early for nostalgia." Greenland, I learn, has a suicide rate six times higher than the world's average. More cheery news: I have a full pack of cigarettes but no lighter. Also,...