To learn more about the problems underlying disability tropes and metaphors, I turned to Emily Rose Cole, previous Cincinnati Review editorial assistant and current PhD candidate in English and Disability Studies at University of Cincinnati.
In less than 500 words, Ayad’s sweeping essay takes us from the speaker’s mother’s baklava to the rams sacrificed on the family’s farm to the “grapey surface” of a “dissected sheep’s eye.”
In these translations, readers must counter assumptions about who provides narrative resolution and begin new understandings of old symbols as meaning accumulates and distills through the language.
With the approach of fall, sweaters, apple cider, and pumpkin-spice everything comes the time for literary nominations! We’re excited to share the news that we’ve nominated the following pieces by CR contributors for The Orison Anthology: Karen An-hwei Lee, “Dear Millennium, on the Extinction of Migrant Doves” (poem, 16.1) Brenda Miller, “Chorus” (essay, 16.2) C.T. …
In Kristin George Bagdanov’s debut full-length poetry collection Fossils in the Making (Black Ocean, 2019) it is no coincidence that “gyre” rhymes with “lyre.”
This poem meditates on—and elevates—the word No in ways I haven’t seen before. I think, of course, of the issue of consent in intimate relationships, and the power that No needs to have in that context
Yesterday, we featured the first part of our pas de deux between authors Joanna Pearson and Jillian Weiss, whose story and essay have eerily similar content, with both references to the devil and to kids in care of the state/foster system.
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