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{"title":"Hidden Track","authors":"Sumita Chakraborty","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a907331","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a907331","url":null,"abstract":"Hidden Track Sumita Chakraborty (bio) Keywords poetry, Sumita Chakraborty, outer space, aliens, exploration, truth, race, fear, love, family, safety A poet once saidThere is no there there. I said before that we wantyou to think we’re worthy of saving. The truth is,we made we up. I want youto think I, and the ones I love, are worthy of saving.I am a brown woman who has loved widelyand unsystematically. I, and my we,have a they. Give them a reasonto look up in fear. Lord knows,they’d do it anyway. [End Page 131] Sumita Chakraborty sumita chakraborty is a poet and scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection Arrow (Alice James Books [US]/Carcanet Press [UK]), which received coverage in the New York Times, NPR, and the Guardian. She is currently writing a scholarly book, Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene, which is under an advance contract with the University of Minnesota Press. The recipient of honors from the Poetry Foundation, the Forward Arts Foundation, and Kundiman, she is assistant professor of English and creative writing at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. Copyright © 2023 The Massachusetts Review, Inc","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135427343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"At The Museum of Everyday Life, and: On Calving","authors":"Sarah Audsley","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a907317","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a907317","url":null,"abstract":"At The Museum of Everyday Life, and: On Calving Sarah Audsley (bio) Keywords poetry, Sarah Audsley, flying, creation, myths, storks, livestock, birth, death, tourists, class, wealth, climate change AT THE MUSEUM OF EVERYDAY LIFE The theme this month: scissors. Last month:knots. From the plinths, in our hands, storks slide their legs back & forth, make tiny cuts of air& mimic striding, lifting their laden beaks, deliberate movements an upward chargeinto a darkened sky—wings, full-blown. When you’re serious about your sewing & crafting,you should be serious about your cutting, too. Stork scissors: birds, molded thin bladesas beaks; their eyes, a screw at the pivot point; each body the curvature of handles; the legs roundedholes, one for thumb, one for pointer & middle. The result—scissors & shears of uncompromising qualitythat will bring you years of cutting pleasure. Dear metal birds, tell us the difference in feeling between cuttingfabric or flesh, about the midwives who carried you in their kits. Blades through the slick of newness,the skin’s first brush with oxygen. Cut of the cord, a silent snip. Take wholeness & pull it apartto codify a sum of parts. Tell us so the “I” can fly [End Page 14] forth, so I can individuate from the flock& with this act of separation, take flight from any vantage. Which is to say, if I breakmy habit of believing in the myths, in babies borne to mothers from storks, in metaphor at all,what could be different. What might make sense. [End Page 15] ON CALVING The door handle, smooth from roughhandsopening & closing, a camera’s shutter on the scene:the round brown heifer calving on her own in deepnight without help; her warmslick clumpstwo-inch sawdust, stains the barnwood floor.I shamequake in this childdream. An alien form, afraid of its newness, the smell, I rememberthe men beckoned me closer to witnessthe calf stand on its own. How seldom to wonder is its own category, its own box to check off, a To-Doto classify as accomplishment. Instead, we followdirections, believe in mythmaking, alternative facts, progress. So. I believe the newborn nosetuggedat the mother’s teat, the way my mouth neverpulledon nipple, begged the body. Then, let me wonder at lightparticles, the Milky Way, lacrimal ducts,how my eyes spark when you appear, ghostmother,when I thought you were what I had to let go. The future is here: veal, so tender-battered & servedon cruises to tourists who clink champagne & chewas they watch the glaciers quicken with the warming, the slow moving turbines pumping & invisibleunder a tonnage of water. [End Page 16] Sarah Audsley saraha audsley is the author of Landlock X (Texas Review Press). A Korean American adoptee, a graduate of the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and a member of The Starlings Collective, Audsley lives and works in northern Vermont. Copyright © 2023 The Massachusetts Review, Inc","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"78 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135428619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Kuulla","authors":"Ubah Cristina Ali Farah","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a907322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a907322","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The narrator, Indhokuusha, migrates from country to country in search of a place to rest. But no nation welcomes him; he’s exiled again and again—constantly in motion. He wanders around at night and finds solace in the company of another night-time traveler, a garbageman.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"59 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135428620","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Track Nine: “God”","authors":"Sumita Chakraborty","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a907329","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a907329","url":null,"abstract":"Track Nine: “God” Sumita Chakraborty (bio) Keywords poetry, Sumita Chakraborty, religion, clothing, outer space, aliens, exploration Please, forgive me— Here I must drop my pretenselike a silk skirt. I am not we.The Committee has designatedme, and me alone, to cleanup after the left behind. They picked mebecause I am expendable. When I fail, which I will,I too will join the left behind.My replacement won’t tell youabout me. Her jobwill be to pick upfrom where I left off.We have been asked to ensurethat the seams don’t show. I am the wrong personto tell you about God. I worry, though, that the right personmay forget to tell youthat when we feel too largefor our earthly plane, we scream,Oh God. Oh God. Oh. [End Page 119] Sumita Chakraborty sumita chakraborty is a poet and scholar. She is the author of the poetry collection Arrow (Alice James Books [US]/Carcanet Press [UK]), which received coverage in the New York Times, NPR, and the Guardian. She is currently writing a scholarly book, Grave Dangers: Poetics and the Ethics of Death in the Anthropocene, which is under an advance contract with the University of Minnesota Press. The recipient of honors from the Poetry Foundation, the Forward Arts Foundation, and Kundiman, she is assistant professor of English and creative writing at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC. Copyright © 2023 The Massachusetts Review, Inc","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135427341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Recent Work","authors":"Elise Kendrick","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a907327","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a907327","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: An art signature featuring both portraits and linocut artwork by Elise Kendrick. Her artwork centers Black figures in multidimensional ways, using both vibrant colors and high contrast black and white.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"23 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135427346","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Critical Caste Studies and the Politics of Translating Dalit Literature","authors":"Laura Brueck","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a907320","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a907320","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Laura Brueck looks at the emerging field of critical caste studies being supported by institutions across the United States and how the studying of Dalit literature from South Asia can have a role in the examination of the history of race and/as caste in the United States. Brueck also looks at the ways that these literatures can be ‘translated’ in more than one way.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135428460","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strangers","authors":"J. Malcolm Garcia","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a907335","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a907335","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The González family is wealthy. Their only son, Pablo, runs into a man named Miguel while outside riding on his bicycle. Miguel, upon hearing his name and learning that Pablo doesn’t in fact speak Spanish, offers to teach him in exchange for work. When Pablo goes back inside to tell his parents about this offer from his new friend, they grow concerned and decide to get the police involved. However, their interaction with the police officer doesn’t go exactly as planned.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135428461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The High Priestess","authors":"Carli Muñoz","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a907328","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a907328","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Beginning with his first reading of Aldous Huxley’s The Doors of Perception, Carli Muñoz recounts the various intersection of his LSD trips, musical career as part of The Living End, and life in Puerto Rico. Through this heightened state, Muñoz shows how the experience of music changed and readjusted the way musicians listened and composed music in the 1960s.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135428625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Catherine of Siena Fucks Up The Club","authors":"Kt Herr","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a907326","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a907326","url":null,"abstract":"Catherine of Siena Fucks Up The Club1 Kt Herr (bio) Keywords poetry, KT Herr, weapons, violence, dancing, religion while we yellowed in the pale strobes rumors began to arrive of a wide floor blown open of some clever thing slipping acrossthe uncertain perimeter of our generous borders like a thief stealing the hearth from their own house foaming out around the clamorous feet of my brethren was a thick red danceI couldn’t turn from one hand against my bottom lip one bright fist flashing toward the ground as out of His divine void the sound of trumpets + a rat-a-tat a sharp report like thunder or His voice on my neck capturing the flight of a bird through smashed glassthe ceiling’s blue laser rolling toward Heaven like an eye [End Page 94] Kt Herr kt herr is a queer poet, songwriter, and curious person with poems appearing in Black Warrior Review, Frontier, ANMLY, and elsewhere. KT is currently a C. Glenn Cambor PhD Fellow in critical poetics at the University of Houston, a board member with Four Way Books, and co-host of Coordinates: A Podcast for Writers & Readers. NOTE 1. In the late1320s, gunpowder arrived in Italy. In March 1347, Caterina Benincasa was born in Siena. In November 2022, a gunman entered Club Q in Colorado Springs and opened fire, killing five people and wounding seventeen. Copyright © 2023 The Massachusetts Review, Inc","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135427339","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"My Wife","authors":"Nayereh Doosti","doi":"10.1353/mar.2023.a907333","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/mar.2023.a907333","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The narrator, mesmerized by the stories weaved by a woman he had a casual sexual encounter with, agrees to marry her when they meet again years later.","PeriodicalId":43806,"journal":{"name":"MASSACHUSETTS REVIEW","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135427340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}