Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922475
Andrew Maxwell
{"title":"If You Would","authors":"Andrew Maxwell","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922475","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: A series of meditations on the words of Abba Joseph of Panephysis: “If you would, you could become all flame.”","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"50 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140271899","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922482
Lauren Whitehurst
{"title":"Hourglass, and: Corduroy is a Morning in America","authors":"Lauren Whitehurst","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922482","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922482","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: “Hourglass” combines images of erosion and bar-room pool to discuss concepts of breakage and the redemptive force of listening to stories, with a nod to the web/yarn-spinning spider. “Corduroy is a morning in America” uses visual, personal, and etymological impressions of corduroy—plus Reagan’s 1984 campaign line—to link a dawn ski run with concern over right-veering U.S. politics.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"41 22","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140276093","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922464
Jarek Steele
{"title":"Nesting","authors":"Jarek Steele","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922464","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922464","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: In the memoir essay “Nesting,” a transgender man recalls the last months of his pre-transition pregnancy spent living with his then boyfriend in a converted garage infested by rats. As his due date draws near, he questions his ability to be a mother and finds himself more and more isolated. He bonds with his sister, who is also pregnant, and befriends the neighbor’s dog, who daily escapes her pen to find the only affection she’s ever known.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"107 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140281003","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922466
Camila Ring
{"title":"Catachresis","authors":"Camila Ring","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922466","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922466","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The term catachresis denotes the misuse of a word, but it has also evolved to mean using a word in a nontraditional or metaphorical way. This poem—dedicated to a child whose name evokes the tradition of poetic calling—uses the concept of catachresis to explore the evolutionary, reflexive, and self-begetting nature of birth, body, word, and poem.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"84 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140275026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922486
Eran Eads
{"title":"I Think I Am That Poem","authors":"Eran Eads","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922486","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922486","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: The title and last lines of the poem are from a text message I received from my father after I sent him the poem “Piano” by Edgar Kunz (published in The New Yorker). The grief of existing within the structuration of the human condition is presented in this lyric poem.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"773 ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140281245","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922474
S. Milner
{"title":"Protolith","authors":"S. Milner","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922474","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922474","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: This five-part essay melds the author’s personal attachment to gold with a larger rumination on the cultural valences of the metal across India and the American West. The essay considers the personal implications of claiming: a history, a stretch of land, a piece of gold.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"42 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140274502","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922471
Michael Fulop
{"title":"Winter Evening, and: The Ocean Sky Off South Carolina","authors":"Michael Fulop","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922471","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922471","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: “The Ocean Sky off South Carolina”: The poem describes the sky as a medieval painting. “Winter Evening”: The poem describes the appearance of a winter evening with bare trees.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140269566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922479
Alix Ohlin
{"title":"The House on Front Street","authors":"Alix Ohlin","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922479","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922479","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: Three neighbors are trapped together during an unexpected, severe snow storm.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"220 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140270855","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922472
Melissa Kwasny
{"title":"Nocturne","authors":"Melissa Kwasny","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922472","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922472","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: “Nocturne” describes an evening encounter with a stranger that suddenly becomes luminous and prescient","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"172 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140280489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Colorado ReviewPub Date : 2024-03-01DOI: 10.1353/col.2024.a922465
Mirande Bissell
{"title":"Before the Confession","authors":"Mirande Bissell","doi":"10.1353/col.2024.a922465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/col.2024.a922465","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract: “Before the Confession” is a lyric poem on the themes of shame and awareness of the body.","PeriodicalId":511169,"journal":{"name":"Colorado Review","volume":"62 12","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140280858","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}