<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Marital Problems <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Robin Romm (bio) </li> </ul> <p><strong>V</strong>ictor and I crouch in the yard, trying to find where our five-year-old daughter, Lucy, has buried the bird. She made it a coffin—sweet, except that she made it out of my husband’s father’s binocular case. My husband didn’t know his father, a birder—a deadbeat birder to be more precise. So the binocular case came to him in a roundabout way a few months ago.</p> <p>Junk from the kitchen remodel litters our yard—an old sink, pieces of hacked-apart tile—a hazard, a disgrace, a child’s wonder-land. As we search, Victor piles the debris in the corner.</p> <p>“That fucking guy,” he says, trying to move a cast-iron sink basin.</p> <p>We’ve been remodeling our kitchen for the better part of a year. That makes us sound fancier than we are. In truth, a guy’s installing Ikea cabinets and tile we got at a seconds sale. New lights, new wiring. For this budget refresher, I interviewed seven men in Carhartts, many of them hazy-pupiled, a few of them so expensive I couldn’t bear to relay the bids to Victor. I settled on Marco. <strong>[End Page 613]</strong></p> <p>Victor would like to sue Marco for leaving us without a working kitchen for months on end. Victor would like to take a cosmic flyswatter and squish him against the wall. Cork him in a bottle and sink him to the bottom of the sea.</p> <p>“I think Marco’s having marital problems,” I tell him, moving a rock and peering under it, testing to see if the earth’s been disturbed.</p> <p>“Whatever,” my husband says. “He can still find some guys to move this shit.” He has dirt on the top part of his shaggy sideburn. If he swipes at his brow again, he’ll wipe it into his eye. I don’t mention this to him. “His wife has nothing to do with this job.” Victor takes a piece of wood and hurls it at the corner. “Anyway, what makes you say that?”</p> <p>“I can just tell,” I say.</p> <p>Whenever I predict the dramas of other men, Victor frowns and squints his eyes. He doesn’t care, really, if I know such things about my female friends. He’ll often jump into the fray with that sort of gossip. He loves a good postpartum depression story, a colicky baby, an eating disorder. But when I surmise a man’s emasculating salary, his attraction to domineering women, his obvious lust for a clichéd paramour—a nanny, a personal trainer—Victor recoils. <em>You don’t know that</em>, he’ll say, and it becomes clear to me, the boy he was at sixteen.</p> <p>“He wants to talk about it, but I never ask,” I say.</p> <p>Marco’s hair curls around his forehead and his lips form surprisingly soft little pillows above a very perfect knob of a chin. He looks like Hansel all grown up, a fairy-tale boy with his tool kit and leather belt and paint-spattered ladder. Except that he isn’t happy, our Marco. He hasn’t figured out how to throw
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<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span> <p> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> Contributors <!-- /html_title --></li> </ul> <p><strong>Elliot Ackerman</strong> is the author of several books, most recently <em>The Fifth Act: America’s End in Afghanistan</em>. His work has been nominated for the National Book Award, the Andrew Carnegie Medal in both fiction and nonfiction, and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize. He divides his time between New York City and Washington, DC.</p> <p><strong>Kevin Brockmeier</strong> is the author of nine works of (mostly) fiction, including, most recently, <em>The Ghost Variations: One Hundred Stories</em>. He teaches frequently at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and lives in Little Rock, Arkansas, where he was raised.</p> <p><strong>Lea Carpenter</strong> is a novelist and screenwriter; her new book, <em>Ilium</em>, is forthcoming from Knopf.</p> <p><strong>Jos Charles</strong> is the author of <em>a Year & other poems</em> and <em>feeld</em> (Milkweed Editions)—a Pulitzer Prize finalist and winner of the National Poetry Series—and <em>Safe Space</em> (Ahsahta Press). She resides in Long Beach, California, with her best friend and cat.</p> <p><strong>Rickey Fayne</strong> is a writer from rural West Tennessee. His work seeks to reanimate the experiences, beliefs, and language of his ancestors to better understand the surreality of his present. His writing appears or is forthcoming in <em>American Short Fiction</em>, <em>Joyland</em>, and <em>Guernica</em>. He has received support from Bread Loaf, Tin House, and the Michener Center for Writers at UT Austin. Currently, he is at work on his first novel.</p> <p><strong>Pamela Royston Macfie</strong> lives in Sewanee and Maine. She retired in June from Sewanee’s Department of English, where, as the Samuel R. Williamson Distinguished University Professor, she taught Shakespeare and the Literature of Memoir.</p> <p><strong>Tomás Q. Morín</strong> is the author, most recently, of the poetry collection <em>Machete</em> and the memoir <em>Let Me Count the Ways</em>. He is coeditor, with Mari L’Esperance, of the anthology <em>Coming Close: Forty Essays on Philip Levine</em> and translator of <em>The Heights of Macchu Picchu</em> by Pablo Neruda.</p> <p><strong>D. Nurkse</strong>’s latest book is <em>A Country of Strangers</em>, a collection of new and selected poems from Knopf.</p> <p><strong>Carl Phillips</strong>’s new book of poems is <em>Then the War: And Selected Poems 2007-2020</em> (FSG 2022). His prose book <em>My Trade is Mystery: Seven Meditations from a Life in Writing</em> is available from Yale University Press.</p> <p><strong>Robin Romm</strong> is the author of the books <em>The Mercy Papers</em>, <em>The Mother Garden</em>, <em>Double Bind</em>, and a forthcoming story collection, <em>Radical Empathy</em>. Her writing has appeared in the <em>New York Times</em>, the <em>Atlantic</em>, <em>O</em> magazine, <em>Tin House</e
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Pamela Yameen, P. Therkelsen, Alison Rieke, J. Cedeño, José Rodríguez, Merylindas Santiago
still life, surrealism, and more. Fun with Watercolor Rahat Mama 6 wks, Wednesday, 2:00 PM 4:00 PM 1/11 2/15, $165 Learn to paint with a sense of freedom. Students will learn how to use their painting tools to achieve various effects. Students will complete the course with an understanding of the techniques and color theories needed to create their own work. Bold and Vibrant Acrylic Painting Kurt Hanss 6 wks, Saturday, 10:30 AM 1:00 PM 1/14 2/18, $205 Techniques to achieve vibrancy and texture using expressive brushstrokes. Would work-along/demo several pieces through the weeks including landscape, portrait, urban scene (probably a car), still life and finish with one-on-one final project. Exercises to loosen up and simplify, building generous brushstrokes tone and color. Would also cover working from photos, composition. Unless noted, students will provide their own materials, supply lists found HERE. Ceramics Glass AGE 16+ Collage, Drawing + Painting
静物、超现实主义等等。乐趣与水彩拉哈特妈妈6周，周三，下午2:00下午4:00 1月11日2月15日，$165学习用自由的感觉画画。学生将学习如何使用他们的绘画工具来实现各种效果。学生完成课程后，将了解创作自己作品所需的技巧和色彩理论。大胆和充满活力的丙烯绘画Kurt hans 6周，星期六，10:30 AM 1:00 PM 1/14 / 2/18， $205技术，以实现充满活力和纹理使用富有表现力的笔触。会在几周内一起工作/演示几个作品，包括风景，肖像，城市场景(可能是一辆车)，静物画，并完成一对一的最终项目。练习放松和简化，建立慷慨的笔触色调和颜色。还包括从照片，构图工作。除非特别注明，否则学生将提供自己的材料和供应清单。陶瓷玻璃年龄16+拼贴，素描+绘画
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{"title":"I, and: II, and: III, and: IV, and: V","authors":"J. Charles","doi":"10.1353/sew.2022.0049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sew.2022.0049","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43824,"journal":{"name":"SEWANEE REVIEW","volume":"130 1","pages":"672 - 676"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43772634","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}
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