Nathan Viste-Ross lives in Minneapolis. Working as a shipping clerk is how he lives. Writing poems is why he lives.

The Feral Issue

ns 73-74 | Fall 2009/Spring 2010

The "Feral Issue" presents work by a range of people, from those who have been doing animal studies all along to those newly exploring the field. If it has a leaning, it is to build a cultural materialist account of animals in our world. We hope that the writing here will give our readers a sense of what animal studies is and where it's going, and also add some new voices to its course.

Read this Issue

Published Spring 2006

Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College

by Nathan Viste-Ross | ns 65-66

Wisconsin Indianhead Technical College
Brochures called Career Impact were stacked on the skid.
We'd mailed thousands of the glossy advertisements
For this small, non-profit, junior college; a chain
Of campuses where people could finish high school;
Or learn, to various degrees, some expertise
And earn valorized certificates, an entrance.
Though clearly a solicitation, these still seemed
Made by an honest, service organization
That understood community, equality;
That helped those, who'd had less, to develop some hope.
As I recycled bundled, left-over brochures,
An Honduran-born co-worker helping me said
"In Comayagua we would make houses out of these."

MR BOOKS

Critics at Work
ed. Jeffrey J. Williams.

Critics at Work offers a guided tour through the central, sometimes confusing and frequently controversial developments in contemporary literary and cultural criticism. The tour guides, however, are not distant observers but have been primary participants in those developments, and they report on theory, cultural studies, the literary canon, the recent focus on race, sexuality, and other identities, the state of the univerisity, and the role of the intellectual. Throughout, they consider the not always easy negotiation of politics and culture.

Purchase Critics at Work.