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Mike White is a doctoral candidate in creative writing at the University of Utah and serves as the poetry editor for Quarterly West. His recent work has appeared in journals including Poetry, Margie, Fulcrum, The Antioch Review, and The Iowa Review. |
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Published Spring 2006

Mint Condition
my memory
of that postage stamp
and its tiny
blue-coated soldier
propped stiffly
against a big flowering tree
musket lying still
at his side and useless
the left leg
ending in gory bandages
where the knee
should rightly be
my little finger
probing and
probing that raw
place where the knee
anybody's knee
ought to be
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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.
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