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Laura Madeline Wiseman is an adjunct professor at the University of Arizona. Her works have appeared in 13th Moon, The Comstock Review, Paper Street, and other publications. She is the cultural editor for IntheFray and a contributor to Empowerment4Women. |
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Published Spring 2006
 
Skewback
the summer before I started high school
I covered miles daily a friend at my hip
as we sported cut offs flannels sneakers
we were nomadic swimming here tv-ing
there observing coolly a game of b-ball
between boys slithering against at shots
but mostly we were starving precluding
remaining at any one location for meals
triumphing on how little we stomached
passing casually by elementary, middle
an old brick home for delinquent males
dandelion knolls the broken glass walk
it was the last summer before part-time
we set about losing ourselves in youth
taking heed when high schoolers ranked
our thighs breasts ass weight body face
we ate nothing: then started high school
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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.
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