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The Hopkins Review
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ISSN (Print) 1939-6589 - ISSN (Online) 1939-9774
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Letter from the Editor
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  Abstract: Dear Reader,From the rollicking prosody of this issue's opening poem by Muyaka bin Haji al-Ghassaniy, to Yu Kwang-Chung's meditations in exile, to Nobel Prize recipient Wisława Szymborska's fusions of quotidian and existential, some of the most lively literary presences in this issue are no longer among the living. So, too, Susanna Heller, who passed in 2021, though a viewer can practically feel her hand's energy in her art. In each of these cases, a translator or critic connects and converses, their attention inviting our own across time and space.As volume 16's cover artist Se Jong Cho writes in the commentary accompanying her painting Red Cage Fungus, symbiotic relationships complicate our narrative of ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
On the Cover: Red Cage Fungus
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  Abstract: Acrylic on canvas 36 x 54 inchesCourtesy of the artist 2023I began painting fungi after reading Entangled Life by biologist Merlin Sheldrake, which gave me insight into both the secret lives of these organisms and the way science is deeply rooted in cultural perspective. Sheldrake describes the development of symbiosis as a scientific concept in the late 19th century with the discovery of lichen—a reciprocal arrangement between fungus and blue-green algae.The Western scientific establishment rejected the notion of symbiotic relations, as it contradicted the belief in competition as evolutions primary driver. Competition is a prevailing theme in Western perspectives. In environmental historian William Cronons essay ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
The Need to Breathe / 呼吸的需要, and: My Solidification /
我之固體化, and: If There Is a War Far Away / 如果遠方有戰爭,
and: A Penny / 一枚銅幣, and: Lethe / 忘川
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  Abstract: March 9, 1959四八 •三 • 九March 10, 1959, midnightNote: In the same class there are Filipinos, Australians, Irishmen, and, of course, many Yankees.1959.3.10 午夜附注：同班有菲律賓人、日本人、澳大利亞人、愛爾蘭人，當然，還有許多美國的北佬們。February 11, 1967五六 • 二 • 十一June 2, 1968五七 • 六 • 二In the realm of the dead, there is a river named Lethe where the water makes one forget one's life on Earth. When the dead enter this realm, the soul must drink first before seeking reincarnation. It then enters a state of incomprehension. Ariosto calls it the moon, and Dante calls it ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
Love Story
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  Abstract: Her first love was her baby brother, Inky, and her second and last was Asa, your father and mine. Inky was away at the War when Asa crossed her path at the officers' club in Mohasset Bay. She was moving in a better class of girlfriends after her mother's early death and the sale of the house. When Inky was discharged, she had a check for him, a tidy sum. They wrote each other weekly letters until he crossed the channel into blackout.Captain Asa Birch, usn, stayed on this side, posted at the war college with a small part to play in the formulation of an aerosol deterrent.Inky was a foot soldier, Quartermaster Corps, at the rear of the line. The two gents met in the summer of '45. I have a picture of the uniformed ... Read More
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Does Monogamy Suit You, and: Voice Broke, and: Mother Summer
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  Abstract: after Johannes ... Read More
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The Worst Thing in the World
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  Abstract: I don't remember a time when I wasn't afraid. I got the sweats the moment I set foot in kindergarten. The other kids laughed and tried to spank my ass, threw paper products at my face and clapped the erasers on my head. They kneed my butt and stepped on my feet. I wasn't popular or cool. The moment I walked in the door of the classroom, all my classmates crowded around me, tying my shoelaces together and pouring Elmer's glue in my hair. One month later, it was my birthday, and while they were singing me the song, my nose started bleeding, both nostrils at once, and even today, when one of my former classmates sees me, they ask how I'm doing, they say I look pale, and then they hand me some Kleenex and snicker. But ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
The Living Daylights or A Passage to Indiana, and: All His Fascist Wants,
and: Hidden Valley Ranch, and: Quarantine Bardo
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  Abstract: for R. ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
In Conversation with Jeanne-Marie Jackson
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  Abstract: April 12, 2023Baltimore, MarylandWe'll start with the most heavy-hitting intellectual question of the evening, and possibly of your career thus far: what is the significance of your dress'My book [A Coastline Is an Immeasurable Thing: A Memoir Across Three Continents] is about being from a part of Nigeria that's heavily underrepresented within the global literary scene. Most well-known Nigerian authors are from the southern and central parts of the country, and I am from the extreme north. I was born in the birthplace of Boko Haram, which you probably know from the kidnapping of the Chibok girls in 2014, and their name means "Western education is forbidden." People from the north don't often leave because the way ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
Susanna Heller (1956–2021)
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  Abstract: Susanna Heller was a connoisseur of the gritty aspects of New York, enthusiastically embracing unexpected views, neglected corners, utilitarian infrastructure, and more. She found excitement and stimulus in things that most of us ignore or try not to look at, reveling in chance encounters with construction debris and improvised structures or in unusual views of familiar places. She evoked, in a wide variety of ways, contemporary life in New York with its different kinds of public transportation, endless construction sites, derelict street furnishings, traffic, and the like. A list of things that stimulated Heller's work would read very much like one by Stuart Davis, another passionate admirer of the modern city of ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
We Go for a Walk around the Block
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  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
Pain Machine, and: Wonder Machine, and: Terror Machine
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  Abstract: The rain in the morning isn't good or bad, comforting or threatening. It's not even ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
Wisława Szymborska at 100, and: I'm Thinking Up the World, and: The
Onion, and: Classic, and: Apple Tree
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  Abstract: Twenty twenty-three marks the 100th anniversary of 1996 Nobel laureate Wisława Szymborska's birth and the publication of her complete poems in the original Polish. The four poems included here are part of a larger translation project featuring works that span Szymborska's entire career, from her earliest collection which went unpublished, Czarna Piosenka (Black Song), to poems written near the end of her life. "The Onion" and "Apple Tree" are monothematic miniatures that, upon inspection, reveal larger metaphysical and political concerns. "I'm Thinking Up the World" and "Classic" take up the subject of art. In "I'm Thinking Up the World," Szymborska, tongue in cheek, explores her own powers of poiesis to conjure up ... Read More
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Good Luck, Good Night
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  Abstract: It begins with giant slices of pizza at Ristorante Pizza Luzzi, then selfies with naked medieval stone men and lots and lots of white wine. This was not what they had been brought here to do, but aah, they deserve this; it cost too much to come here, after those months when everyone believed the world had come to an end. They wonder at the buildings, make Instagram videos of the two-man orchestra playing on the street, and try to learn the Roman national anthem from drunken youth prancing by to some bar. The sensation of stepping into another era is difficult to resist, even when they follow the young men and women to a club playing Calvin Harris. What a night.They don't stay long, even though their new friends beg ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
Cooler
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  Abstract: I interview Friday afternoon, Saturday morning buy the pants—those pleats, that crease. The wedge shoes with arch support, and a good thing too. That night I clock miles over the blue-and-gold carpet, resting the dogs only in the marble-clad stalls of the ladies' restrooms where I briefly lose the clanging slots, the high roller's yips and groans—one of my new job's perks is that I never have to steal away to the basement and bless the employee can.I learn fast: no strolling or loitering when a player runs serious hot. Dan or Gustavo or Cynthia tips forefinger to brow, and I amble over to the big table and ask in. Don't let on that my chips belong to the house. Strike up an unassuming convo with the rocketeer and ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
"Wandering Free, Wish I Could Be . . .": Ambition, Art, and Nostalgia in
Disney's The Little Mermaid
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  Abstract: Look at this trove, treasures untold . . .When Disney's The Little Mermaid was released in November of 1989, I was 10 years old. My sisters were eight, six, and four; we were all duly spellbound, as was much of the entire nation. It was the sixth highest-grossing film of the year, said to launch "The Disney Renaissance," a decade that witnessed no fewer than 10 Disney animated features, including The Lion King, which made more money than any traditionally animated film before (or since). I did not know at the time that The Little Mermaid was the film to reanimate Walt's waning empire, but I sensed it—from the spate of "Part of Your World" talent show solos to the sold-out Sebastian Christmas ornaments at the local ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
The Transit of Venus and the Hope of the Reader
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  Abstract: When Samuel Johnson wrote about "the hope of the reader," he was addressing Shakespeare's risky decision to revise the traditional happy ending of the King Lear story by killing off both Cordelia and her father. Johnson much preferred "the final triumph of persecuted virtue" as originally recorded in the old chronicles and, therefore, eagerly embraced Nahum Tate's decision to restore to the plot of the play its original closure in which both father and daughter have "always retired with victory and felicity."As in Shakespeare, Shirley Hazzard's third novel—this is Johnson again—"always makes us anxious for the event." That we are entering a fiction in which our hopes will be aroused and tested is made evident in ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00
Enduring the Storm: Dean Young in Strike Anywhere
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  Abstract: Dean Young died in August 2022 at the age of 67. I met Dean in 1992 and our friendship—argumentative and tempestuous but amusing and stimulating—lasted through the 30 years. Our ideas about the basic purpose of poetry were fundamentally opposite. I always wanted poems to clarify life and provide (in Frost's crucial phrase) a stay against confusion. Dean wanted poems to admit to and vivify and embody and protest the confusion he felt was constant and inevitable. We argued and we mocked each other in dozens of letters on paper and conversations and emails. All this seemed to me wonderfully unboring, an enhancement of life.My essay on poems in his 2019 book Solar Perplexus "Dean Young and the Madding Flood" appeared ... Read More
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Notes on Contributors
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  Abstract: muyaka bin haji al-ghassaniy (1776–1840) was the earliest secular Swahili poet whose identity is known, credited with bringing Swahili verse "out of the mosque and into the marketplace." He also popularized the mashairi quatrain form that serves to this day as the predominant form of Swahili verse.david baker's latest books of poems are Whale Fall (Norton, 2022) and Swift: New and Selected Poems, (Norton, 2019). Poems from a new collection, I Walked to the Water, are forthcoming in apr, New Yorker, Poetry, Yale Review, and elsewhere. He lives in Granville, Ohio.t. j. benson is a writer and visual artist from Nigeria who has published three books of fiction and regularly facilitates writing workshops. He founded Za! ... Read More
  PubDate: 2023-11-10T00:00:00-05:00