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Whittier College Poet Commons Greenleaf Review Student Scholarship & Research 2013 2013 Literary Review (no. 26) Sigma Tau Delta Follow this and additional works at: https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/greenleafreview Part of the Creative Writing Commons, and the English Language and Literature Commons Recommended Citation Sigma Tau Delta, "2013 Literary Review (no. 26)" (2013). Greenleaf Review. 3. https://poetcommons.whittier.edu/greenleafreview/3 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Student Scholarship & Research at Poet Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Greenleaf Review by an authorized administrator of Poet Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. LITERARY R E V I E W 2 0 1 MAY I 2013 WHITTIER, CALIFORNIA 2013 L iterary Review4' Number 26 May 2013 Published by The Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta 2013 Literary Review Editor: Megumi Chou Cover Designs: Heather Pedroza Sigma Tau Delta President 2012-2013: Allison Rohrer Sigma Tau Delta Adviser: Sean Morris The 2013 Literary Review was designed and laid out by Megumi Chou in OpenOffice Writer. The font used is Times New Roman, set at 10 pts. The front and back covers were set by Heather Pedroza in Adobe Photoshop. The cover photo "Picture Perfect Cottage" is by Allison Rohrer Printed and Bound by Highlight Graphics USA 2 Table of Contents Acknowledgments 5 Poetry "A poet is, before anything else, a person who is passionately in love with language." Whittier Awards in Poetry First Place: Fragments of Now (Jessica Miller) 6 Second Place: black holes (Harriet Enenmoh) 8 Third Place: Brother, Sister (Carsen West) 8 Honorable Mention: Maybe (Harriet Enenmoh) 9 Honorable Mention: If a Man Reads Braille then She is Mute and He is Blind 9 (Elizabeth Reitzell) Honorable Mention: Inside a Bottle (Jessica Miller) 10 Poetry Selections Traffic (Or A Sonnet on Traffic Anywhere It Is) (Rebecca Baker) 10 Insomnia (Cody Reese) 11 Where There's a Mist (Demaris Dubon) 11 I Took James Joyce To A Bar In Long Beach (Charlotte San Juan) 12 Messy Smooth (Elizabeth Reitzell) 12 It's about time (Patrick Guy) 13 The Neu Doctore (Poonam Narewatt) 14 Ziggy's Tale (April Lotshaw) 14 The student prostitute at University Mohammad V (Leandro Fefer) 15 Fiction "...One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say—and to feel— "Yes, that the way it is, or at least that s the way Ifeel it. You're not as alone as you thought." Whittier Awards in Prose First Place: Allen's Day Off (Jessica Miller) 16 Second Place: Peaches on Adderall (Elizabeth Reitzell) 20 Third Place: 3 Fables and a Resurrection (Victor Vargas) 25 Other Selections Crutches (Elizabeth Sanchez) 34 Nostalgia (Danielle Rivera) 38 Looking for Normal (Patrick Guy) 38 The Server Diaries (Patrick Guy) 39 A Look Through the Mirror (Nicole Buehlmaier) 41 Salsa (Emily Baeza) 44 Without Home, Without Soul (Matthew Aranda) 47 Good-bye, Mrs Mulligan, A Short Play (Kiley Giard) 49 3 Scholarly Writing "I would rather be attacked than unnoticed. For the worst thing you can do to an author is to be silent as to his works." Scholarly Writing Prize 1St Place: "On the lips of whispering men": 55 The Quest for Authority And Truth in Lord Jim (Joshua DeBets) 2d1 Place: What Do We Do with the Children?": Victorian Attitudes towards Childhood in Treasure Island and Peter and Wendy (Christina Gunning) 68 3' Place: Dangerous Dualisms in H.G. Wells' The Island of Dr. Moreau 84 (Jessica Miller) Scholarly Writing Selections The Artist, Sunset Boulevard, and The Gaze: The Nostalgic Past and Reversal of Gender Roles According to Laura Mulvey (Allison Rohrer) 93 The New Cetic Romance (Allison Rohrer) 97 Tell Me How You Really Feel (Lauren Nico) 99 The Epic Female (Rosalie Atkinson) 101 Transborder Justice: Using Identities (Meg Oka) 103 A Reductionist Argument Against Reductionism: Breaking Down the Industrial Food System and Putting It Back Together Again (Meg Oka) 109 The Dark Lord Saga: Self-Transformation, World-Domination, and Total Eradication 112 (Erica Clifford) Artwork "It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection." The Hidden Lake (Karri Davis) 118 Boots and Roses (Ashley Kim) 119 The Orange Cloth (Ashley Kim) 119 Kind Eyes from Morocco (Katie O'Brien) 120 Exploring Perugia, Italia (Katie O'Brien) 120 Bubble Rings (Ryne Spejcher) 121 Flightt (Ryne Spejcher) 121 Through the Glass (Ryne Spejcher) 122 Ancient Glory (Allison Rohrer) 122 Ice Crystals in front of Stonehenge, England (Allison Rohrer) 123 Westminster Abbey 2 (Allison Rohrer) 123 Sunset Silhouette (Nicole Buehlmaier) 124 Strawberry Fields (Nicole Buehlmaier) 124 Budapest at Midnight (Katie O'Brien) 125 4 Acknowledgments Once again, it is our great pleasure to present to you the 2013 edition of the Whittier College Literary Review. This yearly publication, designed to showcase the best of student writing and artwork, was organized and edited by the Whittier College Upsilon Chapter of Sigma Tau Delta, the International English Honors Society. As Editor, I would like offer profuse thanks to the following individuals who dedicated their precious time despite their hectic schedules to make this publication possible: Professor Sean Morris, the tireless adviser of Sigma Tau Delta for being ever patient and giving up a Saturday to help us read through submissions. Allison Rohrer, Sigma Tau Delta President, for also giving up time to read and diligently procuring funding. Heather Pedroza and Yamila Perez for putting together this edition's fantastic cover designs. Angela Olivas, for much-needed support and letting me continuously borrow the office scanner. Previous Literary Review Editors Katy Simonian and Mary Helen Truglia, for their invaluable insight and advice. A special thanks to Andrew Lee, for patiently fielding questions throughout the publication process. Quotes used in the Table of Contents are from the following great minds: W. H. Auden, John Steinbeck, Samuel Johnson, and Oscar Wilde. Finally, a big hearty thank you to everyone who submitted wonderful essays, short stories, poems, and artwork to this year's Literary Review. This all would not have come to fruition without you. Happy Reading! Megumi Chou, Editor 5 Fragments of Now Whittier Awards in Poetry - First Place Jessica Miller Yet so much time spent eating brunch. I. An Impending Ghost But the wonderful things I wish to list! It is only in these sunny days A heap of broken images' I could string Of beaches, of cop dodging, of apple picking' together That the hurtling-towards turns inward And hang heavy from my geriatric neck. And I am haunted by a ghost that has not yet Immeasurable miniscules chalked up to vague left the body: patterns— Not "the time we spoke in self-indulgent You will sob on your moth-eaten quilt alliteration" And, clasping the soles ofyour yellow feet,' But "the days I spent on an old couch on the Beg for the chances, these chances, back porch." Exchanged for a bottle, a bowl or nothing at all. Each event is vibrantly colored with choking You would sell your soul. laughter and wrenching heartache, But I will never see them that way again. But what will be left of that? Goodbye, shades of Now, I finally understand why photos come in black Very little, lest a miracle and white. That you should remember yourself ever- Perhaps an adjective or two would bring them presently. back to me... I suppose that's why I write. And so I call upon this me, this miserable me, To be spun into gold as my wrinkled doppelganger conjures me. III. Concerns It is the magic hour of my time, And though I may not be bathed in light, Good grades, keeping up with music, movies, I will not let the sun set on a bleak and Painting, acting, composing, whatever the fuck, unmemorable day. Remembering the definition of 'epistemology', Finding enough money for pot and booze; The first-world problems of a middle-class II. Daily Life white girl Who has no idea how to make the right friends The mornings and afternoons of diligent work Or what to do with words like "shareholder." Freckled with interactions and petty hellos I am a little girl playing house Are some basis and foundation Though I am far too ugly for it to be endearing. For what I seem to be: But ugly means tough, A student, a dope, a punk-ass kid So perhaps that is enough to get by. Whose ambitions do not extend beyond the month of May. Sketches of "the one" line my notes on extrapolation So much time, Such that anything I think, anything I feel, Belongs to a recently awakened child See "After Apple Picking" by Robert Frost 2 See "Preludes" by T.S. Eliot 3 See "The Waste Land" by T.S. Eliot 6 And has no place in a feminist's heart. People are cruel, Just as I. I am always sad about things but I laugh harder than anyone else. I am worried they don't like me. V. Concluding Plea I am overcome by the urge to move to Hungary And never speak to anyone again. When I am nothing but a single gray hair, Love and routine and responsibility are my I ask that certain constants remain: captors. Close and eccentric friends, agnosticism, things Sending all my things over would be to do, expensive. And above all, peace of mind. Never let me tremble in a reeking linoleum kitchen IV Appearance For fear of losing a bored, pathetic life.' Let my ghost leave freely Okay... With the nonchalance of making breakfast I say I am okay.