文章基本信息

标题：American Radiance.
作者：Muradyan, Luisa
期刊名称：West Branch
印刷版ISSN：0149-6441
出版年度：2015
期号：January
语种：English
出版社：Bucknell University

摘要：
Walmart, 1992

     There is a radiance the way the firefly    breaks his body and you stand in the shadows    of that light,    small, born of things.    It is how you chose which package of meat    to take. How you remember the Soviet grocery lines    here is a spoon, here is a fork, here are two hands cupped    together in prayer. How your mother held    the chicken as a child    arms wrapped around,    tomatoes heavy in her pockets,    breaking the neck in the glint    of moonlight. It is the empty store    on fire with florescence. The moment when    you stand in an aisle of lamps    and believe in the darkness.

关键词：Consumerism;Human condition;Post-communism

American Radiance.

Muradyan, Luisa

Walmart, 1992

    There is a radiance the way the firefly
   breaks his body and you stand in the shadows
   of that light,
   small, born of things.
   It is how you chose which package of meat
   to take. How you remember the Soviet grocery lines
   here is a spoon, here is a fork, here are two hands cupped
   together in prayer. How your mother held
   the chicken as a child
   arms wrapped around,
   tomatoes heavy in her pockets,
   breaking the neck in the glint
   of moonlight. It is the empty store
   on fire with florescence. The moment when
   you stand in an aisle of lamps
   and believe in the darkness.