In This Issue
![Fallen Fruit](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/fallenfruit-1024x714.jpg)
Fallen Fruit
Fallen Fruit plants trees and maps communities, creating a radical beauty outside art-historical taxonomies
![A Lock of Hair, a Bite of Fruit: Sexual Economics in <i>Goblin Market</i>](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/goblinmkt-1024x712.jpg)
A Lock of Hair, a Bite of Fruit: Sexual Economics in Goblin Market
In Christina Rossetti's poem Goblin Market (1862), a virgin enters the sexual marketplace and buys her own body.
![<i>Still Life with Apples</i>, Paul Cézanne, 1898](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/apples-1024x712.jpg)
Still Life with Apples, Paul Cézanne, 1898
A (light, quiet, fruitful) ekphrastic poem by Lena Moses-Schmitt, prompted by Cézanne's "Still Life with Apples" (1898) (cylinder, cone, sphere).
![Banana Consciousness](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/bananas-1024x712.jpg)
Banana Consciousness
The banana as a marker of former oppression and government destabilization: American advertising, retail imagination, and colonial empire.
![No Fruit for her Labor: A Multimedia Cookbook of Gestures](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/fruitsoflabor-3-1024x712.jpg)
No Fruit for her Labor: A Multimedia Cookbook of Gestures
Ancestral foodways in the hand movements of Old Fez cooks
![Austerity’s Fruit Ripens](https://dilettantearmy.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/roses-1024x712.jpg)
Austerity’s Fruit Ripens
The 2018 school workers' strikes are the first sign of spring for the labor movement, a beginning harvest in a long winter of American austerity.
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