The Under Review - Issue 4 | Summer 2021

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LETTER FROM THE EDITORS
Muscle Memory
While we mere mortals emerge from our COVID caves for second doses of a scientific serum and all its
promise, athletes around us are on the pitch, taking on normalcy, one small victory at a time. They are
playing again. We are watching again. But we too are leaving the couch, the treadmills, and the Pelotons
for the streets, maybe even rejoining our lawn bowling leagues (right, Terry?), and resuming...well,
summer.
All of the markers are back; playoffs for the winter sports seem firmly and fully formed.
Summer harbingers like the Kentucky Derby, the Masters, the Indy 500, all went off. MLS, NWSL, MLB,
and the WNBA are underway. Even the Olympics seem determined to prevail.
That determination, persistence, and recall is ever present in the work of Issue 4. With uncanny
consistency, the stories, essays, and poems show our bodies in motion and at play again. There is
competition with others, not just with self. We are the active participants again, not just the hazy lens of
memory or the gaze of spectator.
We are the living. We breathe. We work. We write. If we’re lucky, we repeat.
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