Issue Twelve
Winter 2009/2010

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Feature Articles:

“The Perpetual Life of Philip K. Dick”
By Richard Wirick
“‘The Holy Curse of Poetry: On Jack Gilbert”:
The Dance Most of All by Jack Gilbert
Reviewed by David Day
“In the Beginning Was the Word: Samuel R. Delany on Writing as a Creative Act”
By Carol Cooper
“Telling It Like It Is: On John Ralston Saul”: A Fair Country: telling the truth about Canada by John Ralson Saul
Reviewed by Gwen Point
The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
Reviewed by Linda Rogers
What Is Canadian Literature?
By Mike Doyle
Obituary of Light: The Sangan River Meditations by Susan Musgrave
Reviewed by Robert Priest

Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “The Perpetual Life of Philip K. Dick”
  By Richard Wirick
• “Evolving the Organic: Duncan, Levertov, Olson”:
  The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Robert Bertholf & Albert Gelpi, eds.
  Reviewed by Paul Nelson
• “‘The Holy Curse of Poetry: On Jack Gilbert”:
  The Dance Most of All by Jack Gilbert
  Reviewed by David Day
• “In the Beginning Was the Word: Samuel R. Delany on Writing as a Creative Act”
  By Carol Cooper
• “On the Road in the Middle Kingdom”: Zen Baggage by Bill Porter
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• “Writing the ‘Life’ in Writing”: Choose: Selected Poems by Michael Rothenberg
  Reviewed by Jordan Zinovich
• “Tellin It Like It Is: On John Ralston Saul”:
  A Fair Country: telling the truth about Canada by John Ralson Saul
  Reviewed by Gwen Point
• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• What Is Canadian Literature?
  By Mike Doyle
• Obituary of Light: The Sangan River Meditations by Susan Musgrave
  Reviewed by Robert Priest

Departments

• Poem: “Jack’s Chair, Don’s Cat and the Art of Not Writing Poetry”
  by David Day
• Poem: “Dead Men”
  by Jeff Olafson
• Personal Point of View: “Lonnie Johnson”
  By Jim Christy
• Culture Matters: “Gutenberg Blues”
  By Richard Olafson
• Music Books: “Satchmo, Mother India and All the Wild Horses”: Stachmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower Abrams; India: a Cultural Journey; La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs by Ian Tyson
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Border Crossings: “Boy’s Day”
  by Cody Poulton
• New CDs: Through the Cracks by Russell Wallace
  Reviewed by Paul Falardeau

Reviews

• “Tokyo Trilogy”: The Darkened Temple by Mari L’Esperance; Even the dog won’t touch me by Tom Bradley; Tokyo: A Cultural and Literary History by Stephen Mansfield
  Reviewed by Hillel Wright
• Rocksalt: 108 B.C. Poets, ed. by Mona Fertig and Harold Rhenisch
  Reviewed by Paul Falardeau
• Unnecessary talking: the Montesano Stories by Mike O’Connor
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• Revolutions by Joan Shillington
  Reviewed by Mary Ann Moore
• Arrows by Luisa Maria Celis; The English Stories by Cynthia Flood
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• The Coast Mountains Trilogy: Mountain Poems, 1957-1971 by Dick Culbert
  Reviewed by Ron Dart
• “Publish or Die!”: Uncorrected Proof by Louisiana Alba
  Reviewed by Paul Duran
• “Shining a Light on Worlds in Transition”: Another Kind of Paradise: Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific, edited. by Trevor Carolan,
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Together Under One Roof by Lin Jensen
  Reviewed by Patrick Carolan
• “The Cult of Quick Repair”: The Cult of Quick Repair by Dede Crane; Savage Adoration by Gale Zoe Garnett
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• For the Sake of one Bloody Feature Film by Dariush Mehrjui
  Reviewed by Javad Rahbar
• Tantric Picnic by Hans Plomp; When Autumn Leaves by Amy Foster
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers