Issue Six
Summer 2007

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Feature Articles:

Ondaatje's Bifurcated Narrative Line
by Linda Rogers

Reading Roethke
by Mike Doyle

The Battle of the Five Spot
reviewed by Joseph Blake

High Tea in Mosul
reviewed by Michael Platzer

Earle Birney's Muddy River
reviewed by Allan Brown

Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
  reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Straw for the Fire: from the notebooks of Theodore Roethke
  reviewed by Mike Doyle
• Journeys Between Books
  essay by Jim Christy
• “Geography of a West Coast Dreamer”: Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim
  by Timothy Gray, reviewed by John Carroll

Departments

• Sound & Fury: The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field by David Lee; Alive at the Village Vanguard by Lorraine Singer; Lee Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture by Tom Perchard
  reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Culture Watch: Artscorp Coming to a World Near You
  by Carol Ann Sokoloff

Reviews

• A Child Again by Robert Coover
  reviewed by Bernard Gastel
• Harvey Pekar: a brief interview
  interview by James Eke
• High Tea in Mosul: Two Englishwomen in War-torn Iraq by Lynne O’Donnell
  reviewed by Michael Platzer
• Earth’s Crude Gravities by Patrick Friesen
  reviewed by Allan Brown
• “Post-colonial Encounters”: Mr Ding’s Chicken Feet by Gillian Kendall
  reviewed by Ranbir Banwait
• Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
  reviewed by Stephen Snelders
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Backwater Mystic Blues by Lloyd Ratzlaff
  reviewed by Martin Van Woudenberg
• “Moon as Symbol”: the moon with mars in her arms by Carolyn Zonailo
  reviewed by Nola Accili
• What the Auntys Say by Sharron Proulx-Turner
  reviewed by Morgan Stafford O’Neal
• The Pillowbook of Dr Jazz by Trevor Carolan
  reviewed by Hillel Wright
• The Buddha, Geoff and Me by Edward Canfor-Dumas
  reviewed by Patrick Carolan
• Helpless by Barbara Gowdy
  reviewed by Elizabeth Rhett Woods
• The Sea by John Banville
  reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Japanamerica by Roland Kelts
  reviewed by Todd Shimoda
• Morningstar: A Warrior’s Spirit by Morningstar Mercredi
  reviewed by Frances Cabahug
• The Lizard Cage by Karen Conelly
  reviewed by Alexandra Moss
• Beyond the Blue by Andrea MacPherson
  reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By by Leza Lowitz
  reviewed by Christina Morita Clancy
• Matters of Life and Death by Bernard Maclaverty
  reviewed by Len Gasparini
• One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems by Earle Birney
  reviewed by Allan Brown
• Nota Bene Poems by Stephen Bett
  reviewed by John Tyndall
• The Lives of Others: a film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmark
  reviewed by Mike Doyle
• “Visions and Codes: Two Novels”: Bablyon Babies by Maurice G. Dantec; Seven Touches of Music by Zoran Zivkovic
  reviewed by Bernard Gastel