Issue Nine
Summer 2008

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Feature Articles:

“Joanne Kyger: a Bloomsday Interview in NYC”
An Interview with Joanne Kyger by Trevor Carolan

“The Dangers of Dreaming”: Dreaming Up America by Russell Banks
Reviewed by John Carroll

“Tau & Journey to the End”: Tau by Phillip Lamantia; Journey to the End by John Hoffman
Reviewed by Allan Graubard

“The Personal Becomes Political: The Powerful Intensity of Linh Dinh”
An Interview with Linh Dinh by Marianne Villanueva

Taos Mountain by Robert Sund
Reviewed by Bill Yake

“Chilly Buddha Hall: Remembering Philip Whalen”:
Collected Poems by Philip Whalen
Reviewed by Richard Wirick

Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “Joanne Kyger: a Bloomsday Interview in NYC”
  An Interview with Joanne Kyger by Trevor Carolan
• “The Dangers of Dreaming”: Dreaming Up America by Russell Banks
  Reviewed by John Carroll
• “Tau & Journey to the End”: Tau by Phillip Lamantia; Journey to the End by John Hoffman; and Hypodermic Light: Philip Lamantia and the Question of Surrealism by Steven Frattali
  Reviewed by Allan Graubard
• Full-Time: A Soccer Story by Alan Twigg
  Reviewed by John Moore
• “The Personal Becomes Political: The Powerful Intensity of Linh Dinh”
  An Interview with Linh Dinh by Marianne Villanueva
• “Ontology and Angst”: The Company I Keep by Jordan Zinovich
  Essay by Jim Feast
• “Rejoyce: The Poetry of the Wake”
  A conversation with Robert Amos
• “Peter Trower: Hellhound On His Trail”
  By Malcolm Parry

Departments

• Sound & Fury: “From Way In to Way Out”:
  Coltrane: The Story of a Sound by Ben Ratliff; Miles Ornette Cecil: Jazz Beyond Jazz by Howard Mandel; Redemption Song: The Ballad of Joe
  Strummer by Chris Salewiz; and Nirvana: The Biography by Everett True
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Opinion: “Baptize Me in Wine”
  By Jim Christy
• Diplomacy: Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy by Bates Gill
  Reviewed by Rosita Delios
• Personal Point of View: “My Father’s Desk”
  By Appolonia Felicity Elsted
• Public Affairs: Estates: An Intimate History by Lynsey Hanley
  Reviewed by Mark Cranmer
• Aesthetics: Tractate on Japanese Aesthetics by Donald Richie
  Reviewed by Rhonda Schuller
• Global Strategies: The Elephant and the Dragon by Robyn Meredith
  Reviewed by Fred Young
• Environment: Seven Wonders for a Cool Planet: Everyday Things to Help Solve Global Warming by Eric Sorensen
  Reviewed by Rachel Kreuger
  The Whale Warrior by Peter Heller
  Reviewed by Peter Francis
• Letters to the Editor

Reviews

• Taos Mountain by Robert Sund
  Reviewed by Bill Yake
• “When Modern Was Really Modernizumu”: Modanizumu: Modernist Fiction from Japan, 1913-1938 edited by William J. Tyler
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• “Chilly Buddha Hall: Remembering Philip Whalen”:
  Collected Poems by Philip Whalen
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• Fatal Tide: When the Race of a Lifetime Goes Wrong by David Leach
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “Modern Japanese Poetry: Two Translations”: America & Other Poems by Ayukawa Nobuo; Ferris Wheel: 101 Modern and Contemporary Tanka, translated by Kozue Uzawa and Amelia Fielden
  Reviewed by Kate McCandless
• For the Time Being: The Bootstrap Book Journal of Poetic Journals, edited by Tyler Douherty and Tom Morgan
  Reviewed by John Carroll
• The Black Grizzly of Whisky Creek by Sid Marty
  Reviewed by Martin Van Woudenberg
• High Speed Through Shoaling Water by Tom Wayman
  Reviewed by Garth Martens
• A Wild Haruki Chase: Reading Murakami Around the World
  Reviewed by Hillel Wright
• Hapa Girl by May-Lee Chai
  Reviewed by Frances Cabahug
• One City: A Declaration of Independence by Ethan Nichtern
  Reviewed by Patrick Carolan
• “Let’s Ramble Towards Utopia: Anarchy and Art: From the Paris Commune to the Fall of the Berlin Wall by Allan Antliff
  Reviewed by Jordan Zinovich
• “Flim Flam, Flum”: The Runner by David Samuels
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• The Blue Poppy and the Mustard Seed: A Mother’s Story of Loss and Hope by Kathleen Willis Morton
  Reviewed by Kate McCandless
• Jake Fades: A Novel of Impermanence by David Guy
  Reviewed by Patrick Carolan