Issue Ten
Fall/Winter 2009

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Feature Articles:

“Always Changing”
An Interview with Bob Dylan by Vojo Sindolic

“Imagining David Watmough”: Myself Through Others and Geraldine by David Watmough
Reviewed by Jan Drabek

“Lowry’s Volcanic Eruptions of the Soul”: The Voyage that Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry in His Own Words, edited by Michael Hoffman
Reviewed by Trevor Carolan

“Pivoting Toward Peace: the Engaged Poetics of Thomas Merton and Denise Levertov”
Essay by Susan McCaslin

“Summing Up That Force of Goodness”: The Next One Thousand Years, The Selected Poems of Cid Corman
Reviewed by Gregory Dunne

Charles Olson at the Harbor by Ralph Maud
Reviewed by Peter Grant

Features

• “Always Changing”
  An Interview with Bob Dylan by Vojo Sindolic
• “Imagining David Watmough”: Myself Through Others and Geraldine by David Watmough
  Reviewed by Jan Drabek
• “Lowry’s Volcanic Eruptions of the Soul”: The Voyage that Never Ends: Malcolm Lowry in His Own Words, edited by Michael Hoffman
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• “Pivoting Toward Peace: the Engaged Poetics of Thomas Merton and Denise Levertov”
  Essay by Susan McCaslin
• “A Piper in Hell” A Transparent Lion: Selected Poems by Attila József
  Reviewed by Jordan Zinovich
• “Summing Up That Force of Goodness”: The Next One Thousand Years, The Selected Poems of Cid Corman
  Reviewed by Gregory Dunne

Departments

• Sound & Fury: “Dylan and St. Willie: ‘A Pair Extraordinaire’”: A Freewheelin’ Time: A Memoir of Greenwich Village in the Sixties by Suze Rotolo; Willie Nelson: an Epic Life by Joe Nick Patoski
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Diplomacy: America and China: Asia-Pacific Hegemony in the Twenty-First Century by Randall Doyle
  Reviewed by Reg Little
• Environment: “When I Was Young and Easy, Under the Salmon Falls” The Lost Coast: Salmon, Memory and the Death of Wild Culture by Tim Bowling
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner
• A Passion for this Earth, edited by Michelle Benjamin
  Reviewed by Chelsea Thornton
• Reading Poetry: “The Escapologist” from Anatomy of Keys by Stephen Price
  By Yvonne Blomer
• Personal Point of View: “Uncle Ted and Me”
  By Lu Bianco

Reviews

• “New On-the-Road Books From Japan”: Travels in the East by Donald Richie; Japan: 6,000 Miles on a Bicycle by Leigh Norrie
  Reviewed by Hillel Wright
• The Blackbird’s Song by Pauline Holdstock
  Reviewed by Andrea McKenzie Raine
• “Through a Glass Darkly”: Conceit by Mary Novik
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “Naming and Necessity”: The Delighted States by Adam Thirlwell
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• “Shaping the Land of Reconciliation”: Gates of Reconciliation: Literature and the Ethical Imagination, edited by Frank Stewart and Barry Lopez
  Reviewed by Sanja Garic-Komnenic
• Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi
  Reviewed by Nadine Lucas
• “Swan Love”: Devotion by Howard Norman
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• The Undertaker’s Wife by Len Gasparini
  Reviewed by Al Maclachlan
• Old Tale Road by Andrew Schelling
  Reviewed by Paul Falardeau
• “Trio”: A Duet for Wings and Earth by Barbara Colebrook; Wearing My People Like a Shawl by Dorothy Field; I Will Ask for Birds by Kelly Parsons
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “The Life in Homer’s Corpus”: Homer’s the Iliad and the Odyssey: A Biography by Alberto Manguel
  Reviewed by Jordan Zinovich
• Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide by Barry Magid
  Reviewed by Leila Kulpas
• “Coming Through Slaughter”: While They Slept: An Inquiry into the Murder of a Family by Kathryn Harrison
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• Nines by Michel Englebert
  Reviewed by Paul Falardeau
• Once a Murderer by Zoë Landale
  Reviewed by Ray de Kroon
• The Empress Letters by Linda Rogers
  Reviewed by Andrea McKenzie Raine
• “Cliquing on All Cylinders”: neo phobe by Jim Feast and Ron Kolm
  Reviewed by Jordan Zinovich
• “Devil in My Beehive”: Journal 1973-82 by Joyce Carol Oates
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• The Evergreen Country: A Memoir of Vietnam by Thuong Vuong-Riddick
  Reviewed by Yvonne Blomer
• “Juxtapositions”: The Ghost Soldiers by James Tate
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• Green by Marilyn Bowering
  Reviewed by Hannah Main-van der Kamp
• Charles Olson at the Harbor by Ralph Maud
  Reviewed by Peter Grant
• Revs of the Morrow: New Poems by Ed Sanders
  Reviewed by Jim Feast
• Reading the Bible Backwards by Robert Priest
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers