Issue Eighteen

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “Reviving a Place in Poetry for Lenore Kandel”: The Collected Poems of Lenore Kandel
  Reviewed by Judith Roche
• “Poets on Their Travels”: A Dark Boat by Patrick Friesen; The Weight of Dew by
  Daniela Elza, reviewed by Hilary Turner
• “On Gregory Corso’s Poetics”
  Essay by Len Gasparini
• “‘A Litany of Lost Things’: The Poetry of Dana Gioia”
  Essay by Doug Beardsley
• “What Is There: James Schuyler”: Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems by James Schuyler
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• “Jack Hirshman’s California Odyssey”
  Essay by Bill Pearlman
• “Harlan Ellison, For the Greater Good”
  Essay by Carol Cooper
• “Seeing David Meltzer”
  Essay by Neeli Cherkovski
• “Lew Welch Revisited: a ‘bright-eyed bardic spirit’”: Ring of Bone Collected Poems by
  Lew Welch, reviewed by Colin James Sanders
• “New York Lives”: The Last Holiday: A Memoir by Gil Scott-Heron; Le Freak by
  Niles Rogers; Fug You by Ed Sanders, reviewed by Joseph Blake
• “Exaltations Amidst the Ruined Whipsers”: And tell the tulip summer by Allan Graubard
  Reviewed by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
• “To the Painful Heart of Africa”: Drink the Bitter Root: A Writer’s Search for
  Justice and Redemption in Africa by Gary Geddes, reviewed by Ralph Maud
• “Paul Theroux’s African Blues”: The Lower River by Paul Theroux
  Reviewed by Eric Spalding
• Border Songs by Sam Hamill
  Reviewed by Peter McDonald