Issue Nineteen

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Complete Issue Contents:

Michael McClure: A Celebration

• “Michael McClure: Pure Protestantism, Pure Poetry, Pure Rock ’n’ Roll”
  Essay by Jack Foley
• “The Everlasting Universe of Things”
  Essay by John Olson
• “The Meat Reason of the Last Beat: McClure’s Latihan” An Essay
  Essay by Paul Nelson
• “Intergalactic Greetings for a Star”
  Essay by James Edward Reid
• “The McCluriad” A Poem
  by Jack Foley

Features

• “Sacred Rage: A Valentine for Joesph Anton”: Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “Still Keeping the Beat”
  An essay by Vojo Sindolic
• The H D Book by Robert Duncan
  Reviewed by Mike Doyle
• Interview with Dennis Maloney of White Pine Press
  Interview by Gregory Dunne
• “The Third Poetry”
  Essay by Len Gasparini
• “Man in Black Again: On Johnny Cash”
  Essay by Richard Wirick

Departments

• Young Readers: The Matatu by Eric Walters and Eva Campbell
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Music Books: “New Orleans Roots”: Ernie K-Doe: The R&B Emperor of New Orleans
  by Ben SandmelBounce: Rap Music and Local Identity in New Orleans by Matt Miller;
  Congo Square: African Roots in New Orleans by Freddi Williams Evans;
  Louisiana Saturday Night by Alex V. Cook
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Mind and Body: “Coming Home to the Lotus Sutra”:
  Essay by Trevor Carolan
• Fine Arts: “Looking at the Moon Man”: The Life and Art of George Fertig by Mona Fertig
  Reviewed by Marina Parapini

Reviews

• “Hello (Again) Honey": Dating: a novel by Dave Williamson
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner
• "At Play in the Open Field": Two Films
  Reviewed by Peter Grant
• The Lotus Singers Short Stories from Contemporary South Asia edited by Trevor Carolan
  Reviewed by Reshma Kalianpur
• Indefinite Detention by Michael Rothenberg
  Reviewed by Tom Hibberd
• The Collected Poems of Philip Lamantia by Philip Lamantia
  Remarks by Allan Graubard
• The Exile Book of Yiddish Women Writers edited by Frieda Johles Forman
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Vancouver Noir 1930-1960 by Diane Purvey and John Belshaw
  Reviewed by Heidi Greco
• "Two Quiet Giants": Brave Genius by Sean B. Carroll
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• “Curtal Sonnets and Vodka, Sestinas and Chemotherapy”: Overpass by Steve Davenport
  Reviewed by James D. Sullivan
• “Butterflies in the Ghetto”: The Survival Rate of Butterflies in the Wild by Murray Reiss
  Reviewed by Scott Lawrance
• The Stories That Are Great Within Us
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• "Falling (Downstairs) For Late T’ang Poems”: Echoes from Pluto by Mike Doyle
  Reviewed by Hannah Main-vanderKamp
• This Drawn and Quartered Moon by klipschutz
  Reviewed by Steve Potter
• House of the Unexpected by Julie Rogers
  Reviewed by Neeli Cherkovski
• We Are Born with the Songs Inside Us by Katherine Palmer Gordon
  Reviewed by Trysh Ashby-Rolls
• Alphabestiary: A Poetry-Emblem Book by H. Masud Taj & Bruce Meyer
  Reviewed by Christopher Levenson
• Collage by George Whipple
  Reviewed by Sheila Martindale
• Living Artfully: Reflections from the Far West Coast edited by Anita Sinner & Christine Lowther
  Reviewed by Barbara Julian
• Anita’s Revolution by Shirley Langer
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• A Garden in the Wilderness by Edeana Malcolm
  Reviewed by Sheila Martindale
• Lighting the Global Lantern by Terry Ann Carter
  Reviewed by Richard Stevenson
• “From the Palestinian Heart”: Flawed Landscapes: Poems 1987-2008 by Sharif S. Elmusa
  Reviewed by Gary Lawless
• “Theatre Between Languages”: Dramatic Licence by Louise Ladouceur
  Reviewed by Eric Spalding
• “To the Painful Heart of Africa”: Drink the Bitter Root by Gary Geddes
  Reviewed by Ralph Maud
• Muse by Mary Novik
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers