Issue Eleven

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “Stamps Are the Flags of My Small Country: Poets Writing Letters”
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• “The Selected Letters of Allen Ginsberg and Gary Snyder”
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• “Deep, Broad and Rich: Working Voices from the Pacific Northwest”: Working the Land, Working the Sea. F. Wilcox & J. Gosline, eds.
  Reviewed by Martin Van Woudenberg
• “An Interview with Lou Harrison”
  By Richard Kostelanetz
• “An Interview with Colin Browne”
  By Peter Grant
• “Translating from the Smaller Nations” On Rifet Bahtijaragic.
  By Sanja Garic-Komnenic

Poetry for an Endless Summer

• Not for Specialists: New & Selected Poems by W.D. Snodgrass
  Reviewed by Mike Doyle
• “Boss Cupid” Thom Gunn: Selected Poems
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• Inappropriate Behaviour by Tim Lander
  Reviewed by Martin Van Woudenberg.
• The Plastic Heart by John Carroll
  Reviewed by Ray de Kroon
• Rules of the River by Richard Rathwell
  Reviewed by Paul Falardeau
• Primo Pensiero by Jacqueline Gens
  Reviewed by Louise Landes Levi
• Jailbreaks: 99 Canadian Sonnets by Zachariah Wells
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner

Departments

• Culture Matters: “Whither Goeth Culture”
  by Richard Olafson
• Media: The Practice of Media Relations in Canada by William Wray Carney.
  Reviewed by Eric Spalding
• Kids Books: Cool Kids—Jazz A-B-Z by Wynton Marsalis & Paul Rogers; Forever
  Young by Bob Dylan & Paul Rogers.
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
  There Once Was a Camel by P.K. Page. Illustrations by Kristi Bridgeman
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• International Relations: From Minjung to Citizen: A Saga of Modern South Korea by Namhee Lee.
  Reviewed by Don Baker
• Health: Decoding the Human Body-Field by P. Fraser, H. Massey & J. Wilcox
  Reviewed by Reg Little
• “A 100 Mile Retrospective”: The 100 Mile Diet
  Reviewed by Patrick Carolan
• Poem: “Coyote Mysteries”
  by David Watmough
  “The World, Well, Lost”
  by Mike Doyle
• Reading Poetry: “Walk On, A Fugue” from borrowed rooms by Barbara Pelman
  By Yvonne Blomer
• Ecology: What Species of Creature by Sharon Kirsch
  Reviewed by Chelsea Thornton
• Sports: The History of the Gaelic Athletic Association in Canada by John O’Flynn
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• Music Books: Being Prez: The Life and Music of Lester Young by Dave Gelly;
  Moving to Higher Ground: How Jazz Can Change Your Life by Wynton Marsalis
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Personal Point of View: “The Firebreather” by Len Gasparini page 35

Reviews

• The Reality Overload by Annie Le Brun, trans. Jon E. Graham
  Reviewed by Allan Graubard
• The Demon’s Sermon on the Martial Arts by Issai Chozanshu, Trans. William S. Wilson.
  Reviewed by Lu Bianco
• The Pearl Jacket: Flash Fiction from Contemporary China, Trans.& ed. Shouhua Qi.
  Reviewed by Erna Picard
• The Gift from Berlin by Lucette ter Borg. Trans. Liedewy Hawke
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “Vietnamese Dreams and Disillusionments”: Sunday Menu by Pham Thi Hoai
  Reviewed by Frances Cabahug
• In Search of the Miraculous by Mada Dalian
  Reviewed by Apis Teicher