Issue Twelve

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “The Perpetual Life of Philip K. Dick”
  By Richard Wirick
• “Evolving the Organic: Duncan, Levertov, Olson”:
  The Letters of Robert Duncan and Denise Levertov. Robert Bertholf & Albert Gelpi, eds.
  Reviewed by Paul Nelson
• “‘The Holy Curse of Poetry: On Jack Gilbert”:
  The Dance Most of All by Jack Gilbert
  Reviewed by David Day
• “In the Beginning Was the Word: Samuel R. Delany on Writing as a Creative Act”
  By Carol Cooper
• “On the Road in the Middle Kingdom”: Zen Baggage by Bill Porter
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• “Writing the ‘Life’ in Writing”: Choose: Selected Poems by Michael Rothenberg
  Reviewed by Jordan Zinovich
• “Tellin It Like It Is: On John Ralston Saul”:
  A Fair Country: telling the truth about Canada by John Ralson Saul
  Reviewed by Gwen Point
• The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• What Is Canadian Literature?
  By Mike Doyle
• Obituary of Light: The Sangan River Meditations by Susan Musgrave
  Reviewed by Robert Priest

Departments

• Poem: “Jack’s Chair, Don’s Cat and the Art of Not Writing Poetry”
  by David Day
• Poem: “Dead Men”
  by Jeff Olafson
• Personal Point of View: “Lonnie Johnson”
  By Jim Christy
• Culture Matters: “Gutenberg Blues”
  By Richard Olafson
• Music Books: “Satchmo, Mother India and All the Wild Horses”: Stachmo: The Wonderful World and Art of Louis Armstrong by Steven Brower Abrams; India: a Cultural Journey; La Primera: The Story of Wild Mustangs by Ian Tyson
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Border Crossings: “Boy’s Day”
  by Cody Poulton
• New CDs: Through the Cracks by Russell Wallace
  Reviewed by Paul Falardeau

Reviews

• “Tokyo Trilogy”: The Darkened Temple by Mari L’Esperance; Even the dog won’t touch me by Tom Bradley; Tokyo: A Cultural and Literary History by Stephen Mansfield
  Reviewed by Hillel Wright
• Rocksalt: 108 B.C. Poets, ed. by Mona Fertig and Harold Rhenisch
  Reviewed by Paul Falardeau
• Unnecessary talking: the Montesano Stories by Mike O’Connor
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• Revolutions by Joan Shillington
  Reviewed by Mary Ann Moore
• Arrows by Luisa Maria Celis; The English Stories by Cynthia Flood
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• The Coast Mountains Trilogy: Mountain Poems, 1957-1971 by Dick Culbert
  Reviewed by Ron Dart
• “Publish or Die!”: Uncorrected Proof by Louisiana Alba
  Reviewed by Paul Duran
• “Shining a Light on Worlds in Transition”: Another Kind of Paradise: Short Stories from the New Asia-Pacific, edited. by Trevor Carolan,
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Together Under One Roof by Lin Jensen
  Reviewed by Patrick Carolan
• “The Cult of Quick Repair”: The Cult of Quick Repair by Dede Crane; Savage Adoration by Gale Zoe Garnett
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• For the Sake of one Bloody Feature Film by Dariush Mehrjui
  Reviewed by Javad Rahbar
• Tantric Picnic by Hans Plomp; When Autumn Leaves by Amy Foster
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers