Issue Twenty-Three

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• Habitation: Collected Poems by Sam Hamill
  Review by Charles Potts
• The Hidden Master: George Dowden
  Essay by Gerald Nicosia
• The Complete Poetry of Aimé Césaire by Aimé Césaire
  Review by Allan Graubard
• Remembering Peter Trower
  Essay by Jim Christy
• A Tribute to Larry Eigner: The Last Ten Years
  Essay by Jack Foley
• There You Are: Interviews, Journals, and Ephemera by Joanne Kyger
  Review by Colin James Sanders
• Brother by David Chariandy
  Review by Rajnish Dhawan
• “McClure’s Visionary Journey”: Persian Pony by Michael McClure
  Review by Jesse Boyes
• Venture of the Infinite Man by Pablo Neruda
  Review by Ajmer Rode

Departments

• Environment: A River Captured by Eileen Delehanty Pearkes
  Review by Rose Morrison
  Whale in the Door by Pauline Le Bel
  Review by Elise Roberts
• Music Books: I Am Brian Wilson: A Memoir by Brian Wilson
  Review by Joseph Blake
• Letter from Paris: “Virginie Despentes’ NFT Guide of Paris: Vernon Subutex”
  Essay by Anna Aublet
• Children’s Books: The Heartwood Hotel by Kallie George
  Review by Chelsea Pastorchik
• Border Crossings: “Delight and Dismay: Life in a Refugee Clinic”: Your Heart
  is the Size of Your Fist, by Martina Scholtens, review by Rose Morrison
• Diplomacy: “Spies and Prophets”: The Road Not Taken by Max Boot
  Review by Richard Wirick
• Mind & Body: “The Mind Makes Up the World”: From Bacteria to Bach and Back
  by Daniel C. Dennett, review by Richard Wirick
• Poetry Round-Up: Cemetery Compost by Murray Reis; Blood Orange by
  Heidi Garnett; Infinite Power by Janet Vickers
  Review by Candice James

Reviews

• “Two from Anvil”: Escape from Wreck City by John Creary; Bad Engine
  by Michael Dennis, review by Ryan Pastorchik
• Nearly Normal by Cea Sunrise Person
  Review by Chelsea Pastorchik
• Tramping the Bulrushes by John Clarke
  Review by Patrick James Dunagan
• “Tales and Photos of BC Families”: The Language of Family, edited by
  Michelle van der Merwe, review by Eric Spalding
• In the Woods of Memory by Shun Medoruma
  Review by Trevor Carolan
• Drawing the Shade by Michael Rothenberg
  Review by Richard Stevenson
• The Sacred Herb/The Devil’s Wood by Andrew Struthers
  Review by Paulo Phelonius
• Two Roads Home by Daniel Griffin
  Review by Joel Robertson Taylor
• “Trouble and Beauty”: Too Late to Turn Back Now by Finn Wilcox
  Review by Ajmer Rode
• Euclid’s Orchard & Other Essays by Theresa Kishkan
  Review by Linda Rogers
• Extra Illicit Sonnets by George Elliot Clarke
  Review by Linda Rogers
• “Hitting the Mother Lode”: Captain Poetry’s Sucker Punch by Kenneth Warren
  Review by Emily Izsak
• The Summer Book, edited by Mona Fertig
  Review by Linda Rogers