Issue Six

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• Divisadero by Michael Ondaatje
  reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Straw for the Fire: from the notebooks of Theodore Roethke
  reviewed by Mike Doyle
• Journeys Between Books
  essay by Jim Christy
• “Geography of a West Coast Dreamer”: Gary Snyder and the Pacific Rim
  by Timothy Gray, reviewed by John Carroll

Departments

• Sound & Fury: The Battle of the Five Spot: Ornette Coleman and the New York Jazz Field by David Lee; Alive at the Village Vanguard by Lorraine Singer; Lee Morgan: His Life, Music and Culture by Tom Perchard
  reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Culture Watch: Artscorp Coming to a World Near You
  by Carol Ann Sokoloff

Reviews

• A Child Again by Robert Coover
  reviewed by Bernard Gastel
• Harvey Pekar: a brief interview
  interview by James Eke
• High Tea in Mosul: Two Englishwomen in War-torn Iraq by Lynne O’Donnell
  reviewed by Michael Platzer
• Earth’s Crude Gravities by Patrick Friesen
  reviewed by Allan Brown
• “Post-colonial Encounters”: Mr Ding’s Chicken Feet by Gillian Kendall
  reviewed by Ranbir Banwait
• Caliban and the Witch by Silvia Federici
  reviewed by Stephen Snelders
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
  reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Backwater Mystic Blues by Lloyd Ratzlaff
  reviewed by Martin Van Woudenberg
• “Moon as Symbol”: the moon with mars in her arms by Carolyn Zonailo
  reviewed by Nola Accili
• What the Auntys Say by Sharron Proulx-Turner
  reviewed by Morgan Stafford O’Neal
• The Pillowbook of Dr Jazz by Trevor Carolan
  reviewed by Hillel Wright
• The Buddha, Geoff and Me by Edward Canfor-Dumas
  reviewed by Patrick Carolan
• Helpless by Barbara Gowdy
  reviewed by Elizabeth Rhett Woods
• The Sea by John Banville
  reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Japanamerica by Roland Kelts
  reviewed by Todd Shimoda
• Morningstar: A Warrior’s Spirit by Morningstar Mercredi
  reviewed by Frances Cabahug
• The Lizard Cage by Karen Conelly
  reviewed by Alexandra Moss
• Beyond the Blue by Andrea MacPherson
  reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Yoga Poems: Lines to Unfold By by Leza Lowitz
  reviewed by Christina Morita Clancy
• Matters of Life and Death by Bernard Maclaverty
  reviewed by Len Gasparini
• One Muddy Hand: Selected Poems by Earle Birney
  reviewed by Allan Brown
• Nota Bene Poems by Stephen Bett
  reviewed by John Tyndall
• The Lives of Others: a film by Florian Henckel von Donnersmark
  reviewed by Mike Doyle
• “Visions and Codes: Two Novels”: Bablyon Babies by Maurice G. Dantec; Seven Touches of Music by Zoran Zivkovic
  reviewed by Bernard Gastel