Issue Eight

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “Approaches to Language, Literature & Insight Practice”
  An Interview with Robert Bringhurst by Sergio Cohn
• “The Lion of Ermita: An Afternoon with Frankie Sionil Jose”
  By Frances Cabahug
• “…exquisite lips, etc…”: Topic Sentence: A Writer’s Education, by Stan Persky
  Reviewed by Peter Grant
• “Countering War with Wonder: Poetry and Peace in the Visionary Poetics of William Blake,
  by Susan McCaslin

Departments

• Film: “A Night of Newlove” A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove, edited by Robert McTavish; What to Make of it All? The Life and Poetry of John Newlove, a film directed by Robert McTavish
  Reviewed by Jamie Reid
• Diplomacy: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
  Reviewed by Reg Little
• Travel: “Sir Richard Francis Burton”
  By Jim Christy
• Sound & Fury: “Red Beans and Rice”: Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock and Roll by Rick Coleman; City Cooking: Unforgettable Recipes from Susan Spicer’s New Orleans by Susan Spicer with Paula Disbrowe;
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Public Affairs: The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work by Andrew Mawson.
  Reviewed by Mark Cranmer
• Letter From New York: “Walking Saint: Go Moan for Man”: Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road, Exhibition
  reviewed by Jordan Zinovich

Reviews

• “Branches on the Tree of Being”: The Tree of Meaning and Everywhere Being is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by Robert Bringhurst
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• I Am a Beautiful Monster by Francis Picabi, translation Marc Lowenthal
  Reviewed by Allan Graubard
• The Book of Fables by M.S. Merwin
  Reviewed by Richard Stevenson
• The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner, edited by Page Stegner
  Reviewed by Martin Van Woudenberg
• “Sex, Murder & Kidnapping: New Books From Japan”: Losing Kei by Suzanne Kamata; Goodbye Madame Butterfly by Sumie Kawakami
  Reviewed by Hillel Wright
• To the Castle and Back by Vaclav Havel
  Reviewed by Jan Drabek
• “Revisting Childhood, A Distaff View”: Being Here by Rocio G. Davis;
  Reviewed by Ranbir Banwait
• Where the Rivers Meet; New Writing from Australia edited by Frank Stewart et al.
  Reviewed by Sanja Garid-Komenenic
• The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message by Rex Weyler
  Reviewed by Steve D. Black
• Little Emperors: a year with the future of China by JoAnn Dionne
  Reviewed by Yvonne Blomer
• The Inumagi Clan by Seishi Yokomizo
  Reviewed by Hilary Matheson
• “And Beauty Answers” And Beauty Answers by Elspeth Cameron; Imperial Masquerade by Grant Hayes-Menzies
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “The Christ We Cannot Ignore”: The Third Jesus by Deepak Chopra; Journeys into the Heart of Catholicism by Ted Schmidt
  Reviewed by Steve Bentheim
• A Poem by Robert Priest
• “Vintage Pearson: The Delights and Perils of the Imagination” A Perfect Gentle Knight by Kit Pearson
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner
• Jungle Crows: a Tokyo expatriate anthology, edited by Hillel Wright
  Reviewed by James Eke
• Phantom Limb by Theresa Kishkan
  Reviewed by Allan Brown
• “Robin Skelton”: In This Poem I Am by Robin Skelton; Facing the Light by Robin Skelton
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner
• I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Kim Young-Ha
  Reviewed by Bruce Fulton
• Ordinary Days by Cornelia C. Hornosty
  Reviewed by Yvonne Blomer
• The Deserter’s Tale by Joshua Key
  Reviewed by James Eke
• “Boundary Bay Poem”
  Poetry by David Watmough