Issue Thirteen

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Complete Issue Contents:

Remembering P.K. Page

• “That’s the Way It Began: An Interview with P.K. Page at 92”
  Interview by Joseph Blake
• “Remembering P.K. Page While Reading Coal and Roses”
  By Rachel Wyatt
• Reading Poetry: P.K. Page’s “A Grave Illness”
  By Yvonne Blomer
• “P.K Page’s Children’s Books”
  Review by Sara Cassidy
  
  Features
• “Travels with Kapuscinski: The Global Human Experience”
  By Robert Philbin
• “The Procrastinating Poet” The Anthologist by Nicholson Baker
  Review by Eric Spalding
• “The World in a Wineglass” World’s End by Pablo Neruda
  Review by Hilary Turner
• Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life by Carol Sklenicka
  Review by Richard Wirick
• “The Big Book of Ballard”: The Complete Stories of J.G. Ballard
  Review by Carol Cooper
• “Cavafy’s Other Worlds”: Collected Poems by C.P. Cavafy; Poems by C.P. Cavafy
  Review by Mike Doyle
• “Gary Snyder’s Riprap at Fifty”: Riprap and Cold Mountain Poems:
  Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by Gary Snyder
  Review by Tim McNulty
• “No One Listens to Poetry: Jack Spicer Composes the Real”: my vocabulary
  did this to me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer
  Review by Peter Grant
• “Interview with Andrew Schelling”
  Interview by Paul Nelson
• “Final Poems and Stories About the End of Life” Endpoint and Other Poems
  by John Updike; My Father’s Tears and Other Stories by John Updike
  Review by Eric Spalding
• “The Persistence of Desire: What Updike Meant”
  By Richard Wirick
• Falsework by Gary Geddes
  Reviewed by Marin VanWoudenberg

Departments

• Personal Point of View: “Daniel P. Mannix”
  by Jim Christy
• Music Books: Stormy Weather by James Gavin; Hound Dog by Jerry Leiber
  and Mike Stoller with David Ritz
  Review by Joseph Blake
• Belief: Soul Shaping: Adventures in Self Creation by Jeff Brown
  Review by Lu Bianco

Reviews

• A Longing for the Light by Vicente Aleixandre
  Review by Hannah Main-van der Kamp
• Dropping the Bow: Poems of Ancient India, translated by Andrew Schelling
  Review by Gregory Dunne
• “Vincent Katz”: The Complete Elegies of Sextus Propertius, translated by Vincent Katz
  Review by Jim Feast
• “A Singular Event Horizon”: You Are Here by Donald Breckenridge
  Review by Jordan Zinovich
• The Women by T.C. Boyle
  Review by Linda Rogers
• “Paradise Lost, Again”: Deloume Road by Matthew Hooton
  Review by Linda Rogers
• “Remembering Allen Ginsberg at Hollyhock Farm”: Offbeat: the Allen Ginsberg
  Interview with Hillel Wright
  Review by Colin James Sanders
• The Inventor of Love & Other Writings by Gherasim Luca,
  translated by Julian and Laura Semilian
  Review by Allan Graubard
• The Practice of Perfection by Mary Frances Coady
  Review by Linda Rogers
• “Mexican Translations of Aching Beauty”: Solar Poems by Homero Aridjis,
  translated by George McWhirter
  Review by Apis Teicher
• “Darker Voices”: Strike/Slip by Don McKay
  Review by Eric Miller
• Adrift on the Ark by Margaret Thompson
  Review by Vivien Lougheed
• Red Zone by Kim Goldberg
  Review by Trish Ashby-Rolls
• Light from a Bullet Hole: Poems New & Selected 1950-2008 by Ralph Salisbury
  Review by James D. Sullivan
• “Lost Souls and Mean Streets”: Kaspoit! by Dennis E. Bolen
  Review by Paul Falardeau