Issue Fourteen

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “O Rare Jack Hodgins”: The Master of Happy Endings and The Invention of the World
  by Jack Hodgins; Jack Hodgins: Essays on His Works, ed. by Annika Hannan
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “Surprise Within Continuous Form”: Collected Poems by Michael Longley
  Reviewed by Bert Almon
• White Egrets by Derek Walcott
  Reviewed by George Elliot Clarke
• “Robin Blaser Remembered”: Robin Blaser by Stan Persky and Brian Fawcett
  Reviewed by Heidi Greco
• “Anne Carson’s Nox, Multa Nox”: Nox by Anne Carson
  Reviewed by James Edward Reid
• “Reflections on Cancer and Music”: Cigar Box Banjo by Paul Quarrington
  Reviewed by Eric Spalding
• Cigar Box Banjo: Notes on Music and Life by Paul Quarrington
  Reviewed by Richard Stevenson

• Music Books: Pops by Terry Teachout; Thelonius Monk: The Life and Times of an
  American Original by Robin DG Kelley
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Just Kids by Patti Smith; A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Diplomacy: Gods of Money: Wall Street and the Death of the American Century
  by William Engdahl,
  Reviewed by Reg Little

• “Alias Stephen Scobie”: RLS: At the World’s End by Stephen Scobie
  Reviewed by Jamie Dopp
• “Terse Stories of Middle-Aged Angst”: The End of the Ice Age by Terence Young
  Reviewed by Eric Spalding
• Bandit Love by Massino Carlotto
  Reviewed by Carol Cooper
• Razor-Wire Dharma by Calvin Malone
  Reviewed by Patrick Carolan
• “Joys and Lamentations from Tibet”: In the Forest of Faded Wisdom: 104 Poems
  by Gendun Chopel, Ed. and trans. by Donald S. Lopez
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• “On Taking Charge of One’s Life”: Seven Good Reasons Not to Be Good
  by Terence Young,
  Reviewed by Eric Spalding
• “Days Are to Be Happy In”: Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt
  By Richard Wirick
• Chronic City by Jonathan Lethem
  Reviewed by Nadine Lucas
• The Language of Water by Genine Hanns
  Reviewed by Elizabeth Rhett Woods
• “Heading Home”: A Demon in My View; The Undertaker’s Wife; When Does a
  Kiss Become a Bite by Len Gasparini
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Walt Whitman’s Secret by George Fetherling
  Reviewed by Al Maclachlan
• “Michael McClure in Seatlle”
  By Carol Ann Sokoloff
• “The Meat Lab of Michael McClure”: Mysteriosos and Other Poems by Michael McClure
  Reviewed by Paul Nels
• Unfurl, Kite, and Veer by Bill Yake
  Reviewed by Howard McCord
• Islands of Resistance: Pirate Radio in Canada by Andrea Lanlois et al
  Reviewed by Paul Falardeau
• “We Didn’t Know”: Every Man Dies Alone by Hans Fallada
  Reviewed by James Edward Reid
• “Book News From Japan”: Sumo by David Benjamin; Tokyo: Megacity by Doanld Richie
  Reviewed by Hillel Wright
• “Two by Manolis”: Triptych and Rendition by Manolis
  Reviewed by Amy Henry
• Straw Things by Charles Tidler
  Reviewed by Ben Pleasants
• “Poetry and Poetics from the Margins”: Hidden Agendas: Unreported Poetics,
  ed. by Louis Armand; Imperfect Penance by Mitchell Parry; Do Not Write This and Roots in the Stone by Ibrahim Honjo
  By Sanja Garic-Komnenic
• The Shadow of Sirius by WS Merwin
  Reviewed by Hannah Main-van der Kamp
• Pacific Passages, ed. by Patrick Moser
  Reviewed by Lane Anderson