Issue Fifteen

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “Yes, Hope Is Our Duty: On Wendell Berry’s Leavings”
  Reviewed by Gregory Dunne
• “Linda Rogers Talks To Glen Sorestad”: What We Miss by Glen Sorestad
  Review and interview by Linda Rogers
• “Radical Poet’s Republic: Richard Brautigan in San Francisco, 1956-1958”
  By Jordan Zinovich
• “Reading Susan Musgrave”: When the World Is Not Our Home and Obituary of Light: the Sangan River Meditations by Susan Musgrave
  Reviewed by Chelsea Thornton
• “It Doesn’t Get Any Easier” Origami Dove by Susan Musgrave
  Reviewed by Carol Ann Sokoloff
• The Ghost Brush by Katherine Govier
  Reviewed by Apis Teicher
• “Who Was A t’ Serstevens?”
  By Alexander Nouvel

Departments

• Music Books: “Just Like a Rollin’ Stone”: Life by Keith Richards
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• “When the Whole Wide World Was Italian”: Amore by Mark Rotella
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Travel: “A Map of Sorts: A Letter From Istanbul”: The Museum of Innocence by Orhan Pamuk
  Travelogue and review by Linda Rogers
• Point of View: “In Contempt and Anger”: Harperland: The Politics of Control by Lawrence Martin
  Reviewed by R.T. James
• International Relations: American War Machine: Deep Politics, the CIA Global Drug
  Connection, and the Road to Afghanistan by Peter Dale Scott
  Reviewed by R.T. James

Reviews

• The Art of Breathing Underwater by Cathy Ford
  Reviewed by Ali Siemens
• “Mending the Unmendable”: Words Like Distant Rain by Jakucho Setouchi and Tess Gallagher
  Reviewed by Micheline Soong page 11
• “Sex Shaman”: Red Erotic by Janet Rogers
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Ghostmasters by Mani Rao
  Reviewed by JoAnn Dionne
• Subject to Change by Renee Rodin
  Reviewed by Judith Copithorne
• Revs of the Morrow by Ed Sanders; Vanitas 5 edited by Vincent Katz
  Reviewed by Paul Falardeau
• Douglas County Jail Blues edited by Brian Daldorph
  Reviewed by James D. Sullivan
• Archeology of Violence by Pierre Clastres
  Reviewed by Alan Graubard
• “How to Fake Romance…”: How to Fake Romance When Your Love Is Real
  by Martin VanWoudenberg,
  Reviewed by Ali Siemens
• It Is I, Patricia: an artist’s childhood by Pate Martin Bates
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “The Ethnographer’s Workshop”: The Lil’wat World of Charlie Mack by Dorothy Kennedy and Randy Bouchard
  Reviewed by Peter Grant
• “Spring Winds: The Birthing of Japan’s New Women’s Poetry”: Other Side River, edited by Leza Lowitz and Miyuke Aoyama; A Long Rainy Season, edited by Lowitz, Aoyama and Akemi Tomoika
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• Blood, Feathers & Holy Men by Ben Nuttal-Smith
  Reviewed by Sheila Martindale
• “The Oosumich of Open Form: Writing as Vision Quest”
  By Paul Nelson
• “Is There Life After Death?”: Heaven Is Small by Emily Schultz
  Reviewed by Eric Spalding
• “New World Frontier: On Cascadian Literature”: Making Waves: Reading British
  Columbia and Pacific Northwest Literature, edited by Trevor Carolan
  Reviewed by Paul Nelson
• Enter the Chrysanthemum by Fiona Tinwie Lam
  Reviewed by Frances Cabahug