Issue Sixteen

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “The Delicate Violence of the Dance”: The Collected Poems of Patrick Lane
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner
• “‘A Magnificent Flowering’: The Poetry of Gjertrud Schnackenberg”
  By Doug Beardsley
• Half-Blood Blues by Esi Edugyan
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “Big Tim, Ram Dass & the Psychedelic Culture”: Birth of a Psychedelic Culture
  by Ram Dass and Ralph Mezner
  Reviewed by Bill Pearlman
• “All that Lies Beyond the Frontier of Language”: Lives Like Loaded Guns:
  Emily Dickenson and Her Family’s Feuds by Lyndall Gordon
  Reviewed by James Edward Reid
• Pause for Breath by Robyn Sarah
  Reviewed by Yvonne Blomer
• “André Malraux: Tomb Robber”
  By Jim Christy
• “Watching the Rain Fall in Hilo Town”: P’u Ming’s Oxherding Pictures & Verses;
  The Sasquatch at Home by Eden Robinson; George Harrison: Living in the
  Material World by Olivia Harrison; Old Lives by John Schreiber
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan

Departments

• Music Books: “Rock, Etc”: Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music
  edited by Nona Aronowitz; Rock and Roll Always Forgets by Chuck Eddy;
  Flying Saucers Rock ’n’ Roll, edited by Jake Austen
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
  Decoded by Jay-Z
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• CD Review: Let Go! by Carol Sokoloff
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake

Reviews

• At the Interface of Culture and Medicine by E. Waugh, O. Szafran & R. Crutcher
  Reviewed by Marina Parapini
• “A Tribute to Spoken Word”: The Spoken Word Workbook: Inspiration from Poets
  to Teach edited by Sheri-D Wilson
• “Goings-On at a Magical Sex Club”: House of Holes: A Book of Raunch
  by Nicholson Baker, reviewed by Eric Spalding
• “A Nobel Laureate on Suicide: Kenzaburo Oe and Juzo Itami”: The Changeling
  by Kenzaburo Oe, translated by Deborah Boliver Boehm
  Reviewed by Eli Kirzner
• “The New New Orleans”: Groove Interrupted by Keith Spera; New Atlantis
  by John Swenson, reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Demeter Goes Skydiving by Susan McCaslin
  Reviewed by Yvonne Blomer
• The Beautiful One Has Come by Suzanne Kamata
  Reviewed by Hillel Wright
• Songs from a Yahi Bow: Poems about Ishi edited by Scott Ezell
  Reviewed by John Carroll
• Moonlight in the Redemptive Forest by Michael Daley
  Reviewed by Marjorie Romme
• “Travails of a Sikh-Canadian Women”: Everything Was Good-Bye
  by Gurjinder Basran, reviewed by Eric Spalding
• Opera Bufa by Manolis
  Reviewed by Amy Henry
• Versed by Rae Armantrout
  Reviewed by Bill Pearlman
• Coyote by Elizabeth Rhett Woods
  Reviewed by Kevin Watt
• refrain by Jason S. Polley
  Reviewed by JoAnn Dionne
• J-Boys by Shogo Oketani
  Reviewed by Peter Tieryas Liu
• “The Big One That Got Away”A Season to Remember: The Vancouver Canucks’
  Incredible 40th Year by Grant Kerr
  Reviewed by Joel Smart
• “The Cure for Ache by Flying”: Past Imperfect, Present Tense by Derk Wynand
  Reviewed by Hannah Main - van der Kamp
• The Bright Well: Contemporary Canadian Poems About Facing Cancer
  edited by Fiona Tinwei Lam, reviewed by Christopher Levenson
• “Knitting All Night”: Working With Wool, edited by Sylvia Olsen
  Reviewed by Peter Grant
• March End Prill by Bryan Sentes
  Reviewed by James Edward Reid
• “Literatures From Around the Pacific”: Empire’s Proxy by Meg Wesling; Intimate Strangers
  by Vanessa Smith; Soldiers on the Cultural Front by Tatiana Gabroussenko; The
  Routledge Concise History of Southeast Asian Writing in English by Rajeev Patke
  and Philip Holden; Eastern Sentiments by Yi T’aejun
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• Immortality by Mike O’Connor
  Reviewed by Paul Falardeau
• “Dreaming in Black and White”: The Night Circus by Erin Morgernstern
  Reviewed by Carol Cooper