Issue Seventeen

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “Racine on the Prairie: Richard Ford’s Canada”
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• “A Great Soul”
  Memories of Irving Layton on his Centenary by Doug Beardsley
• “Seed Catalogue in an Italian-Canadian Garden: Homage as Montage”
  Essay by Carmelo Militano
• “Yolande Villemaire in Translation”
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Notes from Disappearing Lake by Robert Sund
  Reviewed by Michael Daley
• “Making a Case for Formal Wit and Grace”: Collected Poems 1943-2004 by Richard Wilbur
  Reviewed by Doug Beardsley
• All of it Singing by Linda Gregg
  Reviewed by David Day

Departments

• Poetry: “After Reading ‘The Sad Phoenician’: A Fragment for Antonio Foti”
  by Carmelo Militano
  “Remembering John Newlove”
  by Len Gasparini
• Music Books: “Summer Jazz Notes”: What a Wonderful World: The Music of Louis Armstrong’s Later Years by Ricky Riccardi; African Rhythms by Randy Weston; Jazz by Herman Leonard
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
  “The Wrecking Crew” The Doors: A Lifetime of Listening to Five Mean Years by Greil Marcus; The Wrecking Crew: The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Best Kept Secret by Kent Hartman
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake

Reviews

• Afflictions & Departures by Madeline Sonik
  Reviewed by Judith Grey
• Alphabestiary by H. Masud Taj and Bruce Meyer
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “Eros, Builder of Cities”: Sex & Punishment: Four Thousand Years of Judging Desire by Eric Berkowitz
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• The Tomb in the Kyoto Hills by Hans Brinkmann
  Reviewed by Hillel Wright
• “Yannis Ritsos: A Greek Colossus”
  Reviewed by Amy Henry
• Floating Like the Dead by Yasuko Thanh
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “The Tao of Richard Wagamese”: Runaway Dreams by Richard Wagamese
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• “Under the Overpass”: Lost Memory of Skin by Russell Banks
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• Cemetery Miss You by Jason S. Polley
  Reviewed by JoAnn Dionne
• Hard Hed by Charles Tidler
  Reviewed by Nadine Lucas
• “Tell Me Something I Don’t Know” The Tower of Babble by Richard Stursberg
  Reviewed by Eric Spalding
• “Blood on the Snow”: Dirty Snow by Tom Wayman
  Reviewed by Sean Arthur Joyce
• Passages by Emile Ollivier
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• Becoming George: The Life of Mrs W.B. Yeats by Ann Saddlemyer
  Reviewed by Andrew Parkin
• Rain; road; an open boat by Roo Borson
  Reviewed by Yvonne Blomer
• “Carrying a Brimful Pail”: The Great Enigma by Tomas Tranströmer
  Reviewed by James Edward Reid
• “A Story by Adventurers for Adventurers”: Winter in Fireland: A Patagonian Sailing Adventure by Nicholas Coghlan
  Reviewed by Marina Parapini
• River Road by Hillel Wright
  Reviewed by Martin VanWoudenberg
• “Kazin, Perambulating”: Alfred Kazin’s Journals, edited by Richard M. Cook
  Reviewed by Richard Wirick
• “Poetry from the Might North”: Kerosene by Jamella Hagen
  Reviewed by Joanna Lilley
• Water Ghosts by Shawna Yang Ryan
  Reviewed by Samantha Marr
• “Passages from India”: The Meagre Tarmac by Clark Blaise
  Reviewed by Christopher Levenson
• A Brazilian Incarnation by Bill Pearlman
  Reviewed by Bill Dodd
• Dis ease and De sire by Kim Clark
  Reviewed by Linda Crosfield