Issue Twenty-Four

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Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “‘Right Over the Plate’ with the Two Georges”: Some End by Geoge Bowering &
  West Broadway by George Stanley, review by Colin James Sanders
• Japan and the Beats, Tokyo Poetry Journal Vol. 5, edited by Taylor Mignon
  Review by Trevor Carolan
• Collected Poems by Alden Nowlen
  Review by Richard Stevenson
• A Pugilist at the Riots: Norman Mailer’s Sixties
  Review by Richard Wirick
• The Wilds of Poetry by David Hinton
  Review by Scott Lawrance
• Infinite Gradation by Ann Michaels
  Review by Linda Rogers
• Preserving Fire: Selected Prose by Philip Lamantia
  Review by Allan Graubard
• “Unassimilable”: Complete Poems by Kenneth Rexroth
  Review by Jack Foley
• What We Must Remember by Christy Passion, Ann Inoshita, Juliet S. Kono,
  and Jean Yamasaki Toyama
  Review by Micheline M. Soong
• My Year of Dirt and Water by Tracy Franz
  Review by Maryse Cardin

Departments

• Music Books: Reckless Daughter: A Portrait of Joni Mitchell by David Jaffe
  Soul Survior: A Biography of Al Green by Jimmy McDonough
  Reviews by Joseph Blake
• International Relations: “A Peace to End All Peace”: The Great War for Civilisation
  by Robert Fisk; The Age of Jihad by Patrick Cockburn; ISIS: The State of Terror
  by Jessica Stern and J.M Berger; A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
  Review by James Edward Reid
• Science: “Where the Days Go”: The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli
  Review by Richard Wirick
• Letter from China: “Tree of Blue Rivers”
  Essay by Richard Wirick
• Border Crossings: “Meeting a French Artist in Bali”
  Essay by Trevor Carolan
• In Memorium: David Bromige (1933-2009)
  Essay by Jack Foley

Reviews

• The Shadow in the Garden by James Atlas
  Review by Richard Wirick
• Ocean Plastic by Orchid Tierney
  Review by Stephen Bett
• Bad Endings by Carleigh Baker
  Review by Chelsea Pastorchik
• The Social Life of String by Len Gasparini
  Review by Ryan Pastorchik
• Shakespeare, Bakhtin and film, a Dialogic Lens by Keith Harrison
  Review by Linda Rogers
• “Some Streams in Current B.C. Poetry” Undiscovered Country by Al Rempel;
  Songen by Patrick Friesen; Bothism by Tanya Evanson;
  Review by Paul Falardeau
• “Lonely Canadians in Exotic Locales”: Blue River and Red Earth
  by Stephen Henighan,
  Review by Eric Spalding
• Birnam Wood by José Manuel Cardona
  Review by Antonio D’Alfonso
• Beyond Elsewhere by Gabriel Arnou-Laujeac
  Review by Antonio D’Alfonso
• The Man Who Best Drew Women by Martin Gray
  Review by Carmelo Militano
• “Argüelles in Elysium”: Fragments from a Gone World by Ivan Argüelles
  Review by Jake Berry
• “Two from Ekstasis”: A Year of Mornings by Andrea McKenzie Raine;
  Sieve of Light in the Pine Forest by Károly Fellinger
  Reviews by Candice James