CHICAGO REVIEW

presents

A BILIN­GUAL READING

with

CHRIS­T­IAN HAWKEY

ULJANA WOLF

& MONIKA RINCK

to celebrate

ISSUE 55:1: SEVEN POETS FROM BERLIN

on

THURS­DAY, JAN­U­ARY 28th @ 6PM

at the

GOETHE-​INSTITUT CHICAGO

(150 N. MICHI­GAN AVE)

as well as an

ENCORE READING

on

SAT­UR­DAY, JAN­U­ARY 30th @ 7PM

at

MYOPIC BOOKS

(1564 N. Mil­wau­kee Ave.)

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CHICAGO REVIEW is pleased to announce the pub­li­ca­tion of issue 55:1: SEVEN POETS FROM BERLIN, edited and intro­duced by Chris­t­ian Hawkey.

Fea­tur­ing:

POEMS by Daniel Falb, Monika Rinck, Hen­drik Jack­son, Uljana Wolf, Stef­fen Popp, Sabine Scho, and Ron Winkler

&

TRANS­LA­TIONS by Chris­t­ian Hawkey, Nicholas Grindell, Nicholas Perrin, Cather­ine Hales, Susan Bernof­sky, J.D. Schnei­der and Andrea Scott

as well as:

FIC­TION by Jorge Edwards and Deb Olin Unferth

an INTER­VIEW with Jorge Edwards

ESSAYS by Jef­frey Yang and J.H. Prynne

plus REVIEWS and NOTES!

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(our cover is cour­tesy of Andreas Töpfer)

From a foot­note to Jen­nifer Ashton’s “The Num­bers Trou­ble with Num­bers Trouble” (PDF) in Chicago Review 52:2/3:

During the proof­read­ing process, an editor at Chicago Review sug­gested an inter­est­ing objec­tion to my read­ing of Sloan. His con­cern was that the effort to bring together some common aspect of the poets’ sit­u­a­tion and some aspect of the poetry doesn’t auto­mat­i­cally get you the essen­tial­ism I’m crit­i­ciz­ing. To make his point, he sug­gested a hypo­thet­i­cal coun­terex­am­ple with a geo­graph­i­cal instead of a gender focus—an anthol­ogy of Chicago Poets. You could, he argued, think there was such a thing as Chicago School (a shared aes­thetic) or you could think that there was par­tic­u­larly inter­est­ing work being pro­duced in Chicago, or you could want to make vis­i­ble a par­tic­u­lar com­mu­nity of writ­ers who hap­pened to live in Chicago, but you wouldn’t be required to think that the geo­graph­i­cal con­tin­gen­cies of their Chicago-​based sit­u­a­tion were some­how the essence of the writ­ing. Well, yes and no.

…Read More…

John Latta reminds me of some­thing I’ve been mean­ing to men­tion around here, even though I sus­pect there’s no need to tell most of you: please, please, go read Susan Howe’s essay in the latest issue of Chicago Review. It’s a thing of beauty about things of beauty.

Work and family have kept my blog­ging time tight of late, so I hope John will for­give my crib­bing his quo­ta­tion, which ought to con­vince you that Fanny’s not the only mystic in the family: