Chicago Review’s Autumn issue (53:2/3) is back from the press and avail­able now for only twelve dol­lars. Buy a copy today!

POETRY in the issue includes Book V of Ronald Johnson’s Radi os (enti­tled “The Book of Adam”); “Rising, Falling, Hovering,” the second half of CD Wright’s long poem about the Iraq war (the first half of which was pub­lished in CR 51:3); and poems by Larissa Szpor­luk, William Fuller, Sarah Gri­d­ley, Roberto Har­ri­son, Mark Tardi, John Peck, Erín Moure, Oana Avasili­chioaei, and Elisa Sampedrin.

FIC­TION includes five short sto­ries by Peter Markus and Jede­diah Berry’s “Minus, His Heart.”

CRIT­I­CISM in the issue includes a defense of real­ism by Georges Perec and a long con­sid­er­a­tion of Hart Crane by Allen Grossman.

The issue also includes a three-​part con­ver­sa­tion on gender in con­tem­po­rary poetry, with an essay by Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young, a response by Jen­nifer Ashton, and a note by Joshua Kotin and Robert P. Baird.

REVIEWS in the issue include:

The autumn 2007 issue of Chicago Review is at press and avail­able to pre-​order.

(The issue will be mailed in early October.)

The issue fea­tures: the second half of “Rising, Hov­er­ing, Falling,” C.D. Wright’s long poem about the Iraq war; Book V of Ronald Johnson’s Radi os; an arti­cle on fem­i­nism and inno­v­a­tive poetry by Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young, and a response from Jen­nifer Ashton; essays by Georges Perec (on real­ism) and Allen Gross­man (on Hart Crane). Plus the next install­ment of Kent Johnson’s twelve-​part crit­i­cal novella, a review of J.H. Prynne’s “To Pollen.” And much much much more.

The full table of con­tents is posted as a pdf on CR’s web­site and is sum­ma­rized below.

Pre-​order the issue now!