I’m very pleased to announce the launch of Chicago Review 53:4 & 54:1/2, a 368-page triple issue with a spe­cial sec­tion ded­i­cated to the life and work of Bar­bara Guest. The issue costs $18 and may be pur­chased here, or you can sub­scribe to CR for a year–good for three issues–for just $25 here.

The Bar­bara Guest fea­ture includes three pre­vi­ously unpub­lished plays by Guest and a port­fo­lio (edited by Cather­ine Wagner) of five uncol­lected poems. The fea­ture also includes crit­i­cal and per­sonal responses to Guest’s work by Charles Altieri, Eileen Myles, Donald Revell, John Wilkin­son, Mei-​mei Berssen­brugge, Martha Ronk, Andrea Brady, Brenda Hill­man, Nancy Robbin, Patri­cia Dien­st­frey and Rena Rosen­wasser, and Gar­rett Caples.

The issue also includes:

POEMS by Fredrik Nyberg (trans­lated by Jen­nifer Hayashida), Eleni Sike­lianos, Ed Rober­son, Dan Beachy-​Quick, Robyn Schiff, María Baranda (trans­lated by Joshua Edwards), John Wilkin­son, P.K. Page, and Kent Johnson.

STO­RIES by Bret Spar­ling and Craig Foltz.

An ESSAY on Geof­frey Hill by Brett Bourbon.

Chris­tine Hume’s INTER­VIEW with Ros­marie Waldrop.

REVIEWS:

Peter Manson on Hannah Weiner
Dustin Simp­son on Keith Waldrop’s trans­la­tion of Baude­laire
Joshua Bald­win on Andrezj Sta­siuk
V. Joshua Adams on Amanda Nadel­berg
Rusty Mor­ri­son on Dan Mach­lin
Leila Wilson on Eileen Myles
Charles Altieri on Jen­nifer Moxley
Kristin Preval­let on Ron Sil­li­man
Court­ney Mac­Neil on Kamau Braith­waite
Kent John­son on Tim Atkins

(NB: PDFs of some of these reviews are avail­able at the CR website.)

A COM­MEN­TARY by C.D. Wright on her long poem “Rising, Falling, Hov­er­ing” whose first half appeared in CR 51:3 and whose second half appeared in CR 53:2/3.