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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:

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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.

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A 232-page issue featuring the poetry of Andrea Brady, Chris Goode, Peter Manson, and Keston Sutherland. Also: critical work on these poets by Jeremy Noel-Tod, Simon Jarvis, John Wilkinson, and Matt Ffytche; and an interview with Chris Goode by Sam Ladkin. The issue also includes fifteen reviews of new British poetry (including my review of Peter Larkin’s Leaves of Field [PDF]), a note by Keith Tuma on younger British poets, letters by Catherine Wagner and Peter Riley, and a poster by Andrew Duncan (”Styles of British Poetry 1945-2000″).

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This 192-page issue of CR features:

POEMS
C.D. Wright’s long poem “Rising, Hovering, Falling,” Devin Johnston, Alan Bernheimer, Joel Felix, Arkadii Dragomoschchenko, Peter Larkin, Peter O’Leary, Geraldine Monk, Ray DiPalma, Merrill Gilfillan, Gavin Selerie, Medbh McGuckian

FICTION
Jerzy Ficowski, “Filzbad” by Diana George [PDF], Brian Lennon

INTERVIEW
with Stefanie Marlis (by Eric P. Elshtain)

ESSAYS
John Wilkinson on Marjorie Welish
Robert Archambeau on James McMichael

REVIEWS AND NOTES
Robert P. Baird on Harry Thomas’s Montale in English
Daniel Borzutzky on Daniil Kharms’s Blue Notebook
Brian Whitener on Svetislav Basara’s Chinese Letter
Matthias Regan on Jena Osman’s An Essay in Asterisks
Eric P. Elshtain on Carol Moldaw’s Lightning Field
Melissa Girard on Srikanth Reddy’s Facts for Visitors
Michael Robbins on Daniel Kane’s All Poets Welcome
Paul Hoover on the Chicago literary scene

This issue costs $10. Order it here