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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The Barbara Guest feature includes three previously unpublished plays by Guest and a portfolio (edited by Catherine Wagner) of five uncollected poems.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:

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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 272-page double issue includes:

LISA ROBERTSON SPECIAL FEATURE

With two long poems, two essays, an interview by Kai Fierle-Hedrick, a checklist, and critical essays by Benjamin Friedlander, Christine Stewart, Jennifer Scappettone, and Joshua Clover.

POEMS

Stephen Collis, Rosmarie Waldrop, Rusty Morrison, Genya Turovskaya, Karen Weiser, Jacqueline Waters, Cesar Vallejo, Friedrich Hölderlin, Gnoetry & Eric P. Elshtain, Peter Gizzi, Michael Kindellan, and John Matthias

FICTION

Pamela Lu

ESSAYS

Stephen Rodefer, Calvin Bedient, and Eliot Weinberger

REVIEWS
Timothy Yu on the Future of Asian American Poetry, Norman Finkelstein on Donald Revell, Dustin Simpson on Forrest Gander, Leila Wilson on Eleni Sikelianos, Ihor Junyk on Hannah Krall, Martin Riker on Patrick Ourednik, Paul Merchant on Alan Halsey, and V. Joshua Adams on Bin Ramke.

A NOTE on Gnoetry and the period style.

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