Songs of Insurgency, a new book of short stories by my friend and colleague Spencer Dew, is now out with Vagabond Press. Some of Spencer’s stories are available online here and you can order the book via SPD or Amazon.
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.
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