[New-Poetry] Chicago Review 53:2/3 Is Available

[Joshua Kotin]

The autumn double issue of Chicago Review (53:2/3) is available for  
purchase via ---

	http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/

Use code GROSSMAN for 10% off subscriptions and individual issues.

The issue ---

POEMS

Book V of Ronald Johnson’s Radi os (entitled “The Book of Adam”);  
“Rising, Falling, Hovering,” the second half of C.D. Wright’s long  
poem surrounding the Iraq war (the first half was published in CR  
51:3); as well as work by Larissa Szporluk, William Fuller, Sarah  
Gridley, Roberto Harrison, Mark Tardi, John Peck, Erín Moure, Oana  
Avasilichioaei, and Elisa Sampedrín.

FICTION

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

ESSAYS

Georges Perec's “For a Realist Literature” (translated and introduced  
by Rob Halpern) and Allen Grossman's essay on communicative  
difficulty and Hart Crane's “The Broken Tower.”

The issue also includes “Numbers Trouble,” an essay by Juliana Spahr  
and Stephanie Young on gender and contemporary poetry, plus a  
response by Jennifer Ashton.

REVIEWS

Robert P. Baird on Eliot Weinberger's An Elemental Thing
Michael Robbins on Frederick Seidel's Ooga-Booga
Catherine Wagner on Harryette Mullen's Recyclopedia
Chris Woods on Zak Smith’s Gravity’s Rainbow Illustrated
Diana George on Hermann Ungar's Boys & Murderers
Spencer Dew on Gabriel Pomerand's Saint Ghetto of the Loans
David J. Alworth on Daniel Kane's Don't Ever Get Famous
P. Genesius Durica on Laird Hunt's The Exquisite
Joshua Baldwin on Kevin Connolly's Drift

...and the next chapter of Kent Johnson’s critical novella, on J.H.  
Prynne’s To Pollen

[http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/ features a few of these  
reviews as free pdfs]


IN ADDITION . . .

A long response by John Wilkinson to Peter Riley's letter in CR 53:1,  
postcards of Ronald Johnson's concrete poem Balloons for Moonless  
Nights, and a note on gender representation in literary magazines.

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Please visit CR at --- and subscribe --- at http:// 
humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/

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Also this week: CR is having an open house.

Please visit Lillie House this Friday evening at 7:30 to celebrate  
the launch of Chicago Review 53:2/3.

Contributors Roberto Harrison and Kent Johnson --- all the way from  
Milwaukee and Freeport, respectively --- will read.

There will also be drink and good cheer --- and copies of the new  
issue . . .

Lillie House is located at 5801 South Kenwood Ave / 60637, just east  
of the University of Chicago quad in Hyde Park.

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Next week: material from earlier issues that link with this one will  
be posted online (the first half of C.D. Wright's "Rising, Falling,  
Hovering," part one of Kent Johnson's critical novella on British  
poetry, and John Wilkinson's review of Simon Jarvis and Peter Riley's  
response).

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