Chicago Review back issues from June 2001:
THE LAST INFIRMITY.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... "Fame is a motherfucker!" the poet saith. Or was it a spur, or a two-handed engine? whatever that means. Anyhow, it seems, from this blue side of the great divide, sometimes a well, more often a poisoned spring in the mankilling, ...
THE PASSIVE VOICE.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Ropes had been used, that much was clear. The rest-- the ninety-nine stab wounds and the underwear-- was lost to the official flatteries of the press: "The victim was found at 9:18 last night ..." who cared about the minute! "and there was ...
OPENING LINE.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... "Was the universe a quotation?" Burton wondered-- "Thus is man that great Amphibian. Either someone like us night-foundered here (this pendant world, in bigness as a star of smallest magnitude close by the moon) groping for trouts in ...
A DAY.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... I rode my bicycle down a fifteen-mile road I also walked part of the way I went to An-song and bought two watermelons and brought back a sack of fertilizer The day's half gone already The old man, Yong-ku tossing about ...
CUCUMBER.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The retail price for 30 cucumbers is only 1000 won, it's dumbfounding Our cucumbers taken to Seoul's Karak Street, Orak street sell 400 won for 50. That doesn't even pay for gas 10 big melons go for 500 won A flat of garlic, 100 bulbs, is less ...
STORAGE JAR.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... We lived well through the past three snowy months thanks to you We emptied two kimchi jars buried in the ground and now we broke into the last one Eating new kimchi makes my mouth feel like a bridegroom During the daily snowstorms ...
A GUIDEBOOK TO THE LEARNING CURVE.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... The disaster had begun. The route to Cazan was filled with fugitives on foot, in cars, alone, or occupied with the long line of furniture. We took a ride for the length of the river, moved, as we are, by their Spring ...
The Great Life.(Short Story)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Everyone calls them Pouce and Poussy, at least that's what their nicknames have been since childhood, and not many people know that their real names are Christele and Christelle. People call them Pouce and Poussy because they're just like twin sisters, and because they're not very tall. To ...
IN THE KITCHEN.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... 1 Someone someone's in the kitchen old lady someone's old finger a design a sign old lady someone's leathery old finger that points someone's in the kitchen with a brown-haired girl who is wearing a gold-brown tunic over a grey-brown ...
THE HAND, SCULPTED.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Gets huge. Multiplies the bone. Here too sun is fundamental, it functions, joins the vagrant curves and you say, oh yes, that one. Stronger in effort, my dire gesture arrives between the sky, My. Spire, my distance, mine too. Made ...
THE HAND, AS SCULPTURE.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Belongs to a bat; should have enormous pointed ears all its own and does whole its moment: list it: prone sawn filtered intra- altimeter: that architectural movement that used only glass. All ...
THE HAND, DRAWN.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Won't we swerve. And if you turn around just so, you'll never alter the solid body is something beginning in the hand. The hand is the measure of solidity the The vagrancy, the unraveling tendency begins in the turning ...
MEMORY DECAY.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... after Loftus, E.F., Activation of Semantic Memory: AMJP (1974) Conclusion: Strong facilitation when memory of initial category still active in short-term state. Increasing delay produces increased retrieval time. Categories Name a fruit beginning with "p" ...
The Red Horse.(Short Story)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Having just come to university, I was anxious not to miss any lectures. And so every Tuesday and Wednesday, when they started early, I was half asleep in the Metro on my way to the faculty. As the train moved out of Lenin Hills Station, I opened my eyes, hearing voices speaking in a ...
The Bridge.(Short Story)
Jun 22, 2001; ... It was the dog that was in the picture, but I don't like dogs, and that's why the thing that came out was a story about the bridge. What kind of bridge was it? It was a long bridge across the sea. In the morning boys would walk over it to play in the sand ...
From THE LIGHTNING FIELD.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... 5. Your mind unkinks itself like carded wool as one foot steps in front of the other, circling the five-foot figure-eight infinity loop, painted on tarmac at the beach's edge in Bolinas. Soon, like a Himalayan ascetic, ...
COLUMBA AND THE VIKING.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Miracles and violence--the two extremes of a lack of faith. On this day the Raven came to Iona--63 of the Brethren put to the sword. Their king had Columba brought to him as he commanded the island from the Hill of the Angels and they spoke together thus: <Pre> ...
DO THE OEDIPAL GIG.(Poem)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Tired of stop-gap romances posing as anonymous chat. Sick of sobs plucked from the beak of a wayward crow knocked about the cab's backseat with ribcage all akilter--newly-minted C-notes kicking up at the devil's heels-- ...
Jay Wright. Transfigurations: Collected Poems. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State U. P., 2000.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... When Basil Bunting first collected his poems in 1968 for the Fulcrum Press, he wryly eulogized, "A man who collects his poems screws together the boards of his coffin." In spite of Bunting's misgivings about putting together that compilation (subsequently added to, albeit sparingly, two ...
Martin Corless-Smith. Complete Travels. Sheffield, U.K.: West House Books, 2000.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... At one point in his journals, Coleridge complains that he'll not be able to "los[e] [himself] in the flexures of [a Mulberry's tree's] Branches and interweaving of [the tree's] Roots" because the Mulberry is "Shakespeare's tree." To whit, Coleridge declares that the birch will be his ...
Rachel Loden. Hotel Imperium. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1999.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Certain circles seriously asked whether American poetry can be said to be political. "Where are the contemporary American equivalents of Yeats's 'Easter 1916' and Auden's 'September 1, 1939'? Where is our Octavio Paz, our Vaclev Havel?" Adrienne Rich and Carloyn Forche, of Americans ...
Peter Esterhazy. The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (Down the Danube).(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Peter Esterhazy. The Glance of Countess Hahn-Hahn (Down the Danube). Translated by Richard Aczel. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1 999. Anyone who sets out to translate Peter Esterhazy's work into English takes on a task that is both extremely difficult and, potentially, highly ...
Louis Armand. Seances. Prague: Twisted Spoon Press, 1998.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Few readers may be aware that Louis Armand's fifth collection of poems, Land Partition, appeared this year from Textbase publications, or that Inexorable Weather (Arc) as well as The Garden (Salt) are both forthcoming. Which is to say that despite his work as poetry editor of The Prague ...
Camille Guthrie. The Master Thief: A Poem in Twelve Paris. Honolulu: Subpress, 2000.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Chapter 22 of Exodus describes laws and ordinances against thievery in verse 8, Yahweh proclaims that if a thief who has given stolen goods to their original owner is not found, "then the master of the house shall be brought unto the judges, to see whether he bath put his hand unto his ...
Michael O'Brien. Sills: Selected Poems. Cambridge, MA: Zoland Books, 2000.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Rarely is a selected poems one's first introduction to a poet, but in the case of Michael O'Brien's Sills, I think we have to make a welcome exception. Although he published work by Frank Kuenstier, Rachel Blau, Serge Gavronsky, and many others in The Eventorium Muse in New York in the ...
Brozilian Poetry.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001; ... We turn to Brazilian poetry for many reasons now--beyond the simple sparking of our attention that the recent Nothing the Sun Could Not Explain (Sun & Moon, 1997) occasioned--each reason expressive of a latent desire, or expectation, or wish from our own poetry. Poesia concreta fascinates ...
Poetry and Science.
Jun 22, 2001; ... Such is Nature-description as referring to a class, an action, a quality, and an individual substance. It is this very [descriptionl that rules supreme in scientific treatises; and in poetry too the same [type of description] is required. -Kavyadarsa of Dandin 6th century. ...
Kenward Elmslie's Blast from the Past (Austin: Skanky Possum, 2000).(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Kenward Elmslie's poetic memories of life with John Latouche and the rest of the New York School would make me feel terribly nostalgic for Pop Art, Bebop, and the highbrow Beats (Frank O'Hara, John Ashbery, etc) save for two mitigating factors: 1. Like most of us, I was never actually ...
Report on Vilenica.(Brief Article)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Last September, 150 writers, translators, critics, editors, and of course, publishers, descended on Lipica, Slovenia (home of the Lippizaner horses and the anatomically correct horse sculptures) for the the 15th annual Vilenica International Writers' Gathering. The festival was originally ...
Dear Geoffrey Treacle,.
Jun 22, 2001 ... Many thanks for your thank-you note [in CR 47:1] for our permission to use Polish poems in translation in the "New Polish Writing" issue of Chicago Review. Just to add two comments: 1/ Our anthology is entitled Carnivorous Boy and Carnivorous BIRD (not: Girl)--a ...
Four Poetry Books & a Masterpiece.(Review)
Jun 22, 2001; ... Peering onto the racks of the poetry section at your local megastore emporium is an increasingly depressing affair. Who are all these people? How is it a poet I've never heard of can have a retrospective brick just out on Norton? The Collected Limericks of Angus MacKilt, with Notes & ...