Chicago Review back issues from December 2002:
Super Georgic.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Super Georgic 1. The dream begins here again, on a Good Day, where light whittles up hands' gold With the sun's impressive keep & we drive down through plains of heavy wheat, green Movement rapid as the sky scatters thinning pairs of wedge tails, white ...
Target Rich Environment.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Target rich environment. Tho not calm in the head we went off to factories in the dark, trying to say something to each of you, deserted and windowless, trenched and yelling for our souls Left as they cease to care. & they cease to care for flesh, the life-borne ships, ...
SYNC.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Sync. Leave Melbourne in a Sleeper, seal in a wilderness of habit Continuous sheaves of spectators carry crossbows, their archaean grammar elided by rustbelts and rain I looked at the host & in saying goodbye said--in movies handsome lines should be sung by ugly men ...
[When you touch down upon this earth. little reindeers].(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> [When you touch down upon this earth. little reindeers] When you touch down upon this earth. little reindeers hoofing murderously at the gray slate roof: I lie beneath dearest father xmas: will you bring me another 17 years you gave me my first tin star and my first tin wreath ...
Canal.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> CANAL. So: the bridge was too low, which meant this length was not for trade. Your passengers must crouch in the center of the hull. And ...
Then.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> THEN. Go on, go on, the other said. Not not not, the other said. And I was not listening, although it was all I said, mid-morning, the tea cold and the radiators finished with their sweet ...
Garden Pieces: for Jennifer Moyer.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Garden Pieces: for Jennifer Moyer. i. this morning orange false monarchs alight on purple star bursts of allium, onion-scented, swaying ii. under a thicket of pink honeysuckle white and pale lavender phlox powder its shadows iii. bits of the day ...
Epithalamium.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Epithalamium. 1. The revolutionary challenges Previous answers seeking light Without passion, Sacrificing nation For the sake of mother, Ready to make party abhor party, For any of us. 2. Sacrifice-and- love- for Are a waste of effort And have done ...
Variations as in our bibles (white-faced, predatory).(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Variations as in our bibles (white-faced, predatory). History has to live with what was here, has to whitewash, revise til worthy. Ah, history: whole Hittite wharves awash, whole throwaway vistas, this hit here, that hit there, a slavish Yore. Wow, wish I was there. Worth a ...
Three variations hum the possible-to-say.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Three variations hum the possible-to-say I hum seaweed word- wise due homeward dew residue Who-Am wearied Deus whom we rouse dead whim we house weird mad muse dead wire who awes red woe humid usher wide meadow How did we measure * At meter's games, sow ...
Few days cop.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Few days cop. whelming to precreate consumes convincing the phallic contingent track intracourse as a craft as in the boat whereto banish gavotte by gap from apparerrant pewterperfectnot a bleep i may hop in innocence of my suspicion ...
National Rival.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> National's rival. A story in which all things are mysteries with a one-third moon slumped in the sky everywhere I went with my brief case bupkis O world behind this blue and disarming air if only two people alone if only et cetera it is the role of the straw at which you ...
Matters.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Matters. Whatever flares up in our mental precincts a picture of how we were a photo booth I.D. so what if I cried at '80s Big Hair Night that was me adrift in the ensuing brouhaha twenty years later I got a knack for glowy for bits of stardust it's what we came here for ...
Daily.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Daily More fashionable than ever in the stifling the next to last to arrive at '80s Big Hair it's a critical climate charged with subjects I used to be high tech now I am the power if K. were here he'd say turn up the volume everywhere I went with my brief case this happens ...
Fire patrol.(Short Story)
Dec 22, 2002; ... There I am again--late morning, late June, 1982--leaning in the humid shack doorway, peering out over the sun-blazed reaches of the Hidden Pond pool facility and of my thirsty wistful life: a relentless battery of yellows and white-golds spiking off rippling blues, and all the squealing, ...
Her lover.(Short Story)
Dec 22, 2002; ... "He holds me against the wall and rams it in" was how Sheila put it. "But what about your parents? Where are they?" "They left already. I told you that a hundred times." She leans exasperated weight into one hip. "They leave early for work." I tap two ...
Philip Jenks and the poetry of experience.(Critical Essay)
Dec 22, 2002; ... Poetry is, from one perspective, a treasury of memorable statements; from another, it is a name we give to a particular experience we have of language. In the first case, the emphasis falls squarely on interpretable meaning, though the memorability is clearly indebted to the power of ...
On Trevor Joyce.(Critical Essay)
Dec 22, 2002; ... The Irish poet Trevor Joyce is a distant cousin of his novelist namesake, as I learned when a glazier repairing a window of Joyce's house, broken in a fit of rage by a mainstream poetry critic at the party that concluded an avant-garde poetry festival held in Cork, said that if he'd known ...
The Miseries of Poetry.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> The miseries of poetry. HIPPONAX In Lydian tone she said, "Come hither, I will plug up your tight asshole." And she beat my egg sack with a sprig of lilac as if I were a satyr. I fell backwards, breathing heavy, and caught there by writhing vines I suffered torture times ...
On a Serpent Painted on the Aft of a Ship.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... Hipponax <Pre> Mimnes, you sick aesthete! Why'd ya paint a long snake-thing going up the rear end of our trireme? (1) We'll be fucked with black luck, become slave-rowers for pug-nosed Thessalians. We'll get eaten by sea-worms. Also, our pretty helmsman will grow ...
On the Bastard Boupalous.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... Hipponax <Pre> ON THE BASTARD BOUPALOUS (1) Be a coatrack for me, dear, while I clock Boupalous on his snot-filled nose. Following this, be a four-legged bench, as I fuck from the rear his sweet, the idiot giantess of Rhegium. (2) Thank you, Ibykos, handsome ...
On Imitation.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... Ammonides <Pre> ON IMITATION Splay the oozing Theophrastus (1) on a catapult. Pull the pus-covered cart to the Pellaen (2) walls, and cut the tensed rope. Let the assholes of Assos (3) preach about Truth and Form: In the real world, a philosopher flying over a ...
Revenge.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Revenge. Phillipos [blackened at top by fire] that little hill, rubbed bald by galling winds, the fossil-hill nigh the Hades Hole. We'll stitch chords to their ribs and fly them like kites. We'll chorus our dead to the music of the humming strings. [burned ...
How to be Tibullus.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> How to be Tibullus. (Elegiae 1.1). Albius Tibullus Pile your money high in yellow bullion if you want to, if tilled wide acres make you rich enough to and you don't mind work that doesn't stop, and sleep that starts and runs when army trumpets blast an enemy ...
From The Way by Swann's: A passage about Bergotte.
Dec 22, 2002; ... Translator's note: The following passage, about the young narrator's love of the writer Bergotte, occurs about one hundred pages into The Way by Swann's (pp.92-95 in the Pleiade edition of Du cote de chez Swann). The character Bergotte, and his style of writing, are said to have ...
From Annunciation.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> From Annunciation Rachel Zucker Sighting you say it is a cloud formation not land but when two mornings later true mist rolls in we know we are missing something--wasit just a strip of darker water over the horizon--a craggy one-line list of ...
Known to the River.(Poem)
Dec 22, 2002; ... <Pre> Known to the river. Tell your young every fish's heart throbs with searching. Who begat the fish? I slipped into the water. I opened the door and the trees were gone. Fish heart-- water is bitter on its account. A fish hung from my ...
Grout.(Short Story)
Dec 22, 2002; ... I'll tell you why I can't find it, Curtis is telling us up there on the bridge. It's because it moves around out there, it ups and moves. But I tell you one thing: I find that headstone there's a big bag of gold under it, sure as shit. He's drunk. After all, it's February and ...
Arcady. (Brief Reviews).(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2002; ... Donald Revell. Arcady. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. 81 pp. $12.95. ISBN 0-8195-6474-5. Donald Revell is a poet who has always had a remarkable knack for picking up, intelligently applying, and then thoroughly assimilating influences, not only from literature ...
Effigies Against the Light. (Brief Reviews).(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2002; ... John Wilkinson. Effigies Against the Light. Cambridge, U.K.: Salt Publishing, 2001. 199 pp. $15.95. ISBN 1-876857-38-2. John Wilkinson's Effigies Against the Light, among the new crop of books from the tireless Salt Publishing, collects a near-decade of work from one of the most ...
The Throoats of Narcissus. (Brief Reviews).(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2002; ... Bruce Bond. The Throats of Narcissus. Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press. 2001.88 pp. $16. ISBN 1-55728-706-6. Narcissus, gazing at his watery reflection, falls in love with his own image, and either falls into the pond and drowns, or pines away, unable to leave ...
The Appointment. (Brief Reviews).(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2002; ... Herta Muller. The Appointment. Translated by Michael Hulse & Philip Boehm. New York: Picador USA, 2001. 224 pp. $23. ISBN 0-312-42054-4 The history of the last decades in Central and Eastern Europe abounds in situations in regard to which all epithets and theoretical ...
False Positive. (Brief Reviews).(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2002; ... Harold Jaffe. False Positive. Tallahassee, FL: FC2, 2002. 140 pp. $12.95. ISBN 1573660981 Few fiction writers over the past twenty years have been more aggressively opposed to the distortions and seductions of the mass-media than Harold Jaffe. Defining himself as a "guerrilla ...
All Souls Day. (Brief Reviews).(Book Review)
Dec 22, 2002; ... Cees Nooteboom, All Souls Day. Translated by Susan Massotty. New York: Harcourt, 2001. 352pp. $25. ISBN 0-15-100566-4 All Souls Day, first published in Holland in 1998 and the latest of Cees Nooteboom's novels to be translated into English, takes a familiar line from the close ...
Dispatch from Morseilles. (Notes & Comments).
Dec 22, 2002; ... An account of TOM RAWORTH'S PETITES IRREGULARITES, new collages and exhibition of chapbooks/graphics/bookworks (24th May-29th June 2002), and POESIE BRITANNIQUE CONTEMPORAINE, a presentation of con temporary British and Irish poetry, 7 pm: Friday 31st May 2002, at the centre international ...
Department of Hypocrisies. (Notes & Comments).(Letter to the Editor)
Dec 22, 2002 ... Dear Geoffrey Treacle: In the issue of CR in which I appeared ("Statement of Purpose" in "Notes & Comments," CR 47:3), you heavily edited my somewhat bombastic bio line. I can understand that you have issues of space, and that you never promised to print the bio as-is. I ...