Issue Eight
Spring 2008

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Feature Articles:

The Dance of Language
an interview with Robert Bringhurst by Sergio Cohn

The Life and Poetry of John Newlove
by Jamie Reid

I Am a Beautiful Monster by Francis Picabia
reviewed by Allan Graubard

Farewell Letter
by Gabriel Garia Marquea

The Jesus Sayings by Rex Weyler
reviewed by Steve D. Black

The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner
reviewed by Martin Van Woudenberg

Complete Issue Contents:

Features

• “Approaches to Language, Literature & Insight Practice”
  An Interview with Robert Bringhurst by Sergio Cohn
• “Farewell Letter”
  By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
• “The Lion of Ermita: An Afternoon with Frankie Sionil Jose”
  By Frances Cabahug
• “…exquisite lips, etc…”: Topic Sentence: A Writer’s Education, by Stan Persky
  Reviewed by Peter Grant
• “Countering War with Wonder: Poetry and Peace in the Visionary Poetics of William Blake,
  by Susan McCaslin

Departments

• Film: “A Night of Newlove” A Long Continual Argument: The Selected Poems of John Newlove, edited by Robert McTavish; What to Make of it All? The Life and Poetry of John Newlove, a film directed by Robert McTavish
  Reviewed by Jamie Reid
• Diplomacy: Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
  Reviewed by Reg Little
• Travel: “Sir Richard Francis Burton”
  By Jim Christy
• Sound & Fury: “Red Beans and Rice”: Blue Monday: Fats Domino and the Lost Dawn of Rock and Roll by Rick Coleman; City Cooking: Unforgettable Recipes from Susan Spicer’s New Orleans by Susan Spicer with Paula Disbrowe;
  Reviewed by Joseph Blake
• Public Affairs: The Social Entrepreneur: Making Communities Work by Andrew Mawson.
  Reviewed by Mark Cranmer
• Letter From New York: “Walking Saint: Go Moan for Man”: Beatific Soul: Jack Kerouac on the Road, Exhibition
  reviewed by Jordan Zinovich

Reviews

• “Branches on the Tree of Being”: The Tree of Meaning and Everywhere Being is Dancing: Twenty Pieces of Thinking by Robert Bringhurst
  Reviewed by Trevor Carolan
• I Am a Beautiful Monster by Francis Picabi, translation Marc Lowenthal
  Reviewed by Allan Graubard
• The Book of Fables by M.S. Merwin
  Reviewed by Richard Stevenson
• The Selected Letters of Wallace Stegner, edited by Page Stegner
  Reviewed by Martin Van Woudenberg
• “Sex, Murder & Kidnapping: New Books From Japan”: Losing Kei by Suzanne Kamata; Goodbye Madame Butterfly by Sumie Kawakami
  Reviewed by Hillel Wright
• To the Castle and Back by Vaclav Havel
  Reviewed by Jan Drabek
• “Revisting Childhood, A Distaff View”: Being Here by Rocio G. Davis;
  Reviewed by Ranbir Banwait
• Where the Rivers Meet; New Writing from Australia edited by Frank Stewart et al.
  Reviewed by Sanja Garid-Komenenic
• The Jesus Sayings: The Quest for His Authentic Message by Rex Weyler
  Reviewed by Steve D. Black
• Little Emperors: a year with the future of China by JoAnn Dionne
  Reviewed by Yvonne Blomer
• The Inumagi Clan by Seishi Yokomizo
  Reviewed by Hilary Matheson
• “And Beauty Answers” And Beauty Answers by Elspeth Cameron; Imperial Masquerade by Grant Hayes-Menzies
  Reviewed by Linda Rogers
• “The Christ We Cannot Ignore”: The Third Jesus by Deepak Chopra; Journeys into the Heart of Catholicism by Ted Schmidt
  Reviewed by Steve Bentheim
• A Poem by Robert Priest
• “Vintage Pearson: The Delights and Perils of the Imagination” A Perfect Gentle Knight by Kit Pearson
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner
• Jungle Crows: a Tokyo expatriate anthology, edited by Hillel Wright
  Reviewed by James Eke
• Phantom Limb by Theresa Kishkan
  Reviewed by Allan Brown
• “Robin Skelton”: In This Poem I Am by Robin Skelton; Facing the Light by Robin Skelton
  Reviewed by Hilary Turner
• I Have the Right to Destroy Myself by Kim Young-Ha
  Reviewed by Bruce Fulton
• Ordinary Days by Cornelia C. Hornosty
  Reviewed by Yvonne Blomer
• The Deserter’s Tale by Joshua Key
  Reviewed by James Eke
• “Boundary Bay Poem”
  Poetry by David Watmough