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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedIn recent years as this anniversary approached, Chicago Review has been featuring reminiscences from editors who worked on the journal in the 50s, 60s, 70s, 80s, and 90s--editors recounting their formative moments:...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedTrue to its name, Blast went up in smoke after two issues in the first year of World War I. The Little Review was long-lived by comparison, "making no compromise with the public taste" for fifteen years up to its...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2-4) Peer-Reviewed1 Out of droning Bayonne at five, sun silhouetting a Buddha on the city's one shrine. We had fashioned a mast for our hull from a stout pine that we felled and lopped in the dark, amid much blasphemy. By lantern light...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedJennifer Ashton's recent article "Our Bodies, Our Poems" makes some bold claims about gender and contemporary poetry. Most striking is her claim that the "the recent commitment to women as formal innovators ... is...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedThe house I grew up in, in Hartford, Connecticut, is itself like a ghost in my body. My father is a ghost in the house. Whenever I visit from Pittsburgh or New York--the two cities I live in now--I have to crouch down...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedThere are two pictorial extremes of human thought process--The Geometric and (what I like to call) Meat-ineffable ... no "the" before "Meat"--inasmuch as raw cells are such a diversity of impulse as to defy hierarchy....
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedDuring the first few minutes of his recent Southwestern University Brown Symposium lecture on Gustav Mahler's Song of the Earth (1908-9), the musicologist Donald Mitchell gave an account of one mode of Asian music,...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedThe governing tone of Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young's "Numbers Trouble" is indeed one of trouble--in their words "a combination of annoyance and confusion"--at what strikes them as a serious mistake about the current...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedThe following is the second chapter of an unfolding critical novella on current British poetry, to be entitled Corroded by Symbolysme: An Anti-Review of Twelve British Poets, Being Also a True Account of Dark and...
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From:Chicago Review (Vol. 65, Issue 2-4) Peer-ReviewedIn 1972 CR published an issue with a shiny silver cover that reads "26 ANNIVERSARY." This might seem eccentric at first, but anyone who has been a part of CR can surmise what happened: they planned a twenty-fifth...