Welcome to the Bastille Day issue: Number 14 for July 14th
As you burst through the fortress door, you'll find yourself in the Pocket Anthology of Found Poetry, where the “cutting, pasting, blackening, and colorizing” of text can be seen at length and in depth, thanks to our esteemed Consulting Editor, Dana Delibovi, who has curated this truly witty collection. And the poetry continues with originals by Teddy Norris and Carmen Firan (the latter translated by Adam J. Sorkin and Alexandra Carides).
Then bound up the stone spiral staircase—watch your head—for a novel excerpt from Broken Kismet (by yours truly) on one side and a wholly new section, Time Machine, on the other, in which Bill Hayward’s Gonna Die is screening on the dungeon walls as is Eric Darton’s meditation on Attica in Be Cool. Joining these is Teddy Jefferson’s article on Notturno, Gianfranco Rosi’s “most lush and sparse, most restrained and extreme” documentary to date.
Onward! To the battlements of Chris Sawyer-Lauçanno’s Memoir, Basil King’s Portfolio, and a smorgasbord of good reading in Consulting Editor Jan Schmidt’s essay on reading. We pause a moment to remember Lawrence Ferlinghetti, then dive into Remarkable Reads with a review of books by poet Ed Foster, and novelist and scholar Ngugi wa Thiong'o, followed by our annual list of Summer Books. Covered in soot and dust, stop and see the flowers in Bronwyn Mills’s photo essay before wrapping it all up with a unique look at the Seine in the Colophon.
Enjoy these Bastille-Day feasts!
- Hardy Griffin, for the Editors
Then bound up the stone spiral staircase—watch your head—for a novel excerpt from Broken Kismet (by yours truly) on one side and a wholly new section, Time Machine, on the other, in which Bill Hayward’s Gonna Die is screening on the dungeon walls as is Eric Darton’s meditation on Attica in Be Cool. Joining these is Teddy Jefferson’s article on Notturno, Gianfranco Rosi’s “most lush and sparse, most restrained and extreme” documentary to date.
Onward! To the battlements of Chris Sawyer-Lauçanno’s Memoir, Basil King’s Portfolio, and a smorgasbord of good reading in Consulting Editor Jan Schmidt’s essay on reading. We pause a moment to remember Lawrence Ferlinghetti, then dive into Remarkable Reads with a review of books by poet Ed Foster, and novelist and scholar Ngugi wa Thiong'o, followed by our annual list of Summer Books. Covered in soot and dust, stop and see the flowers in Bronwyn Mills’s photo essay before wrapping it all up with a unique look at the Seine in the Colophon.
Enjoy these Bastille-Day feasts!
- Hardy Griffin, for the Editors