The autumn double issue of Chicago Review (53:2/3) is available for purchase via ---

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The issue ---

POEMS

Book V of Ronald Johnson’s Radi os (entitled “The Book of Adam”); “Rising, Falling, Hovering,” the second half of C.D. Wright’s long poem surrounding the Iraq war (the first half was published in CR 51:3); as well as work by Larissa Szporluk, William Fuller, Sarah Gridley, Roberto Harrison, Mark Tardi, John Peck, Erín Moure, Oana Avasilichioaei, and Elisa Sampedrín.

FICTION

Five short stories by Peter Markus and Jedediah Berry’s “Minus, His Heart.”

ESSAYS

Georges Perec's “For a Realist Literature” (translated and introduced by Rob Halpern) and Allen Grossman's essay on communicative difficulty and Hart Crane's “The Broken Tower.”

The issue also includes “Numbers Trouble,” an essay by Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young on gender and contemporary poetry, plus a response by Jennifer Ashton.

REVIEWS

Robert P. Baird on Eliot Weinberger's An Elemental Thing

Michael Robbins on Frederick Seidel's Ooga-Booga

Catherine Wagner on Harryette Mullen's Recyclopedia

Chris Woods on Zak Smith’s Gravity’s Rainbow Illustrated

Diana George on Hermann Ungar's Boys & Murderers

Spencer Dew on Gabriel Pomerand's Saint Ghetto of the Loans

David J. Alworth on Daniel Kane's Don't Ever Get Famous

P. Genesius Durica on Laird Hunt's The Exquisite

Joshua Baldwin on Kevin Connolly's Drift

...and the next chapter of Kent Johnson’s critical novella, on J.H. Prynne’s To Pollen

[http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/ features a few of these reviews as free pdfs]

IN ADDITION . . .

A long response by John Wilkinson to Peter Riley's letter in CR 53:1, postcards of Ronald Johnson's concrete poem Balloons for Moonless Nights, and a note on gender representation in literary magazines.

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Please visit CR at --- and subscribe --- at http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/

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Also this week: CR is having an open house.

Please visit Lillie House this Friday evening at 7:30 to celebrate the launch of Chicago Review 53:2/3.

Contributors Roberto Harrison and Kent Johnson --- all the way from Milwaukee and Freeport, respectively --- will read.

There will also be drink and good cheer --- and copies of the new issue . . .

Lillie House is located at 5801 South Kenwood Ave / 60637, just east of the University of Chicago quad in Hyde Park.

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Next week: material from earlier issues that link with this one will be posted online (the first half of C.D. Wright's "Rising, Falling, Hovering," part one of Kent Johnson's critical novella on British poetry, and John Wilkinson's review of Simon Jarvis and Peter Riley's response).

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