Three Plays
Five Poems
Charles Altieri
Eileen Myles
Donald Revell
John Wilkinson
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge Martha Ronk
Andrea Brady
Brenda Hillman
Nancy Robbin Patricia Dienstfrey & Rena Rosenwasser
Garrett Caples
Poems
Fredrik Nyberg Eleni Sikelianos Ed Roberson Dan Beachy-Quick Robyn Schiff
María Baranda
John Wilkinson P.K. Page Kent Johnson
A triple issue celebrating the life and work of Barbara Guest. Three of Guest's plays and a portfolio of five previously uncollected poems (edited by Catherine Wagner) are accompanied by critical and personal responses to Guest's work by Charles Altieri, Eileen Myles, Donald Revell, John Wilkinson, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Martha Ronk, Andrea Brady, Brenda Hillman, Nancy Robbin, Patricia Dienstfrey and Rena Rosenwasser, and Garrett Caples.
This triple issue of Chicago Review also features:
POEMS by Fredrik Nyberg (translated by Jennifer Hayashida), Eleni Sikelianos, Ed Roberson, Dan Beachy-Quick, Robyn Schiff, María Baranda (translated by Joshua Edwards), John Wilkinson, P.K. Page, and Kent Johnson.
A COMMENTARY by C.D. Wright on her long poem “Rising, Falling, Hovering” whose first half appeared in CR 51:3 and whose second half appeared in CR 53:2/3.
Catherine Kasper's review of Barbara Guest's Rocks on a Platter (from CR 47:3)
The first and second installments of Kent Johnson's critical novella, Corroded by Symbolysme. The new issue includes the third installment, on Tim Atkin's Horace.
A letter from John Ashbery responds to Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young's “Numbers Trouble” (from CR 52:2/3)
