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Chicago Review 56:2/3 features a portfolio of three unpublished essays by Veronica Forrest-Thomson, accompanied by editorial notes and an introduction:
– from "His True Penelope Was Flaubert: Ezra Pound and
Nineteenth Century Poetry"
– from "Lilies from the Acorn" (on Dante Gabriel Rossetti's
"Death-in-Love")
– "Pastoral and Elegy in the Early Poems of Tennyson"
This issue of Chicago Review also includes
POETRY by Anne Blonstein, Jason Harmon, Trevor Joyce, Keston Sutherland, Stephanie Strickland, Tom Pickard, William Fuller, Stephanie Schlaifer, and Marjorie Welish.
FICTION by Edmundo Paz Soldán, Michael G. Donkin, Victor Pelevin, and Andrzej Stasiuk
a NOTEBOOK by Nathanaël
an ESSAY by Charles Altieri: "The Place of Rhetoric in Contemporary Poetics: Jennifer Moxley and Juliana Spahr"
REVIEWS:
Dustin Simpson on Merrill Gilfillan
Simona Schneider on Mahmoud Darwish
Brian Reed on Cole Swenson
NOTES on Elliott Carter by Fred Cisterna and ecopoetics by Forrest Gander
& COVER ART by Marjorie Welish
CHICAGO REVIEW 56:2/3 RELEASE PARTY
Featuring:
Nathanaël
Joshua Baldwin
Thursday, December 1, 2011
7 PM
Lillie House - 5801 S Kenwood Ave, Chicago, IL 60637
Lillie House is located on the southeast corner of Kenwood and 58th streets, just a few blocks east of the Main Quadrangle of the University of Chicago.
Nathanaël's books include We Press Ourselves Plainly (2010), The Sorrow And The Fast Of It (2007), Paper City (2003), Je Nathanaël (2003/2006), L'Injure (2004) and …s'arrête? Je (2007), for which she was awarded the Prix Alain-Grandbois by the Académie des Lettres du Québec. Carnet de désaccords (2009) was a finalist for the Prix Spirale-Éva-le-Grand. Other work exists in Basque, Slovene, and Spanish with book-length translations in Bulgarian and Portuguese (Brazil). There is an essay of correspondence (2009) : Absence Where As (Claude Cahun and the Unopened Book), first published (2007) as L'absence au lieu. Also, a collection of talks, At Alberta (2008). Nathanaël's work, previously published under the name Nathalie Stephens, is repertoried in Constelación de poetas francófonas de cinco continentes (Diez siglos) (2011). A recipient of a Chalmers Arts Fellowship (2002) and a residential bursary from the British Centre for Literary Translation at the University of East Anglia (UK, 2003), Nathanaël was Distinguished Visitor at the University of Alberta in 2008. She has guest lectured in universities in Europe, the United States, Québec and Canada. Besides translating some of her own work, Nathanaël has translated Catherine Mavrikakis, Gail Scott, John Keene, Édouard Glissant. She lives in Chicago and teaches at the School of the Art Institute.
Joshua Baldwin is the author of The Wilshire Sun, a novella (Turtle Point Press, Fall 2011), and Poems and Fake Book Reviews, a chapbook (DEpress, 2010). He graduated from the college at the University of Chicago in 2006, and currently lives in Brooklyn. (joshuasbaldwin.com).
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