Veronica Forrest-Thomson:
Three Essays

Introduction by
Michael Hansen
and Gareth Farmer

Anne Blonstein
Jason Harmon
Trevor Joyce
Keston Sutherland
Stephanie Strickland
Tom Pickard
William Fuller
Stephanie Schlaifer
Marjorie Welish

Edmundo Paz Soldán
Michael G. Donkin
Victor Pelevin
Andrzej Stasiuk

Charles Altieri

Dustin Simpson
Simona Schneider
Brian Reed

Fred Cisterna
Forrest Gander

BARBARA GUEST
SPECIAL ISSUE (53:4 & 54:1/2)

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, John Wilkinson, P.K. Page, and Kent Johnson.

STORIES by Bret Sparling and Craig Foltz.

An ESSAY on Geoffrey Hill by Brett Bourbon.

REVIEWS:

Peter Manson on Hannah Weiner
Dustin Simpson on Keith Waldrop's translation of Baudelaire
Joshua Baldwin on Andrezj Stasiuk
V. Joshua Adams on Amanda Nadelberg
Rusty Morrison on Dan Machlin
Leila Wilson on Eileen Myles
Charles Altieri on Jennifer Moxley
Kristin Prevellet on Ron Silliman
Courtney MacNeil on Kamau Braithwaite
Kent Johnson on Tim Atkins

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.

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The next issue of Chicago Review (56:4) will appear in February 2012.