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Contributors to this issue include: Richard Baker, Karen Brennan, Rafael Campo, Michael J. Carter, Lucille Clifton, Bernard Cooper, Alice Fulton, Amy Gerstler, Judith Grossman, Marilyn Hacker, Forrest Hamer, Bob Hicok, Scott Hightower, Brenda Hillman, Tony Hoagland, Gray Jacobik, Antonio Jocson, Kate Knapp Johnson, Carolyn Kizer, Wayne Koestenbaum, Dana Levin, Cynthia Macdonald, Kathryn Maris, Jack Martin, Gail Mazur, Sandra McPherson, Jeredith Merrin, Susan Mitchell, Carol Muske, Sharon Olds, Julie Paegle, Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Robert Pinsky, James Richardson, Reginald Shepherd, Megan Staffel, Lynn Stanley, Myrna Stone, Virginia Chase Sutton, Jennifer Tonge, Reetika Vazirani, Jonah Winter, David Wojahn, Susan Wood ... Read more

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A fine collection for any hardcore poetry lover
Some people change the direction of American poetry, even if they fail to get the credit they deserve. "The Salt Ecstasies" is a collection of poetry from James L. White, an individual regarded by many poetic critics as an unsung hero of poetry. With insight into his work, "The Salt Ecstasies" is a fine collection for any hardcore poetry lover. "The Clay Dancer": You are buried in so many places/like the scattering of diseased ivory./The infamous motels of quick nights,/the way you like it and do it best.//The morning star says you didn;'t sleep well into spring/and finally gave everything away on blue paper/like the hunter's bow and ashes.//He wakes, touches himself there, looks/at the skin magazine and can't sleep.
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Useful little catalogue
This is a useful little paperback catalogue, it measures eight inches square and is about three sixteenth of an thick (23cm x 23cm x 0.4cm) with the pages unnumbered. It contains about five pages of text: "Welliver's Woods" by Mark Strand which very briefly discusses the artist's subject matter and approach; and "Neil Welliver" by Robert M Douty which discuses a little further the artist and his work. It concludes with a catalogue which provides the basic details, (date, media and size) for each work.

The bulk of the book is taken up with full page colour plates of the artist's work, and as all the paintings represented are square or nearly so they fit very well on the page. The quality of reproduction is good; however in only one picture is the texture of the paint and brushwork evident. In total there are about forty examples of Welliver's paintings reproduced here, plus a photograph of the artist.
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A great volume of a wonderful magazine
This GRANTA issue is only marginally devoted to raw, pure sex and should cater to many tastes. "Tokyo Island" by the awesome Japanese woman novelist Natsuo Kirino evokes a fairy tale world of two waves of shipwrecked people stranded on an uninhabited, lush tropical island. Kiyoko is the only female in a population of 30+ Japanese and Chinese men called Tokyoites and Hong Kongers. They don't mix, divide the island between them and evolve in different directions, with Kiyoko always on their mind. Also a parable for Japan and China's economic performance in recent years.
Soft(?) porno is offered in a uniquely-structured declaration of love/short story in Emmanuel Carrère's "This is For You". The fictional author/journalist of the story is a love-struck control freak who has been planning the publication of his ode to his loved one several months ahead, to coincide with her traveling on a Saturday afternoon in July on a high speed train towards him, with her choosing "Le Monde" with its weekend edition with short story supplement (circulation 600.000) as her natural choice of entertainment during the journey. Could it be filmed?
At least three stories deal with gay-hood, its discovery, full blast enjoyment, and fears of a sad and lonely aftermath. Alan Founds' portrait of a moody, confused and rather nasty vicar in a London suburb is intriguing and perfectly written. For me, Mark Doty's title "The Unwriteable", a coming-out story, summarizes it all. The charm,glory, joy, fulfillment of gay-hood cannot ever be conveyed through writing to non-gays.
Tom McCarthy's story "The Spa" is about constipation, not sex, at least not until the end. Its victim is a male English adolescent in an old Central European spa town brimming with centuries of violent history. it is an excerpt from a forthcoming novel called "C", which I will have to inspect upon publication. His and Mr. Founds' story really evoke sharp smells, sounds, images to an almost cinematographic degree. Finally, Brian Chikwava's story ofpost-independence Zimbabwe, its music and graphically-sexual new dance forms, describes with love and humour, and then, with near-certainty that this wave of creativity accelerated the arrival of another disaster. Very rich volume, not to be missed.

Particularly strong fiction
The strength of this edition of Granta is in a very strong set of fictional pieces. In particular Natsuo Kirino's enchanting story of shipwreck survivors, Tom McCarthy's promising extract from his forthcoming new novel C set in a Prussian spa town, Jennifer Egan's amusing story of the effects of gold imbibed with coffee for a mid-life crisis suffering music exec and Jeanette Winterson's typically beautiful short piece on the love of the Gods. Three of the memoir pieces are also highly enjoyable; Marie Darrieussecq's unsavoury philosophy teacher, Emmanuel Carriere's inventive short story which is the most erotic of the pieces here and a thought provoking piece on life in a Scottish monastery from Michael Symmons Roberts.

The collection covers a range of issues around sex - from abstinence, innocent, erotic, gay, first loves and forbidden. It's a subject where writing can so easily go wrong, but here, it is consistently interesting. Thoughtful and interesting - one of the strongest Granta editions. ... Read more