Cambridge Literary Review

At long last CLR5 is at the printer. News on the launch date to follow. Here’s the full list of contents:

Poetry
A further selection of American writers from the Greenwich Cross-Genre Festival (July 2010), edited and with a commentary by Emily Critchley, featuring: Catherine Wagner, Andrea Brady, Susana Gardner, Lee Ann Brown, Eleni Sikelianos, and Corina Copp (writing on the work of Jean Day)

Also new poems from: Linus Slug, Ray Crump, Michael Haslam, Peter Gizzi, James Russell, Timothy Thornton, Tomas Weber and Isabelle Ward

Fiction and Prose
Donald Barthelme, ‘The Ontological Basis of Two’
Valérie Mréjen, ‘Citrus’, translated by Christopher Andrews
R.F. Walker, ‘The Viennese Delegation’

Essays
David Hendy, ‘Danger in the air: the covert cultures of early radio’
Helen Macdonald, ‘Covert naturalists: ethologists hunting objectivity in the field’
Geoffrey Hartman, interviewed by Xie Qiong

Reviews
Katrina Forrester on Stanley Cavell
Emma Hogan on Frank O’Hara

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Sad news indeed. Via Ron Silliman’s blog I learned just now that Anne Blonstein has died of cancer.

This is one of the unforeseen consequences of editing—corresponding with and reading the work of an author only to learn at odd moments and through circuitous routes of their passing. I can only list a few pleasant letters and emails by way of acquaintance, and point new readers in the direction of the psalm published in CLR3, by way of introduction to her work.

When I received the poem, unasked for but welcome in March 2010, it seemed to fit perfectly with what we were trying to do with the translation issue. Its hesitancy and the obvious & calm political agenda are striking; it does the work of self-commentary—”(it enshrouds      fragile effort)”—while also aiming for a kind of inculpation, the two words that escape the poem at the outer margin and last line standing for a community and, ultimately, encircling against the stilled language of the cut-up newsreport: “our // you”.