Chicago Review

Christopher Logue. All Day Permanent Red. New York: FSG, 2003. 64pp. $18Twenty years ago I was a private in the US Army. At the time, there was a popular indoctrination drill the sergeants would practice on us. Young recruits were asked the function...

This interview, first published in Chicago Review 39:1 (1993), took place at Dorn's home in Boulder, Colorado, on September 4, 1990. John Wright, who spent many years in northwest Washington, begins by asking about Dorn's early years in the Skagit Valley...

Great Dane mudflaps cut the backwash,block the stones slung out of the tread ravines.Swarms of Crotch Rockets flow in the wake,splashing through the schitstream,flowing out of the feedlots, the olfactory blitzkriegtorching the front brain with cacafuegodeep...

I like it here in the southern Appalachians. It's a whole hell of a lot better than my house was in Cincinnati. Here I can sit on my front porch and look out over the mountains, watch the cars go by on the road below my porch, rock a little, read a book,...

In the summer of 1965 Edward Dorn attended the Berkeley Poetry Conference, substituting for LeRoi Jones. he spoke to the audience of his travel with photographer Leroy Lucas through what is known geographically as the Basin-Plateau, an area occupied...

By the 1990s, Ed Dorn had honed a sharp distinction between "poet" and "writer," making it clear that he was a member of the larger, more inclusive class. he is, of course, principally celebrated for his poems, in particular the modern epic, Gunslinger....

Ammiel Alcalay. from the warring factions. Los Angeles: Beyond Baroque Books, 2002. 212pp. $12In "Theses on the Philosophy of History" (his last published essay), Walter Benjamin wrote that "only a redeemed mankind receives the fullness of its past-which...

The following is a rejoinder to Don Paterson's corrosive introduction to New British Poetry, an anthology of British poets born after 1945 released on April Fools Day 2004 by Graywolf Press. Given Graywolf's stunning publicity budget ($30,000 per book,...

Devin Johnston. Precipitations: Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. 212 pp. $19.95Any serious discussion of the occult in contemporary culture inherits the mixed blessings of occultism's popularization...

IWhat a strange poet Robinson Jeffers was. Lyrically striking if frequently obtuse, he's probably the most prolific modern poet still in print-his five-volume Complete Poetry contains over 2,500 pages. Popular early in his career, he died largely loathed....

Geoffrey Hill. The Orchards of Syon. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 2002. 72 pp. $24Despite numerous prizes and the adulation of a select group of critics, in the mid-1990s Geoffrey Hill seemed destined to enjoy a small space on the poetry shelf. Born...

Abstain Johnston. Zephyrus Image: A Bibliography. Berkeley: Poltroon Press, 2003. 244 pp. $40Have you left something out:Negative, says my Gunslinger,no thing is omitted.These words from Edward Dorn's Gunslinger serve as the epigraph for the introduction...