Chicago Review

Eliot Weinberger, An Elemental Thing. New York: New Directions, 2007. 192pp. $16.95In a recent essay for the New York Review of Books, Eliot Weinberger wrote, "One always knew exactly what [Susan] Sontag was saying, even if one didn't think it was true."...

All of this said, short and dated,insistent, presence simply ripened.Such lucre trampled into light doubly-amazed,yearly,looped to a cord, the wings of evening,make their foam in another higher cavern,such wings of evening, evening of evening.I am simply...

Kevin Connolly, Drift. Toronto: Anansi, 2005. 85pp. $13.95Ten pages into Drift, Kevin Connolly's third book of poems, I suddenly thought of these lines from the beginning of Whitman's "Song of Myself":Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves...

It was a good day of us brothers fishing. It was always a good day of us brothers fishing whenever us brothers went down to the river to go do us our fishing. It was a good day of us brothers going down to the river to go do us our fishing even when...

Zak Smith, Gravity's Rainbow Illustrated: One Picture for Every Page. Portland: Tin House, 2007. 784pp. $39.95As a thesis-generating machine Gravity's Rainbow has it all: the military-industrial complex, Rilke, mysticism; thermodynamics, sadomasochism,...

1The boy was in the house with two doors, alone with his proxy father, the Interminable Richard. The boy leaned in toward the glow of the electric voicebox while the Interminable Richard, trying to soothe his old wound, sat on top of it and flipped frequencies....

New conditions of life germinate new forms of spiritual articulation. And while I feel that my work includes a more consistent extension of traditional elements than many contemporary poets are capable of appraising, I realize that I am utilizing the...

Juliana Spahr and Stephanie Young's "Numbers Trouble" (which appears on page 88 of this issue) counts men and women in various poetry media to determine gender representation in "innovative"poetry communities. Intrigued by their findings, we decided...

(ProQuest: ... denotes formulae omitted.)Gabriel Pomerand, Saint Ghetto of the Loans: Grimoire. Translated by Michael Kasper. Brooklyn: Ugly Duckling Presse, 2006. 118pp. $14Gabriel Pomerand's Saint Ghetto of the Loans is one of the seminal works of...

Sometimes, us brothers, we hold our hands up to each other brother, and like this, with our hands raised in the air, us brothers, we tell each other what to do. Go get the hammer, one of our hands will say to the other brother. Go get us a handful of...

There are people here in this town, in this dirty river town with this dirty river running through it, who will be quick to tell you that what happened to our father, when he walked out into the river, was that he, our father, in the river, drowned....