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Literary Magazine Reviews
Posted February 28, 2011
Alimentum :: The Fine Line :: Flyway :: Freefall :: Hanging Loose :: The Hollins Critic :: Iron Horse Literary Review :: The Kenyon Review :: Poetry is Dead :: The Sewanee Review :: The Straddler
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Issue 11
Winter 2011
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
Alimentum toasts its 5th anniversary with tasty bites from members who regularly sit around its table: Fiction/Nonfiction Editor and Art Director Peter Selgin, Web Editor Eric LeMay, Managing Editor Duane Spencer, Poetry Editor Cortney Davis, Assistant Web Editor Ruth Polleys, Art Director Claudia Carlson, Menupoems Editor Esther Cohen, and Publisher and Editor-in-Chief Paulette Licitra each deliver a morsel. Every course on the menu is nutritious and filling in its own way, but one of my favorites is Selgin's "The Muffin Man," a history of and personal treatise about his relationship with that now ubiquitous treat, the muffin. From the "flat, round, spongy, air-filled concoction prepared with yeast-leavened dough and cooked on griddle" (the English muffin) to "granola muffins, cappuccino muffins, strudel muffins, pumpkin, blueberry, applesauce, yogurt, oatmeal, and chocolate chip muffins—muffins whose entire purpose in life seemed to be nothing more or less than denying their muffinhood," Selgin captures the surprising rise (pun intended) of this American phenomenon.
The Alimentum staff welcomes to the table many talented guests, including poets Ricardo Pau-Llosa and Coleman Hough, and fiction writers Zack Kaplan-Moss, Ann Barry Burrows, and Amy Halloran, among others. Burrows creates a compelling historical narrative in "Long at Table," which begins with an opening that deftly whets the reader's appetite for more:
As I clear my throat, all of you point your chins my way, cast the lines of your gaze like I was the mast and we sail together with fair winds and following seas. Raise your glasses and join me in a toast, then I'll tell you what you cannot imagine: long before I performed around the world on this floating queen of a vessel, I was a twig of a girl overlooked and always hungry. Then came my teachers.
Halloran's "The Nurse's Monastery," is like the best component of repast, nourishing in an understated way, leaving the reader satisfied but a little confused about how these odd ingredients have come together: "I am a nurse but I don't dress like one because I don't want people to think I might help them."
We wash it all down with "Wine" of fine structure and a lingering finish from Pau-Llosa: "This is the clock we welcome. / By sips and gulps are the calendars undone." And from "Roja Veja": "beg us not to eat but put aside and ponder / and savor the words of its residue."
Congratulations to Alimentum on five savory years.
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The Fine Line
Issue 2
Winter 2010
Online Biannual
Review by Barbara Ellen Baldwin
This issue is an eclectic, sometimes compelling online presentation of poetry, fiction and art, which features established authors, and neophytes in a surprising mix. The site is charmingly accessed by "Blue Leaf," cover art by Christopher Woods; a little sip of Lewis Carroll's work greets the reader. Nice touch.
"These Blue Flowers," by Andrew Jones, appears with each deftly chosen line nuanced with color. The poem is an homage to what can be saved, savored and what cannot. The speaker's flowers appear first as:
...merely blue carnations once tucked
in damp newsprint and sold by a street vendor
off King's Road for stray pounds from
the pockets of my cheap navy blue raincoat.
The flowers are a gift, but more. As the poem blossoms, they begin to mark places and times. Jones elevates his kept carnations for a time, even "an awkward blue stain" from pressing the blossom is held with care. The poem's end reminds all that objects, however treasured their beauty, are ephemeral. I loved the confidence, and command of rhythm in this poem; I will never look at simple carnations in the same way again.
Doug Holder's work shows mastery, depth, and a brevity that results in memorable lines. In his quiet, dour night-walk piece, "It is late and the fruit is bad," Holder's images click, click, click for the entranced reader. His intent is to illuminate time out-of-sleep, the tiny losses accumulating in the dark. In the opening, his night walker heads where insomniacs always find themselves: to the kitchen.
Others may be breathing out zzzzz's under comforters, but Holder's seeker finds:
It is late at night
And the fruit
has gone bad.
Its bruises remind me
of all life's hamfists
and the things
I never had.
I'm a desperate fan of "life's hamfists." Who hasn't looked back at their time on the planet, counting fumbles before triumphs?
"Discussions Twice A Week At My House," Brandon William's peek into an editing workshop, is chilling and familiar. The poem's characters are engaged in endless critique. Williams, in speaking of the kinder comments, notes:
…These are not critiques for which
we are prepared. As students,
we are set up for criticism; to take it,
to return it two-fold. And this
is something we have mastered
to the point that accepting beauty
is as difficult as ignoring the speed-bag
Kyle likes to hit when we talk.
The poem ushers us into a homey setting, the speaker sitting "on the floor with my feet / on my ottoman, reading or eating or typing / but always insulting." The repetition of Kyle's fists on the punching bag stands for the hostility and repetition of their conversations. They lose their neutrality; ego compels them to:
...ignore what we cannot attack,
ignore when we cannot poke holes
with our pencils into their hardbound masterpieces.
The few who escape our razor- wire tongues
hear no praise, for silence has become
the best we can offer.
Allen Kopp's fiction piece, "Map of the World," anchors in the safer school days of pencils and corduroy. Still, children, in any year, don't want to face the mine fields of mockery. The piece is nostalgic, but the writing shines:
On the first day of the new school term, Joanne Torrance was sullen and unhappy. She wasn't ready for summer vacation to be over; she wanted to be able to stay at home and do as she pleased all the time. It wouldn't have mattered to her if school had never taken up again for as long as she lived.
I enjoyed Joanne's war with her ineffectual teacher. I was instantly snapped back to elementary school, where there is always one individual who possesses a lizard's portion of kindness. Everyone remembers That One, the tyrant with no sense, or talent. Why make students targets, on the first day of school? Because you can:
When Joanne's turn came, she went to the blackboard and picked up the pink chalk and wrote her name in neat cursive script underneath the babyish scrawl of the person who went before her. Then, she turned around and bowed from the waist instead of curtseying. A howl went up from the class and she flushed with embarrassment.
"Now, Joanne, I have a simple question for you and it isn't that difficult. Are you a girl or a boy?"
Again a howl of laughter erupted from the class. They were enjoying her discomfort, which went a long way toward relieving the tedium of the first day of class.
It was the wrong thing. It was the right thing. The author makes us want to go back and savor winning, by being our own best innocent selves.
This issue is graced with original art, features a group of
diverse writers, and is truly worth the read. The wonderful art
pieces punctuate the prose with color and originality.
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Journal of Writing and Environment
Volume 13 Number 1
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
As a journal dedicated to literary works focused on "the environment" (here, interpreted as the natural world), Flyway is an unusual publication. The magazine is atypical, as well, for its inclusion of a complete chapbook of poetry (selected through a contest), Lois Marie Harrod's "Cosmogony." Selections from contest finalist Corrie Williamson's chapbook are also published in this volume. An interview with fiction writer Ann Pancake, poetry from four additional poets, five essays, and three short stories round out the issue.
Bios include contributors' notes about the genesis or execution of their pieces, and of her chapbook, Harrod writes: "Probably anything I say about my creation of Cosmogony is inaccurate. I don't mean I am lying—or lying my way to truth. A poem is like a memory, revised as revisited, often without memory of the tweaks and turns taken." She concludes: "Words are what I write to know the world I love."
Harrod's poems grapple principally with the pain of living in a world the poet wants to be able to love better than it seems to allow or warrant. "I am thinking of how pain / fills a space and then leaves it empty," she begins in the first and title poem. Theft, terrorism, unrequited love, the small crimes of daily living, artless days, world-weariness, and any number of other ills and sins follow, from serious to barely noticeable. These poems, nonetheless, are not harsh, edgy, or excessively rough. They do, in fact, in their gentle unfolding, demonstrate a great devotion to and desire for a lovable world.
The same can be said, I think, of most of the pieces in the magazine. Michelle Eames offers a smartly composed essay about how living things, from ocean quahogs to humans, are aged—not how they age, but how their age is assessed. Julian Hoffman writes with concern and expertise about conservation issues concerning Lake Prespa near where he lives in Greece. Patricia Monaghan writes about her experience of the special and unique quality of glaciers, balancing ecological history, art history, and personal experience.
Managing editor Liz N. Clift closes her Editor's Note asking
"what will be natural in the future?" It will be natural, I am
certain, to look forward to future issues of Flyway.
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Volume 20 Number 2
Fall/Winter 2010-11
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
Freefall is true to its name, and you never know where you'll land. John Wall Barger's prose poem "Scream" begins on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 and winds up in India in the early years of the next century:
My mother saw the Beatles at the Ed Sullivan Show in '64, she was 16, George was her fav, the way he bobbed his head!...Forty-six years later, my mother & I stumble off a night bus north of Dehli, onto a dusty parking lot, as lightning bolts split the sky, white veins of a god, over the Himalayas, thunder roaring close by.
Wall Barger's is not the only scream or the only surprising transition. Nancy Lee also gives us a boisterous prose poem, "Four Men Stole Munch's Scream":
Two carried the mouth and two the burnt horizon. Ten years later, it was taken again with the Madonna. The Scream had moisture damage and Madonna suffered several tears on the right side…The gods made her a trade for silence. Gave her a piece of the horizon. Carried away her mouth.
Jeanie Keogh's short story "Out of True" includes a funky little chart of pros and cons assessing the status of her romantic relationship. Richard Harrison defies his own constraints with a long prose poem "Haiku" that is very Haiku in its un-Haiku-ness: "The Haiku is not my form, but I keep returning to this one that I am not writing." And writing preoccupies Rosemary Griebel, too, whose poem "Insomnia" has not helped me with own severe sleeplessness, but who has, to her credit, contributed to my appreciation of poetry's ability to make a wakeful night worthwhile: "someone at a small window writing the world / while a distant keening in her head will not lead her back / to sleep."
Ron Schafrick's story "The Boy from Ireland" is a terrific example of how to create a character the reader can care about with relatively little backstory and detail. This is one of those stories in which nothing happens, but we get inside the mind of a character we end up caring about, which creates its own sense of drama. I find this is often attempted, but rarely successfully executed. And what more can we ask of fiction?
Finally, Laurie D. Graham's "Astrometry" is all the proof I need that Freefall deserves its self- assessment as "Canada's Magazine of Exquisite Writing":
Night stretches over the field, moth-bitten and complete.
I'm wary of the too-perfect geometry, its bevel over the wide earth.
Vantaged in this containered city block, how does triangulation work
on this field I've got going…
And all the fields recalled with a ranging, improvised clarity.
I go back in and sit on the bed and don't speak,
a lightbulb left on
in the hope the moth can find it.
Find Freefall at www.freefallmagazine.ca, and let go.
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Hanging Loose
Number 97
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
Always a great balance of established and lesser-known poets and fiction writers, this issue's more recognizable contributors include Philip Dacey, D. Nurkse, Simon Perchik, David Trinidad, and David Wagoner. Their work is strong, as always. Dacey's offerings are consistent with his by-now-long-and-respected tradition of creating poetry of the biographies of famous artists of many genres—dancers and writers this time in "American Choreography" and "Vaslav Nijinksy on Walt Whitman."
Perchik is as mysterious and lyrcial as ever in "L24":
Under your tongue these stones
the dead leave empty
—what you warm
basks next to words
no longer side to side
sung the way evenings
still turn back
Nurske is also true to favored subjects and is always especially effective when describing places, in this case "Twilight in Canarsie":
In these long slant-lit streets, she says,
you will find footsteps that once made shoehorns,
waffle irons, or pearl cufflinks, and storefront churches
where voices adored the Living God while tambourines
clashed a little behind the beat…
I liked also "Earth and Sea and Sky" by Emmett Jarrett, which creates a poem that re-creates the very movements and relationships it intends to elucidate:
It is clearer to Gloucester
where the earth
drops off
the steep rocks
into the water.
(An editor's note lets us know that Jarrett died of cancer while the issue was in production, and it made the poem all the more poignant.) Noteworthy, too, are poems by Indran Amirthanayagam, a tremendously prolific writer from Sri Lanka; a story by Jim Feast; and prose poems with circus themes by Anna Maria Shua, translated from the Spanish by Steven Stewart.
Hanging Loose always includes poems from high school students, often frighteningly accomplished considering the age of the writers, which this time around includes "Sunday Kitchen" by Isabelle Burden:
Dry light overhead,
Stirring in a pot of coffee.
In a blank paper kitchen she said
I want to eat it slowly.
I loved also ten paintings by Sean Grandits, oils on canvas with all the rich, strangely un-real quality of oil paintings, and all the uncanny more real-than-real expressions of the figures portrayed.
Hang on tightly to your copy! There's a lot to appreciate in
this issue.
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The Hollins Critic
Volume 47 Number 5
December 2010
Five Times
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
The Hollins Critic is one reason why print publications must never be allowed to perish. You simply cannot duplicate, imitate, or recreate this type of pleasure online. Just 24 pages, a sleek, understated experience of intelligent reading. One full-length essay; a few short reviews; a few well-chosen poems. You can read it one sitting, though you may wish to make it last longer. This little publication always reminds me of the adage "less is more."
This issue is comprised of a smart, readable, enlightening essay by poet and Spalding University professor Lynnell Edwards on the work of poet Cecilia Woloch; book reviews of poetry, mostly from indie presses I might not know of were it not for The Hollins Critic; and poems by Jennifer Clement, William Miller, Burn Thompson, and Weston Cutter. From the essay on Woloch, to the poem on the back cover/mailing page by Cutter, there isn't a superfluous word, nothing that isn't exactly right, right where it is. "What if dust," begins the poem "From What Tree" by Cutter. Every line in these polished two-dozen pages is equally economical and compelling.
Edwards's essay, "Dreaming the Long Carpathian Dreams," focuses on the place (position/role) of place (personal and geographical space) in Woloch's poetry. The essay is a close reading of texts, yet it is happily free of off-putting and alienating academic jargon. This is not to say that the reading is "popular" in sensibility, only that it is meant to help readers appreciate Woloch's work, rather than to make it appear accessible only to erudite and privileged insiders ("critics"). She relies on Woloch's autobiography to elucidate the poetic texts, an approach that may be questionable (in theory) on some levels, but which is compelling and instructive in this case. Ultimately, I found this approach wholly logical and acceptable, given the poems and their genesis. Edwards does an admirable job of balancing quotes from the texts, biographical information about Woloch, and critical analysis. I think the goal of any such essay should be to inspire one to read (or reread) the poet in question, and Edwards certainly does that.
As I write this review, hundreds of thousands of men (yes, only men) are protesting in the streets of Cairo, and so I found William Miller's poem, "Brady's Pictures," the final lines quoted here, timely and relevant:
From the rice paddy
to the burning mosque,
he was the grandfather
of tv news.
Sadly, he might have
stilled all cannon fire,
raised the last flag
for the south.
As people rise up in protest and mosques burn, I am grateful
for intelligent thinking, writing, and reading, like the work I
have come to depend on in The Hollins Critic to help me
gain perspective on everything from poetry to protest.
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Iron Horse Literary Review
Volume 12 Number 5
Fall 2010
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
Good things do come in small packages. I'd rather read 47 terrific pages (a small journal by most measures) than two or three times that many mediocre ones. This fine, slender issue includes nonfiction from Kevin Kerrane (a favorite of editor Leslie Jill Patterson's) and Gary Fincke; poetry from Mathew Thorburn (another of Patterson's favorites, she says), Marie Gauthier, Liz Kay, Fritz Ward, Emily Symonds, Jim Daniels, and Andrew Kozma; and fiction from Amy Knox Brown.
Like Patterson, I was impressed with Kerrane's essay, "Pages from an Irish Notebook," an essay that merges the description of a conference attended by the author, a personal family story, and the tale of an encounter with a contemporary, all related and unrelated in surprising ways, and all told in engaging and dynamic prose. And like the editor, I am a fan of Thorburn's lovely poem, "Making a Run for It," about Iceland:
The glacier calves an iceberg—
this happens maybe twice
an hour—splits off
hunks bigger than our car
of blue and gray and gray-green
that crash
down in the water, splash
and bob up
and make us glad to be here
safe on shore
I was taken, too, with Fincke's essay "A Miscellany of Vanishing," 19 short segments of personal, universal, regional, and global "vanishings," written in tremendously appealing, approachable, and often entertaining prose. And I was pleasantly surprised by the collaborative poem of Ward and Symonds, as I don't often find jointly written experiments to result in truly artful conclusions: "The gas pedal submits to force. / The brakes offer the luxury of forgiveness," they write in "If Only the Moon Would Stop Turning the Volume Up on Silence."
Submit, and subscribe, to Iron Horse; the volume's
just right.
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The Kenyon Review
Volume 33 Number 1
Winter 2011
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
It may or may not be intentional (though given this journal's outstanding editorial management, it is likely to be deliberate), but the relationship between this issue's cover and the poem "Desert" by Adonis, translated from the Arabic by Khaled Mattawa, is nothing short of exquisite. The cover photo is a 1938 "Night View" of New York City by the always-amazing Berenice Abbott. The Adonis poem begins: "The cities dissolve, and the earth is a cart loaded with dust / Only poetry knows how to pair itself to this space." The poem and photograph are both, as they should be, impossible to describe accurately, except to say that each evokes a particular atmosphere that could not be a better example of the medium's potential and success. "The city's voice was too tender," writes Adonis (such a beautifully translated poem). This is a long poem of shifting tones, expertly rendered, as Abbott's photo is a composite of so many lights, creating one whole ultra-real vision.
These pieces are illustrative of the journal's quality as a whole, which features the 2010 short fiction prize winner Megan Anderegg Malone, with finalists and seven other stories; three essays; and the work of a dozen and a half poets, including such notables as Ira Sadoff, Peter Campion, Doug Ramspeck, Rosanna Warren, Jane Hirshfield, Laura Kasischke, Natasha Sajé, and Franz Wright, among others. There are a few surprises, fiction from nonfiction master Scott Russell Sanders; a work of fiction based on nonfiction, "Yalla!" by Harriet Levin, based on conversations with the now famous "lost boy," Michael Majok Kuch; and an essay on the filmmaker John Huston by Jeffrey Meyers.
Franz Wright's prose poems stand in direct opposition to the mysterious and subtle tones of the Abbott and Adonis works, but are nonetheless representative of much of the work in this issue, and equally compelling. Here is an excerpt from "The Window":
I know, it's terribly mystical. So what. So is work; and work means something. It means that you do what you do, you do for someone else. You do it for someone who loves you, that's all, someone who misses and needs you, if you are so blessed. I had my work—mine caused a little trouble, but I did it. I did what I promised. End of sermon. Can I ask you a question?
Can I ask you question? Have you read The Kenyon Review
lately? Don't miss it.
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Poetry is Dead
TV, Beer, and Video Games
Volume 1 Issue 2
Summer/Autumn 2010
Review by Jeremy Benson
What I like most about the Poetry is Dead Magazine Society is how serious they take their role as the poetry imp. You can almost hear the stifled giggles breaking as you begin to catch the joke. "Poets tend to take the art form a touch too seriously," writes Editor-In-Chief Daniel Zomparelli. "Try it next time you are around a poet… Just say something like, 'the only true form of poetry is lyrical' or 'conceptual poetry is here to kill off the fossil we call lyrical poetry' or 'if it's a project than it is not poetry' and watch their faces turn red." Art Director Easton West writes in his letter, quoted here in its entirety: "I gota actually wrtie some shit [sic]."
Zomparelli says that the issue is meant to run away from nature, the stereotypically Canadian theme, and plunge "head first into lowbrow culture." Key features of the magazine include Kenneth Goldsmith's essay on Conceptual Writing (something every writer should consider reading), a tongue-in-cheek survey regarding poets' beer, TV, and video game habits, and a cut-and-paste excerpt from the Wikipedia entry on "Digital Poetry."
Yet, curiously, as a document that is meant to challenge the traditional, sentimental ideas of poem-worthiness, its poems reside in sentiment. Work about television and video games—like "Cathode Ray," in which Jacob A. David's speaker could only afford "thirteen inches / of black and white / t.v." as a kid, or "Lessons in Horticulture" by Catherine Owen, featuring cacti named after the Fonz and "that handsome cop from CHiPS"—are pure childhood sentiment, citing the shows and games in front of which writers like David Brock and Billeh Nickerson grew up.
Even beer, although legally adult, refers back to the memories of childhood, at least the coming-of-age. Josh Neely writes in "Synesthesia II":
Sometimes the taste of good beer is all
foothills and flooded fields.
Sometimes it is the odor
of the barn my grandfather built
from pine, near a pond
in Georgia.
At the end of the day—about 5a.m., or whenever you've defeated Ganondorf—Poetry is Dead provokes a debate about low- vs. high-brow art. Their rhetoric assumes a dichotomy, but the work presented, flagshipped by Nikki Reimer's "tv vs. the real," has high- and low-brow comfortably achieving the same goals. And if those two can successfully run a co-op mission, then is there a need for the line between them at all?
Finally, Zomparelli interviews Donato Mancini about, among other topics, "accessibility." Mancini answers:
I chew off my own thumbs with frustration every time I read the word "accessibility". Like "_____ is dead," tagging something as "inaccessible" is mainly a shock-jock style rhetorical gesture…Are clichés accessible or inaccessible? Is a person who wants to be friends with everyone trustworthy? Should poets try to write for every imaginable sensibility?...Isn't tagging a work inaccessible like calling the audience stupid?...With 15,600,014 under-read books of poetry awaiting a reader, why would it bother you to find one you don't grasp?
Speaking of television, I remember a long time ago, probably the first grade, hanging from the jungle gym at recess with a bunch of guys from class, all of us making fun of Barney, the singing purple dinosaur. The bell rang; as the others ran to get in line, I hung back with Dan, who turned to me and said, "I actually like Barney." I get the feeling that for all its teasing and troublemaking, Poetry is Dead really, really cares about poetry. Oh boy, do they care.
(P.S. Props to the PIDMS for a TV, Beer, and Video Games
issue that has a balanced representation of contributions from
both men and women.)
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The Sewanee Review
Volume 118 Number 4
Fall 2010
Review by Kenneth Nichols
This issue of The Sewanee Review glorifies the intellectual and emotional benefits of immersing oneself in the cosmopolitan ideal of the Western tradition of knowledge. George Core and the rest of the Sewanee staff offer the reader a slow and relaxing trip around the world, using a Western lens to illuminate people and society from several different cultures. Interestingly, that lens is also used to remind us what the United States was like before blind ethnocentrism was considered a cardinal virtue.
Seeing a woman walking a Weimaraner inspired Robert Lacy to recount his experiences in 1959 San Francisco. Once proudly called "Baghdad-by-the-Bay," the city was teeming with transcendent personalities, including Lenny Bruce, Allen Ginsburg and Willie Mays. Indeed, much of the article is a well-written sequence of Lacy's memories about the city, but the ending provides perspective. After many years and several life changes, Lacy returns to San Francisco and learns that the city that shaped him now exists only in his memory.
Ann E. Berthoff's essay "Coming to Canna" focuses on a place half a world away. The Isle of Canna, located off the western coast of Scotland, is one of the islands of the Inner Hebrides. A visit requires a five- or six-hour trip to the other islands in the archipelago; at last, Canna "emerges from behind Rum [another island] like a green whale." Berthoff manages to make the geography of a remote island feel personal and communicates the history of the island through the biographies of those who loved it.
The journal contains a short story and several poems; the most notable of the latter is verse from Robert C. Jones's "Kraków Sketchbook." Science and literature have long competed to illuminate the workings of humanity's purpose. Jones introduces a historian who contemplates the value of two of history's greatest scholars. Did Copernicus and Goethe work in non-overlapping magisteria? What could one learn from the other?
The Sewanee Review, considered in total, asks a
similar question: by learning from others, what can we learn
about ourselves?
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The Straddler
Issue 6
Fall 2010
Online Biannual
Review by Meghan Dougherty Cheek
The Straddler takes the cultural temperature of America and reads it back at a pitch and slope that we of the era of entertainment "news" are hard pressed to find in more popular venues. It is not a straightforward look at the nation, though the topics discussed are at first glance fairly frank. This issue is a fragmented offering of subtle depth, taking on the System, the Administrator, the Economy, and looking at them sideways, questioning conventional notions of responsibility and control, beauty and aberration.
"Advancing Oligarchy: A Conversation with James Kwak" discusses the aristocracy of Wall Street and contends that American oligarchy thrives on ideology and soft power as opposed to the bribery and blackmail of, say, the Mafia. We move from here to a dialogue around Lonerganian economics and the idea of participating in the economy with common sense and a sort of bending toward authenticity in "Encountering Bernard Lonergan alongside Richard Liddy." In this article, we are offered a more human way to participate in the systems which rule the world. Liddy says that "there is a desire for wholeness in people, for meaning. Beginning with that is very important. And then part of that is to find meaning in your own desire for meaning. In other words, a more reflective awareness of your own dignity. Your own ability to learn and be creative and so forth." This concept—such a small, personal theology— is a subversive tool when applied to something so macro as the Economy.
The idea of humanizing our participation in a series of inhuman systems is also present in the comparison of The Administrator in "Barack Obama and the Culture of Consultancy" and "Yojimbo and Administration." In a review of iconic American presidents, The Straddler, in collaboration with James Comerford, expresses discontent with a presidency that has turned out to be a consultancy—a Consultant in Chief, managing the expectations and demands of a group of stakeholders and economizing "Change" to fit in certain pockets. But in "Yojimbo and Administration," by Dan Monaco, the person of the Administrator is challenged—changed indeed—from an overworked Poseidon who hasn't the time to tour his own seas, to Akira Kurosawa's agile, generous samurai—breathing a Lonerganian insight and authenticity into a tired middle-manager.
Even the art in this issue is a bringing together of the human and inhuman. Mark Ostow's first attempt at urban landscape photography, "Where the Boardwalk Ends," is an acutely sad juxtaposition of Atlantic City's excess and privation—remnants of a community going to pieces around the giant of an abandoned casino. Poems by David Scronce, Rodney Nelson, and Nathan Gunsch sparkle urgently and distinctively, as "Frinky," fiction by Eddie Lombardi, sings out in boisterous whimsy. Elizabeth Murphy's "Love Letter to Rane Arroyo," is icing—a wistful reminder to care for oneself, to write more love letters.
Though The Straddler is not an existential exercise,
the nine pieces in this issue invite the reader to a renewed
examination of self and system: a continual asking of the
question, "what does it mean to be authentic?" Again, from
Liddy, "To be authentic is to use your eyes, is to ask
questions, to check on the answers you come up with, to make
good decisions—this is an ongoing process that we're involved in
every day. And there are ways that we screw it up, through all
these biases that get in the way of asking the next question."
This issue of The Straddler seems to challenge—"What is
the next question?"
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To the Editor: Zonisamide is a novel anticonvulsant used as adjunctive treatment in combination with other antiepileptic medications for partial seizures. We present a case report of a patient who developed psychotic symptoms after initiation of zonisamide and stabilized only after zonisamide cessation, psychiatric hospitalization, and antipsychotic medication treatment.
"Ms. A" was a 50-year-old Caucasian female with a 41-year history of seizures refractory to multiple antiepileptic regimens, mild mental retardation, and no previous psychiatric history. Phenytoin, primidone, and vagal nerve stimulator placement 30 months before her admission led to improved seizure control, with no apparent psychiatric symptoms. Eight months before hospitalization, phenytoin was discontinued and zonisamide was added, titrated to 300 mg/day with subsequent variation between 200 mg/day to 400 mg/day.
Ms. A's family reported that within two to three weeks of starting zonisamide, she became hostile, irritable, and isolative. Over six months, her family relationships worsened as these behaviors continued. Two weeks before admission, Ms. A was observed in an emergency room as being belligerent, paranoid, and reporting auditory and visual hallucinations. She had called police about family, refused to bathe, perseverated about medication, and limited eating and drinking. She was instructed to discontinue zonisamide.
Upon psychiatric admission, valproic acid was started for seizure control; primidone and vagal nerve stimulation continued. Ms. A received olanzapine, which was increased over four days to 15 mg qhs. During her initial three inpatient days, she was agitated, paranoid, intrusive, and periodically combative, requiring seclusion.
Ms. A's psychosis gradually resolved over four weeks. Upon discharge she displayed perseveration and mild irritability, but demonstrated no paranoia, delusions, or hallucinations. Discharge medications were olanzapine, primidone, and valproic acid.
Zonisamide has been used in Japan and Korea for over 15 years. Several Japanese-language case studies report psychosis and/or mania with zonisamide (1–3). Psychosis incidence in one study ranged from 1.9% to 2.3% of patients treated with zonisamide (2). In another study of 74 patients, incidence of psychosis ranged from 13% to 18% (1). One-half of these episodes occurred within one year following zonisamide initiation, and 11 out of 14 occurred within three years. Patients who experienced psychosis were younger than those who did not. A 12-year-old child whose psychosis subsided with cessation was retried with zonisamide until her psychosis became irreversible.
Previous reports noting poor correlation between starting zonisamide and psychosis onset could not definitively conclude that zonisamide was the causative agent (1, 4). We cannot rule out that our patient's symptoms resulted from interictal psychosis. However, her 41-year seizure history, previously unaccompanied by psychosis, leads us to believe that this psychotic episode is related to zonisamide treatment.
Zonisamide is used increasingly in the United States for seizure control and, off-label, for weight loss. We agree with Japanese recommendations that zonisamide be halted in epileptic patients with new-onset psychosis and not be retried.
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Thursday 25 October 2012: 5.30pm - 8pm
Location: Jeremy Bentham Room and Old Refectory - Wilkins Building
Are you interested in pursuing careers in areas like:
- marketing
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Do you want to meet employers such as P&G, Coca-Cola, Cisco, American Express, Google, Sainsbury's and more? Then come to the Marketing & FMCG Fair on Thursday 25th October!
Fair Format:
- Panel Discussion: This runs from 5:30pm to 6:30pm in the Old Refectory in the Wilkins Building. The panel will be made up of representatives from the firms listed below who will talk about the sector in general, their work, routes in, challenges they face, and their advice to anyone looking to break into their sector.
- A Networking Fair:
This will run at the same time as the employer panel from 5:30pm to 8:00pm in the Jeremy Bentham Room (in the Wilkins Building). Here you'll be able to meet representatives from all the companies listed below to ask more specific questions about their opportunities, recruitment processes or anything else you'd like to know.
There's a diverse mix of exhibitors on show, from some of the world's biggest and well-known brands to more specialised, smaller companies. Many have never been on campus before and are keen to recruit from UCL, so this opportunity is definitely not to be missed!
Employers include:
- American Express
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- Dunnhumby
- Essence Digital Ltd
- Hyper Island
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- Procter & Gamble
- Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd
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- Cisco
The Marketing & FMCG fair is for UCL students and graduates from ANY year and degree discipline plus staff employed by UCL are also welcome to attend.
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The Great Resurgence of Public Spaces
Opponents of Copenhagen's first pedestrian street warned that people would abandon the area if cars were removed; now it's the pulsing heart of the city.
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It's a dark and wintry night in Copenhagen, and the streets are bustling. The temperature stands above freezing, but winds blow hard enough to knock down a good share of the bicycles parked all around. Scandinavians are notorious for their stolid reserve, but it's all smiles and animated conversation here as people of many ages and affiliations stroll through the city center on a Thursday evening.
A knot of teenage boys, each outfitted with a slice of pizza, swagger down the main pedestrian street. Older women discreetly inspect shop windows for the coming spring fashions. An accomplished balalaika player draws a small crowd in a square as he jams with a very amateur guitarist. Earnest young people collect money for UNICEF relief efforts. Two African men pass by, pushing a piano. Candlelit restaurants and cafes beckon everyone inside.
"Cultures and climates differ all over the world," notes architect Jan Gehl , "but people are the same. They will gather in public if you give them a good place to do it."
Gehl, an urban design professor emeritus at the Danish Royal Academy of Fine Arts and international consultant, has charted the progress of Copenhagen's central pedestrian district since it opened in 1962. At that time cars were overrunning the city, and the pedestrian zone was conceived as a way to bring vitality back to the declining urban center. "Shopkeepers protested vehemently that it would kill their businesses," he recalls, "but everyone was happy with it once it started. Some now even claim it was their idea."
The pedestrian zone has been expanded a bit each year ever since, with parking spaces gradually removed and biking and transit facilities improved. Cafes, once thought to be an exclusively Mediterranean institution, have become the center of Copenhagen's social life. Gehl documents that people's use of the area has more than tripled over the past 40 years. The pedestrian district is now the thriving heart of a reinvigorated city.
Copenhagen's comeback gives hope to people around the world who want to make sure that lively public places don't disappear in this era of rampant traffic, proliferating privatization, heightened security measures, overpowering commercialization and the general indifference of many who think the internet and their own families can provide all the social interaction they need. There's an emerging movement to protect these commons— literally common ground— as places all of us can use and enjoy.
Why We Abandoned the Public Realm, and Why We Need It Again
While only a century ago streets almost everywhere were crowded with people, many are now nearly empty—especially in the fast-growing suburbs sprouting all over the globe, but in some older towns and cities, too. Walking through the center of certain North American communities can be a profoundly alienating experience, as if the whole place had been evacuated for an emergency that no one told you about. Even in the crowded urban quarters of Asia and Africa, public spaces are suffering under the onslaught of increasing traffic and misguided development plans imported from the West.
The decline of public places represents a loss far deeper than simple nostalgia for the quiet, comfortable ways of the past. "The street, the square, the park, the market, the playground are the river of life," explains Kathleen Madden, one of the directors of the New York-based Project for Public Spaces, which works with citizens around the world to improve their communities.
Public spaces are favorite places to meet, talk, sit, relax, stroll, flirt, girlwatch, boywatch, read, sun and feel part of a broader whole. They are the starting point for all community, commerce and democracy. Indeed, on an evolutionary level, the future of the human race depends on public spaces. It's where young women meet and court with young men—an essential act for the propagation of the species. Numerous studies in fields ranging from social psychology to magazine cover design have proved that nothing grabs people's attention more than other people, especially other people's faces. We are hard-wired with a desire for congenial places to gather. That's why it's particularly surprising how much we overlook the importance of public places today.
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Beverly Mitchell from 7th Heaven, guest stars on 'The Secret Life of the American Teenager'. We had the chance to participate in a Q&A with her where reporters asked her questions about the show and her new role as the new guidance counselor, Katelyn O'Malley.
Here are a few of the questions and answers we thought you guys would be interested in.
Q: What has it been like on set with a lot of the same crew from 7th Heaven there?
Beverly: It has been absolutely amazing. Everytime I get to go back to work at Secret Life, it's like coming home. So many of those crewmembers are like family to me. So, it's been a lot of fun. It's a very rare thing to happen in Hollywood, so I am blessed everytime I get to go play.
Q: Tell me a little bit about your take on the show and its content. What made you interested in joining the cast?
B: Secret Life is such an amazing show, and it definitely is a little bit grittier than 7th Heaven and deals with much more mature content, but I think it still does it in a nice way where it's something that teens are dealing with now. It's current. It's exactly what teenagers and young people are seeing in their schools. It's relevant, and I think it was a great opportunity for me to bounce back into TV and be a part of something great that's touching people. I was absolutely thrilled when Brenda called me and invited me on. Everyone is so welcoming and kind, and the show's great. We had huge numbers on Monday, and I'm just so honored to be a part of it.
Q: What excites you about playing your character? Were there any struggles or concerns or did research have to go into your character?
B: To be honest, I felt very at home with Katelyn. She's a girl who's fresh out of college and so excited to come in and touch the lives of young people, which I can completely relate to. So, it was really fun and not a lot of research. It was just a girl who wants the best for the young people around her and just trying to make a difference in the world. I could definitely relate to that. So, it was pretty easy to step into Katelyn's shoes.
Q: I'm so hoping you could talk a little bit more about how long we're expected to see you on the show for. Is it through the whole season? Will there be another season? A lot of the counselors have been rotating in and out throughout the course of the show.
B: Well I can tell you so far, I'm getting ready to shoot my 8th episode. So, I'm filtered in and out of the season, and you definitely haven't seen the last of me yet, which is great, and so much fun. I never know what she's going to be up to next, which is always exciting to get the next script and see what's going on with Katelyn.
Q: I just want to know what a typical day is like on the Secret Life set.
B: Typical day, well usually for me, when I'm working, I'm usually the first up, so I'm usually at work by six, which is great. I go get an amazing breakfast and get to hang out with the amazing makeup and hair department, who are just dear friends. Of course, then we rehearse, and usually—this is one of the most efficient crews I have ever had the pleasure of working with—we can take a huge 10-page day and hammer it out so quickly and so efficiently, and we have so much fun doing it.
What's cool is, there's a lot of people—nobody's going back to their trailer and being all by themselves. Everybody's talking, conversing, and having fun and catching up because it's definitely like a family. It's just such a pleasure to be able to come onto a set and feel so comfortable and to feel at ease and to feel loved and wanted. Usually for me, the day always ends with my dear crew singing Happy Birthday to me to make me embarrassed and humiliate me because that has been going on since the 7th Heaven days. So, years of my birthdays, by this time I'm like 200 years old.
Q: If you could bring back yet another 7th Heaven actor on the Secret Life, who would it be?
B: That's a hard one. That's a really hard one because I love everybody. You totally stumped me. Maybe David Gallagher, because David—one, he's just one of the most phenomenally talented people, and I think he would fit in very well with the whole Secret Life group. Except for now, he's kind of gone very scruffy, so he's kind of the bad boy lately, which actually could be fun.
Q: When young actors and actresses starting out on a show or in the business about the age you were when you started 7th Heaven , what advice would you give to them today since you've essentially grew up in front of the camera?
B: I think my biggest advice for young people is to not get caught up in the hubbub around actors and this praising that goes on. I feel like being a young teen, you can easily take that and your ego can blow up, but I know that my mom always kept me super grounded. My friends were the same friends that I had before 7th Heaven, and I still am best friends with all of them now.
I knew what was real and what was fake, and that was easy to discern for me, and I always grounded myself in what was real. And 7th Heaven was a job for me, but it didn't make me any better than my friends who were studying at school, and I think that made a big difference. I've never fallen into the Hollywood trap, but I also had a phenomenal mom who was ready to knock me down if I ever thought I was too cool to do my chores or to clean up after the dogs.
So, my life never—it's changed only in the fact that the hours of the day I was at work, but when I went home, I still had rules. I still had chores, and I still had to get good grades and do my school work. My mom always said she's not going to lose her daughter to the business, and she didn't. I really feel like parents need to be strong and to not treat their kids any different just because they're in Hollywood, doesn't give them license to do whatever they want.
Q: How is working on Secret Life different from working on the 7th Heaven set.
B: I think the biggest change would just be, obviously, the cast is entirely different and so the dynamic between cast is a little different, but it's awesome and everyone is so amazing. Obviously, with 7th Heaven, after working with 11 years, you are so close to the characters and so close to the people, there's a comfort there. What's fun about Secret Life is it's new and it's fresh and it's exciting, and everytime I go to work I'm excited to see whoever I'm working with and to connect in a different way. Because the cast is so big, everytime I come, I'm meeting someone new and learning a little bit more about the bigger family, which is awesome. So, I guess I would say that's the biggest change because, obviously, having a lot of the same crew, I fall back into hanging out and chatting about the same things that I used to chat with the crew on 7th Heaven. So, I think the cast dynamic would be the biggest change.
Q: Since you're a guidance counselor on the show, do you have any advice for fans of Secret Life and really kind of high schoolers who watch the show?
B: My biggest advice for anyone, actually it applies to I think everyone, is just to be nice to one another and to just stay true to yourself, and that being said just still being a good person. I have always lived by the golden rule like do unto others as you want done unto you. Anytime someone's mean to me and I want to fire back with something, I just take a deep breath and realize that just because someone said something to me doesn't mean that I need to retaliate or say something back. Being the bigger person is a much harder thing to do, but it's far more rewarding, and in the long run, you will be very pleased with your outcome, and you'll have no regrets. I think that's a big thing.
Q: Who is your biggest TV crush?
B: You're trying to get me in trouble with my husband. Biggest TV crush? I don't even know. I'm trying to think of all my favorite TV shows. I guess I'd have to say Eric Dane. He's the first one that came to me.
Q: If you could change one thing about Secret Life, what would it be?
B: Okay, that's not that hard. I'd be on every episode. I'll just be selfish and say that.


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Branford (AP) — Ted Kennedy Jr. says he's considering a run for the state Senate in Connecticut.
The son of the late U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts released a statement Monday saying he will decide within two weeks whether to seek this year's Democratic nomination for the 12th Senatorial District seat being vacated by retiring Guilford Democrat Edward Meyer.
The New Haven Register reports that Kennedy said he's been encouraged by friends and civic leaders to run for the 12th District seat, which represents Branford, Durham, Guilford, Killingworth, Madison and North Branford. The 52-year-old health care lawyer lives in Branford.
Kennedy thanked the 79-year-old Meyer for his service and said he is taking the political opportunity seriously.
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It looks great Cath! I don't have the answer to why it is black in the gallery, but as long as it was transparent in the file you sent to Andrea, all is good!
Here is my QP for the exchange. I have also uploaded to your dropbox Andrea.
These qps are gorgeous! I'd better get busy and make one to add to the collection. Wow!
Here is a second QP and it's been uploaded to your dropbox Andrea
Second one from me. Uploaded to your dropbox, Andrea. Thank you for hosting.


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Bread-Baking Tip: How to Tell When Dough is Kneaded
Knowing when you can stop kneading the dough is among the more mysterious aspects of baking bread. Sure, it's no longer a wobbly mess of bubble-gummy dough, but is it really done? Here are a few clues to look for.
The point of kneading dough is to strengthen the gluten, which are the stringy bands of proteins that give bread its structure and texture. As you (or your stand mixer!) work the dough, those strands of gluten are tightening up and getting into line.
Kneading for 10-12 minutes by hand or 8-10 minutes in a mixer are the general standards; if you've been massaging the dough for that length of time, you can be pretty confident that you've done your job. Here are a few other things to look for:
1. Smooth Dough - The dough will start out looking like a shaggy, lumpy mass and will gradually smooth out as you knead. By the time you finish, it should be completely smooth and slightly tacky to the touch.
2. Holds Its Shape - Lift the ball of dough in your hand and hold it in the air for a second. If it holds its ball shape, that means the gluten is tight and strong. If it sags down between your fingers, the gluten is still loosey-goosey and needs some more kneading.
3. The Poke Test - Give that ball of dough a firm poke with your finger. If the indentation fills back quickly, you're good to go. If it stays looking like a deep dimple, continue kneading.
4. The Windowpane Test - Pull off a golf-ball-sized piece of dough and stretch it into a thin sheet between your fingers (as pictured above). If the gluten is well-developed, the dough will stretch into a paper-thin film without breaking. If quickly breaks...you guessed it, keep kneading.
5. When You're Tired - You may laugh, but this is true! If you've been kneading for 10-12 minutes and your arms are tired, the dough is probably good. (If you get tired before that time is up, it's ok to rest for a few minutes and come back to it.) As long as your dough is close to passing the tests mentioned above, even if you're not 100% confident, you can consider yourself within range and call it a day.
For a more detailed look at kneading dough and how to tell when it's done, check out this video:
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Do you have other tips for knowing when your bread dough is kneaded?
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A pinch test is what I do - if you pinch it and it springs right back, it's good. Also, if it's becoming stiff and is starting to tear, you have kneaded it too long. I generally use my stand mixer with a hook for the dough and then finish it off the counter in 5 seconds flat.
That is, on the counter.
Doesn't this depend on the kind of dough you are kneading?
A baker can over knead too. I think it's important to let new baker's know what to look for when the dough has been over worked.
Quite timely, as I began my first sourdough starter this weekend. Can't wait to get to this part for my first loaf!
I think I might have the problem of overkneading. I have a stand mixer and I use it, and I feel like the dough is never done at 10 minutes. But I also feel like it's not done after fifteen, or even twenty. It never windowpanes at all. So, maybe I'm not checking it early enough? The bread seems to turn out ok, but is often sort of heavy and dense. Advice?
@gildeddawn - you may need to let your dough rise more after kneading/right before baking. I've always found that when I'm baking bread at home, my apartment is a bit cooler (unless the oven is already on) and it will take up to an hour or two longer to proof than a recipe calls for.
What if you have been kneading for 30+ minutes and it's still not smooth?
Hmm...perhaps a second post on over-kneading is required! It's definitely easy to over-knead in a stand mixer because it's so powerful; less likely when you're kneading by hand.
I'm not a professional baker by any means, but I think it's better to err on the side of caution with less kneading time and then give your dough a longer rising time before shaping the final loaf as caseoftornados says. If your dough was under-kneaded, my understanding is that the longer rise will help develop the gluten further (as it does for no-knead bread).
@gildedawn - My guess is that you're right and that you're over-kneading the dough. I actually find the windowpane test to be the least reliable of all the methods for the home baker because it's so easy to misinterpret. How is your dough with the other signs? My stand-by is usually if it holds its shape in a ball. Even if the other tests are inconclusive, this one seems to be reliable.
@KatieRoseK - It could be that you're working with a dough that has a higher proportion of water than your typical loaf of bread (typical is roughly 2 cups of water to 5-6 cups flour). I find that doughs with more water tend to stay pretty shaggy even after kneading, but they'll smooth out after rising and shaping. Does your recipe give a time estimate for kneading? If this is/was your first time making the recipe, I'd go by that and then adjust as needed the next time.


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People love their pets like family. So it's not surprising a survey found that 91% of pet owners in the U.S. and Europe would give up their vacations to pay for a pet's surgery.
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