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Literary Magazine Reviews
Posted August 15, 2010
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Number 9
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
An engaging and provocative issue of this ever-impressive annual. This year's portfolio of international writing features contemporary Polish poetry selected by guest editor Mark Tardi, complex and inventive work worthy of serious reading and sustained attention. Another portfolio guest edited Laura Moriarty presents the work of "A Tonalist" poets; and guest editors E. Tracy Grinnell, Paul Foster Johnson, Julian T. Brolaski and contributing editors Jen Hofer and Nathalie Stephens selected the work of three dozen other poets and a number of unconventional review essays.
Translations from the Polish are astounding, especially considering how challenging creating the English versions must have been (the originals do not appear in the issue). Consider, for example, the difficulties the original would pose for "self-portrait by a potter's wheel" by Aneta Kaminska, translated by Katarzyna Szuster:
i – the shaper of lines
i – the verse of clay
a cluster plaster clings
and the wheel's –
or for Miron Biatoszewski's "Addition by Subtraction," translated by Mark Tardi:
today's I
today's most possible-me
wants the immediacy of fulfillment
before sleeping into meteomorrowness
The work – short poems, longer poems, prose poems, poems with unusual graphic elements, poems in dialogue, poems that explore the limits of language, poems that posit large and small philosophies, poems that explore the limits and the potential of the speaking self – is stunning and fascinating. The difficulty of obtaining translated work of contemporary poets outside of the US makes this issue all the more valuable.
Also fascinating is the portfolio of "A Tonalist" poems accompanied by an essay by the leading proponent of the A Tonal, Laura Moriarty. I can't say that I understand what A Tonalist poetry is, even after reading her introductory essay, "A Tonalist Coda," in which she classifies A Tonalist as an attitude or a context and not a set of techniques. The only formal association with A Tonalist (also called A Tonal) poetry is a blog, which seems appropriate since A Tonalist has something to do with place and nothing to do with place, according to Moriarty – a lot like cyberspace, which is and isn't a location. To help define the term, Moriarty quotes from her own poem "A Tonalist Rules":
A tonalist rules
For the game
When we are unafraid
Narrative coincides with meaning
Flatly in love with
Rhetorical continuity interrupted
Only to be taken back up
Like two things in one
Judging by the poems included in her selection, I would say that A Tonal has to do with sound (tonal, of course), disruption of normal expectations, narratives turned inside out through fractured syntax and meaning linked across and beneath the surface of words and phrases that often takes as its own subject subversion of traditional narrative. As with many things, it is easier to say what is not A Tonal, rather than what is. A poem from another section of the journal by Rick Snyder, "Testimonials" would likely not be considered A Tonal ("A minor American poet of middle antiquity. Dates unknown. / Fl. during the first great swirl. His lines about the red leash / were noted by one reviewer and emphasize the human / inability to discern smells.''), but work by French poet Michel van Schendel, translated by Natalie Stephens, also appearing outside of the A Tonal portion of the journal, might be ("le monde un monde // parmi tant // détaché attaché dépecé // the world a world // amid many // detached attached dismembered"). Or is there too much conventional continuity here?
Jocelyn Saidenberg's A Tonalist poem, "Our Community:" begins:
Or, our narrative of relevance
On poetic communities, for we are the relevant.
Or, haven not haven.
The A Tonalist work is certainly consistent with Aufgabe's editorial predilection for provocative, evocative poetry that seeks to disrupt convention, defy expectation, and even startle, but in the service of meaning and communication, rather than to deliberately confuse or obscure. Work in this issue of Uruguayan poet Virginia Lucas, Slovenian poet Tomas Salamun, Mexican poets Dolores Dorante and Rodrigo Flores, and poems in English by three dozen talented poets, in addition to the Polish portfolio and the A Tonalist selections, is consistent with this editorial stance and makes for exceptional reading.
Finally, the late Leslie Scalopino makes what must certainly
be one of her last appearances in print in this issue, published
just prior to her death. She is interviewed by Michael Cross.
They begin with a discussion of her early and influential
considering how exaggerated music is and her assertion in
autobiographical writings published that she had not read any
poetry like the poetry she was writing – a conversation that
couldn't be more appropriate for the final pages of one of the
most original literary journals around.
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Bellingham Review
Volume 33 Issue 62
Spring 2010
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
The awards issue – and the judges chose well! A poem by Elizabeth McLagan, "All Alien Spirits Rest the Spirit," chosen by Paulann Petersen; an essay by Alexandra Marzano-Lesnevich, "In the Fade," chosen by Kim Stafford; and a story by Irene Keliher, "SPN," chosen by Kathleen Alcalá. Well-composed, confident work; subtle, yet focused and intense. McLagan's poem is representative of much of the poetry in this issue, poems steeped in rich images of the natural world rendered in careful, round language ("There are rocks that have forgotten the body: / orphaned, smoothed by their journey, tossed up // at random and left to dry in the sun.") The winning essay, too, sets the stage for the creative nonfiction that follows, other essays (is this intentional or coincidental?) which explore a childhood relationship with the beach/ocean (essays by Julie Jeanell Leung and Susan Buis). And the winning story is also typical of the work in this issue, family dramas that rise above the vast sea of such work, thanks to strong prose and a tendency toward understatement.
This is not to say the issue doesn't also offer variety. Nancy McCabe's nonfiction contribution, "Can This Troubled Marriage Be Saved: A Quiz," written in the style of a magazine quiz, complete with answer key, is quite distinct from the essays mentioned above in structure (the quiz), tone (sarcastic rather than earnest), and style (more casual, breezier prose). Poems by Suzanne Levine and Nathan Elijah Graham are edgier, less dreamy with sharper human portraits, even when they rely on imagery of the natural world as here in this excerpt from Graham's "Around Here":
girls don't flirt with their cigarettes,
I've watched them outside the gas station
when it's Friday night and the streets are slick as cat eyes.
They don't dance in place. They lean on the glass storefront
like mares against a barn. Out here they wait for recovery.
Josh Waellert's short story, "Geography," while also a family
tale, lends a distinctive quality to the issue, too, its
narrative illustrated with maps of the Northwestern region at
the heart of the story. The story moves back and forth in time:
1844, the present, 1943, the present again, recounted by a
likeable and satisfying voice. In fact, I liked this narrator's
voice so well, I was sorry when the story was over.
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Cimarron Review
Issue 171
Spring 2010
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
This issue is dedicated to Ai (1947-2010) as signaled by one page with only her name and dates centered in large type. I was impressed by this eloquent and elegant tribute to a poet whose powerful work is more richly and appropriately honored by this understated memorial than any long-winded remarks would be.
The issue features the work of two-dozen poets and four prose writers (two stories, two essays). Dorianne Laux, perhaps the most recognizable name in the TOC, is representative of much of the issue's poetry. Here is the opening of "Lost in Costco" (isn't that a fantastic rhyme?!):
My mother wandered the aisles in the city
of canned goods and 30 lb. sacks
of dog food, mountains of sweat pants
and cheap jeans, open bins of discounted CDs.
She rested for a moment on the edge
of a bed in the furniture section,
trying to remember if it was time to sleep,
then headed off to garden supplies
where she stared at the glazed pots, missing
her roses, the ones she planted
outside the house she had to sell with the tree
she wanted to be buried under…
I am always impressed by the way Laux creates context ("trying to remember if it was time to sleep") out of surface detail. It takes enormous skill and control, it seems to me, to provide that much back-story in one short line, not a word of which is attention-grabbing on its own.
Poems that break with the issue's proclivities (narrative poems), include Sean O'Brien's "Sleep" ("Like youth, this language has forgotten you. // Lost on the tip of its tongue, you could wait // A long time to be missed."); and Jason Rouch's sonnet "Distance" ("Beyond the point of what can be undone – the world paved over and over, built upon, / carbon traces in every natural space / and particle of air we breathe…vacant / houses crowd the waterfront").
Prose is less edgy and sharply shaped than much of the poetry, for the most part. Here is the opening of John Robinson's story, "Dostoevsky in the Dining Room":
Rhiordan met Ramsey every Wednesday around 9:00 A.M., and they ate and gabbed until the first luncheoners nudged into the dining room, pushing chairs to and fro, hunching over menus. He had met Ramsey at a party only a few months before his colonoscopy, and the both – being in their fifties – decided to undergo the operation at approximately the same time, bolstering each other for the grim event.
And here is the opening of an essay by Ryan Dennis, "Tempting the Language of Farming":
I milked with my father every morning in the dark. We herded cows into the parlor eight at a time and dipped their teats. When we were at the end of the row we turned around, wiped it off, and put the milkers on. We smelled like iodine and cow shit, and while we waited for the cows to milk out we passed the time talking.
What I loved about the essay is that it turns out not to be about milking cows, or plowing fields, or barn cats, or radios, or anything of the subjects it treats, but about language (as the title announces, but for some reason I didn't believe it). It's about the author's failure as a farmer and success as a keeper of its vocabulary ("It's the language that won't let me go.") told simply, humbly, and authentically.
It's that balance of tones (arrogant/humble; edgy/earnest;
street-wise/farm tested) that keeps Cimarron Review
engaging and fresh after 171 issues.
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Columbia Poetry Review
Number 23
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
Household names – in households that read poetry, of course – include Alice Notley, Simone Muench, Jan Beatty, David Dodd Lee, and Alan Michael Parker. Forces to be reckoned with include Michael Robins, James Shea, Dora Malech, Daniel Borzutsky, Anne Boyer, Suzanne Buffam, and Mathias Svalina. Up-and-coming poets include Kristin Ravel, Sarah Elliott, Sandra Lim, and K. Silem Mohammad, among others.
Columbia Poetry Review (Columbia College in Chicago, not Columbia University in New York) selections tend to be edgy, direct, unfussy, sharply shaped, and intently focused, steering clear of the ordinary, even when the language is casual or plainspoken. Sentimentality is utterly unheard of here, and images of popular culture, from food to moves, are as ubiquitous as pizza. Here are the opening lines of Hideaki Noguchi's "To Brain":
I know you know
what I'm
going to write,
you know I'm
you figuring me
out and asking
why? Why did
you let me think
that God was in this
DiGiorno's pizza?
I believe the
squirrel exploded
in 4th grade because it
never ate my peanut.
And with another reference to popular frozen food, here is Zachary Green, from "I Could Not Eat the TV Dinner Dessert":
I got back to the Star Wars aisle
in Wal-Mart
maybe I touched Princess Leah?
I was bitching
car could have really hurt me
and my Goldfish cohorts
so at home I felt safe by the hands descending –
at commercial break
And more pizza from Andrew Terhune's "Jeff Bridges":
On my sixth birthday, we order pizza
and rent two movies from the gas station;
Ernest Goes to Camp and Tron.
Jeff Bridges is in Tron.
Columbia Poetry Review favors poems with provocative titles: "To Cause Defendant to Sell Drugs in This State, Benjamin Kept Changing the Destination" (Izzy Oneiric); "Nellie Oleson Compares Me to Her" (Juliet Cook); "One little person gets shot at the RV park" (a prose poem by Karyna McGlynn); "I've seen enough movies to know how to love" (Gregory Sherl); "Get on Board the Sixties" (Parker Smathers). The issue also features a number of pieces with unusual forms or structures: Mark Yakich's "Manhattan," composed of eighteen lines of large-font upper case letters turned on their side; "The 9/11 Commission Report" by Travis MacDonald, report text sprawled in reverse type across two pages with key words in bold to form a poem inside the prose; and Sarah Elliott's three-column poem, "the back of a woman in a cornfield."
The issue opens with Sandra Lim's "Now, Voyager," whose closing lines could be said to embody the journal's editorial stance (or perhaps even the purpose, on some levels, of poetry):
There is something exciting about it, nonetheless.
Something very wrong and very familiar,
making us stranger and starker to ourselves.
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Michigan Quarterly Review
Volume 49 Number 2
Spring 2010
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
I admired Esther Schor's recent biography of Emma Lazarus very much, so I was happy to find a new essay of hers in Michigan Quarterly Review ("The G20 and the E17"), and that's where I entered this volume. The essay's about a conference in a town three hours east of Istanbul, Turkey on Esperanto, the "international language" first created by the Polish Jewish occultist L. L. Zamenhof in the late 1880's. I appreciate Schor's lucid, fluid prose and the way in which she deftly moves the essay toward a consideration of other issues larger in scope and implication than the fate of Esperanto.
Strong nonfiction is one of MQR's strengths, and I appreciate the great variety in subject matter and styles. Schor's essay is followed by Robert Long Foreman's "The Most Lifelike Thing in the Room," a personal story of working as a figure model for drawing classes, and preceded by Paul Allen Anderson's "Agee After Cavell, Cavell After Agee," a scholarly article on the writer and filmmaker, that is accessible (no jargon) and readable.
The natural, fluid prose that accounts for much of these essays' appeal is echoed in fiction, as in Laura Kasischke's "Joyride," which begins
"Hey," my dad said, tossing his keys onto the couch beside me, "why not take old family convertible for a joyride, pal?" He wasn't joking, but it wasn't what he really wanted to say. What he really wanted to say was that it bothered him to see me sitting on the couch with a copy of National Geographic on a sunny Sunday afternoon.
And again in Sharona Muir's story, "The Couch Conch": "A night of passion is a hard thing to remember (no pun intended). The moments blur into a warm blush on your brain, from which it's hard to extract the details later, if you want to brood over them and confirm just how he did what."
Poetry, too, tends to reflect a kind of ease of narration, effortless and casual, as in "Tuck Pointing. Three Months" by John W. Evans:
I dig out the black sweater I brought from home
that is no longer our home the way
you are no longer my wife
and withdraw again into your brother's city
that resembles no place we ever live together
And here is an excerpt from a prose poem by Phyllis Koestenbaum, "Eyesight":
I have sunglasses, computer glasses, I don't use, piano glasses I would use if I played the piano, red glasses I can't read supertitles with, chartreuse glasses I wear when I wear chartreuse and don't care if I see, black glasses in which I don't look like myself, dark brown tortoiseshells that were remade because when I wore them I felt nervous, blue outside and green inside glasses and new glasses the color of cheap wine.
I read last, where it falls in the journal, a scholarly essay
by Ranen Omer-Sherman, "Longing to Belong: Levantine Arabs and Jews in
the Israeli Cultural Imagination," bracing myself for a dense,
impenetrable read ("that cultural imagination" and three pages
of footnotes), but this essay, too, while it requires patience,
is also quite accessible. And it is a good introduction to the
work of writers we might not otherwise have an opportunity to
learn about. Smart reviews of new books of literary criticism
from university presses round out the issue.
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Volume 35 Issue 1
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
"Body, My House," is the theme of new editor Maria Melendez's first issue. "Human bodies, alive and in crisis, command the spotlight in the non-fiction books that have held my attention for the last 18 months," she tells us in her "Welcome." This is possibly, she reveals, the result of bodies in crisis in her own life, first her father's triple bypass surgery, and later bouts of H1N1 from which she and family members suffered. There is certainly much writing about the experience of illness and disease in this issue, but there is also a good deal of work about food and eating; the body's connection to the natural world; reproduction and aging; an essay about quitting smoking; and a poem about the art of maintaining a home as art ("this house is my poem!").
Food writing includes a wonderful little essay by Andrew Lam about pho ("that ingenious Vietnamese concoction…sacred broth…spiced with roasted star anise, cardamom, cinnamon, charred ginger, and onion, and made savory by fish sauce…brewed in a low heat until the beef falls off the bone and the marrow steeps"), which is, in the end, not really about soup at all. Food-themed work includes Bradley John Monsma's poem "Slow Food," which describes the preparation and eating of dumplings; Marjorie Manwaring's poem "What Rises, What Wanes," which merges a consideration of the baking of bread with the consumption of the communion wafer; and Grace Bauer's poem "Du Jour," about an anorexic diet.
I was particularly struck by Judith Sornberger's "Kneeling," which might be considered a prose poem or a work of "sudden nonfiction," an honest approach to aging ("Some days I hunger for retirement the way I once did for sex. As though that small death would plunk me right down in Paradise."), and also Christopher Cokinos's poem, "After Two Particular Sorrows, I Read Lu Chi in Late Summer." I have been reading traditional Chinese poetry in translation extensively in recent months and appreciate how adroitly Cokinos has captured the particular sensibilities, cadences, and wistful tone of Chinese verse.
A regular feature of the magazine is the editor's "Words Along the Way" section, focused this issue on "ecopoetics." Work here is especially strong, including Serena Chopra's "[context: Buffalo Nickel]" a lovely, original prose poem ("The train is saying. The train, if drifting. The train, an iron blue. She collected water in hollowed-out bone and chased the sun with glass."); and several numbered poems in couplets by Ruth Ellen Kocher. A bilingual poem by Francisco X. Alarcón brings the issue to a fitting close, embodying (and I choose that term deliberately, of course) the magazine's essence:
Unisonancia Unison
todo everything
lo que ha sido that has been
y sera and will be
esta ahora aqui is here and now
las cuatro direcciones the four directions
nuestras extremidades our four limbs
nuestra casa our house
el universo the universe
en nuestro pecho inside our chest
el Sol the Sun
ninguna separación no separation
entre beween
espíritu y cuerpo spirit and body
entre tú y yo you and me
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Poetry and Prose
Issue 1
Review by Anne Wolfe
Prole is proudly launching its inaugural voyage, and what a voyage. The message on page two states that this is "a journal of accessible poetry and prose to challenge and engage." This journal is nothing if not challenging and engaging. Prole's fiction and prose uses only artful story-telling, skillful-weaving, compact wording; no literary tricks, twists, surprise endings or jolts to deliver one deep into their vast little worlds. There are short stories with suspense and horror, such as "Book Covers" by Rebecca Hotchen and "Flower as Big as the Sky" by Matt Dennison. There are minute character studies such as "Shoes" by Dave Barrett and Bruce J. Berger's "He had to Go." And completing this tasty assortment are the odd and sad like "Stone and Wind" by Carl T. Abt, "Scarred" by Kevin Brown, and Stephen Ross's "Clocks without Hands."
"Book Covers" begins in an ominous fashion, "The muted colour of his skin seemed to suggest that Mister Evans was as coated in dust as the books he kept." Never mind that this opening forecasts doom, and one might have a good idea this story is going in a gloomy direction. Finding out how the tale gets there, if it gets there, is the thing – the way the story takes one there is not common or ordinary, but a very intimate journey.
One of the easiest statements to make about "Flower as Big as the Sky" is that it is not an average "coming of age" story. It does take a serious subject and illuminate it against the backdrop of childhood innocence with startling clarity. Another memorable story, with more than a touch of humor, "Shoes" is just as colorful as one would expect from its opening line: "Gus. Crazy Gus Meyerson and his now famous foot fetish." Whether one sees it as a serious story with humor or a humorous story that is serious, it holds one with every word.
There are excellent pieces of creative nonfiction; the mind-blowing, tragic and awful "Fanfare for a Soldier" by Randy Lowen, somber "Baghdad, Tuesday morning" by Stephen R. Williams, and the side-splitting "Double-Standard" and "Rage Against the Machines" by Mary Whitsall.
The poetry is grouped together after the fiction and nonfiction, and there is much to be admired. One gem is by Blythe Woolston, who wrote in "Three Fallings in Love": "When I was sixteen, it was my physics teacher. / I loved watching him do math in his head / and on his fingers." She writes for everyone who fell in love in childhood, youth and adulthood in every which way one can.
Readers should discover the poems for
themselves by reading this literary journal, it is both online
and can be acquired in paperback through its website. It is a
neat, short book, about one hundred pages, with a black and
white photo of a bridge over water leading to a misty hill on
the other side – what adventures might be there? Read and find
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Red Cedar Review
Issue 45
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
Interviewed in this issue by Jim Porter, master of prose style Richard McCann defines voice as a function of rhythm (Ms. Woolf was right, of course!) and describes his process of walking around memorizing his own words as they come to him. I have never heard this process described before (which is, for what it's worth, exactly the way I compose poetry) and I appreciated McCann's candor. His interview is one of the highlights of the issue.
McCann's interview is accompanied by short stories and essays, a few poems (the issue is heavy on prose, more than half of which, the editors say, is nonfiction, though no genre classification is provided in the journal), a number of black and white photographs, and a lovingly illustrated graphic story with no verbal text, "Chewski Goes Fishing," by Matt Dye.
The journal awarded its nonfiction prize, judged by Jane Congdon, to Kelsey Jenko for "How to Stitch Your Sails," a congenial family story structured around instructions for sailing. The poetry prize was awarded by judge Diane Wakoski to Courtney Hilden for her poem "Allograft" which begins:
To get in here, I needed to enter with a passport. I had to be searched,
had to have your eyes wander up and down me,
wondering what I was aiming to steal. The answer? Nothing,
or at least nothing so small that it could be sewn into the lining of my
skin in the
night when the streetlights outside press through the blinds,
illuminating the upper half of
the tiniest scar.
I liked, in particular, Brian Patrick Heston's short story,
"Super," which captures the tedium of office life with uncanny
precision; Lia Greenwell's poem "rebirth" ("there must have been
language / in the womb"); and a stunning photograph by David
Poirier, "Posts in Water," which merges close-up and distanced
views of a waterscape inspiring me to question how we can see
what is so close and so far off so clearly and intricately at
the same time. I suppose that a merging of
distances/perspectives – coupled with McCann's understanding of
voice as rhythm – is what makes art.
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Smartish Pace
Issue 17
April 2010
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
The work in Smartish Pace is just what the journal's title suggests, accomplished and sophisticated. The issue features many poets whose reputations are entirely in keeping with that categorization (Gerald Stern, Eamon Grennan, Carol Muske-Dukes, Terrance Hayes, Barbara Ras, Kim Stafford, William Logan, Sandra McPherson, Amjad Nasser of Egypt, Norman Dubie, and Michael Collier); and many others whose poems are no less accomplished or sophisticated (Steven Cushman, Terence Winch, Casey Thayer, Patrick Ryan Frank, and Katie Ford, among others).
Poems in this issue are tautly constructed, deliberate, intelligent, and etched with a fine and delicate hand. Here is Katie Ford from "That It Is Even Possible to Stay Alive":
The massive inner life of ice
descends over the oldest and violet newborn
of this city…
…the deafeningly and deciduously
unresecurrectable things.
And Casey Thayer from "Aubade": "We trade our hands for luggage…I have nothing / for moments when grief comes heavily / like a mouthful of peanut butter." And Martha Zweig from "Protestant Argumentative": "I babble before breakfast & circumambulate / the blooming woods; a few promiscuous refutations-on-nonsense / gleefully bounding ahead of each intuition I venture / under the sun." And Patrick Ryan Frank from "Singles' Night at the Art Museum":
Art is useful: a focal point, a background,
a roomful of places to turn, every picture
a picture of conversations waiting to happen.
Prose poems by the prolific Egyptian poet Amjad Nasser are beautifully translated from Arabic by Khaled Mattawa. Nasser is a writer who can sum up a world of emotion in a single line, as here in the conclusion to his "His Young Woman in Costa Café": "The poem I thought of, but that someone else wrote."
Barbara Ras offers up a title that serves as the perfect
crystallization of what is most striking and impressive about
Smartish Pace: "Manager of the Empty Hotel." Strong images
created through expert, economical, understated language.
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Sonora Review
Number 57
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
The bright, colorful, fun, full bleed cover with its octopus, crab, and turtle swimming from margin to margin says it all. It announces Number 57's theme ("The Sea Issue"); the journal's tone (delightful, playful, forward moving); and its voice (a little over the top, "Featuring the riveting poetry of Jeffrey McDaniel; the unputdownable fiction of Amelia Grey, and the dazzling nonfiction of Steven Church" the cover copy shouts). The journal is produced by graduate students in the Department of English at the University of Arizona in Tucson. Ah, but the faculty advisor is Ander Monson. Well, now I get it! Monson is the inventive and clever editor of the online journal diagram (and a lot of great stuff in print) and the publisher of hybrid and graphically oriented work at his New Michigan Press. His students are learning their lessons well. The journal is really inventive. Really fun. And, despite some excesses, really successful at what it does, beginning with the illustrated instructions on how to read the journal.
The cover copy isn't far from the truth. Steven Church's personal essay, "Confessions of a Parasite," is fairly dazzling, and begins: "If you spend enough time with me these days, I will probably tell you about my neighbor, Myrtle. She's 83 years old, has lived in her house for 76 years, and she has a boyfriend, Larry, who is 89." Church has a thoroughly loveable voice, a great sense of timing, and a good ear for natural sounding dialogue. As the cover predicts, I did like Amelia Grey's short (and it is) story, "The Suitcase." It's a little surreal and a lot entertaining.
Poetry is dazzling, too. Poetry contest winner Michael Tod Edgerton's excerpts from "The Dreams of Pure Immanence and Pure Transcendence Are as One" interested me, in particular, in its reworking of classical material in a merging of verse in various configurations and prose poetry. And I was totally taken with Peter Jay Shippy's "White for Diluting Dreams," an incredibly ambitious poem combining themes of historical and social importance presented in a three-column table of several dozen pages. While I did appreciate the grey pages with reverse type aesthetically, it does make the work a little hard to read, especially for such a long piece already containing an unusual graphic element.
I liked, too, "Peyton's Jukebox Time Machine," a poem by
Catherine Theis, which opens: "Like must-must / Or
ordinary-ordinary." There is, I say with admiration and
pleasure, nothing ordinary-ordinary about the Sonora Review.
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A Journal of Spiritual Literature
Issue 13
Review by Sima Rabinowitz
Tiferet is an independent "multi-faith publication dedicated to promoting peace in the individual and in the world," published six times annually (two print issues and four online issues). Issue 13 features five essays (most are excerpts from forthcoming or recently published books); three short stories; the work of a dozen poets; black and white photographs by Taoli-Ambika Talwar and a drawing by Israel Carlos Lomovasky. The large format is ideal for Talwar's exceptional photographs, three images that couldn't be more different from each other (a close-up of a blossom; a distanced view of a house in the woods; and a close-up of a wall of granite rock), except for the skill and creativity of their composition.
Spiritual themes in the magazine can be overt or more indirect. Among the more overtly faith and-or-religion-oriented pieces are a book excerpt by Swami Kriyananda, "The New Path: My Life with Paramhansa Yogananda," a memoir of study with a spiritual teacher; Aryeh Tepper's, "Spiritual Evolution: The Rhythm of Genesis," an exegetical essay; and Elisabeth Murawksi's poem, "Pauline":
She's switched from her Sanskrit mantra
to the Jesus prayer. Set
her guru's picture on fire.
But wavers over toys she bought
when she "thought she was a child"
More spiritual in overall sensibility, and less directly linked to faith or specific religious ideas or practice, are a poem Maria Mazziotti Gillan, "In These Green Mountains" ("In these green mountains, the music / of the universe is everywhere, / even I can hear it, like the sound I hear / in the moments before sleep"); a prose poem by j.p. dancing bear, "Some Might Bow Their Heads to the Sunset" ("what's left of the sunset is one of the most divine lights you've ever witnessed: your mouth moving to one word: again and again"); an essay by Deborah DeNicola, "Cinderella Rocketing: Healing the Father with Creative Dreamwork," a memoir about participating in a Dream Intensive Workshop; and the winner of the journal's 2009 prose contest, "Center of the Universe," by Richard P. Krepski, an excerpt from his forthcoming book in which Krepski proposes a model of the universe that is "an ever enlarging sphere."
Despite a number of dark and difficult themes, Arelen Geller's "Flight" is representative of the journal's predominant impulses and tendencies:
Mooonbeam sheds its light
I grab a handful of stars
The golden grain leads me
To a field of dreams
Stirring crimson, gold and coral
We burst into flames
And in our creation we relish
A dance, a song, our voices lift
In flight, soaring
To the expanse of being
An existence outside the edges.
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Number 6
Review by Anne Wolfe
Upstreet is an award-winning publication that claims to have "the best new fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction available" to "offer a voice to prose writers and poets who might not find publication in more mainstream journals." However "mainstream" might be defined, whether these pieces are off-beat, they are definitely striking and high-quality. Choosing which poems and short-stories to comment on is almost a random process; there is good variety, and the quality is consistent. The size of the journal is typical of any paperback; about two hundred pages, sporting a shiny black cover with the title printed in bold orange on the front.
Up front is a refreshingly unpretentious, unscripted interview of the writer Sue William Silverman. She authored the memoirs, Because I Remember Terror, Father, I Remember You, and Love Sick: One Woman's Journey through Sexual Addiction. The questions are open, thoughtful, not leading; Silverman's answers are fluent, detailed, spontaneous, and quite revealing. Silverman discusses the essential differences between writing fiction and memoir, the process of having Love Sick made into a movie, the freedom poetry gave her, and the positive and not-so positive aspects of becoming a publicly known person. There is no embarrassing gushiness on the part of the interviewer. As it progresses, the question and answer becomes a conversation while still retaining the Q&A format, almost giving one a sense of hearing it while reading it.
One poem that packed a punch was "Dotty's Plot" by Denise Duhamel, beginning: "after her ex-husband died / the hussy he left her for…assumed Dotty / didn't want to be buried / next to a cheat." There is a good smirk somewhere in Duhamel's potent language, venomous as any pit viper that strikes fast.
Annie Breeding, in the short story, "The Downfall of the Reynal de St. Michels," delves into the family, familiarity, mooching and selfishness, and desperation. This might be a story for our times: family members falling on hard economic circumstances, others lending a helping hand, bringing out new aspects of the saying "charity begins at home." "Depositions," by David Jauss, is a story told from six points of view, in the form of statements. These statements, memories having to do with a murder, form a stark montage.
Also inside is a brief memoir, brilliantly threaded as though
through the eye of a needle around one metaphor, "That Furrowed
Brow," by Andrew D. Cohen. It vividly roams through the
illnesses and peculiarities of the author's grandmother, aunt,
and mother; their obsessions, his obsession, and what he passes
on to his child. His spell is magical. Upstreet has a
blog for fans to discuss their reactions to the writing within
it, a unique feature that might be copied someday soon. The fine
work inside is worth looking at whether one chats online
afterward or just takes it in.
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The Writing Disorder
Summer 2010
Online Quarterly
Review by Henry F. Tonn
This is a brand spanking new lit mag with only two issues published, but one which shows considerable promise. The website is pleasant and easy to negotiate and there is a wide variety of material to choose from: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, paintings, comic art, photography, interviews, and reviews. I had so much fun I delved into their single archive to get a taste of everything.
A lively and immensely humorous story is "The Octogenarian" by Joan Connor, about a dirty old man who entices a young girl to his summer home under the pretense of needing help, and tries to have his way with her, accompanied by the croons of Frank Sinatra in the background. "She scampers. He shambles. She scoots. He shuffles. But – truth – with each totter the old dodderer appears more limber, more supple, more feline." Another good one is "The Invaders" by Heather Genovese, who manages to make an incredibly trite story of the classic love triangle -- two girls and a boy in a plush restaurant -- interesting simply on the strength of good writing: "Even in our best moments, it was like some part of each of us was always resisting the other. We talked and talked, skimming surfaces, flitting from point to point like agile water bugs, but we never dove, never dared to swim." A chillingly beautiful tale is "You Can Teach Me How To Grieve" by Miranda McLeod, about the death of a brother. An educational and poignant piece of nonfiction is "Two Late For Regrets" by Joseph Smith, about the writer's experience in The Mississippi State Penitentiary in Parchman, Mississippi. Think Cool Hand Luke without any lightheartedness: "Lives squandered, too late for regrets. I shook my head and walked away, the sound of iron on steel ricocheting through my brain."
There is a special feature here which presents a series of photographs of an eccentric woman in Los Angeles called The Lava Lady, followed by an interview with a person who once had lunch with this lady. And finally, a poem titled "Black Sheep" by Ashley Shivar is touching. The writer sees herself as being the black sheep of her family and laments those black sheep of the past:
Should I even be surprised about the lack of compassion
for a dead black sheep? I'm surprised we still
have pauper's cemeteries, and I will go
to see the sheer number of people whose families
have let them fall beneath moss and branches.
I want to look upon the lack of plastic flowers
and wreathes purchased at Wal Mart. I want to stay
with those who never belonged to a herd, because
as much as I claim to hate my family, at least I got the chance
to fight about it.
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Has anyone had an issue with the magnet losing strength? I am hanging a wreath on the storm door.
I'm wondering if the magnet is losing some strength on the inside because the space heats up between the storm door and front door. Any thoughts?
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Answer:They held up with my storm windows, but they face north, so they don't get much sun this time of year - hence, no heating up. I'm not sure that heat has anything to do with magnetic strength anyway. I'd have to look it up on the internet or ask a scientifically-minded friend. Is your wreath falling down? How heavy is it?
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I am so excited about the new Tokidoki Idol Contest that Pulse is hosting!! I think I was the first person to sign up, hehe. The winner of the contest gets a free Tutti, Trasporto, and Vacanze bag (with the print placement of your choice)! Oh my gosh, what an awesome contest. I need to get my entry ready this weekend. This is so cool!!!
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How do you enter the contest?! That's so awesome!Reply
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Aww, that's totally cool! But it's only 18 and up, boo hoo. :[Reply
i cant believe theyre giving abag away to people who already have many.Reply
Does your collection have to be of bags? If so, then it's not fair.Reply
brenda – according to the contest rules, yes.Reply
Hi, I'm from Singapore and I will like to join the contest. Just like to check how and where can I register at The Beat of Fashion Community? Can I do it online?Reply
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Would you prefer sales tax to income tax?
The power to lay and collect taxes is, perhaps, the greatest power of the government. With this power alone, the government can encourage or prohibit certain behaviors without passing additional laws - it can effectively ban alcohol, tobacco, firearms, etc., can coerce people to marry, to have or have no children, buy gas or "green energy", buy real estate, lock up their money for decades in retirement accounts (both policies make people return a large percentage of their income straight back to the banks withdrawing huge amounts of cash from circulation). Taxes inhibit the taxed activity.
I see several advantages of sales tax compared to income tax:
1. Sales tax inhibits spending, income tax inhibits earning. When money are taxed when spent, not when earned, it may encourage saving and investing rather than spending and incurring debts.
2. One can avoid paying a sales tax on discretionary items by not buying these items - sales tax is less coercive.
3. Sales tax on discretionary items appears to be self-regulating. When it is too large, people stop buying the taxed items, and the tax revenues drop. It's easier to determine the economic effect of sales tax and optimize the sales tax percentage. Whereas, the economic effect of changing income taxes is a lot harder to determine.
4. The tax code would be extremely simple - just a look-up table of tax rates (this may be a naive statement).
5. "Taxing the rich" would mean taxing the excessive luxurious lifestyle. Why would a frugal billionaire who leads a lifestyle of an average citizen be taxed more than an average citizen?
I understand, there is no "correct answer". This is why I post this as a debate. I'd like to know how many people think this way and to hear cases for or against both types of taxation.
Edited 4/13/2013: This seems to be a similar idea: http://www.fairtax.org
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I'd like to thank everyone for the discussion.
There were good points made:
- that sales tax would make "the rich" pay smaller percentage of their income than "the poor";
- that no matter what type of tax we have, "the rich" will still have an opportunity to avoid it - either by spending money overseas or by making money overseas bringing into consideration the necessity of a uniform wold-wide taxation.
- A good discussion whether charity should be voluntary or compulsory and whether people should contribute to society voluntarily or forced to do so.
- Good references to other resources such as Mises institute.
- Interesting point in a video referenced by Krisztian Pinter that taxes have a way of distributing across all layers of society - often what seems to be "a tax on rich" becomes a burden on "the poor" bringing up the idea of a uniform tax (sales or income) with equal percentage for the rich and the poor.
- A good discussion with Pat Gilbert of how government intervention in free market creates artificial incentives and "bubbles" which are unlikely to exist otherwise.
These are just some points worth noticing. I appreciate having a civilized discussion on such highly politicized topic involving social justice, economy, and morality. This is where TED community stands out.
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Apr 20 2013: The problem with a sales tax is that it tends to be regressive, meaning that it hits poor people harder. Individuals with less money spend a greater percentage of their income on necessities. On the flip side, taxing luxury items tends to discourage wealthy people from buying them, which means that it isn't nearly as viable of an option if you're trying to create a stream of revenue.
Also, you mentioned that a sales tax could be a benefit in that it discourages spending, but may encourage saving or investment. Investment is good for the economy, particularly in the long run, but saving money is typically only good for the individual. There is such a thing as excessive spending and consumption, but consumption ultimately enhances the strength of the economy. One person's consumption is another person's income. I'm not saying that saving money is bad, or that spending money is completely good, but I don't think that you can consider that type of incentive to be an advantage of a sales tax.
Apr 20 2013: Regarding regressiveness of sales tax, it seems to be #1 objection against it. What do you think of the idea of "prebate" discussed in http://www.fairtax.org proposal?
Good point about negative effect of holding on to money. I think, inflation does a good job discouraging people to hold on to cash. I believe, cash is only good as a medium for exchange. It does not have intrinsic value. I internalized this so much over years that "saving" to me is synonymous to "investing".
Also, it's not completely true that saving is good only for individual. E.g. when a person has cash reserves, he does not burden the society to support him in case of hardship or emergency.
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The Phoenix Coyotes embraced the motto "hockey the hard way" last season en route to the franchise's first appearance in the Western Conference Finals.
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In fact if anything, during two losses to the Dallas Stars and Chicago Blackhawks over the weekend, Phoenix rarely resembled a Dave Tippett-coached hockey team.
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"Until things loosen up for us, we have to keep things real, real simple," defenseman Derek Morris. "We have to go back and try to win 2-1 or 1-0, help Mike Smith out, battle pucks out, play a simple game and see where it goes."
The Coyotes were ranked No. 5 in the league in goals allowed in 2011-12, but so far this season they find themselves at the other end of the spectrum having already surrendered 10 goals.
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Outside of his team-leading six penalty minutes, Shane Doan (goal, assist and 1 +/-) has been on of the Coyotes' lone bright spots during the team's sluggish start. Still, Phoenix's captain says it's important for everyone to regain the focus that made them collectively great last spring.
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I was in a marker-drawing mood again, and I found this glossy white box which had once been used to store a photo frame. Now, it stores all the cards and well-wishes from my parish friends.
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The Literary Journal is open to any and all students who show an interest in literature, publication and/or related activities, regardless of his or her major.
By publishing a literary journal once per academic year, the Literary Journal will provide an opportunity for University of Wisconsin students, as well as other area college and high school students, to receive recognition and achieve publication of their various works of fiction, poetry and criticism.
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Ice Creams for L.A. Food Swap
I am registered for the next L.A. Food Swap which is in ONE WEEK. April 28th, Echo Park.
Flavors on ze list:
- Lemongrass with Kumquats
- Saffron Mango with Pistachios and Raisins
- Goat Cheese with Roasted Strawberries
- Banana Bread
- Grapefruit Mojito
- Imperial Stout with Salty Chocolate freckles
- Orange Blossom
- Papaya Lime Sorbet
- Toasted Coconut Pandan
- White Chocolate Ginger with Kiwi Compote
- Durian (maybe… is this a wise idea?)
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Review: NewAir AIC-210
When a home appliance company Air & Water offered to send me a commercial grade ice cream machine to review, and told me that I could keep it, I couldn't say no. I mean, look at it.
Link: New Air AIC-210
Please note that I have only ever used a Cuisinart ice cream machine, so the Cuisinart is my only point of comparison as far as ice cream machines go.
My first impression of the New Air machine was - wow! It is huge. And the canister looks tiny. It's hard to imagine that 1 quart of ice cream will fit in there but it does! So far, I have made 4 ice creams in this machine: Bacon (with Pineapple), Spicy Chocolate, Celery (with Rum Raisins) & Banana (with Date Caramel).
KEY FEATURES of the NEWAIR:
1. The machine is self-cooling with a compressor so the canister bowl doesn't need to be frozen before spinning. This is super convenient and because the bowl is so small anyway, I keep it in the freezer. It doesn't take up much space.
2. Ingredients don't have to be cold before spinning. This is not an advantage for me because I like to chill my ice cream mixture overnight anyway to let the flavors intensify. But if you are in a hurry (and have at least 60 minutes), this is another convenient feature.
This is my pre-chilled Spicy Chocolate ice cream mixture…
3. The machine runs on automatic… Set the timer, walk away and let it do its magic. There is a tiny opening in the plastic lid if you want to add in extra ingredients during the last minutes of spinning. The default time is 60 mins, and it will automatically stop spinning when the ice cream is done - even if the 60 mins isn't up yet. The machine will also keep the ice cream cold, after it is done.
As my ice cream mixture is already cold before spinning, I find that the process takes roughly 40 minutes. A bit longer than the Cuisinart's 20 minutes.
Counting down….
4. No noise! I love that it's so silent, unlike the Cuisinart.
1. This New Air ice cream machine is a beast. It's large and weighs 30lbs. It takes up a lot of precious kitchen counter space.
2. There are more parts than the Cuisinart and they are quite awkward to fit together. For instance, there's a heavy "motor" thing with a stick that has to slot into the canister lid AND also into a hole on top of tiny plastic paddle which has to be positioned inside the canister at the correct angle so that the motor stick fits. It's a bit like an Ikea assembly exercise and I keep feeling like I am going to break something. TIP: A chopstick will help line up the paddle opening with the plastic lid opening.
3. The second time I used this machine, the canister was frozen stuck and I could not lift it out of the machine. Tip from fellow ice cream maker David Vo (who has had experience with compressor-based ice cream machines): "Wipe down the outside of the canister with alcohol (eg, Vodka) before lowering it into the machine. The high freezing point of alcohol will prevent the metal canister from sticking". Yes, this works.
Good ice cream! There is some inconsistency with the freezing… it tends to be solid down the bottom and on the sides, and softer on top and in the middle. (The Cuisinart result has a more consistent soft-serve texture throughout.) But this is not a big deal. I don't know if the ice cream tastes "commercial grade" because I don't buy commercial ice creams…
Here is the Bacon ice cream from the night before. Sorry, bad lighting, but you can see what I mean.
The top/middle part is soft. Underneath and around the sides - frozen solid. This was after 60 minutes and the ice cream mixture was already cold before I added it to the machine. Increasing the freezing time would not remedy this issue because the paddle will stop anyway, as soon as the ice cream at the bottom becomes hard.
To sum up, the Cuisinart, for all its noise and low-tech-ness, is more user-friendly. The Cuisinart parts fit together and can be separated with ease. The New Air parts are more fiddly…. I really dislike that paddle. It's messy to lift out of the canister. (Not that it is entirely a bad thing to get ice cream all over your fingers).
On the other hand, the New Air machine is very convenient if you don't have time to hang around the kitchen watching and waiting for the ice cream to be done, and just want to load in the ingredients and push a button.
*UPDATE: I have used the New Air machine several more times and I am liking it more and more! It is especially convenient for fruit sorbets that don't require 'cooking'. Puree the ingredients, pour into the machine and it's done in 30 minutes - perfect frozen consistency and ready to eat.
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Going "Paleo"
I have just signed up for the 2013 WHOLE LIFE CHALLENGE, a rigorous diet-exercise routine that forbids me to consume any DAIRY, SUGAR, or PROCESSED FOODS for 8 weeks. I see this as a creative cooking challenge and am quite excited about it. I am already making almond milk every few days.
What this means though is that for the next 8 weeks, my homemade ice cream menu will be limited to only two flavors: Cherimoya and Banana, which are basically PURE FRUIT - frozen and blended with a bit of almond milk or coconut milk.
Googling around, I also found this very exciting "Salted Raw Caramel Dip" made mostly with Medjool dates. Can't wait to make this and try it with the ice creams.
P.S. I will still be making real ice creams for my friends and will continue to share recipes. Yes, I already know that I will be losing WLC points for taste-testing.
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I hated my name as a kid.
At that time, there was no Fiona Apple or Princess Fiona. And being a shy and quiet kid, nobody could make out my name.
So I'd say it again, louder. They'd look confused. "Weeona? Leona?" So I'd try again, this time screwing up my face as I over-enunciated every consonant and vowel.
It's only five letters. How hard could it be? But most people just looked at me funny and nodded their heads to appease me.
What's in a name? Forget Shakespeare. Just ask Jason Bateman who lovingly gazed into his newborn daughter's eyes and then put "Maple" on her birth certificate.
Or Jason Lee who should be punished for crimes against humanity after naming his son Pilot Inspektor. And I cannot wait for the day when Gwyneth Paltrow's kid retaliates for getting stuck with "Apple."
In Hollywood, a name is everything and it's usually fake. Only in Tinsel Town would someone drop the handle they were born with in favour of Engelbert Humperdinck.
So the name has power. And as pilot season is now upon us – that special time of year when the industry tries out potential new shows – the five major networks have been name dropping like M&M's in a bunny cage: that of the shows, the actors, the producers and the writers.
Some readers might be thrilled to discover that Natalie Portman is executive producing something or that Kevin Bacon is coming to series television. But the only names I'm interested in belong to the shows, themselves.
The name sets the stage. Short and sweet is good, but it should catch your interest and be somewhat informative – which is why, when the time comes, I'll skip Applebaum, Trooper and Rebounding.
Some names give the show an obvious context – but not in a good way. Friend Me, White Van Man, Super Fun Night and Widow Detective could definitely use some re-tooling.
A really long title may stand out, but people will tire of having to say it. Two Guys, a Girl and a Pizza Place and 8 Simple Rules for
Dating My Teenage Daughter were obvious in their mid-season abbreviations.
But what do you do with How to Live With Your Parents for the Rest of Your Life?
They could go the initial route like HIMYM for How I Met Your Mother.
But that would be HTLWYPFTROYL – which might as well be the bottom line on an eye chart.
Of course, the pilot list also includes shows that have foregone a formal title – obviously, for fear of my extensively scientific method of weeding out the substandard productions.
There's the Untitled Nick Stoller Project, the Untitled Ralph Lamb Project, the Untitled Kevin Williamson Project ….
Thus far, there's only a handful of titles on the pilot list that interest me.
Of course, all these names could change before you and I set our PVRs – and fortunately, they probably will.
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To download Candy Crush Saga's PC version for your Windows PC, all you have to do is just click on to the above Download image. Your downloading will start in a few seconds. After complete downloading the file, click on to the .exe file and launch the game on your PC. Just like installing every other games, this game will instruct you with some basic instructions. Make sure to click relevant options to move ahead, mostly you need to click on to Next button from the instructions page to move ahead with the installation process. At the end click on to Install button. Installation process will take several minutes to be finished. Wait a while until it gets done! After completing the installation of this game on your PC, you can see a separate icon of this game on your desktop. You can start the game by double clicking on to the icon. You're done!
So people, this is exactly what you need to know about this so popular Android and iOS platform game for PC. You can have the same taste of this game like you are having through your PC. This is simple yet pretty exciting. You can't just miss this out, it's for free. Download it now from the above link.
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Big O notation
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|The English used in this article may not be easy for everybody to understand. (March 2012)
Big O Notation is a way of saying how much time it takes for a mathematical algorithm to run or how much memory it uses.
The Big O Notation is often used in the context of complexity class.
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Big O Notation is difficult to think about because when you are given a Big O Notation like , there is nothing to actually "solve". It is an expression that is meant to give a person a feel for the worst case scenario without them having to do any calculations around it.