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Many Mountains Moving – 2004

New Beginnings

Spring 2004

Laura Carter

Many Mountains Moving has traditionally been one of my favorite magazines, partly for the idiosyncracy of its new-agey platform, if you will, and partly because the quality of the writing is consistently strong and operates on a personal level.

Many Mountains Moving has traditionally been one of my favorite magazines, partly for the idiosyncracy of its new-agey platform, if you will, and partly because the quality of the writing is consistently strong and operates on a personal level. In this issue, we are treated to an interview with Virgil Suarez and a collection of fine poems from him; sample the following lines from “On the Porch Swing with Demosthenes”: “That night, falcons and ospreys, somnambulists, // driven by their own nocturnal fears, fused / in the lightning-lit skies above battleships, / some nested high on the lookout basket.” I also especially enjoyed the two reviews (Nancy Zafris’s The Metal Shredders and Alicia Ostriker’s The Volcano Sequence) and “The Writer’s Path,” an introduction to Isabelle Eberhardt, a Swiss-born woman who died in Algeria at the age of 27. David Rozgonyi writes of Eberhardt that “as late as the 1970s, seventy years after her death, the mention of her name brought smiles from ancient men in skullcaps sipping tea in Algerian cafes.” I look forward to investigating her diaries and stories! Overall, this issue does not disappoint. Only in Many Mountains Moving can you find the diversity of voices and also a few meditation practices that help sustain a literary life. [http://www.mmminc.org] – LC

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