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Rhino – 2003

2003

Jeannine Hall Gailey

This mostly-poetry journal (with a smattering of photos and reviews) out of Evanston, Illinois succeeds in bringing new voices from the poetry world to light. This issue considers the metaphysical questions of spiritual versus human nature, in which speakers deal with their bodies’failures (“What I’m Not Writing,” “How to Continue,” “The Robust Young Man Discusses His Burial”) and with the failures of their faiths (“God is Not Talking,” “Paris Does Not Exist,” “Recidivism”). Here are a few lines from Danna Ephland’s “After Surgery”:

This mostly-poetry journal (with a smattering of photos and reviews) out of Evanston, Illinois succeeds in bringing new voices from the poetry world to light. This issue considers the metaphysical questions of spiritual versus human nature, in which speakers deal with their bodies’failures (“What I’m Not Writing,” “How to Continue,” “The Robust Young Man Discusses His Burial”) and with the failures of their faiths (“God is Not Talking,” “Paris Does Not Exist,” “Recidivism”). Here are a few lines from Danna Ephland’s “After Surgery”:

“Your pancreas does not answer, though its head nods / continually. Not a lipoma: // cystic neoplasm, the waning moon of health. Rooted / as rain, you staple the highways / behind you, arrive at the door in a package you open / later, surprising yourself. Yes. / A phone leaps off the wall singing. / The river, not the animal, continues.” The black-and-white photographs by J. Shimon and J. Lindemann, Wisconsin Trip, offer offbeat portraits from small Wisconsin towns. Interesting and courageous, the works here throw off the mantles of either extreme academe or extreme experimentalism, and instead embrace their own bracing truths. [Rhino, PO Box 591, Evanston, Illinois 60204. E-mail: [email protected]. Single issue $10. https://rhinopoetry.org] – JHG

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