The Winter-Spring 2009-10 issue of Lou Rowan’s Golden Handcuffs Review, a book-length journal of contemporary writing published in Seattle, has just come out… A memorial issue dedicated to the poets Robin Blaser and David Bromige and the artist John Manning, it includes a memorable interview, dating from 1976, with the ‘Objectivist’ poet George Oppen and his wife Mary, who describe their travels in interwar France, avoiding Gertrude Stein and other fixtures of expatriate Bohemia with the help of a horse and cart. Also here is a highly engaging meditation by Paul Pines, called ‘The Death of Posterity’, and affectionately concerned with the many more or less distressed artists’ widows to be found in the Chelsea Hotel, their rooms crammed with the unwanted works of their late husbands… Besides much more from the USA, there is a section of work from the Sheffield-based poet, publisher and bookseller, Alan Halsey, and various interesting material from France (Jean Daive’s ‘Walks with Paul Celan’), Italy (Dacia Maraini), and Argentina (Maria Negroni). . My article on Robin Blaser’s libretto for Harrison Birtwistle’s ‘The Last Supper’ - ‘Facing up to the Subterranean Stream’ - gets another outing (I try to ensure that it gets better at each appearance). There is also a notice berating appreciative readers for not subscribing… In this case, surely, a truly culpable oversight… See here»
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