Brick 78

Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. / You can kill one, but another is born. / The words are written down, the deed, the date. 
                                                                 — Czeslaw Milosz

In this issue:

• Robert Hass salutes Robin Blaser
• Vikram Seth talks to Eleanor Wachtel
• John Berger on Pasolini
• Barry Gifford tracks down B. Traven
• Peter Dale Scott on Milosz
• Jane Jacobs writes home
• Jim Harrison ponders supper
• Sylvia Plath’s theory of poetry
• Jack Hirschman translates Pasolini
• John Mighton talks to David Young
• Poetry from Jim Harrison, W. S. Merwin, Dennis Lee, Tracy K. Smith, and Ko Un
• Justine Picardie’s favourite frocks
• Palash Krishna Mehrotra tries dating
• Sarmishta Subramanian balances herself
• Jeannie Marshall’s neighbours
• Clark Blaise peers into the gene pool
• Baziju takes a shortcut
• Raoul Hausmann writes an opera with Kurt Schwitters
• Kenneth Sherman on Anne Frank
• Sandow Birk and Marcus Sanders reinvent Dante’s Inferno

Plus:

A full-colour insert of Nelofer Pazira’s Afghanistan photographs

Photos and illustrations by:

Martin Helmut Reis, Matei Gloss, Ko Un, Kenneth Tantra, Steven Heighton, stef lenk, Emily Holton, V. Tony Hauser, Cylla Von Tiedeman, and Scott Carruthers