Brick 75
If Bob could make poetry his life . . . the rest of us doubters can be assured that poetry really matters.
—C. D. Wright on Robert Creeley
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- In this issue:
- An interview with Marilynne Robinson, winner of the 2005 Pulitzer Prize for fiction
- Lawrence Weschler’s art tour
- Poetry by Roo Borson, Carolyn Forché, Robert Creeley, and W. S. Merwin
- An illustrated poem from the archives of Milton Acorn
- Kent Nussey on the writer’s difficult journey
- Vasco Ray goes up in smoke in the Congo
- Don Paterson reveals a few poetic secrets
- Christopher Zinn recalls the age of AM airwaves
- Alastair Bland on science at play
- Robert Creeley remembered
- Pictures from the Av Isaacs vault
- Michael Elcock tries to pin down the queen’s dressmaker
- Amit Chaudhuri on John Ford
- An essay on landscape and painting by Rackstraw Downes
- A daughter of Iraq returns
- Pico Iyer on literary coincidence
- Brad Cran pulls back the curtain on politics and film
- From Donald Richie’s journals
- Nadine McInnis on the faces of madness
- Kevin Connolly talks to Roo Borson
- A memoir by Rosalind Brackenbury
- Jim Harrison and the serpent
- New work from Chris Ware’s sketchbook
- Plus:
- A catalogue of original manuscript pages created especially for Brick
- Photos and illustrations by:
- Chris Ware, David Hockney, Breyten Breytenbach, Richard Serra, Bill Morrison, Clifton A. Bazar, Av Isaacs, Sue Schenk, Rackstraw Downes, Farah Nosh, Abbey Huggan, Martin Berkovitz, George Duncan, Rick/Simon, Vasco Ray, and David Donald