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Miral al-Tahawy Excerpt from the novel Gazelle Tracks

Blotches and Healing Lights: The Conversation Between ‘New American’ Film and Poetry (forthcoming 2009)

Also Mansi songs from Western Siberia

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Elizabeth Baines

End of American Magic Simon Spillett Miral al-Tahawy Excerpt from the"The poems of Christopher Locke astound; every coal mine they lead you down eventually opens to a great and fragile light, both redemptive and heartbreaking. Yet his is a voice ultimately concerned with the remarkable possibilities found in ordinary human mercy." James Frey "With Christopher Locke's poems, acute powers of observation and a flair for original metaphors combine to render a vivid and credible world. Clarity, freshness and honest self