"This book claims as its territory the indefinite spaces separating us: the ground where we move together and apart, the long curve desire describes and follows. Connection seems tenable as a jet trail, 'a seam, holding together / the two halves of the sky.' Kate Gale] Harper belongs in the company of Lorna Goodison, Margaret Atwood, Lucille Clifton all poets who write, with force and directness, what a woman lives. I think the secret of Harper s strength is this: from the middle of all loss, all bewilderment, her poems aspire to the condition of dancing.
Angela Ball,...
"This book claims as its territory the indefinite spaces separating us: the ground where we move together and apart, the long curve desire describe...
In the small photograph my mother has her eyes closed. I am shapeless, rather pale probably two. There is snow. My sister has a sled. It is only a year before my mother will abandon me to be beaten, brainwashed. For years I was sure that she despised that shapeless creature until I looked carefully and realized I'd been buried in the snow up to the armpits. She was sitting there, eyes closed that thing that had been her daughter already a part of the landscape, her mind already gone.
Excerpt from Fishers of Men
The Last Photograph
In the small photograph my mother has her eyes closed. I am shapeles...
The Los Angeles Review started off with a small group of editors in Los Angeles and work mostly by L.A. writers. We ve expanded through the years and now the editors are spread throughout California and the Northwest (plus one in Michigan). What unifies the journal is a focus on the writing of the Left Coast, on the way that the writing of the West works outside the framework of the traditional and the academic, pushes back against writing that fits into small spaces, writing that was written for a small group of elite intellectuals.Many of these stories look forward and backward at...
The Los Angeles Review started off with a small group of editors in Los Angeles and work mostly by L.A. writers. We ve expanded through the yea...
We begin in California in this issue of The Los Angeles Review with Dana Gioia s California Hills in August, which ends, the empty sky, the wish for water, which sums up Southern California in August, all of us hot and waiting, watching the sky for nothing. Gioia captures the speed, the distance, the car, the open air.I m always enthralled with how many stories and poems of the West include cars, driving, speed, the turnpikes of morning, the thick smog air, gas stations, and the punch of late night driving in your gut when you decide to make the long miles. Joe Strummer is dead. I know...
We begin in California in this issue of The Los Angeles Review with Dana Gioia s California Hills in August, which ends, the empty sky, the wis...
The Los Angeles Review is a literary journal of divergent literature with a West Coast emphasis. Established in 2003, LAR publishes both the stories of Los Angeles, endlessly varied, and those that grow outside our world of smog and glitter. LAR seeks voices with something wild in them, voices that know what it means to be alive, to be fallible, to be human.
The Los Angeles Review is a literary journal of divergent literature with a West Coast emphasis. Established in 2003, LAR publishes both the storie...
"Welcome to Kate Gale's world. There are glass houses, a glass orchestra, sex on the roof. . . . Kate Gale knows her Bible and plays whatever music she wants on that musical instrument--but her musica is always fresh, and it achieves wisdom."--Ilya Kaminsky, author of Dancing in Odessa
"The clipped jumpy rhythm of these poems with their sudden bursts of syntax prove repeatedly that Kate Gale possesses a poetic tone and pace all her own. She is also refreshingly out of step with today's poetry of self-absorption, for she is fascinated less by her ego than by the strange variety of the...
"Welcome to Kate Gale's world. There are glass houses, a glass orchestra, sex on the roof. . . . Kate Gale knows her Bible and plays whatever music...
Los Angeles may be best known as the hub of the film and television industry, but this collection of short fiction proves that beyond the beach and the glamour of Hollywood there is much more that makes the City of Angels special. Featuring an eclectic mix of fiction from a variety of talented literary minds including TC Boyle, Ron Carlson, Judith Freeman, Percival Everett, and more this anthology defies genre or easy categorization. Topics explored range from the deeply personal, such as a lesbian couple's loss of a child and the reaction of a young man to a natural disaster, to the...
Los Angeles may be best known as the hub of the film and television industry, but this collection of short fiction proves that beyond the beach and th...
The Los Angeles Review is a literary journal of divergent literature with a West Coast emphasis. Established in 2003, LAR publishes both the stories of Los Angeles, endlessly varied, and those that grow outside our world of smog and glitter. LAR seeks voices with something wild in them, voices that know what it means to be alive, to be fallible, to be human.
The Los Angeles Review is a literary journal of divergent literature with a West Coast emphasis. Established in 2003, LAR publish...
