Black Wave Ann Joyce and extraordinarily precise in its

and extraordinarily precise in its relation to whatever object he's writing about-whether he's evoking it as a poet or whether he's describing it as a critic-what you find continually is that quality of engagement which is the same quality you find in the poet

Valerie Duff is the poetry editor for Salamander Magazine

Crescendo and Jazz Music

Susan Millar DuMars was born in Philadelphia in 1966

but when Peepal Tree published her Bones in 1988

Black Wave Ann Joyce and extraordinarily precise in itsGrungy and queer, Michelle is a grrrl hung up on a city in riot. Its San Francisco and its 1999. Determined to quell her addictions to heroin, catastrophic romance, and the city itself, she heads south for LA, just as the news hits: in one year the world is Officially Over. The suicides have begun. And its here that Black Wave breaks itself open, splitting into every possible story, questioning who has the right to write about whom. People begin to