[ChrisGeorge]

Hello everyone

Jim Doss and I are proud to say that Loch Raven Review Fall 2007 is now live. Go to http://www.lochravenreview

The issue features poetry by Bob Bradshaw, Mary Susan Clemons, Lisa Janice Cohen, Jim Corner, Richard Fein, Allen Itz, Guy Kettelhack, Morgan Lafay, David W. Landrum, Charles Levenstein, Chris Mooney-Singh, Mary E. Moore, Charles Musser, Michael North, Ashok Niyogi, Constantine Pantazonis, Don Schaeffer, Shawn Nacona Stroud, S. Thomas Summers, Ray Templeton; translations of Cristina Rascón Castro by Toshiya Kamei, Federico García Lorca by Catherine Chandler, and Sofía Ramírez by Toshiya Kamei; an interview with Teresa White by Christopher T. George and Lisa Janice Cohen; an essay on "Performing Allen Ginsberg’s Howl" by Gregg Mosson; fiction by Semia Harbawi, Barry Judson Lohnes, and Tom Sheehan; and book reviews by Jim Doss and Christopher T. George.

Enjoy! Please note that we are now accepting submissions for the Winter issue, which posts in December, with a deadline of November 30. Our reading period is November 15 to December 15.

Best regards

Chris George and Jim Doss, Editors
Loch Raven Review
http://www.lochravenreview

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[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

I love Landrum's poems 'Necessary Evil' and 'Hipparchia' . I haven't read all the others yet.

A~

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[ChrisGeorge]

Originally posted by Anne Bryant-Hamon:
I love Landrum's poems 'Necessary Evil' and 'Hipparchia' . I haven't read all the others yet.

A~

Thanks, Anne!

Chris

[Anne Bryant-Hamon]

And kudos to Catherine Chandler. I just now read her translations of three ballads by Federico García Lorca. I sure do admire those who translate poetry and other literature. It has to be a tedious process.

Anne

[Catherine Chandler]

Thanks, Anne,

Sometimes translation can be tedious, as you say, so I don't do it that often. These three were not tedious to do at all. I'm glad you liked them.

Catherine

[David Landrum]

Anne--thanks for the compliments on my poems. The two you mentioned I enjoyed doing. "The Sultan is Pleased" was a hard, rough poem to write, but writing poems is not always pleasant.

Catherine, your translations were marvelous. I've never been taken with Lorca, though everyone raves about what a great poet he was. I see now the problem was bad translations. Your translations bring out the vigor, energy, and cascading music of his poems. What I have read of his in translation prior to today did not do that but were flat and boring. Congratulations and thanks!

This issue of LRR has tons of great poetry in it. I espeically liked the Civil War poems by S. Thomas Summers and the poems by Allen Itz.

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[grasshopper]

Chris,
A very good issue, congratulations to all those involved.
I thought David's 'Necessary Evil' was particularly impressive--so much compressed into such a small space. We were screwed from the start--lol.

Regards, Maz

[Catherine Chandler]

Thanks, David,

I especially liked your "The Sultan is Pleased", on its several levels of meaning!

Catherine

[Terese Coe]

Congratulations, Chris! I enjoyed Catherine's Lorca translations--haven't gotten to the other work yet.

Terese