The Weekly Atticus (11/17/2018)

This Will Not Last, And So Let's Celebrate | The Weekly Atticus

November 17, 2018

A recap of the week at Atticus Review, along with some extras.

Dear ,

Recently, the world lost two writers (Tony Hoagland and Stan Lee) who just so happened to be foundational for a certain bumbling, multi-genre writer you happen to be reading right now. Stan Lee's X-Men in particular had a tremendous impact on the way I write science fiction and fantasy, inspiring me to use my characters as allegories for racism, classism, and homophobia (not to mention Lee's knack for crafting three dimensional characters).  As for Tony Hoagland, he was one of the first contemporary poets I ever read, and after being entranced by how he conveyed complex philosophical concepts and social observations through humor and accessible language, I must have taught his poems (especially "Suicide Song") about a hundred times. These two men's deaths struck me especially hard because I was still reeling from the loss of Anya Silver, a stunning poet whose deep lyricism and boundless humanity we were privileged to feature here at Atticus Review a while back.  At times like this, it's important to remember that there's such a thing as time, and none of us possesses an endless supply of it. That's a simple lesson, but one that's astonishingly easy to forget. Still, literature is at its heart about the celebration of what cannot last. The older I get and the more obituaries I read, the more I find myself turning to and appreciating literature—in its many varied forms.  So, with that in mind, thank you for joining us today. Take a breath. Read something. Start here. Thanks for reading. We’re glad you’re here. Michael MeyerhoferPoetry Editor

ATTICUS NEWS

ONLY A COUPLE WEEKS LEFT!! Enter our Videopoem Contest judged by Marie Craven.

First Prize is $300! 

Deadline to Submit: December 3rd, 2018

ATTICUS REVIEW NOMINATIONS FOR BEST MICROFICTION 2018Congratulations to Zach VandeZande, Adam McOmber, Benjamin Woodard, Jacqueline Doyle, Claire Polders, Leonora Desar, and Tara Isabel Zambrano.

THIS WEEK AT ATTICUS

FERAL TOWN by Adam Gustavson

BOOK REVIEW: A MONSTROUS APPETITE UNLEASHEDA Review of ATTACK OF TH FIFTY-FOOT CENTERFOLD by Dorothy Chan from Spork PressReview by Torin Jensen"[Chan's voice] confidently weaves her Chinese-American family history with roots in Hong Kong, New York, and Las Vegas with a burgeoning identity flush with appetite. That appetite, readily apparent in the first poem but from thereon continuously contoured, is multi-headed: a voracious appetite for her ancestral foods, for sex, for sexual representation, and for monstrously rejecting the bounds that white, patriarchal America attempt to place on her."READ ON

FICTION: THE LIMITS OF OCEANS AND SEASby Ryan Alan Boyle"The man standing on the edge of the beach said he was there to change the sea. He was staring into the distance when he said it—alone, watching the sunrise, wearing overalls, a hardhat."READ ON

POETRY: CORKSCREWby Bess Cooley"By then I had a habit of trying to flyand stopped at every cliffalong the way, though you, it turns out—afraid of heights. I took careto line my toes neatly against the edge"READ ON

CNF: TINY FRACTUREby Christina Kapp"Only later would I realize that I had been dancing to the collapse of my parents’ marriage, carried by the sweet piano chords of the fantasy and its inherent contradictions. The seamstress is not the band. She will not become the L.A. lady, the woman who follows her man. She will stay home, mending the fraying fabric of their lives. Her busy days will be acknowledged but not witnessed. Her sheets of linen, always ready, would, in time, be left untouched, the shroud of one dream sacrificed for another."READ ON

THE ETERNAL FOOTMANA film by Jack Cochran and Pam Falkenberg (@outlierpics)WATCH

FILM REVIEW: ORSON WELLES' MASTERFUL SWAN SONGA look at Orson Welles' THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND by Brad Avery"...in its crisp high-def restoration, Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind breathes and pulses with the grain of film stock."READ ON

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