2024 winner of the UK Guardian readers’ Invertebrate of the Year Award
Welcome to our summer, Issue 6, edition of Cable Street. As we are wont to do in our annual Bastille Day issue, under Remarkable Reads, we offer an expanded list, including Summer Reads and a new one, Oldies but Goodies, consisting of recommended older work that we still love and/or are intrigued by. Fact or fiction. Among several others, Chris Sawyer-Lauçanno offers his review of Julien Gracq’s one and only collection of prose poems, Abounding Freedom, as translated by Alice Yang. You are thus invited to sit back and, should you be vacationing, loll in your beach chair and enjoy the sheer pleasure of reading, hopefully from a print book. (We have included links enabling the purchase of these works in print or e-book format.)
As always, we feature a poetry section, curated by Dana Delibovi, and with work by Diane Alters, Melanie Weldon-Soiset, and Vaghawan Ojha. Delibovi also gives us a Poetry Anthology, full to overflowing with a “beautiful collaboration of poets and their translators,” the result of a Zoom reading of bilingual poets.
Please note our added NEWS link, placed conveniently right under A WORD, as, we confess, it is sometimes easy to miss from the drop down menu.
Chris Sawyer-Lauçanno’s memoir Becoming resumes with Chapter 52; and under the heading (which we have left in French) De Montmartre au Quartier Latin, he also gives us his afterword, “Complexity,” from Rob Couteau’s edition of From Montmartre to the Latin Quarter.
We, of course, offer our usual InSights, tongue in cheek and otherwise.
As part of our Essays section, we give you two lyric essays by Ian C.Smith, and five microessays by Michael Kevin McMahon. Further, Sawyer-Lauçanno offers us an excerpt from Mark Polizzotti’s “Why Surrealism Matters,” and Eric Darton finishes off the section with a Feuilleton.
Under Fiction, Hardy Griffin has posted a flash piece by David Hutto, “A Surprise for God,” about the angel of death, while under the rubric of Historical Autobiographical Fiction, Tobias Meinecke & Eric Darton offer “Hermann Klemm: the Vanished Publisher, Part III.”
Our Pocket Anthology introduces “The Bilingual Reading Series, Part One” which consists of fourteen poets of various linguistic traditions.
Jan Schmidt offers a Portfolio of photography by Amarylis Betancourt, featuring work from a trip to Kenya. She also offers four dance books under our Remarkable Reads section.
In this issue we offer two Colloquies: an interview with Hans Augustave and his short film, I Held Him, and “When I think about going home…” a visual / textual celebration of the work of filmmaker and photographer Bill Hayward.
In our ¡Viva! section, we commemorate N. Scott Momaday, Richard Horowitz, Bernardo Palombo, Nathaniel Tarn, and Jerry Rothenberg.
—Bronwyn Mills, for the editors