This latest Rain Taxi has some interesting reviews, as always, including one by Matthew Cheney of the Gwyneth Jones short story recently published by Aqueduct Press and a review of Lauren Beukes' Zoo City. I just finished that and her earlier Moxyland and have to recommend them both. A real review later...
Anyway, Rain Taxi has a long interview with poet Gary Snyder. I originally turned to this because my environmentalist uncle wrote a lot about him and reprinted many of Snyder's poems in his Deep Ecology texts. But there was also this, which makes me want to learn more:
"...I could describe a number of cases where somebody's work in poetry... has ended up making a change in public life. For example, Robert Duncan's early essays and books about homosexuality. In San Francisco, one of the very first men to come out of the closet and speak about being gay in a calm, confident, unapologetic manner was probably Duncan... This is not known historically too well."
Since, from another RT review, it appears
Duncan's collection just finally got published, I will have to go check it out.
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