FALL 2007

The Finsbury Park Manifesto

—Ernesto Priego
Scholars, students, and human beings:
if anyone asks you what poetry is
in the 21st century, you will find no better answer than this.

A Woman Without Her Neighborhood
—Carmiel Banasky
"I didn’t know much of the plan but it involved forming a cult to sabotage
progress in our neighborhood. It was all Ginnie’s idea. We would use pig’s blood so no one could be implicated."

Escaping Plato's Cave
—Mort Rosenblum
We are proud to present this EXCLUSIVE excerpt of acclaimed foreign correspondent Mort Rosenblum’s new book, subtitled “How America’s Blindness to the Rest of the World is Threatening Our Future."

ALSO FEATURING :

Summer, a Poem
—Edgar Oliver
In a rooming house a man is confined
to a room with all his passions.
Passions come.                                                                     

Wastelands and Bog People
—Elizabeth Adams
An author’s meditation on poetic influence, poetic difficulty, and poetic faith, in a journey from T.S. Eliot to Seamus Heaney and back again.                                                                           

My Virginia History
—Elizabth Rollins
The ancestors tangle and compromise in re-telling. Their telling won’t be contained in neatly shaved, perfumed memory.              

If I Drink Any More I will Drown
—Bekka Bjorke
I got drunk for the first time when I was eleven. I was new at my synagogue, and some of the girls who took me in snatched some bottles of wine from the kitchen and we gorged on them… By thirteen I drank whenever possible.

pages from the ninth edition
—aaron howard
'speak the usable information of the past
fragments meet & layer & commingle.'

BEDLAM VIDEO:

THE ODYSSEY —Jeff Burns
In nine minutes, this short film makes Homer’s 2,800-year-old double-epic utterly contemporaneous. We believe this should be required viewing for human beings.
It’s also pretty damn funny, too.

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A RAIN TOO HEAVY FOR KITES
A fantastic neo-Beat fable about a boy, his golf club, his dad, a piano, and The Man Upstairs. FIRST ELEVEN CHAPTERS of a Boy Bedlam Review EXCLUSIVE publishing event!

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