From the Stacks: November 10, 2006
November 2006
Staff Utne.com
Utne Reader's library is abuzz with a steady flow of 1,500
magazines, newsletters, journals, weeklies, zines, and other lively
dispatches from the cultural front that are rarely found at big-box
bookstores, newsstands, or even online. So we share the highlights
(and occasional lowlights) of what's landing in our library each
week in 'From the Stacks.' Check in every Friday for the latest
edition.
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If you've lost hope in poetry, a visit with Don Wentworth's
Lilliput Review may do you some good. The
poems in issues 152 through 154, like those throughout the zine's
17 year history, are all short. Some impart only two or three
well-considered words, so you won't lose much time if you don't dig
one. The verses Wentworth selects tread (for the most part) far
from the traps of pretension that snare many a poem. And his
thoughtful compilation places uncannily similar ideas from entirely
different authors side by side. Lillie, as Wentworth calls
it, features poets from all over the country, entangling them with
overlapping themes. Perhaps not surprisingly, the pocket-sized
charmer has been nominated for an
Utne
Independent Press Award in the zine category. -- Suzanne
Lindgren
A book
chock full of pictures of females -- unclothed! -- from newborns to
94-year-olds may not sound like a book you'd let near your coffee
table. But Bodies and Souls is anything but some shady
photographer's attempt at art. The book is a culmination of
The
Century Project, a photo exhibit that has traveled across
the United States and Canada. Women of all ages, sizes, shapes,
colors, and histories have posed, as they chose, for photographer
Frank Cordelle. Some cover their bodies in modesty or insecurity,
others appear completely comfortable in their bare skin. Often,
notes from the women appear next to their pictures, the words
revealing struggles with body image, abuse, disease, and other
wounds healed or still open. Along with the pictures, these
autobiographical captions also reveal the strength, joy, and power
of the women who have participated. -- Suzanne
Lindgren
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