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Issue 24 features work from Catherine Pierce, Norma Liliana Valdez, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Allison A. Defreese, Sharon Dolin, Joe Kroll, and more.

From Chapter 1November 17, 1989Dear Cardinal Lustiger, Your Eminence:My name is Daniella Stonebrook Blue. I am-or was-by profession anastronomer. We are strangers to each other. Your name was given to me by awoman on a bus as we were traveling across New Mexico. Because of herinsistence, I am writing to you about this dark period of my life. I need to speakto you about the matter of light.Light is the alphabet of God. I knew this when I was born and then I forgot.This is the first time I have understood it as an adult woman. Even as I preparedto write these words, I didn¿t know what they implied until they appeared onthe page.

Matriot (mä ¿ tri ¿ at) noun 1. One who loves his or her country. 2. One who loves and protects the people of his or her country. 3. One who perceives national defense as health, education, and shelter for all people in his or her country, and the world.(Orig. FPA, 1991)

Give, Eat, and Live is a selection of poems translated from the 12th century Tamil poet Avvaiyar, arguably one of the most important female poets in Tamil¿s two-thousand-and-five-hundred years of literary history, and certainly one of the best known, of any gender. Although people across the state of Tamil Nadu know many of her works by heart, she has received little attention outside India, owing largely to the lack of decent translations. The one comprehensive work in English, Avvaiyar, a great Tamil poetess, by C. Rajagopalachari (Bombay: Bharatiya Vidya Bhavan, 1971), has long since been out of print and renders Avvaiyar¿s poems in accurate but wooden translations. This book, by contrast, seeks to render her finest songs in a supple and poetically charged English that allows both her intellect and poetry to shine.

High Skies recounts the collision of devastating weather, Cold War suspicion, tense race relations, and the unintended consequences of good intentions in a small West Texas town.

Sugar, Smoke, Song is a short fiction debut about girls and women caught between their desires, others’ expectations, and unexpected disaster, and how they maneuver with humor and rage into wilder, surviving selves.

Davies¿ poems track and map the characteristics of his relationships¿with the environment, people he meets, loved ones, animals, work, childhood, fantasy, and, of course, sheds.This is a collection mingling wry humour with sharp focus that will leave you wondering and questioning what really matters.

In John Barr's poems, the ancient masters encounter the modern world. Dante on a beach in China beholds the Inferno: "Flaring well gas night and day, / towers rise as if to say, / Pollution can be beautiful." Bach's final fugue informs all of nature. Villon is admonished by an aging courtesan. Aristotle finds "Demagogues are the insects of politics. / Like water beetles they stay afloat / on surface tension, they taxi on iridescence." And his afterlife: "When three-headed Cerberus greeted him / Socrates replied: I won't need / an attack dog, thankyou. I married one."

Like a photograph seared in the mind, Run Away to the Yard has lasting power, offering its readers the chance to alter assumed perceptions of culture-and of self.

Wooichin J-son was born and raised in Singapore. He completed his BA at the University of Southern Mississippi and his MA at the California Sate Univeristy, Northridge. He now lives in Lakewood, California, and teaches writing.

The reader journeys through these poems, circa 1787 to 2013, and emerges realizing that everything is connected-the ways we live, lie, love, and die-the ways we all get over.

Winner of the Letras Latinas/Red Hen Poetry Prize, as chosen by Lorna Dee Cervantez, Ruth Irupé Sanabria's second collection of poetry, Beasts Behave In Foreign Land, examines the internal landscape of a family confronting the psychological and emotional aftershocks of genocide and exile.

The bassist in a gay punk band reflects on his troubled relationship with the band's guitarist/singer. In the wake of the Matthew Shepard murder, a Wyoming ranch manager conceals his affair with another man. A young African American breaks up with his white boyfriend at a series of dinners at Cuban-Chinese restaurants. The attempt to repeal a gay rights ordinance divides a Southern college town. And in the title story, a downsized computer engineer tutors a gay Vietnamese immigrant in pop culture, cyberspace, and weight loss¿only to learn a vital lesson about American life circa Y2K. Welcome to the world of Richard Grayson, the writer Newsday called "convulsively inventive" and Kirkus Reviews found "oddly charming." In The Silicon Valley Diet, his ninth collection of short stories, Grayson zeroes in on gay baby boomers and Gen Xers making their way in a wired world.

Reckless risks make for big regrets. Take them anyway.A sexy new novel-in-stories, "a compelling and unflinching debut."

A poignant and astonishing debut, Testify interrogates race in America without feigning easy answers. In these poems Manuel crafts ambivalent spaces that seek steady reconciliation between past and present, self and family, faith and skepticism. As racialtensions heighten across the country, Testify offers an introspective rather than voicing a movement, arguing that individual experience is key to understanding the truth of the trials at hand.

The Los Angeles Review is a literary journal of divergent literature with a West Coast emphasis. Established in 2003, LAR publishes both the stories of Los Angeles, endlessly varied, and those that grow outside our world of smog and glitter. LAR seeks voices with something wild in them, voices that know what it means to be alive, to be fallible, to be human.

The environment is dying and the plants have chosen you to save them. You're going to make a difference . . . but at what cost? From the author of House Arrest and On Hurricane Island comes an activist page-turner Ann Hood (The Knitting Circle) calls "a must read."

Braiding together fairytale tradition and Old Testament stories in a narrative of connection and estrangement, Dreadful Wind & Rain tells the story of a girl's struggle to break free, both from the brokenness of her family and from the confines of traditional narratives.

"Amy Uyematsu's latest poetry collection,Basic Vocabulary, confronts today's complex world of drone warfare and post 9/11 unease with boldness, curiosity, candor, and insight. She unites the political and spiritual and welcomes what she calls:Elegant disorder / even my mind / leaping branch to branch"

"Why SIX? Because the collection is comprised of six poems. And because the perspective in this collection shifts like a kaleidoscope, each image viewable from six possible angles. And because these poems, like the prevalent hexagons of the natural world--honeycombs, for instance--derive strength from their compression and their accumulation. "I call six times just to be sure you heard," this speaker announces on the first page. These poems are also the six calls--calls to attention, calls to action, calls to account for something of our own. The speaker in SIX is insistent, scrupulous, and unflinching as she plumbs six essential aspects of human experience that have shaped us all: art, language, desire, vocation, faith, and life-changing love"--

"In Lessons from Summer Camp, Jim Tilley takes a fifty-year retrospective look at a ten-year period during his childhood and adolescence to discover what summer camp was really about. In both a wistful and an appreciative look back on the days of our youth, the poems reminisce on the memorable events of those summers, from fire-lighting contests at Council Ring, to races in war canoes during Tribal Games, learning to swim, and writing letters home--to the inevitable sadness of departing at the end of the summer, saying goodbyes at the station until next year. The poems evoke memories of experiences we've all shared and bring perspective to how lessons from summer camp often become apparent only later in life. "--

When senses voiced in writing merge, separate, and flow back together again, ink and paper suddenly transform. The blan, working alongside poverty in Haiti, the killing of things living yet unjustly categorized as trivial, the change in lives through photographs, and their stillness in passing. Color speaks, light touches, smell remembers, all through the innately human attempt to soften the unfamiliar, to know and experience otherness. Enter Volume 19 of The Los Angeles Review and witness the minutiaes and grandeurs, the discomforts and triumphs of life as the senses tell it.