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EVERGREEN REVIEW / Issue No. 120 / October 2009
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Editor-In-Chief and Publisher: Barney Rosset
Associate Editor: Astrid Rosset | Assistant Editors: Matt Peterson, Rami Shamir | Contributing Editor: Jim Feast | Design: Ethan Persoff

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On the cover this month, detail from a set of Russian Revolutionary War Posters, ca. 1917–1925. For more information see Evergreen Review No. 46, April 1967 - and online, see this link from Evergreen Review No. 100.

EVERGREEN REVIEW No. 120, October 2009
contents

ESSAY: PROTECTING THE PRINTED WORD
PAGE

  Alan Kaufman | The Electronic Book Burning
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POETRY:

  Willie Smith | Handguns
02
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  Valery Oisteanu | Smoke of Radical Aggressiveness
06
  Ed Baker | Imagination Is More Important Than Knowledge
07
  Christopher Crawford | O'Hara at the Beach
08

  Cartoons by Ami and R. Rewal
  Reprinted from Evergreen No. Nine, 1959
21

EVERGREEN MUSIC:

  Ethan Persoff | Ladies and Gentlemen, Paris Records
05
First published history of label's entire 25 year history, covering work by Michael Minzer, Hal Willner and Nelson Lyon. Included with article: Two mp3s of out of print music from Allen Ginsberg and Kathy Acker.

FICTION:

  Stan Adler | Angel Solo (Excerpt from Words For Some Lost Reason)
04
  Graham Cotten | A Funny Thing About Surveillance
08
  Bonny Finberg | Jack Daniel's
10

ARTICLE/OPINION:

  B.H. Friedman | The Most Expensive Restaurant Ever Built
  Reprinted from Evergreen No. Ten, 1959
11

POETRY:

  Sumita Dutta | Coughing In October
09
  Jason Hardung | Super Heroes and Speed
13
  Andrei Guruianu | A Study of Color
14
  Doug Thiele | The Sedan of Life
15
  M. J. Pattee | For Ken
18

MEMOIR:

  Kathleen Wright | The Siren Post
19

FICTION:

  Alan Kaufman | In the Province
16
  Christine Granados | Fight Like a Man
17
  Abbot Street | Excerpt from novel Revolution
12

HUMOR:

  Mike Topp | Stuyvesant Bee, Volume 1 Number 79
20

REVIEWS BY JIM FEAST:

  Norma Cole "Natural Light" (New York: Libellum, 2009)
22
  Robert Gibbons "Travels Inside the Archive:
  Archive of Daily Log For Nov. 24 2007-Nov.24, 2008"
  (Brownfield, ME: Edge of Maine Editions, 2009)
23
  Todd Farley "Making the Grades: My Misadventures in
  the Standardized Testing Industry" (Sausalito: PoliPoint Press, 2009)
24

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