Bøker av Michael Hathaway

The Cherry Flames, a book of poems by Benjamin Rosenbush is a poetry collection that leaves one hushed in thought and reverie. In these stressful times, we all need to find a place just to be, and Rosenbush's poems speak--with an energetic calming-- to the quietest part of oneself. The book is an introspective journey: each poem is personal, yet inviting and universal, like smooth and imagistic pathways for all to enjoy. Read it and enjoy it too!

"While I publish in gay places, I don't make a big issue of it, not out of shame, but because I refuse to internalize the ghetto the rightwing wants to put us all in. I'm a human being first, and I know I have gifts to share with the whole society as human and as an individual, regardless of the bigots. Paradoxically, that makes me proud to have my work in a special gay issue of such a fine publication as Chiron Review precisely because you don't concentrate on the gay voice but on the range of human voices, some of which happen to be gay. With that context, to do a gay issue is a brave and life-getting event. Those who say 'we' can't generate life err in thinking that getting children is the only way to 'get' life. Every sharing of love, concern, inspiration, risk, hope, and joy - gets us more alive, and that deepens the life-resonances among all humankind. If we're genuine individuals, we do not have to be defensive for loving our own kind, especially if we can relate with others with deep respect." - Will Inman, 1992

Chiron Review's special issue dedicated to & all about Dr. Gerald Locklin, professor, writer, editor, literary luminary. The publisher notes: "I couldn't be more pleased with the quality, variety, and diversity of material we received for this homage to our beloved literary icon." Included among personal memoirs & tribute poems & essays are photos of Gerry, most by Alexis Rhone Fancher. There are also a few photos from his 1954 high school yearbook, as well as 5 interviews conducted with Gerry & published over the years; 20 of his poems & 2 pieces of his short fiction.

Chiron Review #126 (summer 2022) is devoted to work by Vietnam vets. Andrew Gettler did much of the work of assembling the issue. There are poems, fiction, frank book reviews by experts. This issue amounts to a full report of the achievement of the Vietnam veteran poets active in the small presses, drawing on years of passionate involvement in that scene by Andrew Gettler. The poets represented form a community of individuals in touch with each other's work, not just a gang of logrollers. There is fine sensibility consistent throughout the book, that has to do with remaining faithful to some rather vivid early experiences while trying not to just moan on about blood and guts. This matter is discussed with taste and intelligence and experience in the book reviews. This issue would be an excellent teaching text for any course on the literature of the war, and richly deserves to be developed into a textbook.