Description
Santa Barbara Review, Published 1995. Paperback, 143 pp; 24 cm; Volume 3, Number 3 (Fall/Winter 1995); illustrated with black-and-white photographs, drawings, and serigraphs.
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Condition & notes
In Very Good condition. Glossy paper covers with mild shelf wear and light bumping to edges. Binding tight. Otherwise unmarked.Issue of the Santa Barbara Review literary tri-quarterly, edited by Patricia Stockton Leddy and organized around the editor's "phenomena of place" theme: fiction, essays, personal history, and poetry exploring the connection between landscape, science, and artistic expression. Cover art is Terry Cramolini's oil painting "The Rib Room of the Carlton Tower" (1994); the frontispiece reproduces "January," a 19th-century ceramic tile by Josiah Wedgwood and Sons. The Correspondences section opens with a piece by Stephen Ratcliffe on Mallarmé. The Personal History section opens with "I Am Assunta Marangoni Comin, This Is My Story," an Italian immigrant memoir accompanied by family photographs. Mediha Saliba contributes both fiction and an essay on Ganesh; black-and-white performance photography by Chris Wilkes from Anna Mansbridge's "In the Swim" illustrates the fiction. ISSN 1068-8617.Contents: Correspondences; The Pleasant Surface of Things by Richard M. Zimler; God's Hairdresser by Didi Shuff; Now Hear This by John Azrak; Ganeshi by Mediha Saliba; William by Henry Meyerson; Day of the Finches by David Plumb; Is Mephistopheles Dead? by Carole Morgan; Ganesha-Ganeshi by Mediha Saliba; My Name Is Assunta Marangoni Comin, This Is My Story; Seeing California Plain by Robert Chianese; poems by Barbara Genovese, Gloria Lewyn, Clifford Paul Fetters, Ellen Sobelman, Anca Vlasopolos, Tim Pompey, Mark Fenlon Peterson, Criss Jay, Kyle Kevorkian, Ron Lawrence, Harold Gilmore, Dennis Saleh, David Plumb, John Drexel, and Peter Munro; Booktalk; Contributor Notes.