Vol 3.2

Cleveland Review of Books, Vol. 3.2: R.K. Fegelman on César Vallejo’s revolutionary poetics and the poet’s confrontation with death; Jacqueline Feldman on the Paris Commune and the precarity of collective living; Leo Kim’s “speculative nonfiction” reconsidering the container (from ancient jars to digital archives) as a vessel for cultural memory.

The issue also includes poetry by Jane Huffman, Matt Broaddus, and Logan Fry; an excerpt from Ruthie Prillaman’s play The Suitor; Michael Bible’s darkly comic fever dream about baby races, tax fraud, and rock bottom; Jason de Stefano on Chicago’s Hull-House and its radical craft tradition; Ari Moline on Aurora Mattia’s feminist poetics and how they unsex language; Lucy Schiller on the ethics of digression (literally: why wandering matters, in life and in literature); and Tristan Whalen on Marcel Breuer’s Minnesota concrete monastery.

Plus: Marlo Longley on art inside decommissioned munitions bunkers, Claire Foster on grief as technology, and a conversation between Cleveland writers Ali Black and Stephanie Ginese on place and survival.