ISSUE 33: Spring 2016
Fiction
Burner Season
After his daughter, Lynnie, was asleep, Wiseman stood in the kitchen of his mother’s mobile home, unpacking a box labeled “Kitchen Stuff.”
Poetry
Two Poems
Two poems from the Trillium-award nominated poet, instructor, and Wolsak & Wynn Senior Editor Paul Vermeersch in The Puritan Issue 33.
Essays
Washed (Or, the Cleanest I Might Ever Be)
An essay by Brent van Staalduinen in The Puritan Issue 33: Spring 2016 | Learn about the annual Thomas Morton Memorial Prize in our submissions section.
Interviews
“You have a strange relationship with your own being”: An Interview with Liz Howard
Liz Howard’s Infinite Citizen of the Shaking Tent is a wild and joyful ride through the mind, a decolonizing text that doesn’t deny the force of history, instead breathing life into the returning repressed, and therefore showing us a method of facing it full on.
“Russia’s in Such a Complicated State, Even Now:” Excerpts from a Conversation with Rosemary Sullivan and Jeff Parker
I don’t really believe in that idea of an “everyman.”
“Beware: It’s Going to Be Very Personal:” An Interview with Guillaume Morissette
I felt that there was a lot there that I wanted to explore in writing, but my interest wasn’t necessarily in writing a memoir.
Reviews
Rhonda Douglas’s Welcome to the Circus
Rhonda Douglas must have been one of the big girls already slouched in their seats at the back of the school bus when it emerged from the fog to stop for me under the Gulf gas station sign.
“On the Context of the Text:” A Review of Eric Jarosinski’s Nein. A Manifesto
Imagine this: it's 2012 and a professor teaching at an Ivy League institution—let's say he has a PhD in German Literature and Culture and teaches at the University of Pennsylvania—decides to withdraw his application for tenure to propagate a persona of nihilistic humour on Twitter—a persona which happens to be inspired by the professor's own work on the Frankfurt School's thinker Theodor Adorno.
Fire and Ashes: Review of Rachel Rose’s Marry & Burn
As its title conjures, Rachel Rose’s fourth collection of poetry, Marry & Burn, smoulders with intense lyrical energy and crackles with poetic technique.
On “fail porn”: A Review of Andy McGuire’s Country Club
In his review of Ben Ladouceur’s Otter, Stewart Cole describes “what is fast ossifying into the ‘house style’ of many younger Canadian poets (particularly those within Toronto’s orbit): associative, ironic, urbane, sonically dense while figuratively loose, and favouring the splash of flitting wordplay over the resonance and depth to be won from sustained reflective immersion.”
