FALL 2005/WINTER 2006 THE DOCUMENTARY IMAGINATION Edited by Tom Fricke and Keith Taylor

Volume 1 (Fall 2005):

Nonfiction: Mark Auslander on documenting the restoration of an African-American cemetery in Georgia; Barry Lopez interviewed by Michael Shapiro; Erik Mueggler on writing the imperial project; Eileen Pollack on a Jewish cemetery in Detroit; Tom Pohrt curating never-before-circulated photos from the Cuban revolution; Jonathan Raban on James Agee and the limits of documentary style; Keith Taylor on finding in public records the true story of a relative's suicide in western Canada

Four previously unpublished poems by Theodore Roethke, with an introduction by Linda Walker

Poems by Anne Carson, Martha Collins, Steve Gehrke, Robert Hershon, Bob Hicok, Thomas Lynch, Gerard Malanga, Jose Edmundo Ocampo Reyes, S. L. Wisenberg

Fiction by Robert Boyers and Melodie Edwards

Reviews by Barry Goldensohn (on Raul Hilberg) and Raymond McDaniel (on a book of poems about a murder case in Ann Arbor)

Volume 2 (Winter 2006):

Nonfiction: Kelly M. Askew on filming East African musical performers; Ruth Behar on a visit to the first World Summit Reunion of Behars in Bejar, Spain; an interview with Robert Coles by Tom Fricke about Coles's life and lifework in the documentary field; Tom Fricke on the friendship of an anthropologist (himself) and a native informant in Nepal; Elizabeth Kostova's commentaries about working-class Philadelphia, with photos by Sandy Sorlien; Artemis Leontis and Lauren Talalay recreating a day in 1919 in Constantinople, abundantly illustrated with period photographs; Khaled Mattawa offering views of Mediterranean culture in "Letters from Libya"; Leslie Stainton on memories of an old theatre in Lancaster, Pennsylvania; William Stott on the nature of documentary and how one goes about writing it, as he did in his classic work about the 1930s.

Fiction by Carin Clevidence, Stephen Gibson, and William Lychack

Poetry by Joseph Campana, Victoria Chang, Jim Daniels (with photographs by Charlee Brodsky), Jana Harris, Benjamin Paloff, Titos Patrikios, Rachel Richardson, Matthew Thorburn, Richard Tillinghast, Alison Townsend

Book Reviews by Dargie Anderson, Mike Henkin, John Knott

Each issue is now reduced from $9 to $6; both issues are $12. Send a check or money order to our office:

Michigan Quarterly Review
3574 Rackham Building
915 E. Washington St.
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1070.

Thank you for your interest in Michigan Quarterly Review