Genres
From the Preface—
In August of 2023, a small team from Chicago Review went to Cleveland, OH to visit The Building to collect materials for an upcoming special issue on her work and practice. Work on the issue began in earnest during that summer visit, a sort of induction that made plain the task ahead. Lily Scherlis (then nonfiction editor) took most of the photographs that appear throughout the issue (except, in rare cases, when credits indicate other authors or modes of transmission). Later, patton provided captioning for those images—a selection pared down from more than 1,000 taken during our documentation. In Cleveland, she provided and showed us manuscripts, notebooks, revisions and temporary documents, scans of her own work and the work of others, the Wetlands (a constantly rearranging book of collages), and more still; we rifled through and photographed everything that we could. The resulting issue, an extended work of editorship and collaboration led by coeditors Clara Nizard and James Garwood-Cole, is the object that we present to you now. It is in some ways an accounting not only of a community or a body of work, but of Chicago Review’ s encounter with it too—our collective attempt with julie to make an object that speaks just enough and almost right.
Special Feature: julie ezelle patton: Arkitext—
RESPONSES
James Garwood-Cole, Kai Ihns & Clara Nizard, Preface
Jennifer Scappettone, julie ezelle patton and the Geopoetics of Unrequited Care
julie ezelle patton & Jennifer Scappettone, Stanzas in Conversation
julie ezelle patton & Arcey Harton, A list of seventy-to-ninety-year-old chill, competent, ethical, sharp Independent Contractors & Public Servants who go beyond the call of booty (cash) and have aided us by & by
Lee Ann Brown, Summa julie
Yates Norton, Let it Bee: Thoughts for My Friend julie ezelle patton
Andrew Levy, Word Dance: julie patton’s Uncommon Proposal
Jonathan Skinner, julie patton’s Let it Bee Garden and Poet Tree Mitigation Program: Selected Correspondence
Janice A. Lowe, Spontaneous Composition: julie’s Musical News
Abou Farman, Ghosts of a Ghost Town Performance
Gabe Flores & Arcey Harton, An Interview
POEMS & WORKS
approx. 100 pages of unpublished work by julie ezelle patton
photo documentation of works installed in “The Building, ” a.k.a the Salon d’ Refusee and Let it Bee Garden, Cleveland, OH
CHORUS
giovanni singleton, Here Hear Now… A Pink Oracle Reading
Ed Roberson, Touching the Hem & patton collaboration
m. nourbeSe philip, To Whom It May Concern
Carla Harryman, Into a Detroit Spirit’s World
Will Alexander, from Charismatic Spiral Part II; Note on julie’s Compound
Cecilia Vicuña, 2 poems
Fiction—
Stephen Mortland, Nativity
Marzia Grillo translated by Lourdes Contreras & Julia Pelosi-Thorpe, Have A Seat, Dear
Interview—
Ethan Hsi & A. Ng Pavel, Soma Sema: An Interview with Mircea Cartarescu
Nonfiction—
Chris Hosea, “Like the Voluntary Disappearance of Space Between Me and You”: Jennifer Soong’s Interior Music
Malcolm de Chazal translated by Sara Nicholson, from Magical Science
Poetry—
Joseph Minden, from Answerlands
Ryan Nowlin, Fortune and Solitude
maya rose, Four Poems
Kat Sinclair, 3 poems
Ada Smailbegović, from blue eggshell discrete actions in a moving geometry of time
Roberto Tejada, from Carbonate of Copper
Reviews—
Peter Gizzi, Fierce Elegy reviewed by Stéphane Bouquet translated by Lindsay Turner
Ludovico Silva, Marx’s Literary Style reviewed by Alexander Millen
Justin Hopper, ed., Obsolete Spells: Poems & Prose from Victor Neuburg & the Vine Press