Open City #23: Prose by Poets

Open City Magazine #23

by Daniel Pinchbeck

Open City continues to present new writing with a daring edge and a youthful glow, appealing to readers who want to know what’s next in contemporary literature. This special issue features fiction, essays, and artwork—all by poets. Each piece of prose will be accompanied by a selection of the writer’s poems. Contributors Deborah Garrison, Nick Tosches, Honor Moore, Rodney Jack, David Lehman, Jim Harrison, Thurston Moore, David Berman, and Catherine Bowman, Alfred Star Hamilton, and Jerome Badanes.

250 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2007

About the author

Daniel Pinchbeck is an American author. His books include Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism, 2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl, and Notes from the Edge Times. He is a co-founder of the web magazine Reality Sandwich and of the website Evolver.net, and edited the North Atlantic Books publishing imprint Evolver Editions. He was featured in the 2010 documentary 2012: Time for Change, directed by Joao Amorim and produced by Mangusta Films. He is the founder of the think tank Center for Planetary Culture, which produced the Regenerative Society Wiki.

Reviews

[Holly Interlandi · Rating 4 out of 5]

Started out weakly, at least for Open City, with boring personal essays and shit like that, but redeemed itself along the way. Amusingly, the prose is almost universally better than the poetry.