Geist 112

Lisa Bird-Wilson witnesses the impact of climate change in the Arctic; Finn Wylie takes a road trip with Cupid; Mary Schendlinger memorializes Edith Iglauer; Alberto Manguel concedes to an orgy of kisses.

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Also in Geist 112:

Randy Fred receives a new name

Jan Morris administers the smile test

Wittgenstein walks Commercial Drive

Debby Reis reviews Murder by Milkshake

Justin E.H. Smith on the no-brainer problem

Rocaterrania: the secret country wedged between Canada and the US

Stephen Henighan visits Beira—a city build on land flooded by tides

New fiction by Carole Glasser Langille

The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Photography Collection

Matsuki Masutani on the complexities of marriage

#desk #welp #kansas and other banned hashtags

Bradley Peters on salmon runs, voodoo juice and chewing the fat in Mission

The National Map of Canadian Musicians

…and the world’s most difficult crossword puzzle!

Table of Contents

FEATURES

“True to the Eyes: The Howard and Carole Tanenbaum Photography Collection”

Carole Glasser Langille, “Consolation”

Matsuki Masutani, “Marriage Poems”

NOTES & DISPATCHES

Randy Fred, “Blind Man Dance”

Finn Wylie, “Road Trip with Cupid”

Bradley Peters, “Mission”

Stephen Osborne, “Wittgenstein Walks (Commercial Drive)”

Mary Schendlinger, “In Memoriam: Edith Iglauer, 1917-2019”

FINDINGS

On the art of Beau Dick  

Justin E.H. Smith discusses how language separates us from the world

“Composite: Black Hole” by Laura Matwichuk

Catherine Leroux on marshmallow cases

“Force of Nature” by Sarah De Leeuw

“Prairie Monoloth” by Don Proch

Amy Spurway on bomb fires and marchmellows

“Last Words” by Ken Hunt

“How I Got To Sleep” by Michael Redhill 

Meanwhile in Rocaterrania

Richard Van Camp on watching E.T. with grandpa 

Forbidden Metadata

Joy Kogawa in augmented reality

Outlandishness 101

Oisín Curran and the Flash, Bang, Whistle, Boom 

COLUMNS

Lisa Bird-Wilson, “Distant Early Warning”

Stephen Henighan, “Vanished Shore”

Alberto Manguel, “Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)”

ENDNOTES: Featuring reviews of

In My Mind's Eye by Jan Morris, reviewed by Thad McIlroy

Spawning Generations edited by Sadie Epstein-Fine and Makeda Zook, reviewed by Patty Osborne

The New Jerusalem by Patti Smith, reviewed by Michael Hayward

Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty Questions by Valeria Luiselli, reviewed by Mary Schendlinger

Shtisel created and written by Ori Elon and Yhonatan Indursky, reviewed by Patty Osborne

Eighty Days by Matthew Goodman, reviewed by Jesmine Cham

Red Sorghum by Mo Yan, reviewed by Anson Ching

Murder by Milkshake by Eve Lazarus, reviewed by Debby Reis

Check Please! Book 1: #Hockey by Ngozi Ukazu, reviewed by Kelsea O'Connor

I Will Never See the World Again by Yasemin Çongar, reviewed by Michael Hayward

The Tiger Flu by Larissa Lai, reviewed by Kristen Lawson

The Long Take by Robin Robertson, reviewed by Michael Hayward

THE WALL

And the GEIST CRYPTIC CROSSWORD!

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