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.
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!
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!