gobshite quarterly #31/32

Gobshite Quarterly Summer/Fall 2018, #31/32 features: Every Edge a Centre is an ongoing series of mythopoetic reasoned rants and essays: Nebraska novelist & O. Henry nominee Poe Ballantine looks back at a 1960s relationship with a legend in Every Edge A Centre: Another zucchini bar, Ken? (in Eng./Sp./Croat.); Adelaide-based poet & essayist Judith Steele writes about escaping the age of Trump, even in the Outback, in Every Edge A Centre: Travelogue Monologue, Flinders Ranges, So. Oz. (in Eng./Sp./Croatian); Germ. film scholar Janina Bocksch & Barcelona-based Oz essayist & cineaste Adrian Martin write about Charles Laughton's classic noir & chess in Night of the Hunter: Black is to Move (in Eng./Span./Croatian). We have two comics: Award winning Little Beirut, Oregon poet & artist Leanne Grabel graces us w/a life of Dorothy Parker for children of all ages, A Sad Story About a Big Brain: Illustr. (in Eng./Span./Icelandic/Croatian). Rotterdam-based illustrator Tânia Cardoso collaborated w/ writer Joana Vardona for the comic book Garandinha-excerpted (in Eng./Portuguese). & we have an Indonesian Dragon fr. Japanese artist Midori Oki, & Croatian illustrator Dusan Gacic has a very pictoral Diary (in Croat./English). Bestselling Swiss novelist Christoph Keller, who divides his time betw. St. Galen & N.Y.C., offers us 5 Jazz flash fictions inspired by jazz classics & the lives of the musicians who wrote them (Solo Flight/Blood Count/New Rhumba/My Friend Mindy/Sound Seekers). Fr. Bowling Green Ohio, Michael Lohr gives us orig. bad boy & eternal rock-'n'-roller Edgar Allen in The Ghost of Poe (in Eng./Icelandic/Finnish/Sp.). Little Beirut writer Davis Slater observes a very very very angry carney in 9 Kinds of Sucker (Eng./Span./Croat./Japanese). & we've got poets fr. all over: Greek poet & editor Dinos Siotis ponders paradoxes of Faith (in Greek/Eng./Lithuan./Span./Japanese). Croat. editor & poet Ivan Herceg visits Limbo & thinks About Impossible Faces (in Croat./Eng./Span./Lithuanian). Award winning Croatian poet Lana Derkac comes to a Conclusion & makes an appointment with Doctor January & enters a Covenant with Dust. Also fr. St. Galen, Clemens Umbricht visits The Room of False Things & hangs Untitled on a wall & gets lost in Rain-washed Amsterdam & then takes A Stroll in July (in Germ./Eng./Croat./Spanish). Award winning Slovenian poet & E.R. doctor Veronica Dintinjana goes to midnight mass to visit the Cathedral Lions & then loiters Outside the City Gates (Slovenian/Eng./Lithuan./Russian/Croat./Spanish). South Oz expat Jan Herschel has lived on the Left Coast since 1982, & makes a wistful wish in Add to Cart (Eng./Span./Russian/Icelandic/Finnish). Adelaide poet Judith Steele, winner of the Red Earth Poetry Award discovers Quiet (in Eng./Russian/Croat./Spanish). Little Beirut drive-by poet Pecos B. Jett tells us the one about Snoring Beauty (in Eng./Jap./Russian/Finnish/Spanish).