| New Series #3: Summer 2010, Volume 2 Number 1 |
| From the Editors:
“Let’s understand what is not hidden,” begins the poem by Ilya Gutner which opens this issue. This is sound advice, for isn’t it true that we are already close to a mystery when we set ourselves to noticing and getting a handle on all which is apparent in the natural world around us? Without having to delve deeper into metaphysics or history, we already find ourselves immersed in detail. The work of understanding, and cultivating an appreciation for, the non-hidden aspects of nature, can occupy a lifetime. How dizzying to realize that once we do dig into and through that not-hidden world, there are vast realms beneath and above the visible. And even if we restrict our attention to the surface layers of nature – to snails and islands, the sands of Ogunquit and the aroma of lilac blossoms in Arnold Arboretum – somehow the denizens of those hidden strata make themselves known, as in the poem by satnrose which closes this issue: “the name forgotten and a salt wind picking up & the leviathans dancing.” Whew! The plenum practically vibrates with meaningful beauty and beautiful meaning. If we had an editorial raison d’être in selecting the works in this issue, it was to somehow point to the staggering richness in the non-hidden, and the corresponding vastnessnes of the territories beyond.
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Cover art from Adventures of Two Youths in a Journey to Japan and China by Thomas W. Knox, Harper and Brothers, 1880.
This issue was edited by Zachary Bos and Nora Delaney, with the assistance of Sean Campbell, Emily Heilig, Liza Katz, and Louisa Mandarino. © 2010. All rights reserved by contributors and editors for their respective work. Texts may not be reproduced other than for personal or academic use without written permission of the author or editor. Reviewers are encouraged to excerpt when reviewing.
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