Announcing New Lana Turner Issue & Website

The tenth issue of Lana Turner is here, weighing in at 408 pages, with a purchase format modeled after Toronto literary journal Brick, which offers the option of a digital or print version of the thing. LT's website itself has also been redesigned, and there you may find, in addition to a list of contents (not yet possible to read online), fairly cheap PDFs of back issues.

Number 10 includes dialogues on the movies Get Out and I Am Love; new translations of work by Ilse Aichinger, Raúl Zurita, and Caesar Vallejo; poems by Tongo Eisen-Martin, David Buuck, Rae Armantrout, Jorie Graham, Juliana Spahr, and others; reviews of Ali Warren’s I Love It Though and Eleni Stecopoulos’s Visceral Poetics; essays by Claudia Rankine, Fred Moten, and Zurita; special sections on Rimbaud and Chinese poetry, and much more. From the sample of Rankine's piece, "Our Whiteness," on offer here; and a bit of Ilse Aichinger:

Claudia Rankine

Now looking back I might have handled discussions touching on white abolitionists and civil rights activists differently, but in the moment I was bemused that the student wished me to turn my attention away from the problems of systemic white dominance in order to create a more palatable narrative for her.

Ilse Achinger

Now give me back my willow trees. Smooth down your own fur, give me the willow trees. And take a rest, take a long rest. I will stay close to the edge. I want nothing of the current – except to be spared by it. The middle – gold, red-gold, black-gold. Spared until I’m no longer spared. Give me that.

Find out more by heading to the new Lana Turner.