gobshite quarterly #31/32: your rosetta stone for the new world order

Gobshite Quarterly's completely multilingual: GobQ #31/32 has en-face/parallel text writing & comics fr. Oregon, Ohio, Nebraska, Croatia, Slovenia, Spain, Greece, & So. Oz. Most pcs. are in 3-7 languages, starting w/ English & Spanish, & incl. Croatian, Finnish, German, Icelandic, Japanese, Greek, Lithuanian, Russian, Slovenian, &/or Bengali.

Publisher Marketing: Issue #31 features writing & translation & art by Mazena Balkovskaja Poe Ballantine Parantp Chakraborty Gabriele Ciunelyte Volga Vukeja Dawe Lana Derkač チャニング-ドッドソン Dusan Gačic Bozena Garbatovič Leanne Grable Boris Gregoric Ivan Herceg Ana Katana Christoph Keller Marija Kiknadze Tomislav Kuzmanovic Michael Lohr 大木みどり -- Midori Oki Marija Ostrovskaja Deividas Razmys Andrei Sen-Senkov / Андрей Сен-Сеньков Ντίνος Σιώτης / D. Siotis Damir Sodan Clemens Umbricht Florian Vetsch T. Warburton y Bajo y rvb Grahm Willoughby Issue #32 features writing & translation & art by Rose Aasen Mazena Balkovskaja Cristina Álvarez López Janina Bocksch Tânia Cardoso Parantp Chakraborty Алекса Сигала/Alex Cigale Lana Derkač Mia Dintinjana Veronica Dintinjana チャニング・ドッドソン Boris Gregoric Jan Herschel Dijana Jakovac Pecos B. Jett Ana Katana Christoph Keller Michael Lohr Adrian Martin Laima Masyte 大木みどり -- Midori Oki Andrei Sen-Senkov / Андрей Сен-Сеньков Davis Slater Douglas Spangle Judith Steele Coleman Stevenson Clemens Umbricht Joana Vardana Florian Vetsch T. Warburton y Bajo y rvb Graham Willoughby Review Quotes : R. V. Branham, editor of Gobshite Quarterly, has brought together writers & readers who are quarantined by the English language -- Joseph Gallivan, Portland Tribune Gobshite Quarterly has found a definite niche with its en face translations. -- Willamette Week Publisher Marketing : 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 Gačic 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 Derkač 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). Contributor Bio: Ballantine, Poe author of Whirlaway: the Great American Loony Bin, Horseplaying & Record-Collecting Novel Contributor Bio: Keller, Christoph dividing his time between St. Galen, Switzerland, & NYC, Christoph Keller has written several novels & short story collection, including Best Dancer in the World, & A Meaningful Life 2.0 with Primal Matter, i.-ix. Contributor Bio: Grabel, Leanne Portland based Leanne Grabel's latest book is GOld Shoes: Graphic Poetry.

Format: Paperback | Pages: 140 | Publication Date: 2018-06-22