Feeding the Spirit! The Southern Review Winter Issue Now Available

BATON ROUGE – The Southern Review winter 2011 issue, now available for purchase online at http://www.lsu.edu/tsr/ and in bookstores, features plenty of great, new writing to feed the spirit.
           

In this issue Robert Lacy looks back on Walker Percy’s “The Moviegoer” 50 years after its initial publication. K. E. Semmel translates Line-Maria Lang’s intimate Danish story about life’s end, while Vanessa Blakeslee takes readers on a journey to Costa Rica and Jaquira Díaz illuminates the beauty and brutality of being a teenager.   
           

The winter issue features Derek Mong’s adaptations of Latin texts, a powerful and evocative poem by Kevin Prufer that matches his work in The Southern Review’s autumn issue, and generally terrific poetry from Albert Goldbarth, Joshua Rivkin, Brendan Galvin, Julia B. Levine, Katrina Vandenberg, and many others warming the winter issue’s pages.
           

The artwork for this issue features paintings by Ed Smith, professor of art at LSU. Inspired by the works of John James Audubon, Smith focuses on the birds of his adopted state of Louisiana and arrangements of wildlife that represent as Smith said, “adversity and hope.”
           

Founded in 1935 by Robert Penn Warren and Cleanth Brooks, The Southern Review is published four times a year on the campus of LSU. For more information, contact Leslie A. Green, The Southern Review business manager at 225- 578-5104 or lgreen@lsu.edu.