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  Space and Time Magazine Issue...

  Angela Yuriko Smith, Denny E...

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  Autumn approaches, and with it comes a time of dark magic. In this issue we celebrate the fantastical, the foreign and the fatalistic. We have kallikantzaroi on a mission, banana Popsicle munching bombs, alien friends happy to lend more than a hand, a band that really puts themselves into their music and part one of Flashlight, Knife and Flowered Crown, an electrifying, modern fairy tale. 
  Poetry, flash fiction and keen illustration add variety to the mix. An Spanish interview of Jack Ketchum by Soraya Murillo Hernandez has been translated to celebrate his birthday November 10. Daniel M. Kimmel remembers the cult classic sci-fi movie The Man Who Fell to Earth. 
  All edited music used in Space and Time Magazine Issue #134 are: 
  Music from youtube.com 
  NCAL - No Copyright Audio Library 
  Fun_House - By Coyote Hearing 
  Music from Exzel Music Publishing (freemusicpublicdomain.com) 
  The Nymphaeum Part V 
  Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 
  http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ 
  Music from http://dig.ccmixter.org 
  Gimin by Nethis 
  (c) copyright 2012 Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial (3.0) license. 
  Music from https://filmmusic.io 
  "Private Reflection" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) 
  License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 
  "Gathering Darkness" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) 
  License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 
  "Relaxing Piano Music" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) 
  License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) 
  "Half Mystery" by Kevin MacLeod (https://incompetech.com) 
  License: CC BY (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/)

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  Janey's Arcadia

  Rachel Zolf

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  It is true Canada is not exactly a Utopia, Ltd.,for there is hard work and a rough, raw, erudite wailagainst the postmodern loss of meaning and emotion to be donebefore comfort or affluence are built. I used to have a lot of idylfantasies inwrought with Indign traits about your too bruisedand scared surface looking into the seeds of time. How now,my masters! Smacks not this one-acted poem of the greatnational prosaic life of Arcady?
   
  Zolf’s fifth book assembles a pirate score of error-ridden historical and current documents – missionary narratives, immigration pamphlets, settler writings – to decry the ongoing violence of Canadian colonialism. It stars Janey Settler-Invader, a foul-mouthed mutant slouching toward the Red River Colony, along with a host of cacophonous, carnivalesque appropriations.
   
  Praise for Janey's Arcadia:
   
  'That poetry can be forcefully consequential is not a safe assumption in our contemporary crisis of sustainable attention. To deploy an intricately political poetics as Zolf’s performative texts do is a wager on expansion of the genre with no small risk of misreadings. The driving courage of Janey’s Arcadia is in fact its digital-age enactment of an allegory of misreading. Subjecting Canadian settler texts (in which indigenous peoples’ humanity can be casually or fervently dismissed) to Optical Character Recognition software, a chilling and ludicrous display of misreadings occur, inescapably charged by the cultural politics of non-recognition. A reader’s encounters range from the philosophically profound “Each person is an asking…” to the OCR mutated government questionnaire. Q: ‘Do you expei'ience any dread of the Indigns?’ A: I have no fear of Indigns, for I never see one.' – Joan Retallack
   
  'Few poets embody stress like Rachel Zolf. Pain most poets cannot imagine exposing with such exacting affliction. Janey’s Arcadia recommends we reconsider the weak arguments of “post-identity politics” because this poet sees how we will lie to hide the brutality of our collective suffering for civilization’s advancement. If you read this without waking your emotional intelligence, well, I’m glad I’m not you with that stick so far up your ass. This is the real poetry. I know it is because it changes me.'
   
  – CAConrad, author of ECODEVIANCE
   
  ’I’ve been locked up in this room so/ long, mon dieu, whatever desires arise in me are rampaging/ as fierce and monstrous as gigantic starving jungle beasts.” A great hunger, ravenous as Canada, and filled with rage and hurt, animates Rachel Zolf’s splendid new book. On one hand Janey’s Arcadia brings us a few hundred years of western colonization, and on the other, these poems speak to everyone who’s living on someone else’s land or those forced to speak in someone else’s tongue. Whether it’s Cree or English, French or Cobol, there’s always a man and a machine happy to misprise you. “C’est bien. By every fair means. In Manitoba....”’ – Kevin Killian

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  Cinders of Castlerea - No Little...

  Pamela Q. Fernandes

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  In this romantic suspense novel, dangerously attractive businessman, Charles Kilbrooke is hunting the arsonist that killed his fiancée in Castlerea. Blaming himself for her death, he returns to the small Irish town with a ruthless plan. He refuses to succumb to the exotic beauty creating mayhem in his life. 
  Anika Bassein has changed everything about her past. She wants nothing to do with fire ever since her parents B&B was set ablaze. When she sees an ad with free lodging in an obscure holiday town, she accepts. Sparks fly with her handsome neighbor. 
  But where there’s smoke, there’s fire....

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  The Higher Pantheism

  Alfred Tennyson

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  LibriVox volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Higher Pantheism by Alfred, Lord Tennyson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for September 18, 2011.Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular poets in the English language. ( Summary by Wikipedia )

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  Freedom House

  KB Brookins

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  Freedom House is a poetry collection that explores internal, interpersonal, and systemic freedom.  
  In this debut full-length collection, KB Brookins’ formally diverse, music-influenced poetry explores transness, politics of the body, gentrification, sexual violence, climate change, masculinity, and afrofuturism while chronicling their transition and walking readers through different “rooms”. The speaker isn’t afraid to call themselves out while also bending time, displaying the terror of being Black/queer/trans in Texas, and more — all while using humor and craft.  
  What does freedom look like? What can we learn from nature and our past? How do you reintroduce yourself in a world that refuses queerness? How can we use poetry as a tool in the toolbox that helps build freedom? This collection explores those questions, and manifests a world where Black, queer, and trans people get to live.

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  Works and Days

  Hesiod

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  ‘The Works and Days’ is a didactic poem of some 800 lines composed by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod. The poem deals with daily life and work, interwoven with allegory, fable and personal history. It also serves as a farmer's almanac, through which Hesiod instructs his brother Perses in the agricultural arts, and as a compendium of advice for life as a farmer. As such it opens a window on archaic Greek society, ethics, and superstition. ‘The Works and Days’ contains two mythological etiologies for the pain and trouble of the human condition, the earliest versions of the tale of Prometheus and Pandora, and of the Ages of Man.

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