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Lewis Thomas, winner of the first annual Missouri Review Editors' Prize in the essay, has a reputation for asking questions as large as a answer them. His "Song of the Canary" asks how human language began. While he calls on several learned disciplines in pursuit of an answer, he finally rests his case on the far side of science, somewhere between the plains of common human experience and the mountains of intuition. Both of the other winners of the MR child might ask and having the most amazingly good time trying to Editors' Prize, as it happens, share an interest in a related, and equally substantial, theme--the lessons of war. Kyoko Mori's lucid poem "Fallout" describes the young poet's journey to Hiroshima, in a pilgrimage that finally transcends commemoration, while Baine Kerr's rollicking story "Light Sweet Crude" watches the reportage of Desert Storm through the eyes of maverick emigres in a central American jungle village--a place where another kind of struggle is describes her long struggle with Alex Haley (who died in early February, after this interview was completed), and she gives us an insider's view of some of the stresses and strains in Chicago's South Nelson Algren
The Missouri Review – University of Missouri
Published: Oct 5, 1992
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