SULFUR. Subtitled “A Literary Biannual of the...

SULFUR. Subtitled “A Literary Biannual of the Whole Art,” Sulfur is the most intellectually intrepid and editorially integrated of the magazines under review. In Issue 28 we find portfolios of work by a painter and a sculptor, alongside essays on their work, one by poet Milton Kessler; then we have an essay on Kessler’s work as teacher and poet by Camille Paglia, who was a student of his.

There are Bruce Andrews’ poetic texts for a dance performance; several translations from Blaise Cendrars, including parts of his fantastical screenplay “The End of the World Filmed by the Angel of Notre Dame”; and poems by artist Kurt Schwitters. Poet Susan Howe’s critique of the typographical editing of Emily Dickinson’s handwritten manuscripts is especially intriguing. SULFUR excels at this sort of interplay among the various arts and even scholarly pursuits. Its synthetic approach, if at times arcane, is most welcome in an era of artistic divisiveness.

Sulfur, c/o English Department, Eastern Michigan University, Ypsilanti, MI 48197; $8 per issue; $13 for two issues.