Late Human Manuel Rivas

Late Human Manuel RivasLate Human is a collection of tragi comic poems on lateness, belatedness, Weltschmerz, and borrowing (with a nod to Ernest Mandels 1975 tome on the twilight of capitalism). The human of the title is multiple, personal, and drenched in the tears of the 21st century. Cracked childrens rhymes lead onto an ethnography that takes Helen Mirrens first film appearance as seriously as Moby Dick. At the volumes center, three laments honor the realism that would

His fascination with sound and form

who is a world expert on the short story and has breast cancer

technology

Rumens has captured and re-interpreted Montale's passionate

it could be seen as an astringent critique of the top-down authoritarianism of nationalist politics

The hardships of a life in hiding

democratic values and security in an era of surveillance capitalism

John Stevens

Banipal 33 includes many book reviews to whet readers’ appetites

Pat Boran introduces Wingspan: A Dedalus Sampler

George Parker

and some unpublished work