Castles, Books, and Submarines
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In this issue, Anthony Aguero struggles with the intersections of drug addiction, recovery, and love in four poems beginning with “Warlike.”
Sarah Butkovic introduces us to her aunt, who has a story to tell, in “Castles, Books, and Submarines.”
And a man deals with lost love, forgotten dreams, deceased parents, a disabled brother, and a chainsaw stuck in a tree in John F. Duffy’s “The Second Saw.”
This issue features illustrations by W. W. Denslow from L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, the first book in what became a fourteen-volume series.
L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz was the first book in what became a fourteen-volume series. It sold nearly 15,000 copies within a month of its publication in September 1900 and remains the most popular of the Oz books — not least of all because it’s the only one illustrated by W. W. Denslow, whose depictions of Dorothy, Toto, and all the other creatures and landscapes of Oz have become so iconic as to be inseparable from Baum’s story. From Public Domain Review.
