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THE CAPILANO REVIEW

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PICTURE A 75 year old woman packing her life’s story into a manuscript box and mailing it off to the literary magazine she selected from the latest issue Of Writer’s Market. With untold effort she has pounded out a small book, and following in the

footsteps of Hemingway,

Atwood and other

literary icons, has sent her precious bundle out for

publication. Now picture Ann Rosenberg, editor of the

literary magazine The Capilano Review, poring through the manuscript, not because she plans to publish it, but because not to read it would be an insult to the woman who put so much work into it.

in the local and national! ar- tistic avant-garde, brought visual and written experimen- tal works to the infrequently- published magazine.

When Coupey’s en- thusiasm and energy began to wane, Bill Schermbrucker, another English instructor, took over as editor. More

By ERIC EGGERTSON

Rosenberg calls a recent double issue of new works by Vancouver writer Daphne Marlatt and Toronto writer Michael Ondaatje ‘‘a great coming together of two in- teresting writers.”’

But with all the Review’s accomplishments, it is not without its detractors. Book- seller William Hoffer is one.

‘“*The Capilano Review is essentially unreadable, like every other literary magazine in Canada,’’ says Hoffer.

“lt is a dismal magazine, but it’s probably pretty close

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SIFTING THROUGH some of the submissions the Capilano Review receives, associate editor Dorothy Jantzen and editor Ann Rosenberg look for the one per cent of unsolicited manuscripts that will make it into Cap College’s literary magazine.

The contrast between Rosenberg’s ambition to print) new, experimental

work, and the woman vainly searching for an outlet her work typical. **Less than one per cent of whal we receive is printed,”’ says Rosenberg ‘‘The ma jority of what we print ts solicited "’ Yet Rosenberg, Associate E-ditor Dorothy Jantzen, and four other editors sift through a stack of mail, checking for something that’s good but isn't too com

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The Capilano Review ts something of an oddity Ata college with 3.000) students one wouldn't capect to find puch oa stylish glossy magasine At bookstores

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connections and more avant- garde work followed, and a year and a half ago Rosenberg became editor Uhe issues come out on time now, and the visual arts — photography, sculpture, dance, even video — play an even more prominent part in the magazine's look

Yet, for all the gloss there is something intangible about the Review One follows the editors’ hunches with works that are difficult to under stand, sometimes boringly so. Interesting pieces stand out, but there is no strong ar tistic thread to follow through the good, the bad and the bizarre

To Rosenberg the Review scrves an academe and a literary purpose Some special sucs produced in the past have been on Vancouver sculptor Gathie Ealk, author Gcorgpe Bowcring, artist Barry Coughlan. and former editor Pierre The Review has given cach artist a forum CO put across his or her Intenhions

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to the best we've got It's founded on a corrupt under- standing of what literature is,’ be says. “ht as nar- cissistic, umrealistic, and spends all its tame aggrandiz- ing itself and ifs writers.

*‘But for all that, the peo- ple who put it out are sincere, they're pust wrong."’

Because the editors of the Review are friends with many of the avant-garde artists in the city, they are called in- cestuous when they publish their friends. But the Review tries to print what us editors think ts new, and if their friends are breaking new ground, they feel that just

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**Once a year we try to br- ing attention to someone who works at the college,’’ says Rosenberg. The latest issue features past editor Bill Schermbrucker. In the past the Review has published works by%English instructors Gladys Hindmarch, Robert Sherrin and Sharon Thesen, among others.

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The Capilano Review has a subscription list, but it receives substantial funding from the Canada Council, along with a contribution of editors’ paid time from the college.

Rosenberg feels the Review is good publicity for Cap College. ‘“The Review is bet- ter known in academic circles than the college.’’

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