Literary review assignment

For my assignment, I looked at the Exquisite Corpse Journal. I looked at this one because I found the name really appealing and liked the cover of the magazine. This magazine is published by a group of people but the editor's name is Andrei Codrescu who is a poet and a novelist. There's another poet named Dewitt Brinson and a web developer, poet and etc., Plamen Arnaudov. This issue is the second edition of the magazine, which is why I'm not sure of when it started because in the title/ headline it says it's the date of today and says it was established in '83. So, I think this is both an internet website and a magazine. I think this magazine is based offline, but there are only two printed issues. I think they just started printing copies and they might be doing it once every year. I think the piece itself is well put together. They have colored pictures, poems, artwork, interviews, and so much more. The cover page was very appealing to me and looks like it would have cost a lot to print. There is a picture of an old man sitting on a chair, near a refrigerator, saying "well, hell". I thought this was kind of funny, which is why I continued to read this one. The poetry has its own button in which you press to read all of them. I don’t know if the ones I read were from all the same magazine or just poems that were collected at the time. The poems with in the journal are very diverse. I think the ones that appeal to me most are the conversational poems in which it says like the poet is talking to you or another person who isn’t someone you know. Well, so far all the poems I’ve read seem to be about old age or death. I don’t know if this is a theme, but it would go well with the title of the magazine. In this magazine, I think I like the poet Pat Nolan. He’s structure seems very free flowing and he’s stanza don’t really make sense, but flow anyway he wants them to flow. I like his poem Lost and Found, well the beginning, because of the repetition that he uses within the poem. He also has some other poems on the site that I thought were quite interesting, but I don’t know if I liked them as much as I liked this one. Well, I don’t really enjoy the poems in a different language because I’m not able to read them, but I don’t really think there are poems that I don’t like. I mean, I think some of them are too long for what they are trying to accomplish and maybe a little too wordy for me. Compared to the drunken boat, I think this one is a lot better. The Drunken Boat was very boring to me because of the way it was set up. I mean, they had the poets, the writers of non-fiction and fiction, but I couldn’t access any of their material. The only thing I did like about them is the art work and statements/ history they had for the writers. There isn’t really a cover page you can see and I don’t really know what’s going on with it. I think the Exqusitite Corpse is just more accessible which is why I’d look it up online again. For as for an actually copy of the magazine, I don’t know which one would be better.