End of American Magic Simon Spillett Blotches and Healing Lights: The

Blotches and Healing Lights: The Conversation Between ‘New American’ Film and Poetry (forthcoming 2009)

Anna Robinson

for all who remember the author’s phrase “There are fairies at the bottom of our garden

and two critical studies of the fiction writings of Saul Bellow

Salah Niazi

End of American Magic Simon Spillett Blotches and Healing Lights: The"The poems of Christopher Locke astound; every coal mine they lead you down eventually opens to a great and fragile light, both redemptive and heartbreaking. Yet his is a voice ultimately concerned with the remarkable possibilities found in ordinary human mercy." James Frey "With Christopher Locke's poems, acute powers of observation and a flair for original metaphors combine to render a vivid and credible world. Clarity, freshness and honest self