The Reaper (magazine)

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The Reaper was a United States literary periodical which played an important role in establishing the poetry movements of New Narrative and New Formalism. It was founded in 1980 [1] [2] and ran until 1989; [3] a double issue of numbers 19 and 20 was the last. The Reaper was founded and edited by Robert McDowell and Mark Jarman. [2] It was started at Indiana State University. [4] For the earlier issues the art director was Michael K. Aakhus; for later issues Thomas Wilhelmus served as fiction editor.

Donald Hall contributed a review of the first ten issues in Issue 10. The piece was entitled 'Reaping the Reaper'. His first paragraph runs: "Most poems in the first ten issues of The Reaper are bad. Many are bad in familiar ways." [5] But he went on to say the magazine "is an encouraging phenomenon because it howls with dissatisfaction." [6]

Footnotes

  1. ↑ "Robert McDowell". Poetry Net. Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  2. 1 2 Chris Baldick (2008). The Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms. Oxford University Press. p. 226. ISBN   978-0-19-920827-2 . Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  3. ↑ Edward Hirsch (8 April 2014). A Poet's Glossary. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. p. 398. ISBN   978-0-547-73746-1 . Retrieved 23 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Jonathan Holden (1 July 2008). The Fate of American Poetry. University of Georgia Press. p. 35. ISBN   978-0-8203-3311-3.
  5. ↑ The Reaper, Issue 10, 1984. page 3
  6. ↑ The Reaper, Issue 10, 1984. page 8

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