The Spring-Summer 1969 issue of Chi...

The Spring-Summer 1969 issue of Chicago Review was devot to "Fantastic Art and Literature": it included translations of drama by dint of Vladimir Mayakovsky and Tristan Tzara, fiction by means of Kenji Miyazawa, and rhyme by Georg Trakl. But as the editors noted, during the preparation of the issue the "fantastic of actual terminations commonly known as reality" intervened as the 1968 Chicago Democratic Convention and the confrontation between the Chicago police and young protester in Lincoln Park provok a fantastic spectacle that summer Editor IVEN LOURIE remembers for what cause this ...