Fjords Review (Volume 1, Issue 2)

The Black and White film issue features cover art from photographer Benjamin Walls and new pictures of Italy, France and Washington D.C. from photographer Craig Sterling. Fjords showcases the first translations of Swiss poet Erika Burkhart via Marc Vincenz. Erika Burkhart is the only woman to have won Switzerland's highest literary prize, der Grosser Schillerpreis.A short interview with Uwem Akpan, author of Say You Are One of Them, which won the Common Wealth Writers Award touches on the authors background and motivations in writing. Julie Ellenger Hunt's new book In New Jersey alongside the films Transcendent Man about optimistic inventor Ray Kurzweil and Manana Youth films Documentary on American Sculptor Asheer Akram in Armenia are reviewed.Maureen Sherbondy offers a humorous poem on marriage, travel and science pieces by Suzanne Roberts and surrealist work by Jonathan Greenhause are part of this issue's other spectacular works.