Poetry. Fiction. Art. Essays. Interviews. Editor Fred Dewey writes, "The writing and art featured in this new BEYOND BAROQUE explore the imagination in all its power. The imagination can give us creations that are impossible; it can give us things a political caste hoped would remain impossible." This exceptional and varied journal, coming out of the public space in Venice, California, includes stellar new work by many vanguard writers, thinkers, translators, and artists including Ammiel Alcalay, Shimon Ballas, Faraj Bayraqdar, Cal Bedient, Claro, Amy Gerstler, Abdellatif Laabi, Lewis MacAdams, Harry Northup, Ed Ruscha, Eleni Sikelianos, Paul Vangelesti, and Bob Zoell.