With this issue, I step down as editor of boundary 2. The new editorial team is ready to work, to take on a fifty-year-old magazine and do new things with it. Editing is important if undervalued work, even given popular complaints about gatekeepers. Editing takes time no longer available for writing books and essays. In the case of b2, it happily keeps a collective intellectual life going, without which I could not have done this job nor written the little I have managed over the last decades.
William Spanos and Robert Kroetsch started this journal to explore cultural, political, and historical change in literature, especially in poetry. Although its first subtitle was “a journal of postmodern literature,” it came out before “the postmodern” became an academic field, before it took hold in advertising and popular culture. It followed the discussion of postmodern architecture and moved on rapidly into...
