Issue Content

Volume 40, Number 5
July/August 2019

Focus: The Ordinary

Richard Deming's Introduction to Focus: The Ordinary

Thomas L. Dumm's "A Note on the Loss of the Ordinary"

Stephen Bann's "The Transfiguration of the Ordinary: From Bus Ticket to Cathedral"

Alan Gilbert reviews Brenda Hillman's Extra Hidden Life, among the Days

Gerald L. Bruns reviews Matthew Herbert's The Music: A Novel through Sound

Yasmine Shamma reviews Andrew Epstein's Attention Equals Life: The Pursuit of the Everyday in Contemporary Poetry and Culture

David LaRocca reviews Toril Moi's Revolution of the Ordinary: Literary Studies after Wittgenstein, Austin, and Cavell

William Day reviews Ted Cohen, Daniel Herwitz, ed., Serious Larks: The Philosophy of Ted Cohen

Book Reviews

Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Sue Prideaux's I Am Dynamite! A Life of Nietzsche

Alison Russell reviews Tom LeClair's Passing Away

David Stanford Burr reviews Marvin Cohen's Run Out of Prose; Women, and Tom Gervasi; Inside the World: As Al Lehman

Robert Ficociello reviews Angela Hume and Gillian Osborne, eds., Ecopoetics: Essays in the Field

Steve Yates reviews Charles J. Shields's The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel: John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life

Kathryn Pratt Russell reviews May-lee Chai's Useful Phrases for Immigrants and Marilyn Chin's A Portrait of the Self as Nation: New and Selected Poems

Josh Polinard reviews James Hugunin's Q-A: An Auto-Interview

Mary Carroll Johansen reviews Alan Hirsch's Impeaching the President: Past, Present, and Future

Gardner McFall reviews Grace Schulman's Strange Paradise: Portrait of a Marriage

Anne Whitehouse reviews Roberto Ransom, Daniel Shapiro, trans., Missing Persons, Animals, and Artists

Margot Farrington reviews Roberta Gould's Woven Lightning

Departments

Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo's "The Self-Publishing Revolution"

Interventions: Frederick Luis Aldama -- An interview with Bruce Holsinger

Scenes: Tupelo Press -- An interview with Kristina Marie Darling