Focus: Literary Activism — July / August 2013

Literary Activism

Volume 34, Number 5
July-August 2013

Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.

Manuel Luis Martinez’s Introduction to Focus: “Writers and Activism through Criticism”

Caroline Morris reviews Valerie Martin’s Property and Trespass

David Wright’s “Invisible Boys”

Walter Muyumba reviews John Edgar Wideman’s Briefs: Stories from the Plam of the Mind

Manuel Luis Martinez interviews Jon Wei of “The Telling Project”

Manuel Luis Martinez interviews Jon Wei of “The Telling Project”: Web-exclusive supplement

Christopher Carmona’s “Un Trip to El Valle”

Martin Joseph Ponce reviews Gina Apostol’s Gun Dealers’ Daughter

Feature: American Characters

Megan Milks reviews Kim Gek Lin Short’s China Cowboy

Tara Stillions Whitehead reviews Lary Fondation’s Martyrs and Holymen

Alta Ifland reviews Ben Miller’s River Bend Chronicle: The Junkification of a Boyhood Idyll amid the Curious Glory of Urban Iowa, photographs by Rober Campagna

Erin A. Smith reviews Sarah Churchwell and Thomas Ruys Smith, eds. Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers — From Charlotte Temple to the Da Vinci Code

Book Reviews

E. Ethelbert Miller reviews Clifford Thompson’s Love for Sale

Alison Gibbons reviews Mark Z. Danielewski’s The Fifty Year Sword

Pat Falk reviews Howard Faerstein’s Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn

Gerald L. Bruns reviews Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi’s Fra Keeler

Fred Muratori reviews Kathleen Spivack’s With Robert Lowell and His Circle: Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Elizabeth Bishop, Stanley Kunitz, and Others

Mollie Boutell reviews Courtney Elizabeth Mauk’s Spark

Annalisa Pesek reviews Mark Rutkoski; Vivien Knussi, trans., Words of Love

Evan Steuber reviews Roy Kesey’s Any Deadly Thing

Mike Ingram reviews Gabriel Blackwell’s Shadow Man: A Biography of Lewis Miles Archer

Daniel Shapiro reviews Vicente Aleixandre; Stephen Kessler, trans., Poems of Consummation

Beth McDermott reviews Kelly Cherry’s The Life and Death of Poetry

Kat Meads reviews C. James Bye and Jessa Bye, eds., The Way We Sleep

James Tadd Adcox reviews Steven Schwartz’s Little Raw Souls

Departments

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Scenes—Futurepoem: An Interview with Dan Machlin