Jazz & Lit
Volume 29, Number 3
March-April 2008
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Sascha Feinstein’s “Introduction to the Focus: Dues and Blues”
Sean Singer reviews Jayne Cortez’s The Beautiful Book
Allison Joseph reviews Linda Susan Jackson’s What Yellow Sounds Like
David Rife reviews John Murray’s Jazz Etc.
Ed Pavlić reviews John Gennari’s Blowin’ Hot and Cool: Jazz and Its Critics
Colin Fleming reviews Ben Ratliff’s Coltrane: The Story of a Sound
Feature: Celebrating National Poetry Month
Anna M. Klobucka reviews Zbigniew Herbert’s The Collected Poems: 1956–1998
Paula Koneazny reviews Brenda Coultas’s The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations and Explanations
Darren Wershler-Henry reviews Ian Monk’s Writings for the Oulipo
Kostas Myrsiades reviews Titos Patrikios’s The Lions’ Gate: Selected Poems of Titos Patrikios
Jennifer Grotz reviews Lynnell Edwards’s The Highwayman’s Wife
Chad Parmenter reviews eds. Jerry Harp and Jan Weissmiller’s A Poetry Criticism Reader
Laurel Blossom reviews Claudia Carlson’s The Elephant House
John Domini reviews W. S. Di Piero’s Chinese Apples: New and Selected Poems
Benjamin S. Grossberg reviews Charles North’s Cadenza
Book Reviews
Joyelle McSweeney reviews Selah Saterstrom’s The Meat and Spirit Plan
J.D. Smith reviews ed. Dagoberto Gilb’s Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas Mexican Literature
David J. Gunkel reviews Anne Friedberg’s The Virtual Window: From Alberti to Microsoft
Jigna Desai reviews John Kenneth Muir’s Mercy in Her Eyes: The Films of Mira Nair
Christina Milletti reviews Sara Greenslit’s The Blue of Her Body
Edward Dauterich reviews Lynn Hunt’s Inventing Human Rights: A History
Robert L. McLaughlin reviews Matthew Sharpe’s Jamestown
Mark C. Smith reviews Maureen Ogle’s Ambitious Brew: The Story of American Beer
Robert B. Liddell reviews Jim Miller’s Drift
Michael Schumacher reviews Holly George-Warren Public Cowboy No. 1: The Life and Times of Gene Autry
Tiphanie Yanique reviews Chris Abani’s The Virgin of Flames
Duane Niatum reviews Aldona Jonaitis’s Art of the Northwest Coast
Elmaz Abinader reviews D. H. Melhem’s Stigma and The Cave: Two Novels
José Skinner reviews Roberto Bolaño’s The Savage Detectives
Departments
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
