Focus: Dangerous Books — November / December 2007

Dangerous Books

Volume 29, Number 1
November-December 2007

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

Eric Miles Williamson’s “Introduction to the Focus: Dangerous Books”

Larry Fondation’s “Where’s the Edge?”

Steve Davenport’s “Three Propositions About On the Road”

Rob Johnson’s “Why Flannery O’Connor Scares Me”

Mark Shechner’s “A Durable Manifesto”

Feature: Beat Redux

John Tytell reviews Allen Ginsberg’s (Juanita Lieberman-Plimpton and Bill Morgan, eds.) The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937–1952

Jonah Raskin reviews Bill Morgan’s I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg

Matt Theado reviews Jack Kerouac’s On the Road: The Original Scroll and John Leland’s Why Kerouac Matters: Lessons of On the Road (They’re Not What You Think)

Gordon Ball reviews Christopher Felver’s Beat

Book Reviews

Amuad Jamaul Johnson reviews ed. Nikky Finney’s The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South

David Galef reviews Yone Noguchi’s (Edward Marx and Laura E. Franey, eds.) The American Diary of a Japanese Girl

Aaron Chandler reviews Brian Richardson’s Unnatural Voices: Extreme Narration in Modern and Contemporary Fiction

Keya Mitra reviews Christina Milletti’s The Religious and Other Fictions

Vanessa Place reviews John Ashbery’s A Worldly Country: New Poems

Steven Shaviro reviews Harold Jaffe’s Beyond the Techo-Cave: A Guerrilla Writer’s Guide to Post-Millennial Culture

Genevieve Kaplan reviews Leslie Adrienne Miller’s The Resurrection Trade

Dimitrios Kalantzis reviews eds. David Baker’s and Ann Townsend’s Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry

Anne C. McCarthy reviews Darren Wershler-Henry’s The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting

Wayne Miller reviews Tadeusz Różewicz’s New Poems

Matthew Roberson reviews Robert Lopez’s Part of the World

Sarah J. Gardner reviews David Keplinger’s The Prayers of Others

Gary Lain reviews Eckhard Gerdes’s The Million-Year Centipede or, Liquid Structures

Kirby Olson reviews Edward Dorn’s Way More West: New and Selected Poems

Laurel Blossom reviews Christopher Bakken’s Goat Funeral

Departments

Page 2 – Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “Burn, Baby, Burn”

Backlist – Andrew R. Durkin reviews Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s (Edward E. Ericson, Jr. and Daniel J. Mahoney, eds.) The Solzhenitsyn Reader: New and Essential Writings, 1947–2005