Poetics
Volume 27, Number 5
July-August 2006
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Joe Amato’s “Introduction to Focus: Poetics: Demonstrations For and Against”
Pierre Joris reviews Jed Rasula’s Syncopations
Andrew Levy reviews Aldon Lynn Nielsen’s Integral Music
Sandy Baldwin reviews Adalaide Morris and Thomas Swiss’s New Media Poetics
Sheila E. Murphy reviews Kate Fagan’s “How2”
V. Nicholas LoLordo reviews Benjamin Friedlander’s Simulcast and Peter Middleton’s Distant Reading
Michael Magee reviews Gerald L. Bruns’s The Material of Poetry
Mark McMorris reviews Rosmarie Waldrop’s Dissonance and James Scully’s Line Break
Roger Mitchell reviews Michael Heller’s Uncertain Poetries
Alan Sondheim reviews Daniel Heller-Roazen’s Echolalias
Feature: Charting Fictions
Miranda F. Mellis reviews George Belden’s Land of the Snow Men
Kevin Finucane reviews Christopher Grimes’s Public Works
Holly L. Baumgartner reviews Nina Shope’s Hangings
Selah Saterstrom reviews Teresa Carmody’s Requiem
Feature: ItaliaMerica
Fred Gardaphé reviews Thomas J. Ferraro’s Feeling Italian
Thomas DePietro reviews Frank Lentricchia’s The Book of Ruth
Wedge
Nikki Widner’s “Show:. Twenty Years of Granary Books”
Sara M. Larsen’s Staples: Scott Inguito’s lection
Kyle Kaufman’s “’Vent: Small Press Traffic’s Poets Theater Jamboree”
Michael Joyce’s Blog: www.long-sunday.net
Book Reviews
Stuart Moulthrop reviews N. Katherine Hayles’s My Mother Was a Computer and Jesper Juul’s Half-Real
Stacey Levine reviews Richard Kalich’s Charlie P
Kevin Killian reviews Douglas A. Martin’s They Change the Subject
Laura Wright reviews Linh Dinh’s American Tatts
John Domini reviews Susan Wheeler’s Record Palace
Bruce King reviews Arun Kolatkar’s Jejuri
Mark DuCharme reviews Tosa Motokiyu’s Also, With My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords
Davis Schneiderman reviews John Geiger’s Nothing Is True Everything Is Permitted
Patrick Pritchett reviews Jorie Graham’s Overlord
Matt Samet reviews Elizabeth Block’s A Gesture Through Time
Carl Glenn reviews Charles C. Mann’s 1491
Catherine Daly reviews Anne Carson’s Decreation
Facets: Aesthetics
Steve Tomasula reviews Eduardo Kac’s Telepresence and Bio Art
Martin Patrick reviews Carl Andre’s Cuts
Facets: And Furthermore …
R M Berry Answers Joseph Tabbi
Joseph Tabbi Answers R M Berry
Departments
Backlist-Chris Murray reviews George Kalamaras’s Even the Java Sparrows Call Your Hair
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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.
