Focus: 167 Miles of Poems — November-December 2003

167 Miles of Poems

Volume 25, Number 1
November-December 2003

Focus: First Poetry Books

Introduction: 167 Miles of Poems
Kevin Prufer

No Laughing Matter
Sarah Kennedy reviews Famous Americans by Loren Goodman

Out of the Box
Kevin Larimer reviews Monkey Time by Philip Nikolayev

Encircling the Violence
Wayne Miller reviews A Parade of Hands by James Hoch

Buried Cities
Jerry Harp reviews The Unrequited by Carrie St. George Comer

The Posture of Devotion
Garth Greenwell reviews Granted by Mary Szybist

Unfathoms and Uncertainty
Christopher Arigo reviews Unfathoms by Kirsten Kaschock

The Lost Father
Anthony Deaton reviews Ark by John Isles

Comic Rebel
Victoria Frenkel Harris reviews A Defense of Poetry by Gabriel Guddin

Gallery Tour
Paula Koncazny reviews A Handmade Museum by Brenda Coultas

Feature: The Modern Painter’s World

Snapshots
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Conversations with Picasso by Brassaï

Paalen Counts
Terence Diggory reviews Wolfgang Paalen: Artist and Theorist of the Avant-Garde by Amy Winter

Portraits and of the Artist
Ellen Handy reviews Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors by Jane Kallir

Feature: Poetry in Translation

Italian Songs
Glenn Mott reviews Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition by Giuseppe Ungaretti

Trippln’
Fazia Aitel reviews Eddie Bell: En Français, Selected and New Works by Eddie Bell

A Palmful of Images
Christine Thomas reviews The Poetess Counts to 1OO and Bows Out: Selected Poems, A Bilingual Edition by Ana Enriqueta Terán

Book Reviews

Saying Everything
Tom LeClair reviews Mortals by Norman Rush

Removing the Veil
Roger Mitchell reviews The Peeping Tom Poems by Charles Levendosky

Possibility Space
Lance Olsen reviews Cistern Tawdry by Eckhard Gerdes

Back in the USSR
Robert L. McLaughlin reviews The Commissariat of Enlightenment by Ken Kalfus

Collapsing Time
Emily Hall reviews River of Shadows: Eadweard Muybridge and the Technological Wild West by Rebecca Solnit

The Club of Violence
Keith Leslie Johnson reviews Somersault by Kenzaburo Oe

Saving Certain Voices
Dick Allen reviews Poets of the Non-Existent City: Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era edited by Estelle Gershgoren Novak

Slouching towards Insanity
Jeremey Russell reviews Lucky Wander Boy by D.B. Weiss

The Aestheticians
Anne-Marie Levine review Ugh Ugh Ocean by Joanna Fuhrman and The Cloud of Knowable Things by Elaine Equi

Blinded by the Light
Kathleen Warnock reviews A Misfit’s Manifesto: The Spiritual Journey of a Rock & Roll Heart by Donna Gaines

Melted into Air
Nancy Kline reviews A Garden of Demons by Edward Hower

A Black Thing
J.D. Smith reviews Rock My Soul: Black People and Self-Esteem by bell hooks and Why I Love Black Women by Michael Eric Dyson

Love Labor’s Lost
Gordon Thompson reviews The Missing by Rangi McNeil

Revisiting Landscape
Dimitrios Kalantzis reviews Shifting Ground: Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry by Bonnie Costello

Searching for Nowhere
Thomas Larson reviews Visions of Utopia by Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp, and Martin E. Marty

The Way We Debate Now
Ron Capshaw reviews Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers, and the Schism in the American Soul edited by Patrick A. Swan

A Requiem for the Fall of the Petal
Shigeru Suzuki reviews Pattern Recognition by William Gibson