Focus: New Poetry — May-June 2003

New Poetry

Volume 24, Number 4
May-June 2003

FOCUS: New Poetry

Introduction: History, Lyricism, and “Avant-Gardism”

Beyond the First-Book Poets
Wayne Miller

Where Agape and Eros Collide
Anthony Deaton reviews Rock Harbor by Carl Phillips

History between the Lines
Pablo Peschiera reviews Necessity by Peter Sacks

Beastly Elegies
Claire Hero reviews The Violence of the Morning by Cal Bedient

Cross-Pollination
Jennifer Grotz reviews Still Life with Waterfall by Eamon Grennan

Stumbling On
Brian Barker reviews The Guests at the Gate by Anthony Piccione

Suburban Sex
Kevin Prufer reviews Except for One Obscene Brushstroke by Dzvinia Orlowsky

Poems in Twilight
Jerry Harp reviews In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone and Drawing on the Wall by Harriet Zinnes

FEATURE: Where I Live

Frontlines of an American Dream
Audrey Petty reviews Pink Houses and Family Taverns by Becky Bradway

Appalachia Springs Eternal
Larry Smith reviews The Handywoman Stories by Lenore McComas Coberly

FEATURE: The Village and Beyond

Beautiful and Nightmare City
John Rocco reviews Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village, the American Bohemia, 1910–1960 by Ross Wetzsteon

Zen Lunacy: Therapeutic?
John W. Maerhofer reviews Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades by John Suiter

FEATURE: Ball and Chain

Prison Dreams
Kathleen Adams reviews Inside My Head by Reginald S. Lewis

From the Beast’s Belly
Reamy Jansen reviews How You Lose: A Novel in Stories by J.C. Amberchele

Book Reviews

Crossed Allusions
Doug Nufer reviews Metropolis 16–29 by Robert Fitterman

The Art of Life
John Olson reviews Selected Poems, 1950–2000 by Nathaniel Tarn

Cozying up to Chaos
James M. Mellard reviews Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction by Joseph M. Conte

Molten Meaning
Frank Marquardt reviews Iceland by Jim Krusoe

Globe-trotters
Daniel Leary reviews The Roar of the Canon: Kott and Marowitz on Shakespeare by Charles Marowitz

The One That Got Away
Steven Wolfe reviews Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish by Richard Flanagan

Sorrentino’s Self-Constructed Con
Trey Strecker reviews Little Casino by Gilbert Sorrentino

On Renouncing One’s Dispossession
Robert Johnson reviews The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen

Unreal City
Steven Sher reviews Death of New York City: Selected Poems by Nina Zivancevic

Surreal Estates of the Mind
Robert Long reviews The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems by Gregory Orr

Visual Pleasure
Corinne Robins reviews Other Animals: Drawings and Journals by Merce Cunningham

The Sensual and the Pastoral
Laurel Blossom reviews Pursuit by Erica Funkhouser

What Do You Mean, “Digital Studies”?
Pawel Frelik reviews CyberText Yearbook 2001 edited by Markku Eskelinen
and Raine Koskimaa

The Soul of Wit
Nancy Kline reviews Some of Her Friends That Year: New and Selected Stories by Maxine Chernoff

Journey from the Predictable
Frank Allen reviews Between Earth and Sky by Sandy McIntosh

Veins of Soil Merging
Susan Sindall reviews 6 Vietnamese Poets edited by Nguyen Ba Chung and Kevin Bowen

Opening Windows to the World
Rochelle Ratner reviews Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual by David Pogue

Departments

Rants and Raves
Letters to the Editor

From the Backlist
C.W. Cannon reviews Casanova in Bohemia by Andrei Codrescru