Poetry on the Edge
Volume 23 Number 6
September-October 2002
Poetry on the Edge
Introduction: Poetry on the Edge
John Olson
Epi Poetry
Doug Nufer reviews I used to Be Ashamed of My Striped Face by Mike Topp
The Secret Lives of Vowels
Brian Carpenter reviews Eunoia by Christian Bök
The Selvage of Ghosts
John Olson reviews Darkling: A Poem by Anna Rabinowitz
Letters to the Editor: Rants and Raves
Laird Hunt
Why No Y?
Aldon Lynn Nielsen reviews Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen
In the Democratic Age
Louis McKee reviews Whatever Shines: Prose Poems by Kathleen McGookey
Making It New
Harriet Zinnes reviews Seven Pages Missing, Volume One: Selected Texts 1969-1999 and Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics by Steve McCaffery
From the Outside In
Anna Mockler reviews The Bathhouse by Farnoosh Moshiri
FEATURE: The Islamic Imagination
Old Folks at Home
Sharon Olinka reviews That Kind of Sleep by Susan Atefat-Peckham
Poet of the World
Richard Tillinghast reviews Doctor Jazz by Hayden Carruth
Keeping On
Gary Lenhart reviews Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 by Robert Creeley
Once and Again
Rochelle Ratner reviews The Painted Bed by Donald Hall
Iron Will
Benjamin Ivry reviews The Long Marriage by Maxine Kumin
FEATURE: Black and White
Photography/Poetry/Jazz: Roy DeCarava
Barry Wallenstein reviews The Sound I Saw: Improvisation on a Jazz Theme by Roy DeCarava
Eye to Eye
Gordon Ball reviews The Importance of Being by Christopher Felver
Book Reviews
An Inordinate Fondness
David Cowart reviews The Deadwood Beetle by Mylène Dressler
The Next Big Thing
Steve Tomasula reviews The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar
Perceiving the Self
Susan Swartwout reviews Book of my Nights by Li-Young Lee
Corporations: What Went Wrong?
David Cogswell reviews The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy by Marjorie Kelly
The Truth of Poetry
David Kirby reviews After Confessions: Poetry as Autobiography edited by Kate Sontag and David Graham
The Art of Gender
Robert Dassanowsky reviews Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century edited by Uta Grosenick
Complicated Dreams
Jerry Harp reviews The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir by Valerie Miner
The Absurdity of Renewal
Pamela L. Laskin reviews Beyond Renewal by George Held
Murder, He Wrote
Anneli Rufus reviews The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis, by the “Moors Murderer,” Ian Brady by Stephen Alter
Water, Water Everywhere
John Verlenden reviews Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture by Stephen Alter
Giant Nights
Fred Muratori reviews The Angel Hair Anthology edited by Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh
Departments
Rants and Raves
Letter to the Editor
From the Backlist
Jamie Hutchinson reviews Jazz in New Orleans: The Postwar Years through 1970 by Charles Suhor
ABR: The Year in Review
Index to Volume 23
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