University Press Poetry
Volume 22 Number 2
January-February, 2001
FOCUS: University Press Poetry
Introduction: University Press Poetry and the Publishing Crisis
Charles B. Harris
The Blind Leading the Blind
Benjamin Ivry reviews The Cradle of the Real Life by Jean Valentine
Mid-way
Bill Tremblay reviews Winter Amnesties by Elton Glaser
Curiouser and Curiouser
Fred Muratori reviews Selected Poems by Fanny Howe
Is This a Test?
William James Austin reviews A Test of Poetry by Louis Zukofsky
Unlikely Harmony
Robyn Overstreet reviews The Horse Fair by Robin Becker
Subterranean Verse
Jack Anderson reviews Ultima Thule by Davis McCombs
FEATURE: Artists and Artistry
Art at its Source
Charles Russell reviews Souls Grown Deep: African American Vernacular Art of the South edited by William and Paul Arnett
Specimens of PlainText Neo-Edwardianism
Bob Grumman reviews Marble Goddesses with Technicolor Skins by Corinne Robins
FEATURE: Nature and Nurture
A Tomboy’s Nested Ifs
H. Kassia Fleisher reviews Sexing the Body: Gender Politics and the Construction of Sexuality by Anne Fausto-Sterling
What We Talk about When We Talk about Emotions
Ryan Schneider reviews Dangerous Emotions by Alphonso Lingis
Le genre bâtard
Nina Zivancevic reviews Aliens & Anorexia by Chris Kraus
Book Reviews
The World’s Oldest Refugees
Harold Jaffe reviews Well-Founded Fear by Tom LeClair
Novel Poems
Louis McKee reviews Human Nature by Toby Olson
An Interesting Disease
John Olson reviews Decadents, Symbolists, & Aesthetes in America: Fin-de-Siècle American Poetry: An Anthology edited by Edward Foster
Toy Soldier
Denise Duhamel reviews Plasticville by David Trinidad
Palms against the Fiery Windshield
Trevor Dodge reviews Sewing Shut My Eyes by Lance Olsen
Bard of Brooklyn
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Leaving Xaia by D. Nurkse
A Poet Shoots Herself in the Foot as a Heroine Shoots Niagara Falls
Bob Peters reviews Queen of the Mist: The Forgotten Heroine of Niagara by Joan Murray
Sex, American Style
Jill Nagle reviews The Mammoth Book of Short Erotic Novels edited by Maxim Jakubowski and Michael Hemmingson
The Quotidian Life
Mark Luce reviews Mr Phillips by John Lanchester
Defiance
Jaclyn Piudik reviews Written in Rain: New and Selected Poems 1985-2000 by M.L. Liebler
Canon (De)Formation
Sean Thomas Dougherty reviews Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America by Larry Smith
Minimalist in Sneakers
Susan Sindall reviews Begin Again by Grace Paley
The Grace of Lostness
Melissa Studdard Williamson reviews White City by Mark Irwin
The Displaced Person
Elaine Starkman reviews The Alphabet in My Hands: A Writing Life by Marjorie Agosín
Seasons in Hell
Leora Lev reviews Period by Dennis Cooper
Scalpel, Please
Ellen Scherl reviews The Mysteries Within: A Surgeon Reflects on Medical Myths by Sherwin B. Nuland
Making the World Safe for Capitalism
David Cogswell reviews Saving Private Power: The Hidden History of “The Good War” by Michael Zezima
Separate Realities
Jim Feast reviews In Relation to the Whole: Three Essays from Three Decades 1973, 1981, 1996 by Rackstraw Downes
Departments
Essay: Wittgenstein and Modern Writing
by R. M. Berry
Rants and Raves
Letters to the Editor
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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.