Pop, Pre-Pop, Post-Pop
Volume 16 Number 6
March-May 1995
ART
LET IT BEAN
Karl Young reviews Spoken Text by Alison Knowles
FOCUS: POP, PRE-POP, POST-POP
COMMUNICATING A PRESENCE
Roger Cardinal reviews Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African-American Presence by Alison Weld, et. al.
GENEOLOGES
Lorenzo Thomas reviews The Hammers of Creation: Folk Cultures in Modern African-American Fiction by Eric J. Sundquist
THE SOUND OF SUBURBIA
Anne Petrov
POETRY TO DANCE TO
Denise Duhamel reviews Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry, edited by Jim Elledge
AVANT GARDE GHOST MEETS POSTMODERN MAGUS
Nina daVinci Nichols reviews Deathtraps: The Postmodern Comedy Thriller by Marvin Carlson and Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992 by Christopher Innes
WOMEN BEHIND THE SCREEN
Robert Dassanowky-Harris reviews Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema 1896 to the Present by Ally Acker
FEATURE : RADICAL POETICS
THE ARTISTRY OF DISSENT
Chris Faatz reviews Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination, edited by Martin Espada
THE SOUND OF ONE FIST RISING
Lucien Stryk reviews Call Me By My True Names by Thitch Nhat Hanh
POETRY ON THE RUN
Anselm Hollo reviews Poems of Naim Hikmet
SURREALISM AS SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
Carl L. Bankston III reviews Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of the Surrealist Revolution by Margaret Cohen
FEATURE: DIMINISHING RETURNS
EXHUMING THE DEAD
Marylea Meyersohn reviews Presumption by Julia Barrett and Pemberly or Pride and Prejudice Continued by Emma Tennant
AUDACITY AND (AUSTEN)TATION
John Allen Stevenson reviews The Last Man by Mary Shelley
FEATURE: URBAN MUSE
STARTING FROM FLATBUSH
Gardner McFall reviews A Day’s Portion by Harvey Shapiro and Into A Punchline: Poems 1984-1994 by Robert Hershon
WORKING CLASS POETRY
Julia Stein reviews Jehovah Jukebox by Joan Jobe Smith and M-80 by Jim Daniels
BIG APPLE TO THE CORE
Vicki Weissman reviews Urban Bliss by Janice Eidus
WAKE-UP CALL TO THE OPPRESSED
Thaddeus Rutkowski reviews Local History by Erica Hunt
BOOK REVIEWS
NEW VOICES FROM NEW RIVERS
Don Webb reviews Falling In Love at the End of the World by Rick Christman, Thin Ice and Other Risks by Gary Eller, and The Peace Terrorist by Carol Masters
ONLY DISCONNECT
Sharon Olinka reviews Scaffolding: Selected Poems by Jane Cooper
SCREAMS FROM THE CAGE
Robert Sward reviews The Bukowski/Purdy Letters: A Decade of Dialogue, 1964-1974, edited by Seamus Cooney
SLIGHT OF FOOT
Richard Kostelanetz reviews Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, edited by Paul Hoover
INTERSECTING WORLDS
Michael Hemmingson reviews How the Night Is Divided by David Matlin
GIRL MEETS GIRL, GIRL LOSES GIRL
Andree Pages reviews Written On The Body by Jeannette Winterson
THE LANGUAGE OF THE BODY
Adrienne McCormick reviews Raising the Tents by Frances Payne Adler and Incontinence by Susan Hahn
ZERO TIME
Karen Alkalay-Gut reviews Askance and Strangely: New and Selected Poems by Edmund Pennant
RADICAL PROPHESY
Norman Spencer reviews Race Matters; Keeping Faith; and Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism, Vol. I and Vol. II by Cornel West
STRATEGIES OF INTIMACY AND DISTANCE
Charlotte Mandel reviews This House Is Filled With Cracks by Madelyn Camrud and Starting a Swan Dive by Patricia Cleary Miller
THOM GUNN: COMPOSING, UNCOMPOSED
Robin Magowan reviews Collected Poems and Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview by Thom Gunn
LIVES AT RISK
Frank Allen reviews 1990 by Michael Klein, Steam Dummy & Fragments From the Fire by Chris Llewellyn, and Walking by Stephen Vincent
LESS IS MORE
Laurel Blossom reviews Durable Goods by Suzanne Matson and A Shared Life by Katherine Soniat
INSIDE THE INSIDE
Fielding Dawson reviews Tug by Stephen Todd Booker
DREAMS DEFERRED
Margaret Randall reviews Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan and American Dreams by Sapphire
PRIME DESIRE
Tomomi Hirade reviews Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Howard Hibbett, and The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto’s Mother by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Anthony H. Chambers
INDEX FOR VOLUME 16
Author Index
Title Index
Reviewer Index
Article Index
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