Focus: First Fictions — January-February 2004
nina2022-07-24T19:24:27+00:00Because of their inherent financial risk, first books have also become the increased responsibility of independent presses.
Focus: 167 Miles of Poems — November-December 2003
nina2022-07-24T20:10:48+00:00First books of poetry can seem like a genre unto itself—at their best, raw and exciting, hinting at the genius to come.
Focus: Found in Translation — September-October 2003
nina2022-07-27T19:40:36+00:00No thing is inherently original. "Originality" is an award we bestow on upon those works of art that remind us the least of what came before them.
Focus: From the Mainstream — July-August 2003
nina2022-07-27T20:58:37+00:00ABR's focus is on books published by independent presses, but what about authors publishing serious, genre-bending fiction through conglomerate publishers?
Focus: New Poetry — May-June 2003
nina2022-07-27T21:14:28+00:00A survey of recent first books of poetry show a rejection of the easy romanticism of '80s poetry, turning instead to aspects of the modernist avant-garde.
Focus: New Media Studies — March-April 2003
nina2022-07-27T21:34:29+00:00Exploring hypertext, cybertext, electronic literature, digital textuality, multimedia, and interactivity.
Focus: Dead White Males — January-February 2003
nina2022-07-27T21:58:54+00:00Reviews of the lives and works of Bill Hicks, William S. Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Edward Abbey, Primo Levi, and Hector Berlioz.
Focus: Hispanic Poetry in the Americas — November-December 2002
nina2022-07-27T22:16:01+00:00Reviews of books by Latina and Latino poets in the United States and Latin America including Miguel Hernández, Homero Aridjis, Daisy Zamora, Alberto Ríos, and María Negroni.
Focus: Poetry on the Edge — September-October 2002
nina2022-07-27T22:28:00+00:00Experimental poetry that proposes a both constrained and liberating, disciplined and freeing strategy for producing texts.
Focus: Innovative Women Writing Fiction — July-August 2002
nina2022-07-28T00:39:28+00:00Reviews of fiction by Dana Spiotta, Kate Braverman, Mary Robison, Diane Williams, and Lydia Davis, with an essay by Carole Maso.
Focus: First Fictions — May-June 2002
nina2022-07-28T00:53:12+00:00Reviews of fiction by Laird Hunt, Marc Estrin, Scott Blackwood, Christine Lincoln, and Daniel Coshnear.
Focus: PoMo’s Wake, II — March-April 2002
nina2022-07-28T01:00:36+00:00Reviews of books by Curtis White, John Barth, Gilbert Sorrentino, Mary Caponegro, Raymond Federman, LIly James, Victoria Redel, and David Czuchlewski.
