Anthologies on the Edge
Volume 28, Number 2
January-February 2007
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Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “Introduction to Focus: Anthologies and Literary Landscapes”
Peter Bricklebank reviews ed. Peter Conners’s PP/FF: An Anthology
Feature: Language Gaming
John Domini reviews Jeffrey DeShell’s Peter An (A)Historical Romance
Bradford Gray Telford reviews Tony Hoagland’s Real Sofistikashun: Essays on Poetry and Craft
Sam Truitt reviews Jacques Roubaud’s The Form of a City Changes Faster, Alas, Than the Human Heart
Susan M. Schultz reviews Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s I Love Artists: New and Selected Poems
Feature: Global Intelligence
David Anshen reviews Julien Gracq’s Reading Writing
Book Reviews
David Cowart reviews Richard Powers’s The Echo Maker
James Phelan reviews ed.Walter Jost’s The Essential Wayne Booth
Eric Miles Williamson reviews Steve Davenport’s Uncontainable Noise
Tom Pilkington reviews Cormac McCarthy’s The Road
Douglas Messerli reviews Toby Olson’s The Bitter Half
Vernon Frazer reviews ed. Jason Weiss’s Steve Lacy: Conversations
Anna Maria Hong reviews Nuala M. Archer’s Inch Aeons
Warren Woessner reviews Louis McKee’s Near Occasions of Sin
Jeffrey A. Sartain reviews Dustin Long’s Icelander
F.D. Reeve reviews Robert Siegel’s A Pentecost of Finches: New and Selected Poems
Linda Wagner-Martin reviews Robert Scholes’s Paradoxy of Modernism
Sarah J. Gardner reviews Christina Davis’s Forth a Raven
John Ferguson reviews Daniela Gioseffi’s Blood Autumn: Poems New and Selected
LindaAnn Loschiavo reviews Simon Louvish’s Mae West: It Ain’t No Sin
Michael Leone reviews John Williams’s Stoner
Departments
Rants & Raves: Letter to the Editors
Backlist- Rhiannon Dickerson reviews Ned Balbo’s Lives of the Sleepers
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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.
