Focus: Yes, Australia — May/June 1997

Yes, Australia

Volume 18 Number 4
May-June 1997

Focus: Yes, Australia: Poetry from Down Under

Dreamtime Mama
Sharon Olinka reviews Washing the Money by Rhyll McMaster, The Dawn Is At Hand, Selected Poems by Oodgeroo (Kath Walker), Selected Poems by Dorothy Hewett, Alice in Wormland, Collected Poems, 1942-1985 by Judith Wright, The Winter Baby by Jennifer Maiden, Abundance by Nicolette Stasko, Language of The Toons, by Dipti Saravanamuttu, The Life on Water and The Life Beneath by J.S. Harry, Selected Poems, Conversations of Love, Three Poetic Tales: “Judith’s Do,” Merideth Wattison, “The Interloper,” Gillian Hanscombe, and “Unfinished Poems for Your Violin,” Subhash Jaireth

Post-Generation of ’68
John Kinsella

The State of Publishing Poetry Books in Australia 1996
Richard Deutch

Spread the Word, Live Poetry in Australia
Lauren Williams

Listening to Immigrants in Melbourne
Nathan Whiting reviews 24 Hours by IP.O.

Australia’s Women Poets
Geoff Page reviews The Oxford Book of Australian Women’s Verse edited by Susan Lever, Emily Brontë Recollects by Vera Newsom, Penelope’s Knees by Joanne Burns, Accidental Grace by Judith Beveridge

The Stolen Generation
Roberta B. Sykes reviews Dreaming In Urban Areas by Lisa Bellear, The Callused Stick of Wanting by Romaine Moreton

Guerilla Language
Andrew Taylor reviews New and Selected Poems: Munaldjali, Mutuerjaraera by Lionel Fogarty

Rants & Raves
Letter to the Editor

Feature: Federmania

Premembering History
Bob Riedel reviews The Twofold Vibration Ramond Federman

The Avant-Popist Crisis
Raymond Federman

Laughterature, Cacademics, and the Federman Virus
Cam Tatham reviews The Supreme Indecision of the Writer: the 1994 Lectures in Turkey by Ramond Federman

Book Reviews

Salvaging Harold Brodkey
William Wilson reviews His Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death by Harold Brodkey

Mules and Drugs and R & B
Mark Scroggins reviews Muse & Drudge by Harryette Mullen

If on a Winter’s Night…
Lynne Diamond-Nigh reviews A History Maker by Alisdair Gray

Nation Building
Daniel Leary reviews Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation by Declan Kiberd

Subversive Alphebet
Frank Allen reviews Imagine the Angels of Bread by Martín Espada

Prairie Fever and Pop Midwest
Susan Swartwout reviews Same Blue Chevy by Gale Renée Walden

Margarine and Obsession
Lila Zeiger reviews The Tension Zone by Sarah Gorham

Terra Infirma
Craig Watson reviews By Common Salt by Killarney Clary

Boats Against the Current
Ricardo Cortez Cruz reviews American Heaven by Maxine Chernoff

Sentimental Journey
Robert Buttel reviews Connecting the Dots by Maxine Kumin

The Outsider Rag: Three Fugues on the Human Condition
Barbara Barnard reviews Annie Salemi by Mac Wellman, Four Figures in Time by Patricia Grossman, Cool’s Ridge by Ursula Perrin

Hotel sans Walls
Steve Tomasula reviews Storytown by Susan Daitch

Nature Methodized
Ralph Black reviews Reading Houses and Building Books: Andrew Jackson Downing and the Architecture of Popular Ante-bellum Literature, 1835-1855 by Adam W. Sweeting

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