Focus: Avant-Pop Rant & Rave — April-May 1994

Avant-Pop Rant & Rave

Volume 16 Number 1
April-May 1994

FOCUS: AVANT-POP RANT & RAVE

THE UNDERGROUND REARS ITS UGLY HEAD
Ronald Sukenick

WRITING AS INCORRECTNESS
Martin Schecter

AMERIKA ON-LINE
Mark Amerika

STORMING THE FLOATING WORLD OF POSTMODERN HYPERREALITY
Larry McCaffery

CREATIVE MASOCHISM
Takayuki Tatsumi

DEATHMETAL TECHNOMUTANT MORPHING
Lance Olsen

TECHNOPHILIA’S LAST WAVE
Rob Hardin

THE CULTURAL MULATTO REVISITED
Philip Lewis

NEOISM
Don Webb reviews No Pity by Stewart Home

MASCULISM
David Meltzer reviews The Rag and Bone Shop of the Heart: Poems for Men, edited by Robert Bly, James Hillman, and Michael Meade

FEATURE: THE NEW YORK READING SCENE

DOWNTOWN SPOKEN WORD SCENE
Christian X. Hunter

I…JUST…CAN’T…SEEM…TO…REMEMBER…THE…WORDS…
Legs McNeil

FEATURE: AIDS NEW YORK

PLAGUE YEARS: Petger Schaberg reviews Our Plague by James Chapman

FEATURE: WOMEN ON EDGE

EXPERIMENTAL WOMEN
Carolyn Guyer reviews Resurgent: New Writing by Women, edited by Lou Robinson and Camille Norton

FEATURE: SMALL & UNIVERSITY PRESS POETRY

SLOP & POP
Kay Murphy reviews Black Slip by Terry Wolverton and Big Towns, Big Talk by Patricia Smith

DRY BONES
Raymond R. Patterson reviews Folks Like Me by Sam Cornish

DARK AT NOON
Gary Lenhart reviews Constance by Jane Kenyon

ONE SUPERB POEM
Dick Allen reviews Collected Poems 1935-1992 by F. T. Prince

POETRY MEANT FOR ADULTS
Sharon Olinka reviews Dead, Dinner, or Naked by Evan Zimroth and Getting Under Way: New and Selected Poems by Colette Inez

THE LOAM OF THE POEM
Ralph Savarese reviews The Old Horsefly by Karl Shapiro

WAR AND INJUSTICE
Jon Forrest Glade reviews Interrogations by Leroy V. Quintana and Continuous Performance by Maggie Jaffe

SULLEN CRAFT
Edward Butscher reviews A Flower Whose Name I Do Not Know by David Romtvedt, The Darmstadt Orchids by Stuart Friebert, and Your Heart Will Fly Away by David Rigsbee

A REVERENCE FOR COMMON LIVES
Lisa Suhair Majaj reviews Traveling Mercies by David Williams

BOOK REVIEWS

FORERUNNERS OF THE NEW BLACK CONSCIOUSNESS
Norman Spencer reviews Black Popular Culture, edited by Gina Dent

A PLEASANT SURPRISE
George R. McMurray reviews The Ships by Roberto Quesada

SILVER AGE
Lilia Todd reviews The Avant–Garde Frontier: Russia Meets the West, 1910-1930, edited by Gail Harrison Roman and Virginia Hagelstein Marquardt

ALWAYS HIMSELF
Oliver Conant reviews The Stories and Recollections of Umberto Saba, translated by Estelle Gilson

THE ACADEMY AS A CULTURAL CENTER?
Richard Halpern reviews Marginal Forces/Cultural Centers: Tolson, Pynchon, and the Politics of the Canon by Michael Bérubé

MONKEY AS A WRITER
Stephen-Paul Martin reviews Monkey and Man by Paul Zelevansky

POETRY AS LIFE AND LIFE AS FIESTA
Alain Arias-Misson reviews My Life in Flux—and Vice Versa by Emmett Williams

THE DYER’S HAND
George Held reviews Hands of the Saddlemaker by Nicholas Samaras

THE FATHER WILL GIVE WAY
Michael Schumacher reviews Collected Poems by Louis Ginsberg