Focus: British Underground — December 1994 – February 1995

British Underground

Volume 16 Number 5
December 1994 – February 1995

Focus: BRITISH UNDERGROUND

PICKETING THE ZEITGEIST

PUBLISHING YOUR OWN NOVEL, OR, THE DEMANDS OF ANONYMITY
Anonymous

MUSIC

UNDERPUBLISHED
Richard Kostelanetz reviews The Boulez-Cage Correspondence, edited by Jean-Jacques Nattiez, translated and edited by Robert Samuels

TECHNOLOGY

CYBERANGST
John Noto reviews Computer Ethics by Tom Forrester and Perry Morrison and Flame Wars, a special issue of South Atlantic Quarterly (Fall, 1993) edited by Mark Dery

FOCUS: BRITISH UNDERGROUND

INK IS A BODY FLUID
Matthew Fuller

COUNTER INTELLIGENCE
Bruce ByPass

MIDDLE ENGLAND SWITCHES ON
Sadie Plant

PUBLIC ENERGY
Howard Slater

THE EXPLODING CINEMA
Matthew Fuller

LUCID DREAMING
Allen Warner reviews Dreams of Sex and Stage Diving by Martin Millar

THE RETURN OF THE REPRESSED
Stewart Home

FEATURE: LIMNING LOINS

BADMOUTH
Kingsley Widmer reviews Speaking the Unspeakable: A Poetics of Obscenity by Peter Michelson

SUBLIME SEX
James R. Garfield reviews The Devil at Large by Erica Jong

VAGINAL REALISM
Elizabeth Starcevic reviews Pleasure in the Word: Erotic Writings by Latin American Women, edited by Margarite Fernandez Olmos and Lizabeth Paravisini-Gerbert

JURISPRURIENCE
Harry Goldstein reviews A Frolic of His Own by William Gaddis

LIMP FERM
David Shields reviews The Fermata by Nicholson Baker

FEATURE: ANTHOLOGIZING ATROCITY

AGAINST COMPLICITY
Roger Mitchell reviews Against Forgetting, edited by Carolyn Forché

READ GLOBALLY, ACT LOCALLY
Tova Maria Calloway reviews On Prejudice, edited by Daniela Gioseffi

FEATURE: HIGH STYLE

#$%!
Judith Upjohn reviews *** by Michael Brodsky

AVANT REVUE
E. Leona Gregg reviews The Quest for Dr. U by Hans Carl Artmann

MYTHIC MOUNT, MINIMALIST MORALITY
Jim Sattler reviews Beyond the Mountain by Elizabeth Arthur and The Hedge, the Ribbon by Carol Orlock

PARTLY REALIZED
Theodore Pelton reviews The Body in Four Parts by Janet Kauffman

FEATURE: POSTMODERN POSTMORTEM

POETS-MODERNISM AND PRIVILEGE
Gail Gilliland reviews Broken English by Heather McHugh and Diverse Voices by Mark Rudman

THE GOODHEARTED NIHILIST DARK
Rush Rankin reviews The Culture of Literacy by Wlad Godzich

BOOK REVIEWS

WHILE (BIG) BROTHER SLEEPS
Robert Siegle reviews Brothers by Frederick Barthelme and While England Sleeps by David Leavitt

HIGH ROADS
Josh Russell reviews Damned Right by Bayard Johnson and The Ethiopian Exhibition by Donald Stuefloten

THE ROAD TO REDEMPTON
Mike Golden reviews Hard Travel to Sacred Places by Rudy Wurlitzer

DARK PASSAGE
Paul Oppenheimer reviews The Darkness Around Us Is Deep: Selected Poems by William Stafford

CALIFORNIA DREAMING
David Matlin reviews The Other California: The Great Central Valley in Life and Letters by Gerald Haslam

MARGINS AT THE CENTER
A. Robert Lee reviews Ojibway Tales by Basil Johnson, Turtle Meat and Other Stories by Joseph Bruchac, Working Men by Michael Dorris, The Latin Deli by Judith Ortiz Cofer, and The Bread of Salt and Other Stories by N.V.M. Gonzales

REMIXING LORCA, RECOUNTING THE WORD
Fred Muratori reviews The Lorca Variations and Germatria, both by Jerome Rothenberg

BLACK AND WHITE
Eric Miles Williamson reviews God’s Country by Percival Everett

HONG KONG RAPTURE
Rochelle Owens reviews The Harbormaster of Hong Kong by David Bromige and Defensive Rapture by Barbara Guest

TWO POETS OF PROTEST
Barry Wallenstein reviews A Muriel Rukeyser Reader, edited by Jan Heller Levi, and Edwin Rolfe: Collected Poems, edited by Cary Nelson and Jefferson Hendricks

JANGLING & GRITTY
Robert Buttel reviews Against the Evidence: Selected Poems 1934-1994 by David Ignatow

CRITICAL COMPLEX
Carl L. Bankston reviews Freud and His Critics by Paul Robinson