Focus: Can Literature Be Saved? — September/October 1995

Can Literature Be Saved?

Volume 17 Number 1
September-October 1995

FOCUS: CAN LITERATURE BE SAVED?

THE REPUBLIC OF LETTERS
Charles B. Harris

LITNET AND THE FIGHT TO SAVE THE NEA
Anne Burt

THE UNEXPECTED BENEFITS
Bobbie Ann Mason

ALL THE SENSE OF THE WORLD
Joy Harjo

THE SHAMING OF AMERICA
John O’Brien

FEDERAL FUNDING FOR LITERARY PRESSES
Nicolás Kanellos

DOES LITERATURE NEED TO BE SAVED?
Scott Walker

CONTRACT ON CULTURE
John K. Wilson

FEATURE: UNSETTLlNG AMERlCA

GROWING UP MULTICULTURAL
Carl Phillips reviews Unsettling America: And Anthology of Contemporary Multicultural Poetry edited by Maria Mazziotti Gillan and Jennifer Gillan

THE BEAT GOES ON
Sharon Olinka reviews Aloud: Voices from the Nuyorican Poets Café edited by Miguel Algarin and Bob Holman

MULTIPLE EXILES
Ken Weisner reviews The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty by Marilyn Chin

HETEROGLOSSIA
John Jacob reviews Bird Language by Diana Rivera, Scene from the Movie Giant by Tino Villanueva, and Postmortem by Maurice Kilwein Guivara

THIS IS WHO WE ARE
Marilyn Kallet reviews Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre by Lois-Ann Yamanaka, The Country at My Shoulder by Moniza Alvi, Bone Dance: New and Selected Poems, 1965-1993, and Now Poof She Is Gone by Wendy Rose

A WINTER’S TALE
James Ruppert reviews Two Old Women: An Alaska Legend of Betrayal, Courage, and Survival by Valma Wallis

FEATURE: FIN DE SIÈCLE

IDENTITY POLITICS
Robert A. Pois reviews The Case of Sigmund Freud: Medicine and Identity at the Fin de Siècle by Sander L. Gilman

WAITING FOR THE END
Jonathan Holden reviews The Palms by Charlie Smith and Apocalyptic Narrative by Rodney Jones

FEATURE: OPUS POSTHUMOUS

THE WORLD IS NOT WITH US ENOUGH
Rochelle Natt reviews Nature: Poems Old & New by May Swenson

SURVIVING IN A FRAGILE SKIN
Curt Rode reviews The Sanity of Earth and Grass: Complete Poems by Robert Winner

BOOK REVIEWS

SLIGHT OF HAND
Andrew Essex reviews Efforts at Truth: An Autobiography by Nicholas Mosley

BLOOD & GUTS IN BUDAPEST
Robert L. McLaughlin reviews The Blood Countess by Andrei Codrescu

THE FIFTY-SEVENTH SECOND
Jim Elledge reviews Does Freddy Dance? By Dick Scanlan

IN ANOTHER TIME AND PLACE
Corinne Robins reviews The Christmas Oratorio by Goran Tunstrom

ECHOLALIA
Ellen McGrath Smith reviews The Landscape is Behind the Door by Pierre Martory, translated by John Ashbery and Day Has No Equal But Night by Anne Hébert, translated by A. Poulin, Jr.

BRUSHSTROKES
Lynne Lawner reviews Hunger by Lola Haskins and Hyena by Jan Freeman

FRAGMENTS AND WHOLES
Kenneth Warren reviews Window/Walls/Yard/Ways by Larry Eigner, edited by Robert Grenier

SEGRECEPTUALlTY
Bob Grumman reviews Woodworks by Richard Kostelanetz

PORTRAIT OF THE ARTIST
Daniel Leary reviews Green Dreams: Essays Under the Influence of the Irish by Michael Stephens

THE WILD INCOMPREHENSIBLE
Lee Peters reviews Our Selves by William Bronk

TERRIBLE BEAUTY
Anthony Robbins reviews Collected Longer Poems by Hayden Carruth

LOVE AND SQUALOR
Robert Fox reviews Life is Hot in Cracktown by Buddy Giovinazza and Me and Kev by Simon Black

SURVIVING THE AGE OF THE IMAGE
Harry Goldstein reviews The Return of Count Electric & Other Stories by William Browning Spencer and My Horse and Other Stories by Stacey Levine

GRACE UNDER PRESSURE
Charles Marowitz reviews Still Alive: An Autobiographical Essay by Jan Kott

DUELING GONZOS
Mike Hemmingson reviews Scherzi, I Believe by Lance Olson, Needles and Sins by Michael Arnzen, and Unnatural Acts by Lucy Taylor

COMÉDIE FÉMININE
Kenneth Mintz reviews Skirts by Mimi Albert

YUPPIES IN PARADISE
Tova Maria Calloway reviews Green Fires, Assault on Eden: A Novel of the Ecuadorian Rainforest by Marnie Mueller

(M)OTHER WRITING
Radu Turcanu reviews Manna for the Mandelstams for the Mandelas, and Three Steps on the Ladder of Writing by Hélène Cixous