Dangerous Books
Volume 29, Number 1
November-December 2007
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Eric Miles Williamson’s “Introduction to the Focus: Dangerous Books”
Larry Fondation’s “Where’s the Edge?”
Steve Davenport’s “Three Propositions About On the Road”
Rob Johnson’s “Why Flannery O’Connor Scares Me”
Mark Shechner’s “A Durable Manifesto”
Feature: Beat Redux
Jonah Raskin reviews Bill Morgan’s I Celebrate Myself: The Somewhat Private Life of Allen Ginsberg
Gordon Ball reviews Christopher Felver’s Beat
Book Reviews
Amuad Jamaul Johnson reviews ed. Nikky Finney’s The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South
Keya Mitra reviews Christina Milletti’s The Religious and Other Fictions
Vanessa Place reviews John Ashbery’s A Worldly Country: New Poems
Genevieve Kaplan reviews Leslie Adrienne Miller’s The Resurrection Trade
Anne C. McCarthy reviews Darren Wershler-Henry’s The Iron Whim: A Fragmented History of Typewriting
Wayne Miller reviews Tadeusz Różewicz’s New Poems
Matthew Roberson reviews Robert Lopez’s Part of the World
Sarah J. Gardner reviews David Keplinger’s The Prayers of Others
Gary Lain reviews Eckhard Gerdes’s The Million-Year Centipede or, Liquid Structures
Kirby Olson reviews Edward Dorn’s Way More West: New and Selected Poems
Laurel Blossom reviews Christopher Bakken’s Goat Funeral
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