Focus: Electronic Muse — December 1995/January 1996

Electronic Muse

Volume 17 Number 2
December 1995-January 1996

SITE SURFING

FEAR OF CRUISING
Rochelle Ratner

GRIST’S WEB SITE
Karl Young

FOCUS: THE ELECTRONIC MUSE

A REVIEW OF BOOKS IN THE AGE OF THEIR TECHNOLOGICAL OBSOLESCENCE
Joseph Tabbi

NOTES FROM THE DIGITAL OVERGROUND
Mark Amerika

ENGINEERING CYBORG IDEOLOGY
N. Katherine Hayles reviews Cyborg: Engineering the Body Electric by Diane Greco

THE MAUL OF AMERICA
Marcos Novak reviews City of Bits by William J. Mitchell

SLEEPLESS IN SEATTLE
Paul Harris reviews Invisible Rendezvous: Connection and Collaboration in the New Landscape of Electronic Writing by Rob Wittig for IN.S.OMNIA

CYBERINTHIAN WAYS
Linda Brigham reviews Complementarily: Anti-Epistemology after Bohr and Derrida by Arkady Plotnitsky, and Socrates in the Labyrinth by David Kolb

MY BODY THE LIBRARY
Michael Joyce reviews Janet, a Body art and World Wide Web site created by Janet Ingraham and Andy Dwyer

BUGGING THE NET
Peter Krapp reviews the e-zine Foreign body

FEATURE: ART WITH A CONSCIENCE

THE LITERATURE OF TOXICITY
Terrell Dixon reviews The Lost Scrapbook by Evan Dara

TAKIN’ IT TO THE STREETS
Ann Lee Morgan reviews But Is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism edited by Nina Felshin

HEART OF DARKNESS
Sarah Elizabeth Wright reviews The Heinemann Book of African Woman’s Poetry edited by Stella P. and Frank M. Chipasula

FEATURE: TRUE CONFESSIONS

NARCISSUS UNBOUND
William O’Rourke reviews Secret Life: An Autobiography by Michael Ryan

BEEN THERE, DONE THAT
Jerome Klinkowitz reviews Literary Luxuries: American Writing at the End of the Millenium by Joe David Bellamy

MIXING MEMORY AND DESIRE
Al Maginnes reviews Infanta by Erin Belieu

FEATURE: THE UNDISCOVERED COUNTY

SPEAKING TO THE DEAD
Miriam Levine reviews Ghost Volcano by Sandra M. Gilbert

AN ELOQUENT DEFENSE OF SILENCE
David Kirby reviews The Empty Bed by Rachel Hadas

MOMENTO MORI
W.B. Keckler reviews Boudica by Paol Keineg, and Skyblue’s Essays by Dallas Weibe

BOOK REVIEWS

PARAPHYSICS IN THE MIDWEST
David Winn reviews Anarcho-Hindu by Curtis White

LOVE AMONG THE UNBEARABLES
Jim Feast reviews Wiggling Wishbone: Stories of Pata-Sexual Speculation by Bert Plantenga

BIRD CALLS
Robert Buttel reviews Song by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

MY KIND OF TOWN
Lauren Fairbanks reviews An Unsentimental Education: Writers and Chicago edited by Molly McQuade

CHANGE FOR THE MACHINES
Matthew Fuller reviews Cyberpositive by O(rphan) d(rift>)

CHINA MAGIC, BARRIO MAGIC
A. Robert Lee reviews Hawaiian Cowboys by John Yau, Rita and Los Angeles by Leo Romero, and African Passions and Other Stories by Beatriz Rivera

SURE, WOMEN CAN READ MAPS, BUT IT MAY NOT GET THEM WHERE THEY WANT TO BE
Susan Swartwout reviews Foreign Parts by Janice Galloway

MAKE IT NEW
John Jacob reviews Heavenly Tree/Soluble Forest by Gerrit Lansing

ANIMAL SOUNDS
JR Foley reviews Life Science, and Other Stories by Keith Taylor

THE HOLLYWOOD HALLUCINATION
Gary Lenhart reviews The Granite Butterfly: A Poem in Nine Cantos by Parker Tyler

ARIEL IN CALIBAN
Alexander Laurence reviews Sound On Sound by Christopher Sorrentino

THE GOLDEN AGE OF THE PROSE POEM
Peter Johnson reviews Models of the Universe: An Anthology of the Prose Poem edited by Stuart Friebert and David Young

LOVE’S BODY
George Held reviews What We Carry by Dorianne Laux

YIDDISH MOMMAS
Benjamin Forsyth reviews All My Yesterdays Were Steps by Dora Teitelboim, translated and edited by Aaron Kramer

THIS IS NOT A POEM
Lila Zeiger reviews The Tunnel: Selected Poems by Russell Edson

CALM ELOQUENCE
Daniela Gioseffi reviews The Philosopher’s Club by Kim Addonizio, and Poems New and Selected by Grace Cavalieri

MELTING POT POETRY
Phillip Mahony reviews A Face Not My Own by Sharon Olinka