Focus: Gay/Lesbian/Bi Publishing — June/July 1996

Gay/Lesbian/Bi- Publishing

Volume 17 Number 5
June-July 1996

RANTS AND RAVES

MOVIES ON VIDEO

THE HUNTER’S HANDBOOK
Colin Raff

LITERARY MAGAZINES

FICTIVE FORECASTS
Jim Rother reviews “The Future of Fiction: A Forum” in The Review of Contemporary Fiction, Spring 1996, guest edited by David Foster Wallace.

FOCUS: GAY/LESBIAN/BI- PUBLISHING

OUTSIDER ART
Jim Elledge

HEROES EAT SOUP LIKE ANYONE ELSE
Jim Cory

WORKING IN DARKNESS TOWARD LIGHT
An Interview with Carole Maso

BY ANY OTHER NAME
Kristy Nielsen.

POEMS OF PASSAGE
James C. Hatch reviews Call and Response by Forrest Hamer

SACRAMENTAL TONGUES
Joseph Bathanti reviews Burnt Offerings by Timothy Liu, and Reaching for the Mainland & Selected New Poems by Judith Ortiz Cofer

THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESERE
Patrick Pritchett reviews Jack the Modernist by Robert Gluck

BECAUSE IT WASN’T THERE
Clarinda Harriss

PUBLIC EYE
Karen Lee Osborne

FEATURE: PC AND OTHER CHIMERAS

THE BIG LIE
Janet McNew reviews The Myth of Political Correctness: The Conservative Attack on Higher Education by John Wilson

CONSERVATIVE SUBVERSION
Richard Kostelanetz

FEATURE: AESTHETICS OF GENDER

SAPPHO’S DAUGHTER
Gardner McFall reviews An Origin Like Water: Collected Poems (1967-1987) by Eavan Boland

BOOK REVIEWS

THE TALK IS STILL GOOD
Corinne Robins reviews Art Talk: Conversations with 15 Women Artists by Cindy Nemser

EXQUISITE PORNOGRAPHY
Christian Moraru reviews A Little Hungarian Pornography by Péter Esterházy, tr. Judith Sollosy; and A Ring in a Case by Yuz Aleshkovsky, tr. Jane Ann Miller

NEW IMPRESSIONS OF ROUSSEL
Doug Nufer reviews How I Wrote Certain of My Books by Raymond Roussel

RADIO DAYS
Daniel Leary reviews Sight Unseen: Beckett, Pinter, Stoppard, and Other Contemporary Dramatists on Radio by Elissa S. Guralnick

A SOUL’S SOCIETY
Susan Swartwout reviews The Lord and the General Din of the World by Jane Mead

REVERSE ANACHRONISM
Tom LeClair reviews Martin Dressler: The Tale of an American Dreamer by Steven Millhauser

INTERSECTING WORLDS
Dick Allen reviews Inhabited World by John Allman

BEING AND NOTHINGNESS
Bob Grumman reviews Motion of the Cypher by Ray DiPalma

PARADISE LOST
Scott Withers reviews Long River by Joseph Bruchac

THE MAN WHO LOVED WOMEN
Miriam Levine reviews Circle of Light by Charles Levendosky

THE MAKING OF AN AMERICAN
Laura Wadenpfuhl reviews “Favored Strangers”: Gertrude Stein and Her Family by Linda Wagner-Martin

AMERICAN GOTHIC
David Breeden reviews South of the Big Four by Don Kurtz

LEAVING THE PLACES WE LIVE
Al Maginnes reviews Shadows Burning by W. S. DiPiero, and The Legend of Light by Bob Hicok

LIMPING PROSODY
Annie Finch reviews Rethinking Meter: A New Approach to the Verse Line by Alan Holder

PERMANENTLY BARRED
David Latané reviews Permanently Bard and The Shadow of Hiroshima and Other Film/Poems by Tony Harrison

CITYSCAPES
Janine Pommy Vega reviews Selected Poems of Simon Pettet

WHITE PEOPLE’S MUSIC
T. Burke Jr. reviews I Say Me for a Parable by Mance Lipscomb

MAKING POETRY HAPPEN
Scott Pound reviews Marine Snow by Karen Mac Cormack

WORKS AND DAYS
Louis McKee reviews Journeyman’s Wages by Clemens Starck

THE HlPPEST ROMAN OF THEM ALL
Marshall Hurwitz reviews Charm by Sextus Propertius; tr. Vincent Katz

PERFORMIMG, DEFORMING, INFORMING
Irving Malin reviews Muffins by Leon Rooke, and The Portrait Series by Warren Lehrer

SHAVIAN BUBBLES
Charles Marowitz reviews Bernard Shaw Theatrics, edited by Dan H. Laurence

PRISMATIC VISION
Robert Long reviews Fieldnotes by Mark Weiss

BEYOND THE NATURE/CULTURE DIVISION
Matthew Fuller reviews The Cyborg Handbook, edited by Chris Hables Gray

LOVE STORY
Sarah Elizabeth Wright reviews Blight and Rest In Love by D.H. Melhem

SPINAL TRAFFIC
Kenneth Warren reviews Under World Arrest by Clayton Eshleman

THE NET