Focus: Innovative Poetry — September / October 2005

Innovative Poetry

Volume 26, Number 6
September-October 2005

Focus: Innovative Poetry

Introduction: Innovative Poetry
C. S. Giscombe

No End to Significance
Paula Koneazny reviews Renee Gladman’s A Picture-Feeling

Headwaters
Robert Budde reviews Ecologue by Ken Belford and The Centre: Poems 1970-2000 by Barry McKinnon

Not in My Language
Fred Muratori reviews Yesterday’s News by Taylor Brady

Attention to Connection
Benjamin Friedlander reviews This Connection of Everyone with Lungs by Juliana Spahr

Feature: Disability Concerns

Models of Uncaring
James Berger reviews Disability by Cris Mazza

Making Suffering Contagious
Chris Lombardi reviews The Hospital Poems by Jim Ferris

Feature: Out of Egypt

Outwitting Destruction
Roberta Kalechofsky reviews So Far So Good by Karen AIkalay-Gut

Nordic Jew
Rika Lesser reviews Contemporary Jewish Writing in Sweden: An Anthology edited by Peter Stenberg

A Voice of Berlin
Amy Sayre-Roberts reviews The Shadows of Berlin: The Berlin Stories of Dovid Bergelson edited and translated by Joachim Neugroschel

Feature: Works and Days

On the Road, Again
Rob Johnson reviews Windblown World: The Journals of Jack Kerouac, 1947-1954 edited by Douglas Brinkley

Speaking in Tongues
Ekaterina Sukhanova reviews From Russia with Love: Joseph Brodsky in English by Daniel Weissbort

Book Reviews

Terminal Tours
James M. Mellard reviews Passing On by Tom LeClair

Love Lockets
Bob Grumman reviews Locket by Catherine Daly

Signs of the Times
Stephen Burn reviews Our Ecstactic Days by Steve Erickson

Among these Silk Screens
Anthony J. Cuda reviews Ariel: The Restored Edition by Sylvia Plath

True Lies
Eckhard Gerdes reviews A*hole by Hilton Obenzinger

Both Sides of the Conversation
Thomas March reviews Arts and Letters by Edmund White

Searching for Spinoza
A.K. Allin reviews Spinoza Doesn’t Come Here Anymore by Colette Inez

Kiš My Ass
Andrew Ervin reviews Night by Vedrana Rudan

Dancing Naked
Casie Fedukovich reviews Vivid Companion by Irene McKinney

White Shoes
Laurel Blossom reviews Leopold’s Maneuvers by Cortney Davis

Shaggy Dog Stories
Reamy Jansen reviews Dirty Blue Car: New Stories by Fielding Dawson

Homer Abroad
J. Kates reviews The Prodigal: A Poem by Derek Walcott

Number Forty-Eight
Louis McKee reviews After Taxes by Thomas Fink

New Impressions of New Impressions
John Olson reviews New Impressions of Africa by Raymond Roussel

Departments

Rants and Raves
Letters to the Editor

The Net

ABR: The Year in Review
Index to Volume 26