Focus: Listening — Fall 2024

Focus: Listening

Volume 45, Number 3
Fall 2024

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From the Editor

Worlding Literature by Jeffrey Di Leo

Focus: Listening

The Wonder of Listening for Silence by Bryan Counter

Onomatopoeia by W. Jason Miller

Sound Games: The Clap of One Hand Sounding by John Mowitt

Auto-tunality and the Break in the Voice, or Listening to Race by Irving Goh

An Unheard-of Political Concept by Naomi Waltham-Smith

The Signature of the Voice by Peter Schwenger

Archephonai, or the Devastating Sounds of the Wombtomb by James Martell

Listening to Ourselves by Justin St. Clair

How to Listen to Philosophy by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Toward a Cosmopolitan Listening by Ruochen Bo

From Phonemes and Sonemes to Qualia, Aspects, and Collateral Observation by Michael Lucey

Postlapsarian Homesick Alien Nathan Wainstein

Interventions

The Borderlands Is Us: A Conversation with Alberto Ríos by Frederick Luis Aldama

Lost and Found

On Girolamo Fracastoro’s Syphilis, or A Poetical History of the French Disease and Its First Translation into English by Anthony Madrid

Fiction

Justin Courter reviews Absolute Away by Lance Olsen

Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories by Damion Searls

Daniel Gonzalez reviews One’s Company by Ashley Hutson

E-feature

Books Are Us by E. Ethelbert Miller

Cartographies

“The arm that wields a pick or drives a spike”: Revisiting C. L. R. James’s Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways by Robert T. Tally, Jr.

Translation

Translation’s Tapestry by Brian O’Keeffe

Poetry

Michael Joyce reviews Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses by Ronald Johnson

Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Afterimage by Kathryn Weld

Neil Shepard reviews The Luminous Racetrack: A Memoir in Poems by Bill Tremblay

Miho Kinnas reviews Where is the Mouth of That Word? Selected Poems by Maryam Ala Amjadi

Michael Collins reviews Joy Ride by Ron Slate

The Laureates

A Survivor of Survivors: An Interview with Denise Lajimodiere, Poet Laureate of North Dakota by Renee H. Shea

Memoir

Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home by S. L. Wisenberg

Criticism

Adam Theron-Lee Rensch reviews Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse by Curtis White

Jessi Rae Morton reviews The Plastic Turn by Ranjan Ghosh

From our Own

Gates Wesley reviews The Girling Season by Christina Milletti

Scenes

North Dakota State University Press: An Interview with Suzzanne Kelley

Poetics to Come

Seeing through Tina Barr’s Invisible Telescope: A Contemporary Poetics by Daniel T. O’Hara

The Departed

Barbara Ehrenreich by Sharon O’Dair