Focus: Down and In in London and Paris — March/April 1997

Yes, Australia

Volume 18 Number 4
May-June 1997

Focus: Down and In in London and Paris

Notes from the Undo*Round
Preston Lancashire

Down and In in London and Paris
Ronald Sukenick

On The Road
Matthew Fuller

Music Changes Minds
Howard Slater

Tropique de la catastrophe
Laurent Diouf. Translated by Nicole Macintosh and Black Sifichi

Paris sur scene
Roma Napoli

Jasmine Movies to Paris
Jasmine

Lyrical Itineraries
Rikki Ducornet reviews Paris Out of Hand (A Wayward Guide) by Karen Elizabeth Gordon

Adventures in the Parisian Skin Trade
Lisa B. Falour

Paris: A Primer (For Poets)
Sikélianos

Searching for the Underground
Black Sifichi

Feature: Down and Out in America

Haunted Highway
Capper Nichols reviews Jouney to Nowhere: The Saga of the New Underclass by Dale Maharidge and Michael Williamson

Open and Shut
Bob Blaisdell reviews In the Open: Diary of a Homeless Alcoholic by Timothy E. Donohue and Each One Teach One: Up and Out of Poverty; Memoirs of a Street Activist by Ron Casanova as told to Stephen Blackburn

Book Reviews

One Word After Another
Fred Muratori reviews Elemenopy by Michael Coffey and Moira by Norma Cole

Paper Engineering
Brian McHale reviews Memory Wax by Alan Singer

Briefing for the Coming Convulsions
Jim Feast reviews Cyberspace/Cyberbodies/Cyberpunk: Cultures of Technological Embodiment Edited by Mike Feathersome and Roger Burrows, Engines of the Mind: The Evolution of the Computer from Mainframes to Microprocessors by Joel Shurkin, Sex, Laws, and Cyberspace by Jonathan Wallace and Mark Mangan, Technoscience and Cyberculture Edited by Stanley Aronowitz, Barbara Martinsons, and Michael Menser

Solitary Inventions
Joseph Tabbi reviews Reader’s Block by David Markson

Flying Bodies, Floating Visions
Ursula K. Heise reviews The Front Matter, Dead Souls by Leslie Scalapino

Tripping Through the World of the Enabled
Paul Harris reviews Chez Chance by Jay Gummerman

Audacious Comedy
Richard Kostelanetz reviews The Winner of the Slow Bicycle Race by Paul Krassner

Logocentrically Speaking
Hayward Allen reviews News Values: Ideas for the Information Age by Jack Fuller and Virtual Realities and Their Discontents Edited by Robert Markley

Romantic Revolution
Susan Swartwout reviews Small Hours of the Night: Selected Poems of Roque Dalton by Roque Dalton, Edited by Hardie St. Martin

Alligators in the Sewers
Brian Lennon reviews City in Love: The New York Metamorphoses by Alex Shakar

A Small Circle of Friends
Robert Anasi reviews The Catastrophe by Robert Steiner

Universal Associations
Doug Nufer reviews Passing Off by Tom LeClair

The Perilous Pleasure of Existing
Steven Marks reviews Selected Crônicas by Clarice Lispector

Rod Mchara Bukowski Rides Again
Bob Grumman reviews Cant be Wrong by Michael Lally

The Net

Assault on Chance