New Lyric Poetry
Volume 28, Number 4
May-June 2007
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Alan Michael Parker’s “Introduction to Focus: New Lyric Poetry”
Ravi Shankar reviews Julie Sheehan’s Orient Point
Cynthia Hogue reviews Alice Notley’s Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems, 1970-2005
Tony Barnstone reviews Erin Belieu’s Black Box
Christopher Bakken reviews Charles Wright’s Scar Tissue
Nicole Foreman reviews Jillian Weise’s The Amputee’s Guide to Sex
Rebecca Hazelton reviews Matthew Zapruder’s The Pajamaist
David Graham reviews Terrance Hayes’ Wind in a Box
Feature: Writing on Writing
Lance Olsen reviews ed. Louis Armand’s Avant-Post: The Avant-Garde under “Post-” conditions
Brian Evenson reviews eds. Nigel Krauth and Tess Brady’s Creative Writing: Theory beyond Practice
Terry Caesar reviews Joni Cole’s Toxic Feedback: Helping Writers Survive and Thrive
Book Reviews
Nina Di Leo translates Raymond Federman’s “Traitor to the Cause”
John Domini reviews Galsan Tschinag’s The Blue Sky
Thomas F. Dillingham reviews Charles Baudelaire’s The Flowers of Evil
Anis Shivani reviews ed. Sue Miller’s Best New American Voices 2007
Kevin Prufer reviews Richard Foerster’s The Burning of Troy
Paula Koneazny reviews Nathalie Stephens’ Touch to Affliction
L. Timmel Duchamp reviews Joshua Cohen’s Cadenza for the Schneidermann Violin Concerto
Jeff Hamilton reviews Glenn Mott’s Analects on Chinese Screen
Leora Lev reviews eds. Davis Schneiderman and Phoenelia Yeer’s Multifesto: A Henri d’Mescan Reader
Haines Eason reviews Landis Everson’s Everything Preserved: Poems 1955-2005
Rochelle Ratner reviews Barry Silesky’s This Disease
Ashley Makar reviews Dave Eggers’ What Is the What
Gibson Fay-LeBlanc reviews Jeffrey Harrison’s Incomplete Knowledge
Departments
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Picketing the Zeitgeist-The Mininovel and Negative Text by Yuriy Tarnawsky
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Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
