New Poetry
Volume 24, Number 4
May-June 2003
FOCUS: New Poetry
Introduction: History, Lyricism, and “Avant-Gardism”
Beyond the First-Book Poets
Wayne Miller
Where Agape and Eros Collide
Anthony Deaton reviews Rock Harbor by Carl Phillips
History between the Lines
Pablo Peschiera reviews Necessity by Peter Sacks
Beastly Elegies
Claire Hero reviews The Violence of the Morning by Cal Bedient
Cross-Pollination
Jennifer Grotz reviews Still Life with Waterfall by Eamon Grennan
Stumbling On
Brian Barker reviews The Guests at the Gate by Anthony Piccione
Suburban Sex
Kevin Prufer reviews Except for One Obscene Brushstroke by Dzvinia Orlowsky
Poems in Twilight
Jerry Harp reviews In the Next Galaxy by Ruth Stone and Drawing on the Wall by Harriet Zinnes
FEATURE: Where I Live
Frontlines of an American Dream
Audrey Petty reviews Pink Houses and Family Taverns by Becky Bradway
Appalachia Springs Eternal
Larry Smith reviews The Handywoman Stories by Lenore McComas Coberly
FEATURE: The Village and Beyond
Beautiful and Nightmare City
John Rocco reviews Republic of Dreams: Greenwich Village, the American Bohemia, 1910–1960 by Ross Wetzsteon
Zen Lunacy: Therapeutic?
John W. Maerhofer reviews Poets on the Peaks: Gary Snyder, Philip Whalen & Jack Kerouac in the North Cascades by John Suiter
FEATURE: Ball and Chain
Prison Dreams
Kathleen Adams reviews Inside My Head by Reginald S. Lewis
From the Beast’s Belly
Reamy Jansen reviews How You Lose: A Novel in Stories by J.C. Amberchele
Book Reviews
Crossed Allusions
Doug Nufer reviews Metropolis 16–29 by Robert Fitterman
The Art of Life
John Olson reviews Selected Poems, 1950–2000 by Nathaniel Tarn
Cozying up to Chaos
James M. Mellard reviews Design and Debris: A Chaotics of Postmodern American Fiction by Joseph M. Conte
Molten Meaning
Frank Marquardt reviews Iceland by Jim Krusoe
Globe-trotters
Daniel Leary reviews The Roar of the Canon: Kott and Marowitz on Shakespeare by Charles Marowitz
The One That Got Away
Steven Wolfe reviews Gould’s Book of Fish: A Novel in 12 Fish by Richard Flanagan
Sorrentino’s Self-Constructed Con
Trey Strecker reviews Little Casino by Gilbert Sorrentino
On Renouncing One’s Dispossession
Robert Johnson reviews The Culture of Make Believe by Derrick Jensen
Unreal City
Steven Sher reviews Death of New York City: Selected Poems by Nina Zivancevic
Surreal Estates of the Mind
Robert Long reviews The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems by Gregory Orr
Visual Pleasure
Corinne Robins reviews Other Animals: Drawings and Journals by Merce Cunningham
The Sensual and the Pastoral
Laurel Blossom reviews Pursuit by Erica Funkhouser
What Do You Mean, “Digital Studies”?
Pawel Frelik reviews CyberText Yearbook 2001 edited by Markku Eskelinen
and Raine Koskimaa
The Soul of Wit
Nancy Kline reviews Some of Her Friends That Year: New and Selected Stories by Maxine Chernoff
Journey from the Predictable
Frank Allen reviews Between Earth and Sky by Sandy McIntosh
Veins of Soil Merging
Susan Sindall reviews 6 Vietnamese Poets edited by Nguyen Ba Chung and Kevin Bowen
Opening Windows to the World
Rochelle Ratner reviews Windows XP Home Edition: The Missing Manual by David Pogue
Departments
Rants and Raves
Letters to the Editor
From the Backlist
C.W. Cannon reviews Casanova in Bohemia by Andrei Codrescru
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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.