Focus: Poetry on the Edge — September-October 2002

Poetry on the Edge

Volume 23 Number 6
September-October 2002

Poetry on the Edge

Introduction: Poetry on the Edge
John Olson

Epi Poetry
Doug Nufer reviews I used to Be Ashamed of My Striped Face by Mike Topp

The Secret Lives of Vowels
Brian Carpenter reviews Eunoia by Christian Bök

The Selvage of Ghosts
John Olson reviews Darkling: A Poem by Anna Rabinowitz

Letters to the Editor: Rants and Raves
Laird Hunt

Why No Y?
Aldon Lynn Nielsen reviews Sleeping with the Dictionary by Harryette Mullen

In the Democratic Age
Louis McKee reviews Whatever Shines: Prose Poems by Kathleen McGookey

Making It New
Harriet Zinnes reviews Seven Pages Missing, Volume One: Selected Texts 1969-1999 and Prior to Meaning: The Protosemantic and Poetics by Steve McCaffery

From the Outside In
Anna Mockler reviews The Bathhouse by Farnoosh Moshiri

FEATURE: The Islamic Imagination

Old Folks at Home
Sharon Olinka reviews That Kind of Sleep by Susan Atefat-Peckham

Poet of the World
Richard Tillinghast reviews Doctor Jazz by Hayden Carruth

Keeping On
Gary Lenhart reviews Just in Time: Poems 1984-1994 by Robert Creeley

Once and Again
Rochelle Ratner reviews The Painted Bed by Donald Hall

Iron Will
Benjamin Ivry reviews The Long Marriage by Maxine Kumin

FEATURE: Black and White

Photography/Poetry/Jazz: Roy DeCarava
Barry Wallenstein reviews The Sound I Saw: Improvisation on a Jazz Theme by Roy DeCarava

Eye to Eye
Gordon Ball reviews The Importance of Being by Christopher Felver

Book Reviews

An Inordinate Fondness
David Cowart reviews The Deadwood Beetle by Mylène Dressler

The Next Big Thing
Steve Tomasula reviews The Savage Girl by Alex Shakar

Perceiving the Self
Susan Swartwout reviews Book of my Nights by Li-Young Lee

Corporations: What Went Wrong?
David Cogswell reviews The Divine Right of Capital: Dethroning the Corporate Aristocracy by Marjorie Kelly

The Truth of Poetry
David Kirby reviews After Confessions: Poetry as Autobiography edited by Kate Sontag and David Graham

The Art of Gender
Robert Dassanowsky reviews Women Artists in the 20th and 21st Century edited by Uta Grosenick

Complicated Dreams
Jerry Harp reviews The Low Road: A Scottish Family Memoir by Valerie Miner

The Absurdity of Renewal
Pamela L. Laskin reviews Beyond Renewal by George Held

Murder, He Wrote
Anneli Rufus reviews The Gates of Janus: Serial Killing and Its Analysis, by the “Moors Murderer,” Ian Brady by Stephen Alter

Water, Water Everywhere
John Verlenden reviews Sacred Waters: A Pilgrimage up the Ganges River to the Source of Hindu Culture by Stephen Alter

Giant Nights
Fred Muratori reviews The Angel Hair Anthology edited by Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh

Departments

Rants and Raves
Letter to the Editor

From the Backlist
Jamie Hutchinson reviews Jazz in New Orleans: The Postwar Years through 1970 by Charles Suhor

ABR: The Year in Review
Index to Volume 23