Focus: Postmodernist Black Poetry — February/March 1996

Postmodern Black Poetry

Volume 17 Number 3
February-March 1996

FOCUS: POSTMODERNIST BLACK POETRY

MAROONS: POSTMODERNIST BLACK POETRY
by C.S. Giscombe

TEXT AND SUBTEXT
by John Keene

POETRY AND THE ART OF MOTORCYCLE MAINTENANCE
Edward Foster reviews Voices Cast Out to Talk Us In by Ed Roberson.

FATHER TONGUE
by M. Nourbese Philip

TELEGRAPHS FROM A DISTRACTED SIBYL
by Harryette Mullen

A POETICS OF MY SENSES
by Mark McMorris

WHY DO I WRITE?
by Claire Harris

UP FROM BEAT
Barry Wallenstein reviews Transbluency: The Selected Poems of Amiri Baraka/LeRoi Jones (1961-1995) by Amiri Baraka

LOGOLATRY
Mark Scroggins reviews Asia & Haiti by Will Alexander

WHAT DID I DO TO GET SO BLACK AND BLUE?
Keith Tuma reviews Black + Blues by Kamau Brathwaite

FEATURE: THE MARVELOUS REAL

THE DANCE OF LOVE
Sinda Gregory reviews Phosphor in Dreamland by Rikki Ducornet

POST-FEMINIST KING PUSSY & THE DREAM-TREASURE OF VIOLET LIGHT
Lance Olsen reviews Pussy, King of Pirates by Kathy Acker

BEARING THE UNBEARABLES
Nathan Whiting reviews Unbearables edited by Ron Kolm, et.al.

AGAINST CULTURE
Michael du Plessis reviews Encyclopedia Acephalica edited by Georges Bataille, et. al.

FEATURE: NAKED APES

SIMIAN ALCHEMY
Ben Stoltzfus reviews Portrait of the Artist as a Young Ape by Michael Butor

MONKEYS OF ARKANSAS
Forrest Gander reviews Monkey Secret by Diane Clancy

FEATURE: ONESELF I SING

THE IDEA OF ORDER AT AMHERST
William Lansing Brown reviews English Papers: A Teaching Life by William H. Pritchard

CAVALIER MUSINGS
Robert Dassanowsky reviews The G.I. Prince by Prince Franz Hohenlohe

TRUE LIES
Steve Weinberg reviews Palimpsest by Gore Vidal.

REMEMBERING THE CITIZEN WRITER
Larry Hanley reviews Days of Anger, Days of Hope: A Memoir of the League of American Writers, 1937-1942 by Franklin Folsom

BOOK REVIEWS

RADICAL REALISM
Tom Leclair reviews Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace

PLAYS AS LITERATURE
John Tytell reviews Conjunctions: 25. The New American Theater

MOVING INWARD
Jerome Klinkowitz reviews The Scourging of W.H.D. Wretched Hutchinson by George Chambers

POETRY AS PRAYER
Myra Shapiro reviews Atomic Ghost: Poets Respond to the Nuclear Age edited by John Bradley

THE POWER OF RH POSITIVE DRINKING
Doug Nufer reviews Human Resources by Floyd Kemske

ASTROPHYSICAL GRAMMATOLOGY
Mark Amerika reviews Helen Keller or Arakawa by Madeline Gins

PARDON HIS PRETENSE, BUT…
Rochelle Ratner reviews City of Salt by Gregory Orr

THE HYPODERMIC TERRAIN
Erick Miles Williamson reviews Nice Boy by George Veltri

TECHNOLOGICAL SUBLIMITY
Brian McHale reviews Postmodern Sublime: Technology and American Writing from Mailer to Cyberpunk by Joseph Tabbi

OKIE DUST
Frank Allen reviews The Last Dust Storm by Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel

THE CADENCE OF DISCLOSURE
Fred Muratori reviews By the Bias of Sound: Selected Poems, 1974-1994 by Gustaf Sobin; Numen by Cole Swensen; and Stromata by David Miller

THE RAZOR’S EDGE
Michael Hemmingson reviews Straight Razor by Harold Jaffe

THE COLOR OF SHAME
Frank Stewart reviews The Colors of Desire by David Mura

DARK OUTRAGE
Daniela Gioseffi reviews The Scorpion’s Dark Dance by Alfredo de Palchi

HOME TRUTHS
JR Foley reviews A Burden of Earth, and Other Stories by Beth Bosworth

ABSTRACT ROMANTICISM
Anthony Robbins reviews A Hummock in the Malookas by Matthew Rohrer

CONSTRUCTING A SELF
Patrick Pritchett reviews Spinsters by Pagan Kennedy

EXTINGUISHMENT
Steven Wingate reviews Extinction by Thomas Bernhard

TROUBLE IN PARADISE
Kit Reed reviews Rushing to Paradise by J.G. Ballard

TWO (SHORT) TALL TALES
Matthew Howard reviews Renderings by James Sallis, and Madonna, Maleva by Ewing Campbell

NO PAIN, NO GAIN
Warren Woessner reviews The Throne of the Third Heaven of the Nations Millennium General Assembly—Poems Collected and New by Denis Johnson

ANARCHISTS’ LOCKSTEP
Richard Kostelanetz reviews Anarchist Voices: An Oral History of Anarchism in America by Paul Avrich

THE TECHNOLOGY FIX
Jim Miller reviews Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. Butler

THE SELFISHNESS OF LOSS
Margaret Quamme reviews The Double Legacy: Reflections on a Pair of Deaths by Rachel Hadas

METAFICTIONAL MEMORIES
Ursula K. Heise reviews Swanny’s Ways by Steve Katz

THE NET