Focus: Pop, Pre-Pop, Post-Pop — March-May 1995

Pop, Pre-Pop, Post-Pop

Volume 16 Number 6
March-May 1995

ART

LET IT BEAN
Karl Young reviews Spoken Text by Alison Knowles

FOCUS: POP, PRE-POP, POST-POP

COMMUNICATING A PRESENCE
Roger Cardinal reviews Dream Singers, Story Tellers: An African-American Presence by Alison Weld, et. al.

GENEOLOGES
Lorenzo Thomas reviews The Hammers of Creation: Folk Cultures in Modern African-American Fiction by Eric J. Sundquist

THE SOUND OF SUBURBIA
Anne Petrov

POETRY TO DANCE TO
Denise Duhamel reviews Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry, edited by Jim Elledge

AVANT GARDE GHOST MEETS POSTMODERN MAGUS
Nina daVinci Nichols reviews Deathtraps: The Postmodern Comedy Thriller by Marvin Carlson and Avant Garde Theatre, 1892-1992 by Christopher Innes

WOMEN BEHIND THE SCREEN
Robert Dassanowky-Harris reviews Reel Women: Pioneers of the Cinema 1896 to the Present by Ally Acker

FEATURE : RADICAL POETICS

THE ARTISTRY OF DISSENT
Chris Faatz reviews Poetry Like Bread: Poets of the Political Imagination, edited by Martin Espada

THE SOUND OF ONE FIST RISING
Lucien Stryk reviews Call Me By My True Names by Thitch Nhat Hanh

POETRY ON THE RUN
Anselm Hollo reviews Poems of Naim Hikmet

SURREALISM AS SOCIAL PHILOSOPHY
Carl L. Bankston III reviews Profane Illumination: Walter Benjamin and the Paris of the Surrealist Revolution by Margaret Cohen

FEATURE: DIMINISHING RETURNS

EXHUMING THE DEAD
Marylea Meyersohn reviews Presumption by Julia Barrett and Pemberly or Pride and Prejudice Continued by Emma Tennant

AUDACITY AND (AUSTEN)TATION
John Allen Stevenson reviews The Last Man by Mary Shelley

FEATURE: URBAN MUSE

STARTING FROM FLATBUSH
Gardner McFall reviews A Day’s Portion by Harvey Shapiro and Into A Punchline: Poems 1984-1994 by Robert Hershon

WORKING CLASS POETRY
Julia Stein reviews Jehovah Jukebox by Joan Jobe Smith and M-80 by Jim Daniels

BIG APPLE TO THE CORE
Vicki Weissman reviews Urban Bliss by Janice Eidus

WAKE-UP CALL TO THE OPPRESSED
Thaddeus Rutkowski reviews Local History by Erica Hunt

BOOK REVIEWS

NEW VOICES FROM NEW RIVERS
Don Webb reviews Falling In Love at the End of the World by Rick Christman, Thin Ice and Other Risks by Gary Eller, and The Peace Terrorist by Carol Masters

ONLY DISCONNECT
Sharon Olinka reviews Scaffolding: Selected Poems by Jane Cooper

SCREAMS FROM THE CAGE
Robert Sward reviews The Bukowski/Purdy Letters: A Decade of Dialogue, 1964-1974, edited by Seamus Cooney

SLIGHT OF FOOT
Richard Kostelanetz reviews Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology, edited by Paul Hoover

INTERSECTING WORLDS
Michael Hemmingson reviews How the Night Is Divided by David Matlin

GIRL MEETS GIRL, GIRL LOSES GIRL
Andree Pages reviews Written On The Body by Jeannette Winterson

THE LANGUAGE OF THE BODY
Adrienne McCormick reviews Raising the Tents by Frances Payne Adler and Incontinence by Susan Hahn

ZERO TIME
Karen Alkalay-Gut reviews Askance and Strangely: New and Selected Poems by Edmund Pennant

RADICAL PROPHESY
Norman Spencer reviews Race Matters; Keeping Faith; and Beyond Eurocentrism and Multiculturalism, Vol. I and Vol. II by Cornel West

STRATEGIES OF INTIMACY AND DISTANCE
Charlotte Mandel reviews This House Is Filled With Cracks by Madelyn Camrud and Starting a Swan Dive by Patricia Cleary Miller

THOM GUNN: COMPOSING, UNCOMPOSED
Robin Magowan reviews Collected Poems and Shelf Life: Essays, Memoirs, and an Interview by Thom Gunn

LIVES AT RISK
Frank Allen reviews 1990 by Michael Klein, Steam Dummy & Fragments From the Fire by Chris Llewellyn, and Walking by Stephen Vincent

LESS IS MORE
Laurel Blossom reviews Durable Goods by Suzanne Matson and A Shared Life by Katherine Soniat

INSIDE THE INSIDE
Fielding Dawson reviews Tug by Stephen Todd Booker

DREAMS DEFERRED
Margaret Randall reviews Haruko/Love Poems by June Jordan and American Dreams by Sapphire

PRIME DESIRE
Tomomi Hirade reviews Quicksand by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Howard Hibbett, and The Reed Cutter and Captain Shigemoto’s Mother by Junichiro Tanizaki, translated by Anthony H. Chambers

INDEX FOR VOLUME 16

Author Index

Title Index

Reviewer Index

Article Index