Posthumanism
Volume 30, Number 2
January-February 2009
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Zahi Zalloua’s “Introduction to Focus: Posthumanism”
Katherine Saunders Nash reviews Donna J. Haraway’s When Species Meet
C. Namwali Serpell reviews Bruce Clarke’s Posthuman Metamorphosis: Narrative and Systems
Brian O’Keeffe reviews Michel Serres’s The Parasite
Feature: Art/Translation/Poetry
Shoshana Olidort reviews Paul Celan’s Snow Part/Schneepart
Lisa Wilde reviews Jan Owen’s Poems 1980-2008
Book Reviews
Rob Johnson reviews Jack Hirschman’s All That’s Left
Steve Tomasula reviews Deb Olin Unferth’s Vacation
Jeffrey R. Di Leo reviews Harold Jaffe’s Jesus Coyote
Dinda L. Gorlée reviews Daniel Heller-Roazen’s Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language
John Domini reviews Roy Kesey’s All Over
Charles Suhor reviews Samuel Charters’s A Trumpet around the Corner: The Story of New Orleans Jazz
Steve Davenport reviews Richard Howard’s Without Saying: New Poems
Robert Glick reviews Kevin Sampsell’s Creamy Bullets
Doris Barkin reviews Pat Falk’s Crazy Jane
Scott Elliott reviews David Crouse’s The Man Back There and Other Stories
Benjamin S. Grossberg reviews John Olson’s Backscatter: New and Selected Poems
Departments
Page 2-Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “Publishing Smarts”
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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.
