Prizewinning Poetry
Volume 27, Number 3
March-April 2006
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Rochelle Ratner’s “Introduction to Focus: Foetry be Damned: A Few Contest Winners”
Mark Wallace reviews Susan Wheeler’s Ledger
Casie Fedukovich reviews Dobby Gibson’s Polar
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews Victoria Chang’s Circle
Robert Long reviews Jacquelyn Pope’s Watermark
Roger Mitchell reviews Kathleen Jesme’s Motherhouse
Madeline Tiger reviews David Petruzelli’s Everyone Coming toward You
Feature: Expressive Freedoms
Jerome Klinkowitz reviews Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man without a Country
Feature: Minutes
Alain Arias-Misson’s “On the Venice Biennale”
Michael Joyce’s “On the OlsonNow Forum”
Compact Fictions
Lance Olsen reviews William Gillespie’s Letter to Lamont
Peter Conners reviews Peter Markus’s The Singing Fish
Wedge
Teresa Sparks’s “Staples: Review of Hao Nguyen’s Red Juice”
Robbie Q. Telfer’s “Dunk: Derrick Brown and Anis Mojgani slam the Green Mill Cafe”
Sara Larsen’s “Perf: Lyn Hejinian and Paolo Javier manage Small Press Traffic”
Chris Pusateri’s Review2: Review of Submodern Fiction
Book Reviews
Thomas March reviews Sarah Vowell’s Assassination Vacation
Nickolas Pappas reviews Frances Nesbitt Oppel’s Nietzsche on Gender: Beyond Man and Woman
Paula Koneazny reviews Gillian Conoley’s Profane Halo
Joseph Tabbi reviews R. M. Berry’s Frank
Susan Swartwout reviews Kevin Stein’s American Ghost Roses: Poems
Sam Truitt reviews Stephen Paul Miller’s Skinny Eighth Avenue
Peter Dempsey reviews David Markson’s Going Down
Doug Nufer reviews Vanessa Place’s Dies: A Sentence
William Lansing Brown reviews David S. Reynolds’s John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights
Mark Tursi reviews Russell Edson’s The Rooster’s Wife
Ron Capshaw reviews Phillip José Farmer’s Tarzan Alive: A Definitive Biography of Lord Greystoke
Stacey Gottlieb reviews Nicole Krauss’s The History of Love
Garin Cycholl reviews Stacey Levine’s Frances Johnson
Departments
Backlist-Laura Wright reviews Sawako Nakayasu’s So We Have Been Given Time Or
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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.
