Focus: Rejections
Volume 44, Number 2
Summer 2023
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From the Editor
The Infrastructure of Death by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: Rejections
Introduction by Steven G. Kellman
The Morning Line: A Writer’s Odds by Jay Neugeboren
“It Takes Only One” by Carl Rollyson
Efforts at Speech by Lee Robinson
“My Plate Is Full”: Rejection, a Memoir by Steve Tomasula
A Literate Journey by John Tytell
My Soul, the Mule by Brad Adams
Interventions
Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Matt Madden
Lost and Found
On Lucille Clifton’s Children’s Books by Anthony Madrid
Fiction
Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Estranged by Charles Lamar Phillips
Greg Sanders reviews The Economist by Christopher Grimes
Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Ire Land (a Faery Tale) by Elisabeth Sheffield
Amy Penne reviews The Term Between by Brady Harrison
Eugene H. Hayworth reviews Duende by Alex Poppe
Ilka Scobie reviews The Lost Language of Crazy by Pamela Laskin
Matthew Petti reviews History of Theatre or The Glass of Fashion by M. G. Stephens
Richard Squires reviews Save the Village by Michele Herman
E-feature
In Search of Synergy by E. Ethelbert Miller
Cartographies
Mapping Culture by Robert T. Tally Jr.
Translation
The Voyages of Translation by Brian O’Keeffe
Biography
Norman Fischer reviews Atlantis, an Autoanthropology by Nathaniel Tarn
Criticism
Bonnie Walker reviews Within the Inscribed: Selected Prose & Conversations by Michael Heller
Cultural Studies
T. C. Marshall reviews 2021: January–June by Morgan Miller III and James Call
Poetry
Fred Muratori reviews Gun/Shy by Jim Daniels
Jan Garden Castro reviews Duende: Poems, 1966–Now by Quincy Troupe
Jerry Harp reviews A Complex Sentence by Marjorie Welish
Mixby Dickon reviews The Saints of Capitalism by Benjamin Schmitt
Printers and Poets
Carrying on in Cuneiform: Charles Alexander interviews Kyle Schlesinger
From our Own
Paul Allen Miller reviews Happiness by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Scenes
Turtle Point Press: An Interview with Ruth Greenstein
Poetics to Come
The Departed
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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.
