Focus: Responses to the Norton Anthology of African American Literature — September/October 1997

Responses to The Norton Anthology of African American Literature

Volume 18 Number 6
September-October 1997

Focus: Responses to The Norton Anthology of African American Literature
edited by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Nellie Y. Mckay

Focus Introduction C. S. Giscombe

Conflicting Aspirations Gerald Early

Afterthoughts Nellie Y. McKay

Jes Grew Seeking A Text Jerry W. Ward, Jr.

Missing the Boat John O’Brian

Canonical Variations Erica Hunt

Tribute: William Burroughs

Hello, Mr. Nice Guy John Tytell

Picketing the Zeitgeist

Pressing Issues Rochelle Ratner

Feature: A Response to our Literary Malaise

A Response to Our Literary Malaise Eurydice

Feature: Politics and Poetry

Radovan Karadzic: Poet or Politician? Jane Schapiro

Strange Gods James Hatch reviews Canaan by Geoffrey Hill

Evasions Anthony Robbins reviews Dyer’s Thistle by Peter Balakian

Book Reviews

Red Barber Meets the Buddha Fred Muratori reviews Breath by Paul Pines

Second Coming Lauren Sanders reviews Collected Stories by Djuna Barnes

Nothing if Not Personal Doug Nufer reviews A History of Reading by Alberto Manguel, Ruined by Reading by Lynne Sharon Schwartz, and Great Books by David Denby

Pop Goes the Zeitgeist Jon Lebkowsky reviews Time Famine and Burnt by Lance Olsen

Stories to Live By Teri Reynolds reviews Johnny Critelli and The Knifemen by Frank Lentricchia

The Uses of Poetry Barry Wallenstein reviews The Life of Poetry by Muriel Ruckeyser

How the Light Gets In Sharon Dolin reviews The Crack in Everything by Alicia Suskin Ostriker and Pears, Lake, Sun by Sandy Solomon

Prince of Players Robert Dassanowsky reviews Prince and Plays by Henry Gregor (Prince Heinrich Starhemberg), translated by Harvey I. Dunkle

Bad Moon Rising Nina Ascoly reviews Women of the Far Right: The Mothers’ Movement and World War II by Glen Jeansonne

History as Forgetting Gary Lenhart reviews Bruised Paradise: Poems and Private Poets, Worldly Acts: Public and Private History in Contemporary American Poetry by Kevin Stein

ABR: The Year In Review

Index to Volume 18