Focus: Urban Nature — December/January 1996-97

Urban Nature

Volume 18 Number 2
December-January 1996-97

Focus: Urban Nature

The Ecocity
Terrell Dixon

Placeless Places
Michael P. Branch

Dialogue with the World
John Tallmadge reviews The Spell of the Sensuous by David Abram

Tale of Two Cities
Adam M. Sweeting reviews Invented Cities: The Creation of Landscape in Nineteenth-Century New York and Boston by Mona Domosh

Seeking Concord
Walter Isle reviews Walking Towards Walden: A Pilgrimage in Search of Place by John Hanson Mitchell

Naturalizing the City
David Teague

Deep Social Ecology
Michael Bennett reviews The Environmental Imagination: Thoreau, Nature Writing, and the Formation of American Culture by Lawrence Buell and The Chicago Gangster Theory of Life: Nature’s Debt to Society by Andrew Ross

Rants & Raves

Letters to the Editor

Feature: The Beat Goes On

Angels in America J
ohn Tytell reviews Angels, Anarchists & Gods by Christopher Felver and I Will Not Bow Down: Selected Poems 1990-1995 by Ron Whitehead

Beatitude
Rochelle Owens reviews Cranial Guitar: Selected Poems by Bob Kaufman

Feature: Abstraction In Our Time

Challenging the Medium
Alison Weld reviews 44th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting: Painting Outside Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art

Modernist Classicism
Charles Russell reviews Sean Scully: Twenty Years, 1979-1995 by Ned Rifkin

Saying Nothing
Alun Williams reviews The Daily Practice of Painting, Writings 1962-1993 by Gerald Richter

Book Reviews

Psychiatric Junkie
Jonathan Cohen, M.D. reviews God Head by Scott Zwiren

Jewish Magician
Sharon Dolin reviews A Lineage of Ragpickers, Songpluckers, Elegiasts & Jewelers: Selected Poems of Jewish Family Life, 1973-1995 by Albert Goldbarth

Culture for Sale
Ann Lee Morgan reviews Art Does (Not!) Exist by Rosalyn Drexler

What Are You Looking For?
Karen Alkalay-Gut reviews Finders by Julie Parson-Nesbitt

Coover’s Latest Hat Act
Elisabeth Ly Bell reviews John’s Wife by Robert Coover

Story of N©
Norman Conquest reviews Fair Use: The Story of the Letter U and the Numeral 2 by Negativeland

The Gassworks
Arthur M. Saltzman reviews Finding a Form: Essays William H. Gass

Look, Ma! No Body!
Th. Metzger reviews Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the End of the Century by Mark Dery

Spirit World
Maggie Huntington reviews Silver Dollar by Carol Ann Russell

Dissonant Tongues
Tyrus Miller reviews 1910: The Emancipation of Dissonance by Thomas Harrison

On-Site Inspection
John Olson reviews Watchfiends & Rack Screams: Works from the Final Period of Antonin Artaud edited and translated by Clayton Eshleman with Bernard Bador

Vampire-Pop
Michael Hemmingson reviews The Hunger and Ecstasy of Vampires by Brian Stableford

A Gathering of Flowers
David Matlin reviews Poems for the Millennium: Volume One (From Fin-de-Siècle to Negritude) edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Pierre Joris

Memory, Poetry, Maturity
Charlotte Mandel reviews The Pilot’s Daughter by Gardner McFall and Girl Hurt by E.J. Miller Laino

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