Focus: Weak Theory
Volume 44, Number 1
Spring 2023
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From the Editor
Philosophical Gestures by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: Weak Theory
Introduction: Weak Theory—A Report on the Contemporary by Jeffrey Di Leo and Christian Moraru
Weak but Tensile: Thirteen Propositions on the Occasion of Weak Theory by Henry Sussman
Theory, Philosophy, and the Middle Space by Paul Allen Miller
Rehabilitating Theory by Robert T. Tally Jr.
Weak Jobs, Weak Theory: The Infrastructure of Criticism by Jeffrey J. Williams
The Strong Men of Weak Theory by John Mowitt
Generally Thinking by Mitchum Huehls
Yearning for Strength: Christianity and Critical Theory by Matthew Mullins
High Stakes, Low Theory by Aaron Chandler
Interface and/in Faceworld: New Theories of Faciality by Anca Parvulescu
Interventions
Poet-I as Poet-We: Frederick Luis Aldama interviews Roger Reeves
Lost and Found
Oliver Goldsmith’s Hackwork by Anthony Madrid
Fiction
Andrew Walser reviews The Divorce by César Aira
Clark Nelson reviews Country Dark by Chris Offutt
Evan Reynolds reviews Three Markations to Ward her Figure by T Thilleman
James Tadd Adcox reviews Sister Séance by Aimee Parkison
Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews What Isn’t Remembered: Stories by Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry
Kathryn Weld reviews Ceive by B. K. Fischer
Kimberly Wainscoat reviews Messiahs by Marc Anthony Richardson
Lew Collins reviews The Pissers’ Theatre by Eckhard Gerdes
Laura Savu Walker reviews Fem by Magda Cârneci
E-feature
Looking for Walt Whitman inside Martín Espada’s Beard by E. Ethelbert Miller
Criticism
Memoir
Jan Garden Castro reviews 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir by Ai Weiwei
Poetry
Donald Revell reviews As the Crow Flies by Henry Weinfield
Hilary Sideris reviews Among the Gliesians by Philip Fried
Larissa Shmailo reviews Broken Color by Dean Kostos
Melinda Thomsen reviews Susie Susquehanna & The River Valley Blues by Clara Mae Barnhart
Mixby Dickon reviews Bed by Elizabeth Metzger
Robert Kramer reviews Mother Tongue by David B. Axelrod
Susana H. Case reviews Armature by Melinda Thomsen
Essays
Matt Hill reviews Visible at Dusk: Selected Essays by Burt Kimmelman
Printers and Poets
Lost Horse Press: An Interview with Christine Lysnewycz Holbert
Poetics to Come
Living Phantasms: A Note toward a Poetics of Death by Daniel T. O’Hara
The Departed
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