Focus: Wit in Poetry
Volume 27, Number 6
September / October 2006
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Michael Theune’s “Introduction to Focus: But Seriously, Folks…:A Few Words on Wit”
John Beer reviews Jennifer Michael Hecht’s Funny
Carol Quinn reviews Gail Mazur’s Zeppo’s First Wife: New and Selected Poems
Holly Welker reviews Claire Bateman’s Leap
Gary Hawkins reviews Lara Glenum’s The Hounds of No
Jennifer Hancock reviews David Barber’s Wonder Cabinet
Matthew Guenette reviews James Cummins and David Lehman’s Jim and Dave Defeat the Masked Man
Bill Porter reviews Alan Michael Parker’s The Imaginary Poets
Christopher Bakken reviews Sarah Arvio’s Sono: Cantos
Feature: Opus Posthumous
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Jane Kenyon’s Collected Poems
Book Reviews
Lem Coley reviews Philip Fried’s Big Men Speaking to Little Men
Paula Koneazny reviews Joshua Beckman’s Shake
Tom Williams reviews Richard Burgin’s The Identity Club: New and Selected Stories and Songs
Fred Shochet reviews Cindy Sheehan’s Dear President Bush
Regina Weinreich reviews Robert Long’s De Kooning’s Bicycle: Artists and Writers in the Hamptons
Garin Cycholl reviews Maj Ragain’s A Hungry Ghost Surrenders His Tacklebox
John Domini reviews Robert Boyers’s Excitable Women, Damaged Men
Giles Harvey reviews Jose Saramago’s Seeing
Dorian Gossy reviews Elissa Raffa’s Freeing Vera
Departments
Rants & Raves – Letter to the Editors
Picketing the Zeitgeist-Croesus and Crisis by F.D. Reeve
Backlist- Thomas March reviews Mary Oliver’s Long Life: Essays and Other Writings
Related Issues
Focus: New Poetry — May-June 2003
A survey of recent first books of poetry show a rejection of the easy romanticism of '80s poetry, turning instead to aspects of the modernist avant-garde.
Focus: Chapbooks — March-April 2005
Reviews of chapbooks from Adastra Press, Finishing Line Press, and Belladonna.
Focus: Postmodernist Black Poetry — February/March 1996
Essays and reviews examining the "unaccountable presence" of Black writers using innovative forms.
LATEST ISSUE
Focus: Satire — Summer 2024
Satire as threat and joy at the extremes
RECENT ISSUES
Focus: Conspiracy Theories — Spring 2024
Conspiracy theories, disinformation, and meaning-making
Focus: Digital Art — Winter 2023
Aesthetic experience in the digital age
ARCHIVES
Archives: Charles Johnson reviews Richard Wright
Charles Johnson reviewed Richard Wright's American Hunger in the inaugural issue of the American Book Review, Volume 1 , No. 1, December 1977.
