Women of Color Publishing
Volume 29, Number 4
May-June 2008
Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.
Alexis Pauline Gumbs’s “Introduction to the Focus: ‘This Instant and This Triumph’”
Alisha Gaines reviews Ernest Hardy’s Blood Beats: Vol. 2 / The Bootleg Joints
Ebony Noelle Golden reviews asha bandele’s The Subtle Art of Breathing: New Poems: 1997–2005
Danielle Evans reviews ed. Michelle Sewell’s Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta!
BrownFemiPower reviews ed. Noemi Martinez’s The MAIZ Chronicles
Kinohi Nishikawa reviews ed. UBUNTU’s Wrong is Not My Name: A Tribute to Survival via June Jordan
Feature: Journeys in Theory
Book Reviews
Daniel Garrett reviews Percival Everett’s The Water Cure
Thomas S. Williams reviews Richard Lange’s Dead Boys
Keya Mitra reviews Haruki Murakami’s After Dark
Angela Ball reviews Cole Swensen’s The Glass Age
Jeffrey Allen Tucker reviews Samuel R. Delany’s Dark Reflections
Eric Miles Williamson reviews Adria Bernardi’s Openwork
Todd Starkweather reviews ed.Philip F. Deaver’s Scoring from Second: Writers on Baseball
Christian Moraru reviews Paul Maltby’s An Exalted House
Leora Lev reviews D. Harlan Wilson’s Dr. Identity, or, Farewell to Plaquedemia
John Ferguson reviews Alain Arias-Misson’s Theatre of Incest
Gary Lain reviews Steve Erickson’s Zeroville
Departments
Page 2—Jeffrey R. Di Leo’s “A Good Reviewer is Hard to Find”
Picketing the Zeitgeist—Jonah Raskin’s “Calls of the Wild: On the Page and on the Screen”
From Our Own—Rob Stephenson reviews Lance Olsen’s Anxious Pleasures: A Novel after Kafka
LineOnLine—Bucolics, Short Trip to the Edge: Where Earth Meets Heaven—A Pilgrimage, After Eden, Oceans Beyond Monotonous Space: Selected Poems of Kitasono Katue, Sheer Fiction, Volumes I-IV, Dark Music, The Unnatural History of Cypress Parish, and A Brahms Card Ballad: Poems Selected for Hungarians
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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.
