Focus: Pandemic Poetry — Spring 2022

Focus: Pandemic Poetry

Volume 43, Number 1
Spring 2022

Excerpts available through Project Muse; full articles available to Project Muse subscribers.

From the Editor

Why Is There Nothing — Rather Than Something? by Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Focus: Pandemic Poetry

Introduction: Poetry and Pandemic: Modern Marriage, Ancient Partners by Elizabeth Cohen

Celia Bland reviews When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through: A Norton Anthology of Native Nations Poetry ed. by Joy Harjo, LeAnne Howe, and Jennifer Elise Foerster

Lisa Rhoades reviews Goldenrod by Maggie Smith

Amy Guglielmo reviews And the People Stayed Home by Kitty O’Meara

Anthony D’Aries reviews Pandemic Poetry: 31 Days by Christoffer Petersen

Monique Antonette Lewis reviews Masked Man, Black: Pandemic & Protest Poems by Frank X. Walker

Ginger Danto reviews Hoarders by Kate Durbin

Essay

An American Indian Manifesto by Duane Niatum

Theory

Callie Ingram reviews The Anguish of Thought by Évelyne Grossman

Devin Thomas O’Shea reviews Against Creativity by Oli Mould

Daniel T. O’Hara reviews Modernism and Close Reading ed. by David James

Interventions

An Interview with Elizabeth McCracken by Frederick Luis Aldama

Fiction

Karen Corinne Herceg reviews The Spiral of Words by Jorge Armenteros

CM Sears reviews Hard Mouth by Amanda Goldblatt

Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews Evidence of V: A Novel in Fragments, Facts, and Fictions by Sheila O’Connor

Erin H. Davis reviews The Blue Sky by Galsan Tschinag

Mixby Dickon reviews Spider Love Song and Other Stories by Nancy Au

Em Williamson reviews Continental Divide by Alex Myers

History

Robert Whitaker reviews Damaged Heritage: The Elaine Race Massacre and a Story of Reconciliation by J. Chester Johnson

Devin Thomas O’Shea reviews Stamped from the Beginning, The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi

Memoir

Jane Rosenberg LaForge reviews The Boy Who Listened to Paintings by Dean Kostos

Crime Fiction

Christopher A. P. Nelson reviews All My Sins Remembered by Ron Cooper

Susan Addelston reviews The Corpse Everyone Loved by Hannah Hess

Poetry

Michele Schiavone reviews When Your Wife has Tommy John Surgery and other Baseball Stories by E. Ethelbert Miller

Jon Curley reviews Status of the Mourned by Hugh Seidman

Nicholas Goudsmit reviews Bruise Songs by Steve Davenport

Allan Graubard reviews In the Blink of a Third Eye by Valery Oisteanu

Susana H. Case reviews The Weight of Bodily Touches by Joseph Zaccardi

Marc Jampole reviews The Stones of Lifta by Marc Kaminsky

Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews The Mystery of Systems by Carl Rosenstock and The Blue Canoe of Longing by Margot Farrington

Kathryn Weld reviews Intrusive Beauty by Joseph Capista

Young Adult

Laurel Kallen reviews Why No Goodbye? by Pamela Laskin

Scenes

What Press Books: An Interview with Katharine Haake by Pamela Laskin

The Departed

“Fidelity, Betrayal, and the Time of Bernard Stiegler” by Claire Colebrook