Focus: Pandemic Poetry
Volume 43, Number 1
Spring 2022
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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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.
