January/February 1999
[Volume 20, Issue 2]
AMERICAN EX-PO
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Table of Contents
FOCUS: AMERICAN EX-PO
An Introduction: American Ex-Po: Experimental Poetry
Rochelle Ratner
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Tyrus Miller reviews Another E.E. Cummings edited by Richard Kostelanetz
The Achievement of Robert Duncan
Bob Grumman reviews Robert Duncan: Selected Poems by Robert Duncan
Gremlin Sage
Greg Harris reviews Wakefulness by John Ashbery
Reverse Transubstantiation
John Olson reviews Artificial Heart by Peter Gizzi
The Open Vocable
Robert Baker reviews Towards the Blanched Alphabets by Gustaf Sobin
Channel Surfing
Edward Dougherty reviews Madonna anno domini by Joshua Clover
Collaborations
Corinne Robins reviews Arcade by Erica Hunt and Little Orphan Anagram by Susan Bee and Charles Bernstein
The Hero is in Now
Sherry Brennan reviews Some Other Kind of Mission by Lisa Jarnot
Prepositional Investigations (:) Of Language (and) Poetry
Krysia Jopek reviews On a Stair by Ann Lauterbach and At the Site of Inside Out by Anna Rabinowitz
FEATURE: From The French
Formal Calculus
Matt Briggs reviews Oulipo: A Primer of Potential Literature edited by Warren F. Motte
Playing a Poem
Richard Grossman reviews Complete Poems by Charles Baudelaire
The Shadow Man
Bob Blaisdell reviews A Winter's Journal by Emmanuel Bove
FEATURE:
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BOOK REVIEWS:
Boxing the Monster
David Winn reviews Memories of My Father Watching TV by Curtis White
Situating the Situationists
Adam Sweeting reviews The Situationist City by Simon Sadler
Lend Me Your Ears
Kenneth Lindblom reviews A Short Rhetoric for Leaving the Family by Peter Dimock
Mega-Horse
Jerome Klinkowitz reviews Leonardo's Horse by R.M. Berry
Living with Death
Lila Zeiger reviews Things Shaped in Passing: More "Poets for Life" Writing from the AIDS Pandemic edited by Michael Klein and Richard McCann
Witness for the Prosecuted
Louis McKee reviews Cell Count by Christopher Bursk
Surrealist Cookbook
Sharon Dolin reviews Crown of Weeds by Amy Gerstler
Bill Traylor and the Great Continuum
Ellen Lee Klein reviews Bill Traylor: Observing Life, exhibit at Ricco-Maresca Gallery
Domestic Beat
Edward Butcher reviews Cold Comfort: Selected Poems 1970-1996 by Lynn Lifshin
Botanist of Grammars
Glenn Mott reviews Peasants Wake for Fellini's Casanova and Other Poems by Andrea Zanzotto
Unfinished Symphony
Maerwydd McFarland reviews Country: an organic poem by D.H. Melhem
Language Meditations
Kent Chadwick reviews Rebecca Letters by Laynie Browne
Coming to Terms with Trauma
Joseph Conte reviews The Christmas Show by Harriet Levin and Dark Blonde by Belle Waring
Redactions
Jamey Hecht reviews Black Zodiac by Charles Wright and Questions for Ecclesiastes by Mark Jarman
Signatures in the Dark
Frank Allen reviews Apology for Want by Mary Jo Bang and Kisses by Steve Orlen
Forbidden Love
Margaret Thompson reviews Two Novellas: First Love and Look for My Obituary by Elena Garro
From the Backlist
Flawed Guidance from Oxford, No Less
Leslie Schenk reviews The Plain English Guide by Martin Cutts and The New Fowler's Modern English Usage, Third Edition
DEPARTMENTS:
Rants and Raves
Letters to the Editor
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