July/August 2001
[Volume 22, Issue 5]
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Table of Contents
FOCUS: Kooky Little Kampus
Introduction: Kooky Little Kampus
by Charles B. Harris
Autonomy of the Word
R.M. Berry reviews Lucchesi and the Whale by Frank Lentricchia
Fear and Loathing in Academe
Gillen D'Arcy Wood reviews The Lecturer's Tale by James Hynes
Hoaxing for Dummies
John K. Wilson reviews The Sokal Hoax: The Sham that Shook the Academy edited by the Editors of Lingua Franca
Bring in the Usual Complexities
Mary E. Papke reviews Cold and Pure and Very Dead: A Karen Pelletier Mystery by Joanne Dobson
Shakespeare in Love
Charles B. Harris reviews The Sonnets: A Novel by Lennard J. Davis
FEATURE: Lantsmen
Rose-Colored Bagels
Charles Marowitz reviews Lower East Side Memories: A Jewish Place in America by Hasia R. Diner
Strange Heritage
Peter Lawson reviews Jewish American Poetry: Poems, Commentary, and Reflections edited by Jonathan N. Barron and Eric Murphy Selinger
FEATURE: American Avant-Garde
Marketing the Avant-Garde
Troy L. Thibodeaux reviews Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde by Libbie Rifkin
Holy, Holy, Holy
Regina Weinreich reviews The Bop Apocalypse: The Religious Visions of Kerouac, Ginsberg, and Burroughs by John Lardas
The Personality of Poetry
Robert Baker reviews Poetry and Poetics in a New Millennium edited by Edward Foster
FEATURE: Art and Ideology
Reinventing Leni
Robert Dassanowsky reviews Leni Riefenstahl: Five Lives edited by Angelika Taschen
What Happened to Theremin?
Richard Kostelanetz reviews Theremin: Ether Music and Espionage by Albert Glinsky
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BOOK REVIEWS:
An Officer and a Siren
Jackie Sheeler reviews How to Undress a Cop by Sarah Cortez
Saving One's Skin
Paul Oppenheimer reviews The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages by Helen Waddell
Jungle Dreams
Mary Mackey reviews The Dreaming Girl by Roberta Allen
It's a Helluva Town
Sally Webster reviews Art and the Empire City: New York, 1825-1861 edited by Catherine Hoover Voorsanger and John K. Howat
Formulaic Subversion
Jim Feast reviews The Secret Keepers by Julie Mars
Finger-Licking Good
Kevin Finucane reviews Liberty's Excess by Lidia Yuknavitch
Self-Publish or Perish
Zoe Randall reviews Relic's Reunions and Improvisations (I-XXIV) by Vernon Frazer
Paradise Lost
Susan Sindall reviews Six Mile Mountain by Richard Tillinghast
Out of the Well of Loneliness
Nancy Kline reviews Michael by Henry Flesh and Close to Spider Man by Ivan E. Coyote
Noir Nightmare Meets Medieval Laughter
Sean Thomas Dougherty reviews The Spell: A Romance by Tom Clark
Lost and Found
Shawn Aron Vandor reviews Endorsed by Jack Chapeau by Theodore Pelton
Celebrating Obscurity
Glenn Mott reviews Other Traditions by John Ashbery
Getting Real
M.L. Liebler reviews To America with Love: Letters from the Underground by Anita and Abbie Hoffman
Reinventing the Mother
Virginia Paterson reviews The Whalestoe Letters by Mark Z. Danielewski and Haunted by Poe
Deathbringing Speech
Harriet Zinnes reviews Selected Poems & Prose, Threadsuns, and Glottal Stop: 101 Poems by Paul Celan
Blabber Mouths 3
bart plantenga reviews In with the Out Crowd by Bob Holman, Wanda Phipps by Wanda Phipps, Incorporated by Lydia Tomkiw, Redoing Childhood by Kathy Acker, and Light Matches, Spark Lives
by Sue P. Fox
Poetry Lite
Jamey Hecht reviews The House of Blue Light by David Kirby
DEPARTMENTS:
Rants and Raves
Letters to the Editor
From the Backlist:
H. Kassia Fleisher reviews My Lesbian Husband by Barrie Jean Borich
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