November/December 2002
[Volume 24, Issue 1]
CROSSING BORDERS: HISPANIC POETRY IN THE AMERICAS
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Table of Contents
FOCUS: CROSSING BORDERS: HISPANIC POETRY IN THE AMERICAS
Introduction: Crossing Borders: Hispanic Poetry in the Americas
Rochelle Ratner
Goat Songs: The European Roots
Hardie St. Martin reviews The Selected Poems of Miguel Hernandez: A Bilingual Edition edited by Ted Genoways
Homero's Odyssey
Paul Pines reviews Eyes to See Otherwise/Ojos de otro mirar: Selected Poems by Homero Aridjis
Bridging the Distance
Margaret Randall reviews Across the Line/Al otro lado: The Poetry of Baja California edited by Harry Polkinhorn and Mark Weiss
"Under Permanent Crossfire": Poetry and Revolution
Jen Hofer reviews The Violent Foam: New and Selected Poems by Daisy Zamora
Essay: An Overview of Latino Poetry: The Iceberg below the Surface
Nicolas Kanellos
El Poema como Calabaza
John Olsen reviewsMaraca: New and Selected Poems, 1965-2000 by Victor Hernandez Cruz
The Laws of Magnetism
Larry Smith reviews The Smallest Muscle in the Human Body by Alberto Rios
Dream Voyages
Benjamin Ivry reviews Night Journey by Maria Negroni
Completing the Journey
Robin Magowan reviews Caminante: A Narrow Road into the Far South 131 Octaves
FEATURE: Public Intellectuals
Raising Whirlwinds
Charles Marowitz reviews The Diaries of Kenneth Tynan
Conservative Radical
Ron Capshaw reviews A Moral Temper: The Letters of Dwight Macdonald
FEATURE: Short Story Collections from Indy Presses
All the Lonely People
Sean Bernard reviews The Spirit Returns by Richard Burngin
Gods and Puppets
Craig Watson reviews Flesh and Bone by Cydney Chadwick
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BOOK REVIEWS:
Gilbert Sorrentino's Isolate Flecks
Arthur Saltzman reviewsSomething Said by Gilbert Sorrentino
LA Confidential
Jimmy Jazz reviews The Bus: Cosmic Ejaculations of the Daily Mind in Transit by Steve Abee
Drive-by Criticism
Steven Moore reviews American Fictions, 1980-2000: Whose America is it Anyway by Frederick R. Karl
Heliczer's Messages
Thomas Fink reviews A Purchased in the White Botanica: The Collected Poetry of Piero Heliczer edited by Gerard Malanga and Anselm Hollo
Poetry from at Fourth World
John Jacob reviews Open Gate: An Anthology of Haitian Creole Poetry edited by Paul Laraque and Jack Hirschman
The Chosen One
John Freeman reviews Deja Vu and the Phone Sex Queen by Michael McIrvin
Poetry for the Eye
Douglas Puchowski reviews Open Gate: An Anthology of Later 20th Century Visio-Textual Art edited by Bob Grumman and Crag Hill
Drafting and Folding
Catherine Daly reviews Drafts 1-38, Toll by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Ports of Call
Trevor Dodge reviews The Comfort of Women by Michael Hemmington
The Bodhisattva Muses
Jocelyn Emercon reviewsThe Land of Bliss by Cathy Song
Political Watershed
Jim Feast reviews Rebel and a Cause: Caryl Chessman and the Politics of the Death Penalty in Postwar California, 1948-1974 by Theodore Hamm
Touched by and Angel?
Kevin Patrick Finucane reviews The Wig My Father Wore by Anne Enright
The Story of English - and a Counterstory
Christian Moraru reviews You've Got to be Carefully Taught: Learning and Relearning Literature by Jerome Klinkowitz
Drawing Close
David Roderick reviews Red Town by Judith Skillman
Linear and Nonlinear
Sherine Elise Gilmour reviews Feeding the Fire by Jeffrey Harrison and Twice Removed by Ralph Angel
Rediscovering Zaturenska
Kevin Prufer reviews The Diaries of Marya Zaturenska, 1938-1944 edited by Mary Beth Hinton and New Selected Poems of Marya Zaturenska edited by Robert Phillips
The Multifarious Dimensions of African American Thought
Gordon E. Thompson reviews The Origins of African American Literature, 1680-1865 by Dickson D. Bruce, Jr.
Hyper City Poet
Stephen Paul Miller reviews Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara: Difference/Homosexuality/Topography by Hazel Smith
DEPARTMENTS:
From the Blacklist
Tom Williams reviews My Favorite Apocalypse by Catie Rosemurgy
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