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January/February 2005
Volume 26, Issue 2
Prose Poetry/Flash Fiction
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Contents
Focus: Prose Poetry/Flash Fiction
Introduction: What is PP/FF?
Peter Conners
Dead Heroes
Sean Thomas Dougherty reviews God Save My Queen II: The Show Must Go On by Daniel Nester
The Edward Hopper of Prose Poems
Holly Iglesias reviews You Can Tell the Horse
Anything by Mary A. Koncel
Educated Simplicity
Brian Evenson reviews The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon, with sample poems by Keith Waldrop
Telling It Again
Joanna Howard reviews The Pink Institution by Selah Saterstrom
Magpie Aesthetics
Mark Tursi reviews In a Landscape of Having to Repeat by
Martha Ronk
The Faces of the Rules of Solitude
Dawn Cornelio reviews Rules of Solitude by
Eugène Savitzkaya
A Review of Six Prose Poetry/Flash Fiction Journals
Jamey Dunham reviews Sentence: A Journal of Prose Poetics, Cue:
A Journal of Prose Poetry, Quarter after Eight: A Journal of Prose
and Commentary, Quick Fiction, Double Room: A Journal of Prose Poetry and Flash Fiction, and Paragraph
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Feature: New Poets of Great Britain and America
No Progress, Please, We’re British
V. Nicholas LoLordo reviews New British Poetry edited by Don Paterson and Charles Simic
In Search of Genuineness
Kevin Prufer reviews Free Radicals: American Poets before Their
First Books edited by Jordan Davis and Sarah Manguso
Feature: Literary Memories
Hipsters, Flipsters, & Finger Poppin’ Alternatives
Mike Golden reviews When I Was Cool: My Life at the Jack Kerouac School by Sam Kashner
La Belle Dame Laughs Last
David Tully reviews The Candy Men by Nile Southern
The Last Avant-Garde: The Next Generation
Stephen Paul Miller reviews Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard by
Ron Padgett
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Book Reviews:
The Guilt of Daedalus
David Cowart reviews Aloft by Chang-rae Lee
Lost Knowledge
Hadara Bar-Nadav reviews Tristimania by Mary Ruefle
Life among the Cannibals
James M. Mellard reviews Kings of Infinite Space by James Hynes
Sheer Genius
Anthony J. Cuda reviews Collected Poems by Philip Larkin
Wozny Disbound
Nancy Kline reviews Codex by Lev Grossman
Old Wine, New Bottles
Jason Weiss reviews James Joyce: The Complete Recordings by James Joyce and Causeries by Gaston Bachelard
Treasuring the Wound
Jerome Klinkowitz reviews The Moon in Its Flight by Gilbert Sorrentino
The Sonnets of William Shakespeare
Jocelyn Emerson reviews Nets by Jen Bervin
Living in Our Bodies
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews The Clerk’s Tale by Spencer Reece
Great American Pastime
Ron Kaplan reviews Dead Balls and Double Curves: An Anthology of Early Baseball Fiction edited by Trey Strecker
The Soul of American Music
Thomas Larson reviews Dvorák to Duke Ellington: A Conductor Explores America’s Music and Its African American Roots by Maurice Peress
Portrait of the Artist as the Writing Self
William Lansing Brown reviews Monumental Melville: The Formation of a Literary Career by Edgar A. Dryden
Where Swords Are Named and Loved
Charlotte Mandel reviews One Thousand Years by Corinne Robins
Prophets without Honor Fazia
Aitel reviews Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing about Zionism and Israel edited by Adam Shatz
Acts of Madness, Acts of Love
John Jacob reviews Acts of Love by Edgar Gabriel Silex and Wail of the Arab Beggars of the Casbah by Ismaël Aït Djafer
Mother of Us All
Mel Freilicher reviews American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Anne Hutchinson, the Woman Who Defied the Puritans by Eve LaPlante
Rites of Passage in the Suburbs
Greg Oaks reviews The Book of Ralph: A Fiction by John McNally
Contemporary Insanity
Mike Daily reviews Borges’ Travel, Hemingway’s Garage: Secret Histories by Mark Axelrod and Everyday Psychokillers: A History for Girls by Lucy Corin
Departments:
The Net
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