March/April 2005
Volume 26, Issue 3
Chapbooks

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Contents
Essay: The Wide, Wide World of Chapbooks by Tim Kindseth
Essay: ABR & Chapbooks: A Personal View by Rochelle Ratner
Essay: Chapbooks: Democratic Ephemera by Wayne Miller
Essay: Articles of Chap by Bryan Brower
Indelible Ink
Brian Barker reviews four chapbooks from Adastra Press
Poetry for the People
Michael Anthony Bradshaw reviews four chapbooks from Finishing Line Press
Belladonna*: The Deadly Night Shades of Experimental Women’s Poetry
Corinne Robins reviews five chapbooks from Belladonna*
Feature: What Is History? Two Views
Bury My Heart at Bear River
Bob Blaisdell reviews The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History by Kass Fleisher
The History That Never Arrives
Amy J. Elias reviews The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History by Kass Fleisher
Feature: Recent Translations
Moon, River, Dreams, Rainbows, Love
Patrick Madden reviews Devoured by the Moon by Rafael Pérez Estrada
La Dolce Vita
Andrew S. Taylor reviews The Blind Man and the Beauty by Arturo Loria
Essay: Ted Kooser—A Midwest Poet Laureate by Larry Smith
The Music Man
Benjamin Ivry reviews Collected Poems by Donald Justice
The Other East Coast
Nicholas Birns reviews Billboard in the Clouds by Suzanne S. Rancourt
The Violence of Not Knowing
Bob Grumman reviews Anabranch by Andrew Zawacki
Surprised by God
Lynnell Edwards reviews To the Green Man by Mark Jarman
The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Bruce King reviews English by Jeet Thayil
Zeno in Buffalo
Roger Mitchell reviews New and Selected Poems: 1974-2004 by Carl Dennis
Po-business
Jim Feast reviews Wake-Up Calls: 66 Morning Poems by Wanda Phipps
Childhood Memory Poems
Warren Woessner reviews Country of Memory by Charles Fishman
Child’s Play
Adriana Grant reviews And Then Something Happened by Susan M. Schultz
Book Reviews
The Education of Gabriele Mintz
Brian McHale reviews The Vienna Paradox by Marjorie Perloff
Lost in the Funhouse
John Domini reviews A History of the Imagination by Norman Lock
Our Time
Michael Upchurch reviews China by Alan Wall
What Matters
Patricia Laurence reviews Virginia Woolf and the Raverats: A Different Kind of Friendship edited by William Pryor
A New-Old Song
Sean Bernard reviews Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
The Mysterious Ms. Chekhova
Charles Marowitz reviews The Mystery of Olga Chekhova by Antony Beevor
Good Times and Bum Times
Robert L. McLaughlin reviews Ever After: The Last Years of Musical Theater and Beyond by Barry Singer
Africa Close Up
Ron Singer reviews A Continent for the Taking: The Tragedy and Hope for Africa by Howard W. French
Shakespeare in Brief
Daniel Leary reviews A Theatergoer’s Guide to Shakespeare’s Characters by Robert Thomas Fallon
The Grand Order of Hurt
Brian Evenson reviews Hogg by Samuel R. Delany
Stories in the Dark
Margaret Quamme reviews Dwight’s House and Other Stories by Meredith Sue Willis
Twice the Experience
Amy Sayre-Roberts reviews The Double by José Saramago
A Reader’s Writer
Kevin Sampsell reviews The Haunted Hillbilly and Grab Bag by Derek McCormack
The (Funny, Daring, Inventive) Junior Slump
Brian Budzynski reviews Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
Sins of Omission
Gordon Thompson reviews Masculinist Impulses: Toomer, Hurston, Black Writing, and Modernity by Nathan Grant
The Reluctant Conscience of a Generation
Jeff Wiederkehr reviews Chronicles: Volume One by Bob Dylan
Rite of Passage
Fred Shochet reviews Juan Caraveo by James Hinton