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January/February 2003
[Volume 24, Issue 2]
Dead White Males
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Table of Contents
FOCUS: Dead White Males
The Gospel of Hicks
David Tully reviews American Scream: The Bill Hicks Story by Cynthia True
Captain Burroughs
Victor Bockris reviews Burroughs Live: The Collected Interviews of William S. Burroughs, 1960–1997 by Sylvère Lotringer
Cut Up
Regina Weinreich reviews Back in No Time: The Brion Gysin Reader edited by Jason Weiss
Cactus Ed
Lance Newman reviews Adventures with Ed: A Portrait of Abbey by Jack Loeffler and Edward Abbey: A Life by James M. Cahalan
The Invasion of California
David Matlin reviews A Description of Distant Roads: Original Journals of the First Expedition into California, 1769–1770 by
Juan Crespí
Fallen Idol
Elaine Margolin reviews The Double Bond: Primo Levi, A Biography by Carole Angier
A Musical Maverick in His World
Evan Hause reviews The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz edited by
David Cairns
FEATURE Eh Paisano!
Leaving the Bronx
Joseph Conte reviews Italian Stories by Joseph Papaleo
Straight Outta Bensonhurst
P.J. Rondinone reviews A Fine Place by Nicholas Montemarano
FEATURE Song Sung Blue
Sentimental Me
Charles Marowitz reviews The Rise of the Crooners: Gene Austin, Russ Columbo, Bing Crosby, Nick Lucas, Johnny Marvin and Rudy Vallee by Michael Pitts and Frank Hoffman
I Love You So
Daniel Leary reviews Danny Boy: The Legend of the Beloved
Irish Ballad by Malachy McCourt
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FEATURE Language Lit
Max Weber Teething
Harriet Zinnes reviews With Strings by Charles Bernstein
An Expansive Landscape of Language
Benjamin Ivry reviews Thaw by Julie Sheehan
Book Reviews
Postapocalyptic News
Jeffrey R. Di Leo reviews False Positive by Harold Jaffe
Hope against Hope
Sarah Robbins reviews What We Won’t Do by Brock Clarke
Various Lives
Mimi Albert reviews Lily in the Desert by Annie Dawid
Prayers Eloquent and “Inept”
Lynne Lawner reviews Without End: New and Selected Poems by Adam Zagajewski
All that Jazz
Warren Woessner reviews Jazz Fan Looks Back by Jayne Cortez
Sunshine State
Mike Chasar reviews Florida Poems by Campbell McGrath
Apple Poems
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews Too Bright to See & Alma by Linda Gregg
Images from the Grandchildren
Corinne Robins reviews Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art by Norman L. Kleeblatt
Pilgrim’s Progress
Mary Giaimo reviews Days of Wonder: New and Selected Poems by Grace Schulman
Sharing the Image
Mary Beth Ryan-Maher reviews The Girl Who Married the Reindeer by Eiléan Ní Chuilleanáin
Damaged Goods
Paul Naylor reviews Pact by Gil Ott
Migration, Catholicism, and the Autobiographical Lyric
Zoe Randall reviews Illiterate Heart by Meena Alexander and An Unkindness of Ravens by Meg Kearney
Personal Baggage
Pamela L. Laskin reviews Strange Land by Sharon Kraus
Meant for Flight
Steven Sher reviews Shot with Eros: New and Selected Poems by Glenna Luschei
Lost Connections
Ruth Valentine reviews Beyond the Mountains of the Damned: The War inside Kosovo by
Matthew McAllester
The Politics of Postmodernism
Adam Katz reviews Narrative Innovation and Cultural Rewriting in the Cold War Era and After by Marcel Cornis-Pope
Does God Consider Intentions?
Amy Czarnecki reviews Bread for the Baker’s Child by Joseph Caldwell
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