November/December 2003
[Volume 25, Issue 1]
167 Miles of Poems

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Table of Contents
Focus: First Poetry Books
Introduction: 167 Miles of Poems
Kevin Prufer
No Laughing Matter
Sarah Kennedy reviews Famous Americans
by Loren Goodman
Out of the Box
Kevin Larimer reviews Monkey Time
by Philip Nikolayev
Encircling the Violence
Wayne Miller reviews A Parade of Hands
by James Hoch
Buried Cities
Jerry Harp reviews The Unrequited
by Carrie St. George Comer
The Posture of Devotion
Garth Greenwell reviews Granted
by Mary Szybist
Unfathoms and Uncertainty
Christopher Arigo reviews Unfathoms
by Kirsten Kaschock
The Lost Father
Anthony Deaton reviews Ark
by John Isles
Comic Rebel
Victoria Frenkel Harris reviews A Defense of Poetry
by Gabriel Gudding
Gallery Tour
Paula Koneazny reviews A Handmade Museum
by Brenda Coultas
The Modern Painter's World
Snapshots
Stephanie Rauschenbusch reviews
Conversations with Picasso
by Brassaï
Paalen Counts
Terence Diggory reviews Wolfgang Paalen:
Artist and Theorist of the Avant-Garde
by Amy Winter
Portraits of the Artist
Ellen Handy reviews Egon Schiele: Drawings and Watercolors
by Jane Kallir
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Poetry in Translation
Italian Songs
Glenn Mott reviews Selected Poems: A Bilingual Edition
by Giuseppe Ungaretti
Trippin’
Fazia Aitel reviews Eddie Bell: En Français, Selected and New Works
by Eddie Bell
A Palmful of Images
Christine Thomas reviews The Poetess Counts
to 100 and Bows Out: Selected Poems, A Bilingual Edition
by Ana Enriqueta Terán
Book Reviews
Saying Everything
Tom LeClair reviews Mortals
by Norman Rush
Removing the Veil
Roger Mitchell reviews The Peeping Tom Poems
by Charles Levendosky
Possibility Space
Lance Olsen reviews Cistern Tawdry
by Eckhard Gerdes
Back in the USSR
Robert L. McLaughlin reviews
The Commissariat of Enlightenment
by Ken Kalfus
Collapsing Time
Emily Hall reviews River of Shadows:
Eadweard Muybridge and the
Technological Wild West
by Rebecca Solnit
The Cult of Violence
Keith Leslie Johnson reviews Somersault
by Kenzaburo Oe
Saving Certain Voices
Dick Allen reviews Poets of the Non-Existent City:
Los Angeles in the McCarthy Era
edited by Estelle Gershgoren Novak
Slouching towards Insanity
Jeremy Russell reviews Lucky Wander Boy
by D.B. Weiss
The Aestheticians
Anne-Marie Levine reviews Ugh Ugh Ocean
by Joanna Fuhrman
and The Cloud of Knowable Things
by Elaine Equi
Blinded by the Light
Kathleen Warnock reviews A Misfit’s Manifesto:
The Spiritual Journey of a Rock & Roll Heart
by Donna Gaines
Melted into Air
Nancy Kline reviews A Garden of Demons
by Edward Hower
A Black Thing
J.D. Smith reviews Rock My Soul:
Black People and Self-Esteem
by bell hooks
and Why I Love Black Women
by Michael Eric Dyson
Love Labor’s Lost
Gordon Thompson reviews The Missing
by Rangi McNeil
Revisiting Landscape
Dimitrios Kalantzis reviews Shifting Ground:
Reinventing Landscape in Modern American Poetry
by Bonnie Costello
Searching for Nowhere
Thomas Larson reviews Visions of Utopia
by Edward Rothstein, Herbert Muschamp, and Martin E. Marty
The Way We Debate Now
Ron Capshaw reviews Alger Hiss, Whittaker Chambers,
and the Schism in the American Soul
edited by Patrick A. Swan
A Requiem for the Fall of the Petal
Shigeru Suzuki reviews Pattern Recognition
by William Gibson
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