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January/February 2004
[Volume 25, Issue 2]
First Fictions
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Table of Contents
Focus: First Fictions
Introduction: First Fictions
Reliable Narrators
Tom Williams reviews The Hit by Jere hoar
and The End of Free Love
by Susan Steinberg
Daddy Dearest
Carol Anshaw reviews What Night Brings
by Carla Trujillo
Word Made Flesh and Blood
Kass Fleisher reviews VAS
by Steve Tomasula
Lost Children
Richard Deutch reviews The Australia Stories
by Tod James Pierce
The Book of Lists
Amy Havel reviews The Only Good Thing Anyone Has Ever Done
by Sandra Newman
Through the Looking-Glass
Stacey Gottlieb reviews One Pill Makes You Smaller
by Lisa Dierbeck
Less than One
David Massengill reviews Burning Salt
by Anna Mockler
Second-Order Greatness
Trey Strecker reviews The Cuban Prospect
by Brian Shawver
Post-Fem Fairy Tales
Vincent Czyz reviews Black Umbrella Stories
by Nicolette de Csipkay
Extremely Pale Fire
Andrew Ervin reviews The Grasshopper King
by Jordan Ellenberg
This is What it reads Like When... Uh, What?
Brian Budzynski reviews Well
by Mathew McIntosh
Culture Watch
Story Wars
Sven Birkerts reviews The Middle Mind
by Curtis White
Underground Economy
Mel Freilicher reviews Reefer
by Eric Schlosser
Bronx Quixote
Audrey Petty reviews Tilting at Mills
by Lis Harris
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On Poets and Poetry
The Power of Relationships
Linda Wagner-Martin reviews Marianne Moore,
Elizabeth Bishop, and May Swenson
by Kirstin Hotelling Zona
Making His Own Days
Terence Diggory reviews Digressions on Some Poems by Frank O'Hara
by Jow LeSeuer
Book Reviews
Five Ordinary Lives
Fred Muratori reviews Lives of Water
by John Hoppenthaler,
Taking Down the Angel by Jeff Friedman,
A Place Made of Starlight by Peter Cooley,
Casino of the Sun by Jerry Williams,
and Trouble by Mary Baine Campbell
Un Grito de Tejas: Required Reading
René Saldaña Jr. reviews Gritos
by Dagoberto Gilb
California Girl
Tara Raines reviews Indigenous
by Cris Mazza
Brand-New Battles: Logue’s Homer
Lawrence Hetrick reviews All Day Permanent Red
by Christopher Logue
Writing Games
Michael Sanchez reviews The Case of the Persevering Maltese
by Harry Mathews
Seeking the Soul’s Society
Catharine R. Stimpson reviews Affiliations edited
by Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Seeing the World Anew
Melissa Studdard reviews Combinations of the Universe
by Albert Goldbarth
and The Voice at 3:00 a.m.
by Charles Simic
Skeptical Aesthetics
Jocelyn Emerson reviews Slow Air
by Robin Robertson
Conversational Constraint
Pablo Peschiera reviews Bus Ride to a Blue Movie
by Anne-Marie Levine
Trailing Clouds of Glory
Gabriella Ekman reviews Child-and-Rose
by Gennady Aygi
Loafers in Short Pants
Ron Kaplan reviews Baseball and American Culture edited by Edward J. Rielly, The
Last Good Season by Michael Shapiro, and Triumph and Tragedy in Mudville
by Stephen Jay Gould
Agnostic Dionysian
Anthony Deaton reviews A History of Color
by Stanley Moss
The Imprint of Facts
Laurel Blossom reviews Otherhood
by Reginald Shepherd
Leading out of the Tunnel
Cori L. Gabbard reviews The Day Before
by Dick Allen
A Revisioning of an American Document
Bob Grumman reviews The Preamble
by Jen Benka
Big or Beautiful
Miriam Levine reviews Feminine Gospels
by Carol Ann Duffy
Voodoo Love
María Luisa García Bermejo reviews Bay of Souls
by Robert Stone
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