November/December 1984
[Vol. 7 No. 1]

 

Focus: Mediums of Performance

 

Corinne Robins reviews The Art of Performance edited by Gregory Battock, Theatrewritings by Bonnie Marranca, and The End of Humanism by Richard Schechner

 

Performing Poetry by Barry Wallenstein

 

RoseLee Goldberg reviews Joan Jonas edited by Douglas Crimp, Being Antinova by Eleanor Antin, and United States by Laurie Anderson

 

Brian McHale reviews Horizons by Dick Higgins

 

Performance, Dance and Multi-Media by Ingrid Wiegand

 

Breakdancing by Deborah Robertson

 

Black Theatre by James de Jongh

 

The Unspeakable Cry: The Living Theatre in New York by John Tytell

 

Letters to the Editors

 

Rochelle Ratner reviews Sounds o' the River Naranjana & The Tablets I-XXIV by Armand Schwerner

 

Hayden Carruth reviews Making Certain It Goes On by Richard Hugo

 

Moral Poetry by Paul Hoover

 

Chip Spear reviews Getting Up by Craig Castleman

 

Viewpoints: Lit in Two Languages

 

Puerto Rican Literature: From the Disapora to the Mainstream by Nicol¶s Kanellos

 

Carol Meier reviews Me Mamma Me Ama by Emilio D¹as Valc¶rcel

 

Edward J. Mullen reviews Our House in the Last World by Oscar Hijuelos, Widows by Ariel Dorfman, The Insurrection by Antonio Sk¶rmeta

 

Andrei Codrescu reviews By Lingual Wholes by Victor Hernandez Cruz

 

Allen Katzman reviews Traffic Violations by Pedro Pietri

 

George Economou reviews The Whale by Richard Wilbur

 

Jaimy Gordon reviews I Brake Delmore Schwartz, Eating at Arby's and Disjointed Fictions by Richard Grayson

 

Susan Sherman reviews Flowers from the Volcano by Claribel Alegr¹a

 

Tom Alderson reviews Shiloh ard Other Stories by Bobbie Ann Mason and Marshland Brace by Chris Segura

 

John Donatich reviews In the Miro District by Peter Taylor