INDEX
This blog was created to offer a single link through which readers may access all issues of GALATEA RESURRECTS (A POETRY ENGAGEMENT). For even more convenience, each issue's Table of Contents is replicated in prior posts below. To wit:
Issue #9, March 31, 2008:
http://galatearesurrection9.blogspot.com
Issue #8, November 30, 2007:
http://galatearesurrection8.blogspot.com
Issue #7, August 31, 2007:
http://galatearesurrection7.blogspot.com
Issue #6, May 24, 2007:
http://galatearesurrection6.blogspot.com
Issue #5, February 14, 2007:
http://galatearesurrection5.blogspot.com
Issue #4, November 30, 2006:
http://galatearesurrection4.blogspot.com
Issue #3, August 24, 2006:
http://galatearesurrection3.blogspot.com
Issue #2, May 17, 2006:
http://galatearesurrection2.blogspot.com
Inaugural Issue, March 15, 2006:
http://galatearesurrection.blogspot.com
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Monday, June 30, 2008
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ISSUE NO. 9 TABLE OF CONTENTS
March 31, 2008
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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Brian Clements engages nine books by John Yau: PARADISO DIASPORA; THE PASSIONATE SPECTATOR: ESSAYS ON ART AND POETRY; ING GRISH (with illustrations by Thomas Nozkowski); BORROWED LOVE POEMS; THE UNITED STATES OF JASPER JOHNS; RADIANT SILHOUETTE; CORPSE AND MIRROR; SOMETIMES; and 100 MORE JOKES FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD (with etchings by Archie Rand)
David Goldstein reviews TWENTY-ONE AFTER DAYS by Lisa Lubasch
Patrick James Dunagan reviews CADENZA by Charles North and DOING 70 by Hettie Jones
Séamas Cain reviews SKINNY BUDDHA by Sheila E. Murphy
Raymond John A. de Borja reviews NOISE PICTORIAL NOISE by Eli Noah Gordon
Shanna Compton reviews DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION by Cathy Park Hong
Eileen Tabios engages MAUVE SEA-ORCHIDS by Lila Zemborain, Trans. by Rosa Alcala and Monica de la Torre
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews RAPID DEPARTURES by Vincent Katz
Eileen Tabios engages IMAGINING A BABY by Bob Marcacci
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews PRAU by Jean Vengua
Thomas Fink reviews WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by David Lehman
Kristi Castro reviews SOMETHING BRIGHT, THEN HOLES by Maggie Nelson and [GROWLING SOFTLY] Edited by Juliet Cook and "drilled" by David Foster
Nicholas Manning reviews TEXT LOSES TIME by Nico Vassilakis
Stephen Vincent reviews WHAT’S IN STORE by Trevor Joyce
Eileen Tabios engages ZAMBOANGUENA by Corrine Fitzpatrick
Burt Kimmelman engages eight publications by Basil King: 77 BEASTS; BASIL KING'S BESTIARY; LEARNING TO DRAW / A HISTORY: TWIN TOWERS; MIRAGE: A POEM IN 22 SECTIONS; WARP SPASM; THE POET; IDENTITY; THE COMPLETE MINIATURES; and DEVOTIONS, WITH SELECTIONS FROM A PAINTERS BESTIARY AND 14 DRAWINGS FROM INTENTIONS
Tom Beckett reviews HARLOT by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Patrick James Dunagan reviews HOME AMONG THE SWINGING STARS: COLLECTED POEMS OF JAIME DE ANGULO, Edited by Stefan Hyner with an essay by Andrew Schelling
Juliet Cook engages FEIGN by Kristy Bowen
Anny Ballardini reviews DAYS POEM, VOLS. I and II by Allen Bramhall
Patrick James Dunagan reviews THE FINAL NITE & OTHER POEMS: COMPLETE NOTES FROM A CHARLES GAYLE NOTEBOOK 1987-2006 by Steve Dalachinsky
Karen Rigby reviews THE BEDSIDE GUIDE TO NO TELL MOTEL: SECOND FLOOR, Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden
Nathan Logan reviews THE BEDSIDE GUIDE TO NO TELL MOTEL, Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden
Eileen Tabios engages MY NAME IS ESTHER CLARA by Laurel Johnson; a FOURSQUARE SPECIAL EDITION OF FIVE POEMS by Maureen Thorson; and HERE, LOVE by Jess Rowan
Jeffrey Side reviews BEAMS by Adam Fieled
Jon Cone reviews LITTLE BOAT by Jean Valentine
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews OVERNIGHT by Paul Violi
Jeff Harrison reviews OPENING AND CLOSING NUMBERS by Anny Ballardini
Eileen Tabios engages AN ARCHITECTURE by Chad Sweeney
Jessica Bozek engages DUMMY FIRE by Sarah Vap
Ryan Daley reviews THE FRANK POEMS by CAConrad
Eileen Tabios engages CLEAVING by Dion Farquhar
Abigail Licad reviews THE ANCHORED ANGEL, SELECTED WRITINGS BY JOSE GARCIA, Edited by Eileen Tabios
Christopher Mulrooney reviews SELECTED POEMS OF GABRIELA MISTRAL, Trans. by Ursula K. Le Guin
Christopher Mulrooney reviews THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE SNOW by Yves Bonnefoy, Trans. by Alan Baker
Lisa Bower reviews TERRAIN TRACKS by Purvi Shah
Laurel Johnson reviews THERE ARE WORDS by Burt Kimmelman
Ivy Alvarez reviews A F I E L D by Anthony Hawley
Nathan Logan reviews WORDS IN YOUR FACE: A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH 20 YEARS OF THE NEW YORK POETRY SLAM by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Eileen Tabios engages 2 POEMS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL by Logan Ryan Smith
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews BLUE COLONIAL by David Roderick
Eileen Tabios engages LIST'N by Karri Kokko
Laurel Johnson reviews INDIAN TRAINS by Erika T. Wurth
Eileen Tabios engages THE HEART THAT LIES OUTSIDE THE BODY by Stephanie Lenox
Patrick James Dunagan reviews DON'T SAY A WORD by F.A. Nettelbeck
Eileen Tabios engages BEHIND THE WHEEL: POEMS ABOUT DRIVING by Janet S. Wong
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Four Poems by Ivy Alvarez: "Pear", "dumb", "The Tree" and "Parsonage Parlor"
FEATURE ARTICLES
"NOMADIC WAR" by Amy Levine
"MODERN IRONISTS: JOHN BERRYMAN, TED HUGHES, ROCHELLE OWENS, EDWARD DORN" by Rochelle Ratner
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Susana Gardner reviews ONCE UPON A NEOLIBERAL ROCKET BADGE by Jules Boykoff
Gina Myers engages LEARNING THE LANGUAGE and CASE SENSITIVE by Kate Greenstreet
Andrew Joron reviews BROKEN WORLD by Joseph Lease
Alfred A. Yuson reviews AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and PASSAGES: POEMS 1983-2006 by Edgar B. Maranan
Alfred A. Yuson reviews SORROWS OF THE CHAMELEON by Ella Wagemakers
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Meritage Press' "Tiny Books" -- A Tool for Poetry to Keep Feeding the World!
BACK COVER
An Editorial Board Meeting?!
March 31, 2008
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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Brian Clements engages nine books by John Yau: PARADISO DIASPORA; THE PASSIONATE SPECTATOR: ESSAYS ON ART AND POETRY; ING GRISH (with illustrations by Thomas Nozkowski); BORROWED LOVE POEMS; THE UNITED STATES OF JASPER JOHNS; RADIANT SILHOUETTE; CORPSE AND MIRROR; SOMETIMES; and 100 MORE JOKES FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD (with etchings by Archie Rand)
David Goldstein reviews TWENTY-ONE AFTER DAYS by Lisa Lubasch
Patrick James Dunagan reviews CADENZA by Charles North and DOING 70 by Hettie Jones
Séamas Cain reviews SKINNY BUDDHA by Sheila E. Murphy
Raymond John A. de Borja reviews NOISE PICTORIAL NOISE by Eli Noah Gordon
Shanna Compton reviews DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION by Cathy Park Hong
Eileen Tabios engages MAUVE SEA-ORCHIDS by Lila Zemborain, Trans. by Rosa Alcala and Monica de la Torre
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews RAPID DEPARTURES by Vincent Katz
Eileen Tabios engages IMAGINING A BABY by Bob Marcacci
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews PRAU by Jean Vengua
Thomas Fink reviews WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by David Lehman
Kristi Castro reviews SOMETHING BRIGHT, THEN HOLES by Maggie Nelson and [GROWLING SOFTLY] Edited by Juliet Cook and "drilled" by David Foster
Nicholas Manning reviews TEXT LOSES TIME by Nico Vassilakis
Stephen Vincent reviews WHAT’S IN STORE by Trevor Joyce
Eileen Tabios engages ZAMBOANGUENA by Corrine Fitzpatrick
Burt Kimmelman engages eight publications by Basil King: 77 BEASTS; BASIL KING'S BESTIARY; LEARNING TO DRAW / A HISTORY: TWIN TOWERS; MIRAGE: A POEM IN 22 SECTIONS; WARP SPASM; THE POET; IDENTITY; THE COMPLETE MINIATURES; and DEVOTIONS, WITH SELECTIONS FROM A PAINTERS BESTIARY AND 14 DRAWINGS FROM INTENTIONS
Tom Beckett reviews HARLOT by Jill Alexander Essbaum
Patrick James Dunagan reviews HOME AMONG THE SWINGING STARS: COLLECTED POEMS OF JAIME DE ANGULO, Edited by Stefan Hyner with an essay by Andrew Schelling
Juliet Cook engages FEIGN by Kristy Bowen
Anny Ballardini reviews DAYS POEM, VOLS. I and II by Allen Bramhall
Patrick James Dunagan reviews THE FINAL NITE & OTHER POEMS: COMPLETE NOTES FROM A CHARLES GAYLE NOTEBOOK 1987-2006 by Steve Dalachinsky
Karen Rigby reviews THE BEDSIDE GUIDE TO NO TELL MOTEL: SECOND FLOOR, Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden
Nathan Logan reviews THE BEDSIDE GUIDE TO NO TELL MOTEL, Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden
Eileen Tabios engages MY NAME IS ESTHER CLARA by Laurel Johnson; a FOURSQUARE SPECIAL EDITION OF FIVE POEMS by Maureen Thorson; and HERE, LOVE by Jess Rowan
Jeffrey Side reviews BEAMS by Adam Fieled
Jon Cone reviews LITTLE BOAT by Jean Valentine
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews OVERNIGHT by Paul Violi
Jeff Harrison reviews OPENING AND CLOSING NUMBERS by Anny Ballardini
Eileen Tabios engages AN ARCHITECTURE by Chad Sweeney
Jessica Bozek engages DUMMY FIRE by Sarah Vap
Ryan Daley reviews THE FRANK POEMS by CAConrad
Eileen Tabios engages CLEAVING by Dion Farquhar
Abigail Licad reviews THE ANCHORED ANGEL, SELECTED WRITINGS BY JOSE GARCIA, Edited by Eileen Tabios
Christopher Mulrooney reviews SELECTED POEMS OF GABRIELA MISTRAL, Trans. by Ursula K. Le Guin
Christopher Mulrooney reviews THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE SNOW by Yves Bonnefoy, Trans. by Alan Baker
Lisa Bower reviews TERRAIN TRACKS by Purvi Shah
Laurel Johnson reviews THERE ARE WORDS by Burt Kimmelman
Ivy Alvarez reviews A F I E L D by Anthony Hawley
Nathan Logan reviews WORDS IN YOUR FACE: A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH 20 YEARS OF THE NEW YORK POETRY SLAM by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz
Eileen Tabios engages 2 POEMS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL by Logan Ryan Smith
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews BLUE COLONIAL by David Roderick
Eileen Tabios engages LIST'N by Karri Kokko
Laurel Johnson reviews INDIAN TRAINS by Erika T. Wurth
Eileen Tabios engages THE HEART THAT LIES OUTSIDE THE BODY by Stephanie Lenox
Patrick James Dunagan reviews DON'T SAY A WORD by F.A. Nettelbeck
Eileen Tabios engages BEHIND THE WHEEL: POEMS ABOUT DRIVING by Janet S. Wong
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Four Poems by Ivy Alvarez: "Pear", "dumb", "The Tree" and "Parsonage Parlor"
FEATURE ARTICLES
"NOMADIC WAR" by Amy Levine
"MODERN IRONISTS: JOHN BERRYMAN, TED HUGHES, ROCHELLE OWENS, EDWARD DORN" by Rochelle Ratner
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Susana Gardner reviews ONCE UPON A NEOLIBERAL ROCKET BADGE by Jules Boykoff
Gina Myers engages LEARNING THE LANGUAGE and CASE SENSITIVE by Kate Greenstreet
Andrew Joron reviews BROKEN WORLD by Joseph Lease
Alfred A. Yuson reviews AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and PASSAGES: POEMS 1983-2006 by Edgar B. Maranan
Alfred A. Yuson reviews SORROWS OF THE CHAMELEON by Ella Wagemakers
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Meritage Press' "Tiny Books" -- A Tool for Poetry to Keep Feeding the World!
BACK COVER
An Editorial Board Meeting?!
Tuesday, November 20, 2007
ISSUE NO. 8 TABLE OF CONTENTS
November 30, 2007
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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Patrick James Dunagan reviews WRITING POETRY: FROM THE INSIDE OUT by Sanford Lyne
Sam Lohmann reviews “BURNING INTERIORS”: DAVID SHAPIRO’S POETRY AND POETICS, Edited by Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease
Patrick James Dunagan reviews RIPPLE EFFECT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Elaine Equi
Sam Lohmann engages RIPPLE EFFECT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Elaine Equi
Ernesto Priego reviews WORLD0 and NO SOUNDS OF MY OWN MAKING by John Bloomberg-Rissman; UNPROTECTED TEXTS and STEPS: A NOTEBOOK by Tom Beckett; and ESTE BIENESTAR, TIBIO/THIS WELL-BEING, WARM, POEMS IN TRANSLATION by Argel Corpus
Barry Schwabsky reviews GLOIRE DES FORMES PRECEDE DE LE DOUBLE CORPS DES IMAGES by Jean Fremon
Patrick Rosal reviews AMIGO WARFARE and ZERO GRAVITY, both by Eric Gamalinda
Eileen Tabios engages AMIGO WARFARE and LYRICS FROM A DEAD LANGUAGE, both by Eric Gamalinda
Thomas Fink reviews FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza
Pam Brown engages URBAN MYTHS: 210 POEMS by John Tranter
Rochelle Ratner engages HELEN IN EGYPT by H.D.; LOBA by Diane di Prima; SURVIVAL: A THEMATIC GUIDE TO CANADIAN LITERATURE by Margaret Atwood; and THE JOURNAL OF SUSANNA MOODIE by Margaret Atwood
Lars Palm reviews OPERA BUFA by Adam Fieled
Pam Brown engages BLUE GRASS by Peter Minter
Raymond John De Borja reviews ALL THE PAINTINGS OF THE GIORGIONE by Elizabeth Willis
Eileen Tabios engages WANTON TEXTILES by Reb Livingston and Ravi Shankar
Ryan Daley reviews THE ECSTASY OF CAPITULATION by Daniel Borzutzky
Joe LeClerc reviews CANA QUEMADA [BURNT SUGAR] - CONTEMPORARY CUBAN POETRY IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH, Edited by Lori Marie Carlson & Oscar Hijuelos
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF YEARS, CAPITAL and ERRATUM TO A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF YEARS (LEVIATHAN PRESS, 2001), all by Giles Goodland
Nicholas Manning reviews BLACK STONE by Dale Smith
Burt Kimmelman reviews PASSING OVER, POWERS: TRACKVOLUME 3, COLUMNS: TRACKVOLUME 2, TRACK and RESTLESS MESSENGERS, all by Norman Finkelstein
Patrick James Dunagan reviews COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS by Aram Saroyan
Lisa Bower reviews THE ARCHITECTURE OF LANGUAGE by Quincy Troupe
Jeff Harrison reviews DAYS POEM, VOLS. I and II by Allen Bramhall
Burt Kimmelman reviews FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH by Sandy McIntosh
Eileen Tabios engages HUMAN SCALE by Michael Kelleher
Pam Brown engages VOODOO REALITIES by Philip Hammial
Laurel Johnson reviews PASSING OVER by Norman Finkelstein
Pamela Hart reviews THREADS by Jill Magi
Lars Palm reviews DOCUMENT by Ana Bozicevic-Bowling
Nicholas Manning reviews OBSTRUCTS/CONSTITUTES by John Crouse
Eric Hoffman reviews N/O by Ron Silliman
William Allegrezza reviews GUESTS OF SPACE by Anselm Hollo
Larissa Shmailo reviews E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E V-A-L-U-E-S: THE FIRST XI INTERVIEWS, Curated by Tom Beckett
Eileen Tabios engages PUBLIC ACCESS #1, Edited by Nicholas Grider
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews PIONEERS IN THE STUDY OF MOTION by Susan Briante
Mark Young reviews EL TSUNAMI by Kevin Opstedal
Aileen Ibardaloza engages “LAKBAY-KAMAY”, a poem by Father Albert Alejo; "PSALM 120" in BOOK OF PSALMS, THE NELSON STUDY BIBLE; “OUT BEYOND IDEAS” by Jelludin Rumi in THE ESSENTIAL RUMI, Translated by Coleman Barks; and OUT BEYOND IDEAS, a CD by David Wilcox and Nance Pettit
Kristina Marie Darling reviews INBOX by Noah Eli Gordon
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews NOVEL PICTORIAL NOISE by Noah Eli Gordon
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT by Lisa Fishman
Paul Klinger reviews LETTERS TO EARLY STREET by Albert Flynn DeSilver
Eileen Tabios engages FREE by Amanda Laughtland
Ivy Alvarez reviews MOONSHINE by MML Bliss
Beatriz Tabios engages THE BOOK OF THE ROTTEN DAUGHTER by Alice Friman
Eileen Tabios engages BELOVED INTEGER by Michelle Naka Pierce
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Two Poems by Patrick James Dunagan: "Dear Elaine," and "A Sloop in the Heart of Things"
FEATURE ARTICLE
“The Poetry of Put-On” (Addressing Bill Knott, Andrei Codrescu, Armand Schwerner, Jack Spicer, Among Others) by Rochelle Ratner
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Murat Nemet-Nejat reviews SUDDEN ADDRESS, SELECTED LECTURES 1981-2006 by Bill Berkson
Scott Glassman reviews SIGHT PROGRESS by Zhang Er, Translated by Rachel Levitsky with the author
Judith Roitman reviews INVERSE and THE BOOK OF OCEAN, both by Maryrose Larkin
ADVERTISEMENT
Meritage Press Tiny Books Releases Fifth Title for Poetry to Keep Feeding the World!
BACK COVER
The Bad Bad Metaphor!
November 30, 2007
[N.B. You can scroll down for all articles or click on highlighted names or titles to go directly to referenced article. Since this is a large issue, if it takes too long to upload the entire issue, you can click on the individual links below to more quickly get to a review that interests you.]
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Patrick James Dunagan reviews WRITING POETRY: FROM THE INSIDE OUT by Sanford Lyne
Sam Lohmann reviews “BURNING INTERIORS”: DAVID SHAPIRO’S POETRY AND POETICS, Edited by Thomas Fink and Joseph Lease
Patrick James Dunagan reviews RIPPLE EFFECT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Elaine Equi
Sam Lohmann engages RIPPLE EFFECT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Elaine Equi
Ernesto Priego reviews WORLD0 and NO SOUNDS OF MY OWN MAKING by John Bloomberg-Rissman; UNPROTECTED TEXTS and STEPS: A NOTEBOOK by Tom Beckett; and ESTE BIENESTAR, TIBIO/THIS WELL-BEING, WARM, POEMS IN TRANSLATION by Argel Corpus
Barry Schwabsky reviews GLOIRE DES FORMES PRECEDE DE LE DOUBLE CORPS DES IMAGES by Jean Fremon
Patrick Rosal reviews AMIGO WARFARE and ZERO GRAVITY, both by Eric Gamalinda
Eileen Tabios engages AMIGO WARFARE and LYRICS FROM A DEAD LANGUAGE, both by Eric Gamalinda
Thomas Fink reviews FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza
Pam Brown engages URBAN MYTHS: 210 POEMS by John Tranter
Rochelle Ratner engages HELEN IN EGYPT by H.D.; LOBA by Diane di Prima; SURVIVAL: A THEMATIC GUIDE TO CANADIAN LITERATURE by Margaret Atwood; and THE JOURNAL OF SUSANNA MOODIE by Margaret Atwood
Lars Palm reviews OPERA BUFA by Adam Fieled
Pam Brown engages BLUE GRASS by Peter Minter
Raymond John De Borja reviews ALL THE PAINTINGS OF THE GIORGIONE by Elizabeth Willis
Eileen Tabios engages WANTON TEXTILES by Reb Livingston and Ravi Shankar
Ryan Daley reviews THE ECSTASY OF CAPITULATION by Daniel Borzutzky
Joe LeClerc reviews CANA QUEMADA [BURNT SUGAR] - CONTEMPORARY CUBAN POETRY IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH, Edited by Lori Marie Carlson & Oscar Hijuelos
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF YEARS, CAPITAL and ERRATUM TO A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF YEARS (LEVIATHAN PRESS, 2001), all by Giles Goodland
Nicholas Manning reviews BLACK STONE by Dale Smith
Burt Kimmelman reviews PASSING OVER, POWERS: TRACKVOLUME 3, COLUMNS: TRACKVOLUME 2, TRACK and RESTLESS MESSENGERS, all by Norman Finkelstein
Patrick James Dunagan reviews COMPLETE MINIMAL POEMS by Aram Saroyan
Lisa Bower reviews THE ARCHITECTURE OF LANGUAGE by Quincy Troupe
Jeff Harrison reviews DAYS POEM, VOLS. I and II by Allen Bramhall
Burt Kimmelman reviews FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH by Sandy McIntosh
Eileen Tabios engages HUMAN SCALE by Michael Kelleher
Pam Brown engages VOODOO REALITIES by Philip Hammial
Laurel Johnson reviews PASSING OVER by Norman Finkelstein
Pamela Hart reviews THREADS by Jill Magi
Lars Palm reviews DOCUMENT by Ana Bozicevic-Bowling
Nicholas Manning reviews OBSTRUCTS/CONSTITUTES by John Crouse
Eric Hoffman reviews N/O by Ron Silliman
William Allegrezza reviews GUESTS OF SPACE by Anselm Hollo
Larissa Shmailo reviews E-X-C-H-A-N-G-E V-A-L-U-E-S: THE FIRST XI INTERVIEWS, Curated by Tom Beckett
Eileen Tabios engages PUBLIC ACCESS #1, Edited by Nicholas Grider
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews PIONEERS IN THE STUDY OF MOTION by Susan Briante
Mark Young reviews EL TSUNAMI by Kevin Opstedal
Aileen Ibardaloza engages “LAKBAY-KAMAY”, a poem by Father Albert Alejo; "PSALM 120" in BOOK OF PSALMS, THE NELSON STUDY BIBLE; “OUT BEYOND IDEAS” by Jelludin Rumi in THE ESSENTIAL RUMI, Translated by Coleman Barks; and OUT BEYOND IDEAS, a CD by David Wilcox and Nance Pettit
Kristina Marie Darling reviews INBOX by Noah Eli Gordon
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews NOVEL PICTORIAL NOISE by Noah Eli Gordon
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews THE HAPPINESS EXPERIMENT by Lisa Fishman
Paul Klinger reviews LETTERS TO EARLY STREET by Albert Flynn DeSilver
Eileen Tabios engages FREE by Amanda Laughtland
Ivy Alvarez reviews MOONSHINE by MML Bliss
Beatriz Tabios engages THE BOOK OF THE ROTTEN DAUGHTER by Alice Friman
Eileen Tabios engages BELOVED INTEGER by Michelle Naka Pierce
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Two Poems by Patrick James Dunagan: "Dear Elaine," and "A Sloop in the Heart of Things"
FEATURE ARTICLE
“The Poetry of Put-On” (Addressing Bill Knott, Andrei Codrescu, Armand Schwerner, Jack Spicer, Among Others) by Rochelle Ratner
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Murat Nemet-Nejat reviews SUDDEN ADDRESS, SELECTED LECTURES 1981-2006 by Bill Berkson
Scott Glassman reviews SIGHT PROGRESS by Zhang Er, Translated by Rachel Levitsky with the author
Judith Roitman reviews INVERSE and THE BOOK OF OCEAN, both by Maryrose Larkin
ADVERTISEMENT
Meritage Press Tiny Books Releases Fifth Title for Poetry to Keep Feeding the World!
BACK COVER
The Bad Bad Metaphor!
Wednesday, August 29, 2007
ISSUE NO. 7 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Aug. 31, 2007
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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Jessica Bozek reviews AFTER YOU, DEAREST LANGUAGE by Marisol Limon Martinez
Nicholas Manning reviews POEM FOR THE END OF TIME AND OTHER POEMS by Noelle Kocot
Eileen Tabios engages THE STEAM SEQUENCE by Carly Sachs
Brian Strang reviews BROKEN WORLD by Joseph Lease
Brenda Iijima reviews A HALF-RED SEA by Evie Shockley
Patrick James Dunagan reviews A FIDDLE PULLED FROM THE THROAT OF A SPARROW by Noah Eli Gordon
Nicholas Grider reviews INSECT COUNTRY (A), INSECT COUNTRY (B), and the INSECT TUTELAGE BLOG by Sawako Nakayasu
Patrick James Dunagan reviews TRAFFIC: A PUBLICATION OF SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC, ISSUES 1 AND 2, (2005-2007) edited by Elizabeth Treadwell
Teresa Carmody reviews [one love affair]* by Jenny Boully
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews THE BODY ACHES and NOT EVEN DOGS by Ernesto Priego
Nicholas Grider reviews NETS by Jen Bervin
Patrick James Dunagan reviews HOUSE ORGAN #58 Win/Spr ’07 edited by Kenneth Warren
Nicholas Manning reviews GUESTS OF SPACE by Anselm Hollo
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz reviews THE GODS WE WORSHIP LIVE NEXT DOOR by Bino A. Realuyo
Jennifer Bartlett reviews THE SECOND CHILD by Deborah Garrison
Eileen Tabios engages BROKEN/OPEN by Jill Jones
Laurel Johnson reviews THE ELEPHANT HOUSE by Claudia Carlson
Alysha Wood reviews a(A)ugust by Akilah Oliver, with collages by Brenda Iijima
Eileen Tabios engages BELLUM LETTERS by Michelle Detorie
Steve Halle reviews POSIT by Adam Fieled
Paul Klinger reviews THE BOOK OF OCEAN BY Maryrose Larkin
Michelle Detorie reviews BIRDS AND FANCIES by Elizabeth Treadwell
Eileen Tabios engages ERRATUM to and including A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF YEARS (LEVIATHAN PRESS, 2001) by Giles Goodland
Craig Santos Perez reviews NAMES ABOVE HOUSES by Oliver de la Paz
Christopher Mulrooney reviews OSIP MANDELSTAM: NEW TRANSLATIONS edited by Ilya Bernstein
Craig Santos Perez reviews ANYWHERE AVENUE by Oscar Bermeo
Christopher Mulrooney reviews STIGMATA ERRATA ETCETERA by Bill Knott, with collages by Star Black
Nicholas Grider reviews THE STATES, Vols. 1 and 2 by Craig Foltz, designed and edited by designed and edited by Ellie Ga, and with photographs by William Gillespie, Justin Ulmer, Martin Bland, Sabra Cox, Kristina Del Pino, Simona Schneider, Florence Neal, Jon Ciliberto, Stephen Mead, Christa HOlka, Don Goede, Lyn Lifshin, Shelton Walsmith, Marie Kazalia, Rebekah Travis, Lara Khalil, Tracy Lee Carroll, Jennifer Stahl, Barbara Henning, Jade Doskow, David McConeghy, Jared Zimmerman, Alice Arnold, Robert Matson, Mary Wrenn, Julia Marta Clapp, Tina Burton, Jim Simandl, Philip Metres, Chris Hampton, Hayley Barker, Thomas Ciufo, Meredyth Sparks, Shannon Shaper, Renae Morehead, Ryn Gargulinski, Robert S. Dunn, Jen Hofer, David Gatten, Jerilyn Myran, Shara Shisheboran, Courtney Fischer, ARiana Smart Truman, Tod Seelie, David W. Lee, Katherine McDowell, Mike Mahaffie, Willile Baronet, Karen Lillis, Paul Yoo, Justin Simonsen and Elizabeth Willis.
Beatriz Tabios engages BRIDGEABLE SHORES: SELECTED POEMS (1969-2001) by Luis Cabalquinto
Carlos Hiraldo reviews THE SALESMAN'S SHOES by James Roderick Burns
Nicholas Manning reviews FOLLY by Nada Gordon
Alysha Wood reviews trespasses by Padcha Tuntha-obas
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews THE MCSWEENEY BOOK OF POETS PICKING POETS edited by Dominic Lumford
Joe LeClerc reviews THE ENEMY SELF: POETRY & CRITICISM OF LAURA RIDING edited by Barbara Adams
Hugh Fox reviews LIBIDO DREAMS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Glenna Luschei
Laurel Johnson reviews THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA by Victor Hernandez Cruz
Craig Santos Perez reviews THE WIND SHIFTS: NEW LATINO POETRY edited by Francisco Aragon
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews PUNK POEMS by John Burgess
Julie R. Enszer Reviews SUGARING by Ann Cefola
Julie R. Enszer Reviews TEAHOUSE OF THE ALMIGHTY by Patricia Smith
Julie R. Enszer Reviews CINEPHRASTICS by Kathleen Ossip
Julie R. Enszer Reviews THE PARAGON by Kathrine Varnes
Julie R. Enszer Reviews KALI’S BLADE by Michelle Bautista
Julie R. Enszer Reviews three books by Rochelle Ratner: QUARRY, COMBING THE WAVES, and PRACTICING TO BE A WOMAN
FEATURE ARTICLES
"Objections to the Beauty-Object: A Reading of Two Poems by Barbara Guest" by Catherine Wagner
"The Ocean At Night: An Inside Look at the Poetry Process" by Aimee Celino Nezhukumatathil
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Catherine Wagner reviews 19 VARIETIES OF GAZELLE: POEMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST by Naomi Shihab Nye and EMAILS FROM SCHEHEREZAD by Mohja Kahf
Catherine Wagner reviews CATALOGUE OF COMEDIC NOVELTIES: SELECTED POEMS by Lev Rubinstein, Translated by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky
Catherine Wagner engages four books by Alice Notley: DISOBEDIENCE, MARGARET AND DUSTY, MYSTERIES OF SMALL HOUSES and SELECTED POEMS
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Aug. 31, 2007
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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Jessica Bozek reviews AFTER YOU, DEAREST LANGUAGE by Marisol Limon Martinez
Nicholas Manning reviews POEM FOR THE END OF TIME AND OTHER POEMS by Noelle Kocot
Eileen Tabios engages THE STEAM SEQUENCE by Carly Sachs
Brian Strang reviews BROKEN WORLD by Joseph Lease
Brenda Iijima reviews A HALF-RED SEA by Evie Shockley
Patrick James Dunagan reviews A FIDDLE PULLED FROM THE THROAT OF A SPARROW by Noah Eli Gordon
Nicholas Grider reviews INSECT COUNTRY (A), INSECT COUNTRY (B), and the INSECT TUTELAGE BLOG by Sawako Nakayasu
Patrick James Dunagan reviews TRAFFIC: A PUBLICATION OF SMALL PRESS TRAFFIC, ISSUES 1 AND 2, (2005-2007) edited by Elizabeth Treadwell
Teresa Carmody reviews [one love affair]* by Jenny Boully
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews THE BODY ACHES and NOT EVEN DOGS by Ernesto Priego
Nicholas Grider reviews NETS by Jen Bervin
Patrick James Dunagan reviews HOUSE ORGAN #58 Win/Spr ’07 edited by Kenneth Warren
Nicholas Manning reviews GUESTS OF SPACE by Anselm Hollo
Rochita Loenen-Ruiz reviews THE GODS WE WORSHIP LIVE NEXT DOOR by Bino A. Realuyo
Jennifer Bartlett reviews THE SECOND CHILD by Deborah Garrison
Eileen Tabios engages BROKEN/OPEN by Jill Jones
Laurel Johnson reviews THE ELEPHANT HOUSE by Claudia Carlson
Alysha Wood reviews a(A)ugust by Akilah Oliver, with collages by Brenda Iijima
Eileen Tabios engages BELLUM LETTERS by Michelle Detorie
Steve Halle reviews POSIT by Adam Fieled
Paul Klinger reviews THE BOOK OF OCEAN BY Maryrose Larkin
Michelle Detorie reviews BIRDS AND FANCIES by Elizabeth Treadwell
Eileen Tabios engages ERRATUM to and including A SPY IN THE HOUSE OF YEARS (LEVIATHAN PRESS, 2001) by Giles Goodland
Craig Santos Perez reviews NAMES ABOVE HOUSES by Oliver de la Paz
Christopher Mulrooney reviews OSIP MANDELSTAM: NEW TRANSLATIONS edited by Ilya Bernstein
Craig Santos Perez reviews ANYWHERE AVENUE by Oscar Bermeo
Christopher Mulrooney reviews STIGMATA ERRATA ETCETERA by Bill Knott, with collages by Star Black
Nicholas Grider reviews THE STATES, Vols. 1 and 2 by Craig Foltz, designed and edited by designed and edited by Ellie Ga, and with photographs by William Gillespie, Justin Ulmer, Martin Bland, Sabra Cox, Kristina Del Pino, Simona Schneider, Florence Neal, Jon Ciliberto, Stephen Mead, Christa HOlka, Don Goede, Lyn Lifshin, Shelton Walsmith, Marie Kazalia, Rebekah Travis, Lara Khalil, Tracy Lee Carroll, Jennifer Stahl, Barbara Henning, Jade Doskow, David McConeghy, Jared Zimmerman, Alice Arnold, Robert Matson, Mary Wrenn, Julia Marta Clapp, Tina Burton, Jim Simandl, Philip Metres, Chris Hampton, Hayley Barker, Thomas Ciufo, Meredyth Sparks, Shannon Shaper, Renae Morehead, Ryn Gargulinski, Robert S. Dunn, Jen Hofer, David Gatten, Jerilyn Myran, Shara Shisheboran, Courtney Fischer, ARiana Smart Truman, Tod Seelie, David W. Lee, Katherine McDowell, Mike Mahaffie, Willile Baronet, Karen Lillis, Paul Yoo, Justin Simonsen and Elizabeth Willis.
Beatriz Tabios engages BRIDGEABLE SHORES: SELECTED POEMS (1969-2001) by Luis Cabalquinto
Carlos Hiraldo reviews THE SALESMAN'S SHOES by James Roderick Burns
Nicholas Manning reviews FOLLY by Nada Gordon
Alysha Wood reviews trespasses by Padcha Tuntha-obas
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews THE MCSWEENEY BOOK OF POETS PICKING POETS edited by Dominic Lumford
Joe LeClerc reviews THE ENEMY SELF: POETRY & CRITICISM OF LAURA RIDING edited by Barbara Adams
Hugh Fox reviews LIBIDO DREAMS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Glenna Luschei
Laurel Johnson reviews THE MOUNTAIN IN THE SEA by Victor Hernandez Cruz
Craig Santos Perez reviews THE WIND SHIFTS: NEW LATINO POETRY edited by Francisco Aragon
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews PUNK POEMS by John Burgess
Julie R. Enszer Reviews SUGARING by Ann Cefola
Julie R. Enszer Reviews TEAHOUSE OF THE ALMIGHTY by Patricia Smith
Julie R. Enszer Reviews CINEPHRASTICS by Kathleen Ossip
Julie R. Enszer Reviews THE PARAGON by Kathrine Varnes
Julie R. Enszer Reviews KALI’S BLADE by Michelle Bautista
Julie R. Enszer Reviews three books by Rochelle Ratner: QUARRY, COMBING THE WAVES, and PRACTICING TO BE A WOMAN
FEATURE ARTICLES
"Objections to the Beauty-Object: A Reading of Two Poems by Barbara Guest" by Catherine Wagner
"The Ocean At Night: An Inside Look at the Poetry Process" by Aimee Celino Nezhukumatathil
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Catherine Wagner reviews 19 VARIETIES OF GAZELLE: POEMS OF THE MIDDLE EAST by Naomi Shihab Nye and EMAILS FROM SCHEHEREZAD by Mohja Kahf
Catherine Wagner reviews CATALOGUE OF COMEDIC NOVELTIES: SELECTED POEMS by Lev Rubinstein, Translated by Philip Metres and Tatiana Tulchinsky
Catherine Wagner engages four books by Alice Notley: DISOBEDIENCE, MARGARET AND DUSTY, MYSTERIES OF SMALL HOUSES and SELECTED POEMS
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Thursday, May 24, 2007
ISSUE NO. 6 TABLE OF CONTENTS
May 24, 2007
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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Brenda Iijima reviews CONCORDANCE by Mei-mei Berssenbruge with art by Kiki Smith
J.O. LeClerc reviews LUNCH POEMS by Frank O'Hara
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews INSTAN by Cecilia Vicuna
Monica McFawn reviews CHANCE by Daniel Becker
James Owens reviews BORN IN UTOPIA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN POETRY, Edited by Carmen Firan and Paul Doru Mugur with Edward Foster
Tim Peterson reviews NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY by Thomas Fink
Andrea Baker reviews NECESSARY STRANGER by Graham Foust
Theresa Tensuan reviews UPROCK HEADSPIN SCRAMBLE AND DIVE and AMERICAN KUNDIMAN by Patrick Rosal
Tyrone Williams reviews NEGATIVITY by Jocelyn Saidenberg
Ivy Alvarez reviews UNBOUND & BRANDED by Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Eileen Tabios reviews POET’S BOOKSHELF: CONTEMPORARY POETS ON BOOKS THAT SHAPED THEIR ART Edited by Peter Davis
Chris Pusateri reviews PICTURE OF THE BASKET by Sarah Mangold and NEW COURIERS by Dana Ward
Eileen Tabios—and Denise Levertov—review IN A DYBBUK’S RAINCOAT: COLLECTED POEMS BY BERT MEYERS Edited by Morton Marcus and Daniel Meyers
Patrick James Dunagan reviews ABSURD GOOD NEWS by Julien Poirier
William Allegrezza reviews EMPTIED OF ALL SHIPS by Stacy Szymaszek
Alexander Dickow reviews THE BIRD HOVERER by Aaron Belz
Thomas Fink reviews I'M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU by Amy King
Lisa Factora-Borders reviews A SLICE OF CHERRY PIE Edited by Ivy Alvarez
Alexander Dickow reviews FLOWERS OF BAD: A FALSE TRANSLATION OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE’S LES FLEURS DU MAL by David Cameron
Eileen Tabios reviews WALKING THEORY by Stephen Vincent
Celia Homesley reviews ORIGINAL GREEN by Patricia Carlin
Eileen Tabios reviews THE IMMACULATE AUTOPSY by Todd Melicker
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews BRAIDED RIVER: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1965-2005 and GUESTS OF SPACE by Anselm Hollo
William Allegrezza reviews WATCHWORD by William Fuller
Monica Fawn reviews BETWEEN THE ROOM AND THE CITY by Erica Bernheim
Eileen Tabios reviews FORTY-FIVE by Frieda Hughes
Laurel Johnson reviews SKIRT FULL OF BLACK by Sun Yung Shin
Pamela Hart reviews CASE SENSITIVE by Kate Greenstreet
Eileen Tabios reviews THE JUROR by George Dawes Green
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews A STRANGE ARRANGEMENT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by C.J. Allen
Frank Gampietro reviews THE HUMBLE TRAVELOGUES OF MR. IAN WORTHINGTON (WRITTEN FROM LAND AND SEA) by Sandra Simonds
Derek Motion reviews PEEL ME A ZIBIBBO by Pam Brown
Ernesto Priego reviews MORTAL by Ivy Alvarez
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews MORTAL by Ivy Alvarez
Eileen Tabios reviews WHAT'S THE MATTER by Jordan Stempleman
Addie Tsai reviews THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST: THE COLLECTED POEMS, COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED Edited by Edward Connery, COLLECTED POEMS 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott, and WHAT THE TWILIGHT SAYS: ESSAYS BY DEREK WALCOTT
Eileen Tabios reviews LITTLE WAR MACHINE by M Sarki
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews BECOMING THE VILLAINESS by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Ivy Alvarez reviews from A BANNER YEAR by Kate Colby
Eileen Tabios reviews PARTS OF THE JOURNAL: NIGHT by Richard Lopez
Julie R. Enszer reviews FALLING INTO VELAZQUEZ by Mary Kaiser
William A. Sylvester reviews SOMEHOW by Burt Kimmelman
Eileen Tabios reviews POETRY DAILY ESSENTIALS 2007 Edited by Diane Boller and Don Selby
Julie R. Enszer reviews THE GREAT CANOPY by Paula Goldman
Fionna Donney Simmonds reviews THE TAR PIT DIATOMS by Sandra Simonds, OTAGES by John Bloomberg-Rissman, and ISHMAEL AMONG THE BUSHES by William Allegrezza
Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor reviews KOOL LOGIC: LA LOGICA KOOL by Urayoan Noel
Laurel Johnson reviews WHITHER NONSTOPPING by Harriet Zinnes
Mark Young reviews THE BEAUTIFUL DAYS by A.B. Spellman
Sandy McIntosh reviews SAINTS OF HYSTERIA, A HALF-CENTURY OF COLLABORATIVE AMERICAN POETRY, Edited by Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, and David Trinidad
Appendix Article to Review of SAINTS OF HYSTERIA: “Filmmaking with Norman Mailer and Ilya Bolotowsky” by Sandy McIntosh
FEATURE ARTICLES
Nicholas Manning on "A Worldly Country by Young Up-And-Comer John Ashbery"
Addie Tsai on “’The Hairy Caterpillar’: An Exploration of Image”
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Joyelle McSweeney reviews LILYFOIL + 3 and CHANTRY by Elizabeth Treadwell
Craig Perez reviews composite. diplomacy. by Padcha Tuntha-Obas
Thomas Fink reviews THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER by Sandy McIntosh
Eileen Tabios reviews CORNUCOPIA by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
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May 24, 2007
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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Brenda Iijima reviews CONCORDANCE by Mei-mei Berssenbruge with art by Kiki Smith
J.O. LeClerc reviews LUNCH POEMS by Frank O'Hara
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews INSTAN by Cecilia Vicuna
Monica McFawn reviews CHANCE by Daniel Becker
James Owens reviews BORN IN UTOPIA: AN ANTHOLOGY OF MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN POETRY, Edited by Carmen Firan and Paul Doru Mugur with Edward Foster
Tim Peterson reviews NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY by Thomas Fink
Andrea Baker reviews NECESSARY STRANGER by Graham Foust
Theresa Tensuan reviews UPROCK HEADSPIN SCRAMBLE AND DIVE and AMERICAN KUNDIMAN by Patrick Rosal
Tyrone Williams reviews NEGATIVITY by Jocelyn Saidenberg
Ivy Alvarez reviews UNBOUND & BRANDED by Christine Stewart-Nuñez
Eileen Tabios reviews POET’S BOOKSHELF: CONTEMPORARY POETS ON BOOKS THAT SHAPED THEIR ART Edited by Peter Davis
Chris Pusateri reviews PICTURE OF THE BASKET by Sarah Mangold and NEW COURIERS by Dana Ward
Eileen Tabios—and Denise Levertov—review IN A DYBBUK’S RAINCOAT: COLLECTED POEMS BY BERT MEYERS Edited by Morton Marcus and Daniel Meyers
Patrick James Dunagan reviews ABSURD GOOD NEWS by Julien Poirier
William Allegrezza reviews EMPTIED OF ALL SHIPS by Stacy Szymaszek
Alexander Dickow reviews THE BIRD HOVERER by Aaron Belz
Thomas Fink reviews I'M THE MAN WHO LOVES YOU by Amy King
Lisa Factora-Borders reviews A SLICE OF CHERRY PIE Edited by Ivy Alvarez
Alexander Dickow reviews FLOWERS OF BAD: A FALSE TRANSLATION OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE’S LES FLEURS DU MAL by David Cameron
Eileen Tabios reviews WALKING THEORY by Stephen Vincent
Celia Homesley reviews ORIGINAL GREEN by Patricia Carlin
Eileen Tabios reviews THE IMMACULATE AUTOPSY by Todd Melicker
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews BRAIDED RIVER: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1965-2005 and GUESTS OF SPACE by Anselm Hollo
William Allegrezza reviews WATCHWORD by William Fuller
Monica Fawn reviews BETWEEN THE ROOM AND THE CITY by Erica Bernheim
Eileen Tabios reviews FORTY-FIVE by Frieda Hughes
Laurel Johnson reviews SKIRT FULL OF BLACK by Sun Yung Shin
Pamela Hart reviews CASE SENSITIVE by Kate Greenstreet
Eileen Tabios reviews THE JUROR by George Dawes Green
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews A STRANGE ARRANGEMENT: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by C.J. Allen
Frank Gampietro reviews THE HUMBLE TRAVELOGUES OF MR. IAN WORTHINGTON (WRITTEN FROM LAND AND SEA) by Sandra Simonds
Derek Motion reviews PEEL ME A ZIBIBBO by Pam Brown
Ernesto Priego reviews MORTAL by Ivy Alvarez
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews MORTAL by Ivy Alvarez
Eileen Tabios reviews WHAT'S THE MATTER by Jordan Stempleman
Addie Tsai reviews THE POETRY OF ROBERT FROST: THE COLLECTED POEMS, COMPLETE AND UNABRIDGED Edited by Edward Connery, COLLECTED POEMS 1948-1984 by Derek Walcott, and WHAT THE TWILIGHT SAYS: ESSAYS BY DEREK WALCOTT
Eileen Tabios reviews LITTLE WAR MACHINE by M Sarki
Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews BECOMING THE VILLAINESS by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Ivy Alvarez reviews from A BANNER YEAR by Kate Colby
Eileen Tabios reviews PARTS OF THE JOURNAL: NIGHT by Richard Lopez
Julie R. Enszer reviews FALLING INTO VELAZQUEZ by Mary Kaiser
William A. Sylvester reviews SOMEHOW by Burt Kimmelman
Eileen Tabios reviews POETRY DAILY ESSENTIALS 2007 Edited by Diane Boller and Don Selby
Julie R. Enszer reviews THE GREAT CANOPY by Paula Goldman
Fionna Donney Simmonds reviews THE TAR PIT DIATOMS by Sandra Simonds, OTAGES by John Bloomberg-Rissman, and ISHMAEL AMONG THE BUSHES by William Allegrezza
Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor reviews KOOL LOGIC: LA LOGICA KOOL by Urayoan Noel
Laurel Johnson reviews WHITHER NONSTOPPING by Harriet Zinnes
Mark Young reviews THE BEAUTIFUL DAYS by A.B. Spellman
Sandy McIntosh reviews SAINTS OF HYSTERIA, A HALF-CENTURY OF COLLABORATIVE AMERICAN POETRY, Edited by Denise Duhamel, Maureen Seaton, and David Trinidad
Appendix Article to Review of SAINTS OF HYSTERIA: “Filmmaking with Norman Mailer and Ilya Bolotowsky” by Sandy McIntosh
FEATURE ARTICLES
Nicholas Manning on "A Worldly Country by Young Up-And-Comer John Ashbery"
Addie Tsai on “’The Hairy Caterpillar’: An Exploration of Image”
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Joyelle McSweeney reviews LILYFOIL + 3 and CHANTRY by Elizabeth Treadwell
Craig Perez reviews composite. diplomacy. by Padcha Tuntha-Obas
Thomas Fink reviews THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER by Sandy McIntosh
Eileen Tabios reviews CORNUCOPIA by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
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Self-Explanatory
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
ISSUE NO. 5 TABLE OF CONTENTS
February 14, 2007
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CONTENTS:
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
From Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Ron Silliman reviews HAVING BEEN BLUE FOR CHARITY by kari edwards
Mark Young reviews HAVING BEEN BLUE FOR CHARITY by kari edwards
Guillermo Parra reviews Micah Ballard’s poems in 6x6 #5; BETTINA COFFIN; ABSINTHIAN JOURNAL; SCENES FROM THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT; UNFORESEEN; DEATH RACE V.S.O.P.; EVANGELINE DOWNS; and NEGATIVE CAPABILITY IN THE VERSE OF JOHN WIENERS
Julie R. Enszer reviews BALANCING ACTS by Rochelle Ratner
Ernesto Priego reviews THE ANIMAL HUSBAND by Christine Hamm
Nicholas Manning reviews NIGHT SEASON by Mark Lamoureux
Eileen Tabios reviews FIRST ADVENTURES OF COL AND SEM by Dan Waber
J. LeClerc reviews BOWERY WOMEN: POEMS, Ed. by Marjorie Tesser & Bob Holman
Ivy Alvarez presents a Chap Roundup reviewing MY LIGHTWEIGHT INTENTIONS by Pam Brown; SURFACE TENSION by Mackenzie Carignan and Scott Glassman; TRANSLATIONS FROM AFTER by Joel Chace; OH MISS MARY by Jim McCrary; DOVEY & ME by Strongin; and THE NAME POEMS by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Julie R. Enszer reviews A HALF-RED SEA by Evie Shockley
Nicholas Manning reviews TRACT by Jon Leon
Mary Jo Malo reviews BLOOD AND SALSA / PAINTING RUST by Jonathan Penton
Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor reviews THE GODS WE WORSHIP LIVE NEXT DOOR by Bino Realuyo
Eileen Tabios reviews THE ALLEGREZZA FICCIONES by Mark Young
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews NAVIGATE, AMELIA EARHART'S LETTERS HOME by Rebecca Loudon
Nicholas Downing reviews CIVILIZATION by Elizabeth Arnold
William Allegrezza reviews KALI'S BLADE by Michelle Bautista
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS 1978-2006 by Tom Beckett
Tom Beckett reviews A READING, 18-20 by Beverly Dahlen
Eileen Tabios reviews WIND IS WIND AND RAIN IS RAIN by Brynne
Allen Bramhall reviews DOWN SPOOKY by Shanna Compton
Lynn Strongin reviews SHOT WITH EROS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS and SEED PODS, both by Glenna Luschei
William Allegrezza reviews I OF THE STORM by Bill Lavender
Richard Lopez reviews OH MISS MARY by Jim McCrary
Craig Santos Perez reviews THE TIME AT THE END OF THIS and 60 LV BO(E)MBS, both by Paolo Javier
Anne Haines reviews RADISH KING by Rebecca Loudon; LIVING THINGS by Charles Jensen; and MORTAL by Ivy Alvarez
Lynn Strongin reviews THIRST by Mary Oliver
Mario E. Mireles reviews excerpts from NOT EVEN DOGS by Ernesto Priego; Matsuo Bash’s “The Narrow Road of the Interior" in The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Ed. Maynard Mack; and Octavio Paz’s "The Tradition of the Haiku" in Convergences: Essays on Art and Literatur.
William Allegrezza reviews ELAPSING SPEEDWAY ORGANISM by Bruce Covey
Laurel Johnson reviews CALLS FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD by Robert Hershon
Eileen Tabios reviews BODY OF CRIMSON LEAVES by Celia Homesley
Eileen Tabios reviews THE PLANT WATERER AND OTHER THINGS IN COMMON by Kathryn Rantala
Julie R. Enszer reviews OSIP MANDELSTAM: NEW TRANSLATIONS, Ed. by Ilya Bernstein
Hugh Fox reviews SEEDPODS by Glenna Luschei
Marjorie Light reviews COMING FULL CIRCLE: THE PROCESS OF DECOLONIZATION AMONG POST-1975 FILIPINO AMERICANS and A BOOK OF HER OWN: WORDS AND IMAGES TO HONOR THE BABAYLAN, both by Leny M. Strobel
Mark Young reviews SONNET by Matt Hart
Eileen Tabios reviews THE GRACES by Elizabeth Treadwell and SONNET by Matt Hart
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Andrew Joron reviews ULTRA VIOLET by Laura Moriarty
Britta Ameel reviews ALASKAPHRENIA by Christine Hume
Sharon Mesmer reviews OPPOSABLE THUMB by Joe Elliot
Eileen Tabios reviews OBEYED DILEMMA by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
Alfred Yuson reviews BELIEVE & BETRAY by Cirilo F. Bautista
Alfred Yuson reviews MATADORA by Sarah Gambito
Alfred Yuson reviews FAULTY ELECTRICAL WIRING: POEMS by Ruel S. De Vera, A FEAST OR ORIGINS by Dinah Roma and ELSE IT WAS PURELY GIRLS by Angelo Suarez
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February 14, 2007
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CONTENTS:
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
From Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Ron Silliman reviews HAVING BEEN BLUE FOR CHARITY by kari edwards
Mark Young reviews HAVING BEEN BLUE FOR CHARITY by kari edwards
Guillermo Parra reviews Micah Ballard’s poems in 6x6 #5; BETTINA COFFIN; ABSINTHIAN JOURNAL; SCENES FROM THE SARAGOSSA MANUSCRIPT; UNFORESEEN; DEATH RACE V.S.O.P.; EVANGELINE DOWNS; and NEGATIVE CAPABILITY IN THE VERSE OF JOHN WIENERS
Julie R. Enszer reviews BALANCING ACTS by Rochelle Ratner
Ernesto Priego reviews THE ANIMAL HUSBAND by Christine Hamm
Nicholas Manning reviews NIGHT SEASON by Mark Lamoureux
Eileen Tabios reviews FIRST ADVENTURES OF COL AND SEM by Dan Waber
J. LeClerc reviews BOWERY WOMEN: POEMS, Ed. by Marjorie Tesser & Bob Holman
Ivy Alvarez presents a Chap Roundup reviewing MY LIGHTWEIGHT INTENTIONS by Pam Brown; SURFACE TENSION by Mackenzie Carignan and Scott Glassman; TRANSLATIONS FROM AFTER by Joel Chace; OH MISS MARY by Jim McCrary; DOVEY & ME by Strongin; and THE NAME POEMS by Jeffrey Cyphers Wright
Julie R. Enszer reviews A HALF-RED SEA by Evie Shockley
Nicholas Manning reviews TRACT by Jon Leon
Mary Jo Malo reviews BLOOD AND SALSA / PAINTING RUST by Jonathan Penton
Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor reviews THE GODS WE WORSHIP LIVE NEXT DOOR by Bino Realuyo
Eileen Tabios reviews THE ALLEGREZZA FICCIONES by Mark Young
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews NAVIGATE, AMELIA EARHART'S LETTERS HOME by Rebecca Loudon
Nicholas Downing reviews CIVILIZATION by Elizabeth Arnold
William Allegrezza reviews KALI'S BLADE by Michelle Bautista
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS 1978-2006 by Tom Beckett
Tom Beckett reviews A READING, 18-20 by Beverly Dahlen
Eileen Tabios reviews WIND IS WIND AND RAIN IS RAIN by Brynne
Allen Bramhall reviews DOWN SPOOKY by Shanna Compton
Lynn Strongin reviews SHOT WITH EROS: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS and SEED PODS, both by Glenna Luschei
William Allegrezza reviews I OF THE STORM by Bill Lavender
Richard Lopez reviews OH MISS MARY by Jim McCrary
Craig Santos Perez reviews THE TIME AT THE END OF THIS and 60 LV BO(E)MBS, both by Paolo Javier
Anne Haines reviews RADISH KING by Rebecca Loudon; LIVING THINGS by Charles Jensen; and MORTAL by Ivy Alvarez
Lynn Strongin reviews THIRST by Mary Oliver
Mario E. Mireles reviews excerpts from NOT EVEN DOGS by Ernesto Priego; Matsuo Bash’s “The Narrow Road of the Interior" in The Norton Anthology of World Masterpieces, Ed. Maynard Mack; and Octavio Paz’s "The Tradition of the Haiku" in Convergences: Essays on Art and Literatur.
William Allegrezza reviews ELAPSING SPEEDWAY ORGANISM by Bruce Covey
Laurel Johnson reviews CALLS FROM THE OUTSIDE WORLD by Robert Hershon
Eileen Tabios reviews BODY OF CRIMSON LEAVES by Celia Homesley
Eileen Tabios reviews THE PLANT WATERER AND OTHER THINGS IN COMMON by Kathryn Rantala
Julie R. Enszer reviews OSIP MANDELSTAM: NEW TRANSLATIONS, Ed. by Ilya Bernstein
Hugh Fox reviews SEEDPODS by Glenna Luschei
Marjorie Light reviews COMING FULL CIRCLE: THE PROCESS OF DECOLONIZATION AMONG POST-1975 FILIPINO AMERICANS and A BOOK OF HER OWN: WORDS AND IMAGES TO HONOR THE BABAYLAN, both by Leny M. Strobel
Mark Young reviews SONNET by Matt Hart
Eileen Tabios reviews THE GRACES by Elizabeth Treadwell and SONNET by Matt Hart
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Andrew Joron reviews ULTRA VIOLET by Laura Moriarty
Britta Ameel reviews ALASKAPHRENIA by Christine Hume
Sharon Mesmer reviews OPPOSABLE THUMB by Joe Elliot
Eileen Tabios reviews OBEYED DILEMMA by Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
Alfred Yuson reviews BELIEVE & BETRAY by Cirilo F. Bautista
Alfred Yuson reviews MATADORA by Sarah Gambito
Alfred Yuson reviews FAULTY ELECTRICAL WIRING: POEMS by Ruel S. De Vera, A FEAST OR ORIGINS by Dinah Roma and ELSE IT WAS PURELY GIRLS by Angelo Suarez
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Thursday, November 30, 2006
ISSUE NO. 4 TABLE OF CONTENTS
November 30, 2006
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CONTENTS:
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
From Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Steven Fama reviews THE NIGHT I DROPPED SHAKESPEARE ON THE CAT by John Olson
Elizabeth Kate Switaj reviews THE END OF RUDE HANDLES by Jen Tynes
Nicholas Manning reviews UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS 1978-2006 by Tom Beckett
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS 1978-2006 by Tom Beckett
Andrea Baker reviews LITTLE EASE by Aaron McCollough
Jim McCrary reviews ON EARTH: LAST POEMS AND AN ESSAY by Robert Creeley
David-Baptiste Chirot reviews SAINT GHETTO OF THE LOANS by Gabriel Pomerand
Craig Perez reviews I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET THROUGH TO EVERYONE by Anna Moschovakis
Eileen Tabios reviews SCRAWL by Susana Gardner
Laurel Johnson reviews UNDER THE WANDERER'S STAR by Sigman Byrd
Barbara Jane Reyes reviews GUTTED by Justin Chin
J. LeClerc reviews GARNET LANTERNS by Sally Rosen Kindred
Nicholas Manning reviews VAUDEVILLE by Allyssa Wolf
Madeline Tiger reviews UNCOMMON GEOGRAPHY by Therése Halscheid
Thomas Fink reviews INSIDE THE OUTSIDE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF AVANT-GARDE AMERICAN POETS, Edited by Roseanne Ritzema
Eileen Tabios reviews BOYS, A-Z: A PRIMER by Dan Waber
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews THE OBEDIENT DOOR by Sean Finney
Lynn Strongin reviews AN APOLOGY FOR LOVING THE OLD HYMNS and HOUSEHOLD OF CONTINUANCE, both by Jordan Smith
Allen Bramhall reviews MAINSTREAM by Michael Magee and MUSEE MECHANIQUE by Rodney Koeneke
Richard Lopez reviews MY SPACESHIP, Edited by Mark Lamoreaux
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER by Sandy McIntosh
Craig Perez reviews DO NOT AWAKEN THEM WITH HAMMERS by Lidija Dimkovska
Diane Lockward reviews SEEDPODS by Glenna Luschei
Allen Bramhall reviews POST~TWYLA by Jack Kimball
Jesse Crockett reviews POST~TWYLA by Jack Kimball
Susana Gardner reviews ORGANIC FURNITURE CELLAR by Jessica Smith
Leny M. Strobel reviews NOT EVEN DOGS by Ernesto Priego
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews OPERA: POEMS 1981 - 2002 by Barry Schwabsky
Michelle Bautista reviews OPERA: POEMS 1981 - 2002 by Barry Schwabsky
William Allegrezza reviews ON THE FLY by Amy King
Julie R. Enszer reviews MARBLE GODDESSES WITH TECHNICOLOR SKINS by Corinne Robins
Lynn Strongin reviews NECESSARY ANGELS by Carolyn Maisel
Dion Farquhar reviews INCESSANT SEEDS by Sheila Murphy
Steven Fama reviews BIRD-BOOK by Jessica Smith
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews THE GOOD CITY by Sharon Olinka
Eileen Tabios reviews NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY by Thomas Fink and OTAGES by John Bloomberg-Rissman
Beatriz Tabios reviews UNPROTECTED TEXTS by Tom Beckett
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews WARP SPASM by Basil King
Laurel Johnson reviews BREAKING THE FEVER by Mary Mackey
Rhett Pascual reviews MUSEUM OF ABSENCES by Luis H. Francia
Eileen Tabios reviews SIGNED EVEN AS A WAITING by Paul Klinger
Erica Kaufman reviews THE ANGER SCALE by Katie Degentesh
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews GAGARIN STREET by Piotr Gwiazda
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews THE GOOD CAMPAIGN by Amy King
Nicholas Downing reviews EPISODES by Mark Young
Vanessa Kenyon reviews A BOOK OF HER OWN: WORDS AND IMAGES TO HONOR THE BABAYLAN by Leny M. Strobel
Julie R. Enszer reviews THE FIFTH VOICE by Pamela Hart, Allen Strous, Victoria Givotovsky and Noah Kucij
William Allegrezza reviews METEORIC FLOWERS by Elizabeth Willis
Julie R. Enszer reviews NATURAL DEFENSES and FIRE IS FAVORABLE TO THE DREAMER, both by Susan Terris
Lynn Strongin reviews NOW YOU CARE by Di Brandt; SPEAKING OF POWER: THE POETRY OF DI BRANDT, Edited by Tanis MacDonald; and SEEDPODS by Glenna Luschei
Eileen Tabios reviews A PLACE TO STAND by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Susana Gardner reviews THE BEDSIDE GUIDE TO NO TELL MOTEL Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden
Jim McCrary reviews BOOK OF SKETCHES by Jack Kerouac
Mark Young reviews WOMEN OF THE BEAT GENERATION by Brenda Knight and
SAN FRANCISCO'S BURNING by Helen Adam
FEATURED POETS
Guillermo Parra presents JUAN SANCHEZ PELAEZ
Eric Gamalinda presents IAN BRAND
Paolo Javier presents AARON PECK
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
David Buuck reviews IN THE HEART OF ANOTHER COUNTRY by Etel Adnan
Joyelle McSweeney reviews the time at the end of this writing and 60 lv bo(e)mbs by Paolo Javier
Steffi Drewes reviews like wind loves a window by Andrea Baker
Elizabeth Treadwell reviews POEM FOR THE END OF TIME AND OTHER POEMS by Noelle Kocot
Christine Hamm reviews PIECES OF AIR IN THE EPIC by Brenda Hillman
ROASTING THE EDITOR
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE by Eileen R Tabios
INSIDE BACK COVER
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OUTSIDE BACK COVER
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November 30, 2006
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CONTENTS:
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
From Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Steven Fama reviews THE NIGHT I DROPPED SHAKESPEARE ON THE CAT by John Olson
Elizabeth Kate Switaj reviews THE END OF RUDE HANDLES by Jen Tynes
Nicholas Manning reviews UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS 1978-2006 by Tom Beckett
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews UNPROTECTED TEXTS: SELECTED POEMS 1978-2006 by Tom Beckett
Andrea Baker reviews LITTLE EASE by Aaron McCollough
Jim McCrary reviews ON EARTH: LAST POEMS AND AN ESSAY by Robert Creeley
David-Baptiste Chirot reviews SAINT GHETTO OF THE LOANS by Gabriel Pomerand
Craig Perez reviews I HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO GET THROUGH TO EVERYONE by Anna Moschovakis
Eileen Tabios reviews SCRAWL by Susana Gardner
Laurel Johnson reviews UNDER THE WANDERER'S STAR by Sigman Byrd
Barbara Jane Reyes reviews GUTTED by Justin Chin
J. LeClerc reviews GARNET LANTERNS by Sally Rosen Kindred
Nicholas Manning reviews VAUDEVILLE by Allyssa Wolf
Madeline Tiger reviews UNCOMMON GEOGRAPHY by Therése Halscheid
Thomas Fink reviews INSIDE THE OUTSIDE: AN ANTHOLOGY OF AVANT-GARDE AMERICAN POETS, Edited by Roseanne Ritzema
Eileen Tabios reviews BOYS, A-Z: A PRIMER by Dan Waber
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews THE OBEDIENT DOOR by Sean Finney
Lynn Strongin reviews AN APOLOGY FOR LOVING THE OLD HYMNS and HOUSEHOLD OF CONTINUANCE, both by Jordan Smith
Allen Bramhall reviews MAINSTREAM by Michael Magee and MUSEE MECHANIQUE by Rodney Koeneke
Richard Lopez reviews MY SPACESHIP, Edited by Mark Lamoreaux
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews THE AFTER-DEATH HISTORY OF MY MOTHER by Sandy McIntosh
Craig Perez reviews DO NOT AWAKEN THEM WITH HAMMERS by Lidija Dimkovska
Diane Lockward reviews SEEDPODS by Glenna Luschei
Allen Bramhall reviews POST~TWYLA by Jack Kimball
Jesse Crockett reviews POST~TWYLA by Jack Kimball
Susana Gardner reviews ORGANIC FURNITURE CELLAR by Jessica Smith
Leny M. Strobel reviews NOT EVEN DOGS by Ernesto Priego
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews OPERA: POEMS 1981 - 2002 by Barry Schwabsky
Michelle Bautista reviews OPERA: POEMS 1981 - 2002 by Barry Schwabsky
William Allegrezza reviews ON THE FLY by Amy King
Julie R. Enszer reviews MARBLE GODDESSES WITH TECHNICOLOR SKINS by Corinne Robins
Lynn Strongin reviews NECESSARY ANGELS by Carolyn Maisel
Dion Farquhar reviews INCESSANT SEEDS by Sheila Murphy
Steven Fama reviews BIRD-BOOK by Jessica Smith
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews THE GOOD CITY by Sharon Olinka
Eileen Tabios reviews NO APPOINTMENT NECESSARY by Thomas Fink and OTAGES by John Bloomberg-Rissman
Beatriz Tabios reviews UNPROTECTED TEXTS by Tom Beckett
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews WARP SPASM by Basil King
Laurel Johnson reviews BREAKING THE FEVER by Mary Mackey
Rhett Pascual reviews MUSEUM OF ABSENCES by Luis H. Francia
Eileen Tabios reviews SIGNED EVEN AS A WAITING by Paul Klinger
Erica Kaufman reviews THE ANGER SCALE by Katie Degentesh
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews GAGARIN STREET by Piotr Gwiazda
Fionna Doney Simmonds reviews THE GOOD CAMPAIGN by Amy King
Nicholas Downing reviews EPISODES by Mark Young
Vanessa Kenyon reviews A BOOK OF HER OWN: WORDS AND IMAGES TO HONOR THE BABAYLAN by Leny M. Strobel
Julie R. Enszer reviews THE FIFTH VOICE by Pamela Hart, Allen Strous, Victoria Givotovsky and Noah Kucij
William Allegrezza reviews METEORIC FLOWERS by Elizabeth Willis
Julie R. Enszer reviews NATURAL DEFENSES and FIRE IS FAVORABLE TO THE DREAMER, both by Susan Terris
Lynn Strongin reviews NOW YOU CARE by Di Brandt; SPEAKING OF POWER: THE POETRY OF DI BRANDT, Edited by Tanis MacDonald; and SEEDPODS by Glenna Luschei
Eileen Tabios reviews A PLACE TO STAND by Jimmy Santiago Baca
Susana Gardner reviews THE BEDSIDE GUIDE TO NO TELL MOTEL Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden
Jim McCrary reviews BOOK OF SKETCHES by Jack Kerouac
Mark Young reviews WOMEN OF THE BEAT GENERATION by Brenda Knight and
SAN FRANCISCO'S BURNING by Helen Adam
FEATURED POETS
Guillermo Parra presents JUAN SANCHEZ PELAEZ
Eric Gamalinda presents IAN BRAND
Paolo Javier presents AARON PECK
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
David Buuck reviews IN THE HEART OF ANOTHER COUNTRY by Etel Adnan
Joyelle McSweeney reviews the time at the end of this writing and 60 lv bo(e)mbs by Paolo Javier
Steffi Drewes reviews like wind loves a window by Andrea Baker
Elizabeth Treadwell reviews POEM FOR THE END OF TIME AND OTHER POEMS by Noelle Kocot
Christine Hamm reviews PIECES OF AIR IN THE EPIC by Brenda Hillman
ROASTING THE EDITOR
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews REPRODUCTIONS OF THE EMPTY FLAGPOLE by Eileen R Tabios
INSIDE BACK COVER
Woof Woof!
OUTSIDE BACK COVER
Purrrrrr.....
