THE INDEX TO GALATEA RESURRECTS
Wednesday, May 15, 2013
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 #20, May 13, 2013:
http://galatearesurrection20.blogspot.com/
Issue #19, Dec. 17, 2012:
http://galatearesurrection19.blogspot.com/
Issue #18, May 30, 2012:
http://galatearesurrection18.blogspot.com/
Issue #17, Dec. 22, 2011:
http://galatearesurrection17.blogspot.com/
Issue #16, April 5, 2011:
http://galatearesurrection16.blogspot.com/
Issue #15, Dec. 7, 2010:
http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/
Issue #14, May 5, 2010:
http://galatearesurrection14.blogspot.com/
Issue #13, Dec. 22, 2009:
http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/
Issue #12, May 20, 2009:
http://galatearesurrection12.blogspot.com/
Issue #11, December 17, 2008:
http://galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/
Issue #10, July 31, 2008:
http://galatearesurrection10.blogspot.com/
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/
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 #20, May 13, 2013:
http://galatearesurrection20.blogspot.com/
Issue #19, Dec. 17, 2012:
http://galatearesurrection19.blogspot.com/
Issue #18, May 30, 2012:
http://galatearesurrection18.blogspot.com/
Issue #17, Dec. 22, 2011:
http://galatearesurrection17.blogspot.com/
Issue #16, April 5, 2011:
http://galatearesurrection16.blogspot.com/
Issue #15, Dec. 7, 2010:
http://galatearesurrection15.blogspot.com/
Issue #14, May 5, 2010:
http://galatearesurrection14.blogspot.com/
Issue #13, Dec. 22, 2009:
http://galatearesurrection13.blogspot.com/
Issue #12, May 20, 2009:
http://galatearesurrection12.blogspot.com/
Issue #11, December 17, 2008:
http://galatearesurrection11.blogspot.com/
Issue #10, July 31, 2008:
http://galatearesurrection10.blogspot.com/
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/
Issue No. 20 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Galatea Resurrects #20!EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
T.C. Marshall reviews CHINESE SUN by Arkadii Dragomoschenko; DISTANCE WITHOUT DISTANCE by Barbara Einzig; THE BOOK OF A THOUSAND EYES by Lyn Hejinian; ON THE TRACKS OF WILD GAME by Tomaž Šalamun; THE RELATIONAL ELATIONS OF ORPHANED ALGEBRA by Eileen Tabios and j/j hastain; and ON THE PLANET WITHOUT VISA: SELECTED POETRY AND OTHER WRITINGS, AD 1960-2012 by Sotère Torregian
Neil de la Flor reviews CEMETERY CHESS: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS by Sandy McIntosh
Eileen Tabios engages MERIDIAN by Kathleen Jesme
Laura Madeline Wisemen reviews SALEM IN SÉANCE by Susana H. Case
Djelloul Marbrook reviews Ahsahta Press and seven of its books: GALLOWGLASS by Susan Tichy; WORK FROM MEMORY by Dan Beachy-Quick; THE LAST 4 THINGS by Kate Greenstreet; ZONE: ZERO by Stephanie Strickland; PLEASURE by Brian Teare; SANCTA by Andrew Grace; and COUNTERPART by Elizabeth Robinson
Eileen Tabios engages CLARITY AND OTHER POEMS by Thomas Fink
j/j hastain engages AFTER SWANN with text by Marthe Reed, animation by Yeon Choi and music by joshua carro. Directed and produced by Keith Horwick
E.E. Nobbs reviews A MARZIPAN FACTORY—NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Grzegorz Wroblewski, translated by Adam Zdrodowski
Eileen Tabios engages THE ROMANCES AND OTHER POEMS by Micah Cavaleri
Tom Beckett reviews RECALCULATING by Charles Bernstein
Rhoda Rosenfeld and Edric Mesmer engage SEVEN CONTROLLED VOCABULARIES AND OBITUARY 2004. THE JOY OF COOKING by Tan Lin
Eileen Tabios engages ROUNDING THE HUMAN by Linda Hogan
Patrick James Dunagan reviews WESTERN PRACTICE by Stephen Motika
Carrie Hunter engages MERRY HELL by Sara Larsen
Thomas Fink reviews “ONLY TO PRY”, a poem in TINY GOLD DRESS by John Godfrey
Eileen Tabios engages THE GRAPEVINE by Richard Lopez
Neil Leadbeater reviews THE WHITE MUSEUM by George Bilgere
Genevieve Kaplan reviews THE IMPORTANT THING IS … CARD GAME by Marjorie Tesser
Eileen Tabios engages WAXWINGS by Daniel Nathan Terry
Neil Leadbeater reviews THE LOST COUNTRY OF SIGHT by Neil Aitken
Judy Roitman reviews three books by Kim Hyesoon, all translated by Don Mee Choi: ALL THE GARBAGE OF THE WORLD UNITE, MOMMY MUST BE A FOUNTAIN OF FEATHERS, and PRINCESS ABANDONED
Eileen Tabios engages RENEGADE // HEART by Lisa M. Cole
Melissa Fry Beasley reviews ELVIS PRESLEY’S HIPS & MICK JAGGER’S LIPS by Susana H. Case
Eileen Tabios engages BRUSHSTROKES AND GLANCES by Djelloul Marbrook
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews WARSAW BIKINI and MOTHER WAS A TRAGIC GIRL, both by Sandra Simonds
Eileen Tabios engages ALL THIS FALLING AWAY by Tim Armentrout
Neil Leadbeater reviews EDGE EFFECTS by Jan Conn
Eileen Tabios engages ARSENIC LOBSTER: POETRY JOURNAL 2013, Issues 26, 27 & 28, Editor Susan Yountz
Carrie Hunter engages THE PRECIPICE OF JUPITER by erica lewis and mark stephen finein
Carrie Hunter engages THE RECITATION OF FORGETTING by Franck André Jamme
Eileen Tabios engages MEMORY CARDS by Susan M. Schultz
rob mclennan reviews SCARED TEXT by Eric Baus
Eileen Tabios engages THE BODY DOUBLE: A LONG POEM by Jared Harel
G.E. Schwartz reviews LIFE SENTENCES: APHORISMS & REFLECTIONS by Michael Perkins
Eileen Tabios engages IN MIXED COMPANY by Caleb Puckett & Friends, edited by Walter Ruhlmann and co-edited by Caleb Puckett
Jeff Harrison engages THE MORPHINE POEMS by Bobbi Lurie
Sally Deskins reviews SPRUNG by Laura Madeline Wiseman
Eileen Tabios engages WORK IS LOVE MADE VISIBLE by Jeanetta Calhoun Mish
Neil Leadbeater reviews LIFE’S A BEACH by Tammy Nuzzo-Morgan
Eileen Tabios engages AT THE TURNING OF THE LIGHT, VISIBLE BONES and ONE BIRD FALLING, all by CB Follett
jim mccrary reviews BLAME FAULT MOUNTAIN by Spencer Selby
Eileen Tabios engages MODULATIONS, ADDENDA and THE READER, all by Márton Koppány
Nicholas T. Spatafora engages LAST CALL AT THE TIN PALACE by Paul Pines and PRESENT TENSE by Anna Rabinowitz
Eileen Tabios engages PRIOR by James Berger
Eileen Tabios engages ITEMS by Tom Jenks
ESSAY
“Getting Past the ‘Lyric Block’ & the Individual as Ego: Poetic Method in John Clarke’s In the Analogy” by Bruce Holsapple
FEATURED POET … IN ILOCANO!
Luisa A. Igloria
FEATURED POET ... IN TAGALOG!
Joi Barrios
REVIEW OF A REVIEW
Richard Kostelanetz engages Thomas Fink’s review of Fict/ions and This Sentence
THE CRITICS WRITE POEMS
Djelloul Marbrook
Melissa Fry Beasley
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE
Kenneth Warren reviews BIBLIODEATH: MY ARCHIVES WITH LIFE IN FOOTNOTES by Andrei Codrescu
Lea Graham reviews VICTORY AND HER OPPOSITES by Amy England
Amaranth Borsuk reviews FRACTAL ECONOMIES by Derek Beaulieu
Lea Graham reviews HEAT LINES by Michael Anania
Amaranth Borsuk reviews DOG EAR by Erica Baum
Lea Graham reviews BELOVED IDEA by Ann Killough
Richard Lopez engages RIMBAUD by Graham Robb
Amaranth Borsuk reviews REVOLVER by Robyn Schiff
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A Catty Review by Iris McCrary
Monday, December 17, 2012
Issue No. 19 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Galatea Resurrects #19EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
John Herbert Cunningham reviews Four Books by Clarice Lispector: NEAR TO THE WILD HEART (Perto de selvage), translated by Alison Entrekin; THE PASSION ACCORDING TO G.H. (A Paixăo segundo G.H.), translated by Idra Novey; AQUA VIVA (Áqua Viva), translated by Stefan Tobler; A BREATH OF LIFE (Um sopro de vida; pulsações), translated by Johnny Lorenz
Ed Zahniser reviews WILLIAM BRONK: BURSTS OF LIGHT THE COLLECTED LATER POEMS, edited by David Clippinger
Eileen Tabios engages THE COLLECTED POEMS OF LUCILLE CLIFTON 1965-2010, edited by Kevin Young and Michael S. Glaser
Sunnylynn Thibodeaux reviews FAULT TREE by kathryn l. pringle
Judith Goldman reviews FAULT TREE by kathryn l. pringle
Micah Cavaleri reviews STILL: OF THE EARTH AS THE ARK WHICH DOES NOT MOVE by Matthew Cooperman
Guillermo Parra reviews UNCERTAIN TIME by Richard Caddel, with an introduction by Aaron Tieger
Jeff Harrison engages LETTERS TO MADELEINE: TENDER AS MEMORY by Guillaume Apollinaire, edited by Lawrence Campa, translated by Donald Nicholson-Smith
Bill Scalia reviews MAYBE A PAINTER by Christina Fisher
Jean Vengua reviews RING OF BONE: LEW WELCH COLLECTED POEMS, edited by Donald Allen
Burt Kimmelman reviews DIVINE MADNESS by Paul Pines
Lucy Biederman reviews RE- by Kristi Maxwell
Eileen Tabios engages MAY APPLE DEEP by Michael Sikkema
jim mccrary reviews CAPTAIN POETRY’S SUCKER PUNCH: A GUIDE TO THE HOMERIC PUNKHOLE, 1980-2012 by Kenneth Warren
Lucy Biederman reviews NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL by Harmony Holiday
Garrett J. Brown reviews MAP OF THE HYDROGEN WORLD by Steve Halle
Jaime Townsend reviews HART ISLAND by Stacy Szymaszek
Tom Hibbard reviews FOUR PAINTINGS by Guy Beining
Bill Scalia reviews BODY OF WATER by Erin M. Bertram
Eileen Tabios engages ANGLES OF INCIDENTS by Jon Curley
Tom Beckett reviews DECK OF DEEDS by Rodrigo Toscano
Allen Strous reviews IT CAN BE SOLVED BY WALKING by Jennifer Wallace
Patrick James Dunagan reviews BEYOND THE CHAMELEON’S SKILL by Darius Cooper
Eileen Tabios engages BENDING AT THE ELBOW by Matyei Yankelevich
Jeannine Hall Gailey reviews EVERY DRESS A DECISION by Elizabeth Austen
Edric Mesmer reviews publications by, or edited by, BRIAN ANG, RAE ARMANTROUT, G.N. GABBARD, YVONNE REDDICK, BUCKY FLEUR, ROBERT DUNCAN, rob mclennan, VINCENT CERVONE, JOHN CUTTITO, PAIGE MELIN, ALBERT GLOVER, JOHN C. CLARKE, and j/j hastain
Bill Scalia reviews ABSOLUTE ELSEWHERE by James Davies and Simon Taylor
Gayle Romasanta reviews FOR THE CITY THAT NEARLY BROKE ME by Barbara Jane Reyes
Bill Scalia reviews THE SILVER BOOK by Jen Bervin
Eileen Tabios engages COMMON TIME by Chris Pusateri
Tom Beckett reviews PORTRAIT AND DREAM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Bill Berkson
Bill Scalia reviews RUST OR GO MISSING by Lily Brown
Eileen Tabios engages ARDOR: POEMS OF LIFE by Janine Canan
Henry W. Leung reviews PHYLA OF JOY by Karen An-hwei Lee
Neil Leadbeater reviews SLEEPING WITH YOU AND OTHER NIGHT-TIME ADVENTURES by Geoff Stevens
Neil Leadbeater reviews ISLANDS IN THE BLOOD by Geoff Stevens
Mirna Perrin-Louis reviews “Heart as Arena” from THE FEELING IS ACTUAL by Paolo Javier
Eileen Tabios engages CLOUDFANG :: CAKEDIRT by Daniela Olszewska
John Bloomberg-Rissman engages BAN by Bhanu Kapil
Jon Curley reviews USELYSSES by Noel Black
Nicholas T. Spatafora reviews THE SHEPHERD’S ELEGY by John C. Goodman
Patrick James Dunagan reviews ON THE PLANET WITHOUT VISA: SELECTED POEMS AND OTHER WRITINGS AD 1960-2012 by Sotére Torregian
rob mclennan reviews AS LONG AS TREES LAST by Hoa Nguyen
Neil Leadbeater reviews A PARTIAL VIEW TOWARD NAZARETH by Kathryn Rantala
rob mclennan reviews THUNDERBIRD by Dorothea Lasky
Neil Leadbeater reviews THE WHITE CALF KICKS by Deborah Slicer
Jeffery Beam reviews APPROXIMATING DIAPASON by j/j hastain and tod thilleman
Eileen Tabios engages CUTTING TIME WITH A KNIFE by Michael Leong
NEW REVIEWS VIZ “RANDOM DIPTYCH”
Patrick James Dunagan reviews, viz “Random Diptych,” MATCHING SKIN by Shirlette Ammons, A COINCIDENCE OF WANTS by Michelle Detorie, THRONE by Michael Cross and MAJAKOVSKIJ EN TRAGEDY by Johannes Göransson
Genevieve Kaplan reviews, viz “Random Diptych” EARTHQUAKE CAME TO HARLEM by Jackie Sheeler and GLASS IS REALLY A LIQUID by Bruce Covey
Lucy Biederman engages, viz “Random Diptych,” PARTYKNIFE by Dan Magers and AUTOPSY TURVY by Thomas Fink & Maya Diablo Mason
ESSAYS
“Remembering Paul Blackburn” by jim mccrary
“VISUAL WRITING:
LANGUAGE AND EXISTENCE
THE IMAGE OF MATTER” by Tom Hibbard
“Engaging My Trans” by j/j hastain
FEATURED POET
Micah Cavaleri
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Genevieve Kaplan
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE
Edric Mesmer and Matthew Hall review DESIRING MAP by Megan Kaminski, FLASH BANG by James Cummins, GLOSS TO CARRIERS by Ian Heames, HGFED.JANVr; SOME STARSs by Jo Cook, THE KATECHON: LINES 101-200 by Michael Cross, PEACHES AND BATS, Issue 9, Spring 2012 edited by Sam Lohmann, THE RELATIONAL ELATIONS of ORPHANED ALGEBRA by Eileen R. Tabios & j/j hastain, SORRY YOU’RE OCCUPIED: SPONTANEOUS ORDER, edited by James Louden, WHEREIN? HE ASKS OF MEMORY by Jeremy Balius, WORDS ON EDGE by Michael Leong
John Olson reviews WHERE SHADOWS WILL: SELECTED POEMS 1988-2008 by Norma Cole
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A POETICS LESSON: THE IMPORTANCE OF THAT CLOSE-UP!
Wednesday, May 30, 2012
Issue No. 18 TABLE OF CONTENTS
[N.B. Please go to http://galatearesurrection18.blogspot.com for Issue 18. For convenience, its Table of Contents is listed below.]EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
T.C. Marshall Reviews GLOWBALL by Steven Farmer and SOME MATH by Bill Luoma
Eileen Tabios Engages AS IF IT FELL FROM THE SUN: AN ETHERDOME ANTHOLOGY: TEN YEARS OF WOMEN’S WRITING, Edited by Colleen Lookingbill & Elizabeth Robinson
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews ONE SLEEPS THE OTHER DOESN’T by Jacqueline Waters
Peg Duthie Engages PARROT ON A MOTORCYCLE: ON POETIC CRAFT / Papoušek na Motocyklu: O Řemsle Básnickém by Vítězslav Nezval; translated by Jennifer Rogers; designed by Amy Mees and Mark Wagner
Lucy Biederman Reviews RAMBO GOES TO IDAHO by Scott Abels
Prem Kumari Srivastava Reviews POEMS COME HOME by Sukrita and translated by Gulzar
Tom Hibbard Reviews UNTITLED by Reed Altemus
T.C. Marshall Reviews PLANISPHERE by John Ashbery
Eileen Tabios Engages CHINOISERIE by Karen Rigby
Peg Duthie Engages THE NEIGHBORHOODS OF MY PAST SORROW by Jesse Millner
Graham Sutherland Reviews LONG DISTANCE by Steven Cordova
Thomas Fink Reviews THE BIGGER WORLD by Noelle Kocot
rob mclennan Reviews EITHER WAY I’M CELEBRATING by Sommer Browning
Tom Hibbard Reviews SELECTED POEMS by Nick Demske
Lucy Biederman Reviews THE RABBITS COULD SING by Amber Flora Thomas
T.C. Marshall Reviews THE LIGHT BEFORE DAWN by Drum Hadley
Eileen Tabios Engages 100 POEMS by S.S. Prasad
rob mclennan Reviews MY DARLING NELLIE GREY by George Bowering
Gerald Schwartz Reviews THE WAY WE LIVE by Burt Kimmelman
T.C. Marshall Reviews WHAT IT IS LIKE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Charles North
Kathleen Kirk Engages SHE RETURNS TO THE FLOATING WORLD by Jeannine Hall Gailey
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews NOTES FROM IRRELEVANCE by Anselm Berrigan
Lucy Biederman Reviews SAY SO by Dora Malech
T.C. Marshall Reviews STRANGER IN TOWN by Cedar Sigo
Eileen Tabios Engages DRAFT 96: VELOCITY by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Tom Beckett Reviews HUMANIMAL: A PROJECT FOR FUTURE CHILDREN by Bhanu Kapil
rob mclennan Reviews SONNETS: LOUISE LABE by Edward Byrne
Eileen Tabios Engages HAVE by Marc Gaba and CATCH LIGHT by Sarah O'Brien
Eric Wayne Dickey Reviews WILD PLACE by Erica Goss
Peg Duthie Engages YES, WE ARE STILL DANCING by Susan Amstater, Connie Dillman, and Jacquelyn Stroud Spier
Eileen Tabios Engages WE / CUM ::: COME / IN THE YIELD FIELDS /AMONGST STATUES WITH INTERIOR ARMS and ASYMPTOTIC LOVER//THERMODYNAMICVENTS, both by j/j hastain
Peg Duthie Engages ENJOY HOT OR ICED: POEMS IN CONVERSATION AND A CONVVERSATION by Denise Duhamel and Amy Lemmon
rob mclennan Reviews KILLDEER by Phil Hall
Eileen Tabios Engages ENGINE EMPIRE by Cathy Park Hong
Annmarie Lockhart Reviews MOTHER EARTH by Adam Fieled
Emily Geris Reviews TORCH SONG TANGO CHOIR by Julie Sophia Paegle
Dee Thompson Reviews REBIRTH OF WONDER, POEMS OF THE COMMON LIFE by David M. Johnson
Neil Leadbeater Reviews NDAKINNA: OUR LAND by Joseph Bruchac
Lucy Biederman Reviews THE NORMAL HEART AND HOW IT WORKS by Rachael Lyon
Bev Sandell Greenberg Reviews AN OPEN DOOR IN THE LANDSCAPE by Elisabeth Harvor
Tom Beckett Reviews HYPERGLOSSIA by Stacy Szymaszek
Therese Halscheid Reviews MEANWHILE: POEMS by Kathleen O’Toole
j/j jastain Engages E.S.P. by Michael Leong
Gerald Schwartz Reviews CARPE DIEM: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Michael Perkins
Charles P. Ries Reviews UNEXPECTED SHINY THINGS by Bruce Dethlefsen
Tom Beckett Reviews COEUR DE LION by Ariana Reines
Jeff Harrison Engages ILLUMINATIONS by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by John Ashbery
Neil Leadbeater Reviews IF NOTHING ELSE by Harold Bowes
A. Molotkov Reviews THE ANGLE OF SHARPEST ASCENDING by Ingrid Wendt
Nicholas T. Spatafora Reviews GIRL IN THE MIRROR by Jack Lynch
Tom Beckett Reviews LOOKING UP HARRYETTE MULLEN: INTERVIEWS ON SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY AND OTHER WORKS by Barbara Henning
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews
50 POEMS FROM 50 BOOKS IN (ABOUT) 50 DAYS:
“the mirror says” from ENTREPOT by Mark McMorris
“Flower Flower” from PINKO by Jen Benka
“Either Way I’m Celebrating” from EITHER WAY I’M CELEBRATING by Sommer Browning
“Dark Card” from DARK CARD by Rebecca Foust
“consider my dear” from AAAAAAAAAAAALICE by Jennifer Karmin
"Kingdom Animalia" from KINGDOM ANIMALIA by Aracelis Girmay
“Sheena Is a Punk Rocker” from DEAR PRUDENCE: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by David Trinidad
“3. Designer Vagina” from THIRTEEN DESIGNER VAGINAS by Juliet Cook
“[Chinese characters] / Please forgive me” from YINGLESHI: SINOPHONIC ENGLISH POETRY AND POETICS by Jonathan Stalling
“Getting Closer to the Big Bang” from BLACK SEEDS ON A WHITE DISH by Shira Dentz
“Permanent Water” from MERCURY by Ariana Reines
“Ligature Strain” from LIGATURE STRAIN: POEMS by Kim Koga
“Either She Was” from EITHER SHE WAS by Karin Randolph
“Live From The Kaukasus” from AND IF YOU DON’T GO CRAZY I’LL MEET YOU HERE TOMORROW by Filip Marinovich
“Affirmation” from YOUR OX-HEAD MASK AS PROOF by George Kalamaras
“Network 1: The Knot” from THE NETWORK by Jena Osman
“Self-Stalked” from SHOT by Christine Hume
"flash of mask" from AND I WOULD OPEN by Jill Stengel
“Narcissus 2000” from STUPID BIRDS by Logan Ryan Smith
“Between” from MR. MAGOO by Steve Tills
“Survivor” from RUINS by Margaret Randall
“You’re my sister” from THE BOUNTY: FOUR ADDRESSES by Kate Schapira
"The Earth Is Flat and So's My Ass" from THE MYSTERY OF THE HIDDEN DRIVEWAY by Jennifer L Knox
"Paxil” from HOLD TIGHT: THE TRUCK DARLING POEMS by Jeni Olin
THE VAST PRACTICAL ENGINE by Eric Hoffman
“[Wake me from sleep]” in O BON by Brandon Shimoda
“Wherein Proliferation is Explained to the Surrogates” in IATROGENIC: THEIR TESTIMONIES by Danielle Pafunda
“Magdalene’s Prayer” in MAGDALENE & THE MERMAIDS by Elizabeth Kate Switaj
"0% APR" in SEDNA by Michael Helsem
"Warm All the Time Now" in PERSONATIONSKIN by Karl Parker
“XXX” in SARD by Philip Byron Oakes
“’is it true your father was a swan’” in PALM TO PINE by Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
“The Fox-Wife Dreams” in SHE RETURNS TO THE FLOATING WORLD by Jeannine Hall Gailey
“Deep in Snow” in GUESTBOOK by Rick Snyder
“#5” in DISPATCH by Marci Nelligan / Nicole Mauro
“Hitler’s Mustache: The Mustache Is a Riddle: Except It Can’t Be Answered” in HITLER’S MUSTACHE by Peter Davis
“Three Sets of Teeth” in WHEN YOU BIT … by Adam Fieled
“Enjoy Your Symptom” in TESTIFY by Joseph Lease
“Secret Weapon” in SECRET WEAPON: SELECTED LATE POEMS BY EUGEN JEBELEANU (translated from the Romanian by Matthew Zapruder and Ralph Ioanid
"Confession of a Corpuscle: Cancer-Parable of Plutocracy (For the Bush Money Boys)" in MILLENIAL HARVEST: THE LIFE & COLLECTED POEMS OF CHARLES GREENLEAF BELL
“Explanation” in DRIVING MONTANA ALONE by Katie Phillips
“Voodoo VIII: Spiritual Cleansing and Blessing” in BLOOD DAZZLER by Patricia Smith
“Ranges” in PART: SHORT LIFE HOUSING by cris cheek
“(one) Alone in that cage” in FROM IDYLLS &RUSHES by Susana Gardner
“Apologies to the Spider” in THE STEEL VEIL by Jack Marshall
“The Double Rainbow (Mānoa Valley)” in TONTO’S REVENGE by Adam Aitken
CITY by C.J. Martin
“(metal work)” in IN WAYS IMPOSSIBLE TO FOLD by Michael Rerick
“Elders” in PRINCESS OF THE WORLD IN LOVE by Stan Apps
“8.october.2002” in KEY BRIDGE by Ken Rumble
AFTERWORD to 50 POEMS IN 50 BOOKS IN 50 DAYS
FEATURED POET
Sandy McIntosh
INTERVIEW
Thomas Fink Inteviews Sawako Nakayasu
THE CRITICS WRITE POEMS
John Bloomberg-Rissman
Peg Duthie
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE
Dana Wilde Reviews VANISHING ACT: POEMS by Bruce Holsapple
Alan Ramon Clinton Reviews THE FEELING IS ACTUAL by Paolo Javier
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Driven to Poetry!
Thursday, December 22, 2011
ISSUE NO. 17 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dec. 22, 2011
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Nicholas Manning Reviews IRRESPONSIBILITY by Chris Vitiello
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews HOW PHENOMENA APPEAR TO UNFOLD by Leslie Scalapino
Allen Bramhall Reviews AT THAT by Skip Fox
T.C. Marshall Reviews ETHICS OF SLEEP by Bernadette Mayer
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CRAYON by Allison Benis White
Laura Trantham Smith Reviews UTOPIA MINUS by Susan Briante
Moira Richards Reviews IN PARAN by Larissa Shmailo
Philip Troy Reviews THE FEELING IS ACTUAL by Paolo Javier
Eileen Tabios Engages THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT PAINTERS SHOULDN’T TALK: A GUSTONBOOK by Patrick James Dunagan
Logan Fry Reviews IN THE COMMON DREAM OF GEORGE OPPEN by Joseph Bradshaw
Eileen Tabios Engages TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION by Andrea Rexilius
Thomas Fink Reviews PARTS AND OTHER PIECES by Tom Beckett
T.C. Marshall Reviews TO LIGHT OUT by Karen Weiser and DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY by MacGregor Card
Allen Bramhall Reviews CITIZEN CAIN by Ben Friedlander
William Allegrezza Reviews FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH by Sandy McIntosh
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews THERE’S THE HAND AND THERE’S THE ARID CHAIR by Tomaz Salamun
Eileen Tabios Engages MY LIFE AS A DOLL by Elizabeth Kirschner
Gabriel Lovatt Reviews THE USE OF SPEECH by Nathalie Sarraute, translated from the French by Barbara Wright
Logan Fry Reviews PORTRAIT OF COLON DASH PARENTHESIS by Jeffrey Jullich
Eileen Tabios Engages STILL: OF THE EARTH AS THE ARK WHICH DOES NOT MOVE by Matthew Cooperman
Bill Scalia Reviews THE URGE TO BELIEVE IS STRONGER THAN BELIEF ITSELF by Erin M. Bertram
Kristin Berkey-Abbot Reviews FAULKNER’S ROSARY by Sarah Vap
Micah Cavaleri Reviews KYOTOLOGIC by Anne Gorrick
Tom Beckett Engages AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY GENDER, PRURIENT OMNIBUS ANARCHIC, RESTITUTIONS FOR A NEWER BOUNTIFUL VERB, COCK-BURN, OUR BODIES . . . ARE BEAUTY INDUCERS, THE ULTERIOR EDEN, ASYMPTOTIC LOVER//THERMODYNAMIC VENTS, all by j/j hastain
j/j hastain Reviews A GOOD CUNTBOY IS HARD TO FIND by Doug Rice
Eileen Tabios Engages 60 TEXTOS by Sarah Riggs
Bill Scalia Reviews BEAT THING by David Meltzer
Logan Fry Reviews HANK by Abraham Smith
T.C. Marshall Reviews EXPLORATIONS IN NAVAJO POETRY AND POETICS by Anthony K. Webster and THE PRINCIPLE OF MEASURE IN COMPOSITION BY FIELD: PROJECTIVE VERSE II by Charles Olson, Ed. Joshue Hoeynck
Eileen Tabios Engages TEENY TINY #13, Edited by Amanda Laughtland
Allen Bramhall Reviews ANTIPHONIES: ESSAYS ON WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL POETRIES IN CANADA, Ed. Nate Dorward
Gabriel Lovatt Reviews VACANT LOT by Oliver Rohe, translated from the French by Laird Hunt
Eric Wayne Dickey Reviews PUNISH HONEY by Karen Leona Anderson
Eileen Tabios Engages INSIDE THE MONEY MACHINE by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Pam Brown Reviews SLY MONGOOSE by Ken Bolton
T.C. Marshall Reviews HOW LONG by Ron Padgett
Neil Leadbeater Reviews A HERON IN BUENOS AIRES by Luis Benítez
Jean Vengua Reviews THE WISDOM ANTHOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN BUDDHIST POETRY, Editor Andrew Schelling
Eileen Tabios Engages WAIFS AND STRAYS by Micah Ballard
T.C. Marshall Reviews THE NEW TOURISM by Harry Mathews
Guillermo Parra Reviews HOW’S THE COWS by Jess Mynes
T.C. Marshall Reviews THE WIDE ROAD by Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews THE COMMONS by Sean Bonney
Pam Brown Reviews PERRIER FEVER by Pete Spence
Jim McCrary Engages MARROWING and THE NAME OF THIS INTERSECTION IS FROST, both by Maryrose Larkin
Tom Beckett Reviews THE NAME OF THIS INTERSECTION IS FROST by Maryrose Larkin
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews “NEITHER WIT NOR GOLD” by Ammiel Alcalay and STREET METE: VERTICAL ELEGIES 6 by Sam Truitt
Eileen Tabios Engages RADIATOR by NF Huth
Genevieve Kaplan Reviews SPEAKING OFF CENTRE by James Cummins, CORPORATE GEES (VOLUME V) by Christopher William Purdom, KITCHEN TIDBITS by Amanda Laughtland, FROM HERE by Zoë Skoulding with images by Simonetta Moro, and TWO HATS APPEAR WHEN APPLAUDED: AN IMPROVISATION by Raymond Farr
L.S. Bassen Reviews IT MIGHT TURN OUT WE ARE REAL by Susan Scarlata
rob mclennan Reviews THREE NOVELS by Elizabeth Robinson
Patrick James Dunagan & Ava Koohbor Review THE TELLER OF TALES: STORIES FROM FERODWSI’S SHAHNAHMEN, Translated by Richard Jeffrey Newman
Tom Hibbard Reviews SELECTED POEMS by Nick Demske, A MYSTICAL THEOLOGY OF THE LIMBIC FISSURE by Peter O’Leary, HOSTILE WITNESS by Garin Cycholl, UNABLE TO FULLY CALIFORNIA by Larry Sawyer, AIN’T GOT ALL NIGHT by Buck Downs, and ANSWER by Mark DuCharme
Jeff Harrison Engages THE DANGEROUS ISLANDS (A NOVEL) by Séamas Cain
Eileen Tabios Engages ALIENS: AN ISLAND by Uljana Wolf, Trans. from the German by Monika Zobel
Kristin Berkey-Abbot Reviews LOOKING UP HARRYETTE MULLEN: INTERVIEWS ON SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY AND OTHER WORKS by Barbara Henning
G. Justin Hulog Reviews ARCHIPELAGO DUST by Karen Llagas
Allen Bramhall Reviews FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza
Eileen Tabios Engages RED WALLS by James Tolan
Juliet Cook Reviews COMPENDIUM by Kristina Marie Darling
Bill Scalia Reviews WHAT THE RAVEN SAID by Robert Alexander
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews SEE HOW WE ALMOST FLY by Alison Luterman
Sunnylynn Thibodeaux Reviews THE INCOMPOSSIBLE by Carrie Hunter
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews 908-1078 and THE PERSIANS BY AESCHYLUS, both by Brandon Brown
Benjamin Winkler Reviews WE IN MY TRANS by j/j hastain
Mary Kasimor Reviews T&U&/LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST/HISTORY IS GORGEOUS by Jared Schickling
Jeff Harrison Engages T&U& LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST HISTORY IS GORGEOUS by Jared Schickling
rob mclennan Reviews APOLLINAIRE’S SPEECH TO THE WAR MEDIC by Jake Kennedy
Megan Burns Reviews LUCKY by Mairéad Byrne and A REDUCTION by Jimmy Lo
Paul Lai Engages KĒROTAKIS : by Janice Lee
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews CLEARVIEW by Ted Greenwald and THE PUBLIC GARDENS: POEMS AND HISTORY by Linda Norton
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews KAZOO DREAMBOATS OR, ON WHAT THERE IS by J.H. Prynne
Gregory W. Randall Reviews THE HOMELESSNESS OF SELF by Susan Terris
Jim McCrary Reviews MY COMMON HEART by Anne Boyer and ISSUE 8, Newsletter from James Yeary
Megan Burns Reviews A TOAST IN THE HOUSE OF FRIENDS by Akilah Oliver
Eileen Tabios Engages INFO RATION by Stan Apps
Bill Scalia Reviews THE MORNING NEWS IS EXCITING by Don Mee Choi
Micah Cavaleri Reviews ACOUSTIC EXPERIENCE by Noah Eli Gordon
Jim McCrary Reviews COLLECTION by Megan Kaminski, MANTIC SEMANTIC by A.L. Nielsen, LVNGinTONGUES by G. E. Schwartz, and PO DOOM by jim mccrary
Eileen Tabios Engages BLUE COLLAR POET by G. Emil Reutter
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews IF NOT METAMORPHIC by Brenda Iljima
Eileen Tabios Engages THE ULTERIOR EDEN: A SERIES OF GENUFLECTIONS, RUMINATIONS AND GYROSCOPES by j/j hastain
INTERVIEW
Tom Beckett Interviews NF Huth
FEATURE ARTICLE
“Make a Wish…and Blow out the Candles: An Explication of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie” by Nicholas T. Spatafora
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE
Paul Lai Reviews AUTOMATON BIOGRAPHIES by Larissa Lai
ADVERTISEMENTS
Poets on the Great Recession: Poets reflect on the Great Recession, and its impact on their Poetry. Because
Poets On Adoption:
Poetry: it inevitably relates to -- among others -- identity, history, culture, class, race, community, economics, politics, power, loss, health, desire, regret, language, form and genre disruption, love ... as well as the absences thereofs. The same may be said about Adoption."
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A Thousand Words Plus...!
Dec. 22, 2011
[N.B. You can scroll down on blog or click on highlighted names or titles to go directly to the referenced article.]
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Nicholas Manning Reviews IRRESPONSIBILITY by Chris Vitiello
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews HOW PHENOMENA APPEAR TO UNFOLD by Leslie Scalapino
Allen Bramhall Reviews AT THAT by Skip Fox
T.C. Marshall Reviews ETHICS OF SLEEP by Bernadette Mayer
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews SELF-PORTRAIT WITH CRAYON by Allison Benis White
Laura Trantham Smith Reviews UTOPIA MINUS by Susan Briante
Moira Richards Reviews IN PARAN by Larissa Shmailo
Philip Troy Reviews THE FEELING IS ACTUAL by Paolo Javier
Eileen Tabios Engages THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO THINK THAT PAINTERS SHOULDN’T TALK: A GUSTONBOOK by Patrick James Dunagan
Logan Fry Reviews IN THE COMMON DREAM OF GEORGE OPPEN by Joseph Bradshaw
Eileen Tabios Engages TO BE HUMAN IS TO BE A CONVERSATION by Andrea Rexilius
Thomas Fink Reviews PARTS AND OTHER PIECES by Tom Beckett
T.C. Marshall Reviews TO LIGHT OUT by Karen Weiser and DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY by MacGregor Card
Allen Bramhall Reviews CITIZEN CAIN by Ben Friedlander
William Allegrezza Reviews FORTY-NINE GUARANTEED WAYS TO ESCAPE DEATH by Sandy McIntosh
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews THERE’S THE HAND AND THERE’S THE ARID CHAIR by Tomaz Salamun
Eileen Tabios Engages MY LIFE AS A DOLL by Elizabeth Kirschner
Gabriel Lovatt Reviews THE USE OF SPEECH by Nathalie Sarraute, translated from the French by Barbara Wright
Logan Fry Reviews PORTRAIT OF COLON DASH PARENTHESIS by Jeffrey Jullich
Eileen Tabios Engages STILL: OF THE EARTH AS THE ARK WHICH DOES NOT MOVE by Matthew Cooperman
Bill Scalia Reviews THE URGE TO BELIEVE IS STRONGER THAN BELIEF ITSELF by Erin M. Bertram
Kristin Berkey-Abbot Reviews FAULKNER’S ROSARY by Sarah Vap
Micah Cavaleri Reviews KYOTOLOGIC by Anne Gorrick
Tom Beckett Engages AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF MY GENDER, PRURIENT OMNIBUS ANARCHIC, RESTITUTIONS FOR A NEWER BOUNTIFUL VERB, COCK-BURN, OUR BODIES . . . ARE BEAUTY INDUCERS, THE ULTERIOR EDEN, ASYMPTOTIC LOVER//THERMODYNAMIC VENTS, all by j/j hastain
j/j hastain Reviews A GOOD CUNTBOY IS HARD TO FIND by Doug Rice
Eileen Tabios Engages 60 TEXTOS by Sarah Riggs
Bill Scalia Reviews BEAT THING by David Meltzer
Logan Fry Reviews HANK by Abraham Smith
T.C. Marshall Reviews EXPLORATIONS IN NAVAJO POETRY AND POETICS by Anthony K. Webster and THE PRINCIPLE OF MEASURE IN COMPOSITION BY FIELD: PROJECTIVE VERSE II by Charles Olson, Ed. Joshue Hoeynck
Eileen Tabios Engages TEENY TINY #13, Edited by Amanda Laughtland
Allen Bramhall Reviews ANTIPHONIES: ESSAYS ON WOMEN'S EXPERIMENTAL POETRIES IN CANADA, Ed. Nate Dorward
Gabriel Lovatt Reviews VACANT LOT by Oliver Rohe, translated from the French by Laird Hunt
Eric Wayne Dickey Reviews PUNISH HONEY by Karen Leona Anderson
Eileen Tabios Engages INSIDE THE MONEY MACHINE by Minnie Bruce Pratt
Pam Brown Reviews SLY MONGOOSE by Ken Bolton
T.C. Marshall Reviews HOW LONG by Ron Padgett
Neil Leadbeater Reviews A HERON IN BUENOS AIRES by Luis Benítez
Jean Vengua Reviews THE WISDOM ANTHOLOGY OF NORTH AMERICAN BUDDHIST POETRY, Editor Andrew Schelling
Eileen Tabios Engages WAIFS AND STRAYS by Micah Ballard
T.C. Marshall Reviews THE NEW TOURISM by Harry Mathews
Guillermo Parra Reviews HOW’S THE COWS by Jess Mynes
T.C. Marshall Reviews THE WIDE ROAD by Carla Harryman and Lyn Hejinian
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews THE COMMONS by Sean Bonney
Pam Brown Reviews PERRIER FEVER by Pete Spence
Jim McCrary Engages MARROWING and THE NAME OF THIS INTERSECTION IS FROST, both by Maryrose Larkin
Tom Beckett Reviews THE NAME OF THIS INTERSECTION IS FROST by Maryrose Larkin
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews “NEITHER WIT NOR GOLD” by Ammiel Alcalay and STREET METE: VERTICAL ELEGIES 6 by Sam Truitt
Eileen Tabios Engages RADIATOR by NF Huth
Genevieve Kaplan Reviews SPEAKING OFF CENTRE by James Cummins, CORPORATE GEES (VOLUME V) by Christopher William Purdom, KITCHEN TIDBITS by Amanda Laughtland, FROM HERE by Zoë Skoulding with images by Simonetta Moro, and TWO HATS APPEAR WHEN APPLAUDED: AN IMPROVISATION by Raymond Farr
L.S. Bassen Reviews IT MIGHT TURN OUT WE ARE REAL by Susan Scarlata
rob mclennan Reviews THREE NOVELS by Elizabeth Robinson
Patrick James Dunagan & Ava Koohbor Review THE TELLER OF TALES: STORIES FROM FERODWSI’S SHAHNAHMEN, Translated by Richard Jeffrey Newman
Tom Hibbard Reviews SELECTED POEMS by Nick Demske, A MYSTICAL THEOLOGY OF THE LIMBIC FISSURE by Peter O’Leary, HOSTILE WITNESS by Garin Cycholl, UNABLE TO FULLY CALIFORNIA by Larry Sawyer, AIN’T GOT ALL NIGHT by Buck Downs, and ANSWER by Mark DuCharme
Jeff Harrison Engages THE DANGEROUS ISLANDS (A NOVEL) by Séamas Cain
Eileen Tabios Engages ALIENS: AN ISLAND by Uljana Wolf, Trans. from the German by Monika Zobel
Kristin Berkey-Abbot Reviews LOOKING UP HARRYETTE MULLEN: INTERVIEWS ON SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY AND OTHER WORKS by Barbara Henning
G. Justin Hulog Reviews ARCHIPELAGO DUST by Karen Llagas
Allen Bramhall Reviews FRAGILE REPLACEMENTS by William Allegrezza
Eileen Tabios Engages RED WALLS by James Tolan
Juliet Cook Reviews COMPENDIUM by Kristina Marie Darling
Bill Scalia Reviews WHAT THE RAVEN SAID by Robert Alexander
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews SEE HOW WE ALMOST FLY by Alison Luterman
Sunnylynn Thibodeaux Reviews THE INCOMPOSSIBLE by Carrie Hunter
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews 908-1078 and THE PERSIANS BY AESCHYLUS, both by Brandon Brown
Benjamin Winkler Reviews WE IN MY TRANS by j/j hastain
Mary Kasimor Reviews T&U&/LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST/HISTORY IS GORGEOUS by Jared Schickling
Jeff Harrison Engages T&U& LASH YOUR NIPPLES TO A POST HISTORY IS GORGEOUS by Jared Schickling
rob mclennan Reviews APOLLINAIRE’S SPEECH TO THE WAR MEDIC by Jake Kennedy
Megan Burns Reviews LUCKY by Mairéad Byrne and A REDUCTION by Jimmy Lo
Paul Lai Engages KĒROTAKIS : by Janice Lee
Patrick James Dunagan Reviews CLEARVIEW by Ted Greenwald and THE PUBLIC GARDENS: POEMS AND HISTORY by Linda Norton
John Bloomberg-Rissman Reviews KAZOO DREAMBOATS OR, ON WHAT THERE IS by J.H. Prynne
Gregory W. Randall Reviews THE HOMELESSNESS OF SELF by Susan Terris
Jim McCrary Reviews MY COMMON HEART by Anne Boyer and ISSUE 8, Newsletter from James Yeary
Megan Burns Reviews A TOAST IN THE HOUSE OF FRIENDS by Akilah Oliver
Eileen Tabios Engages INFO RATION by Stan Apps
Bill Scalia Reviews THE MORNING NEWS IS EXCITING by Don Mee Choi
Micah Cavaleri Reviews ACOUSTIC EXPERIENCE by Noah Eli Gordon
Jim McCrary Reviews COLLECTION by Megan Kaminski, MANTIC SEMANTIC by A.L. Nielsen, LVNGinTONGUES by G. E. Schwartz, and PO DOOM by jim mccrary
Eileen Tabios Engages BLUE COLLAR POET by G. Emil Reutter
Fiona Sze-Lorrain Reviews IF NOT METAMORPHIC by Brenda Iljima
Eileen Tabios Engages THE ULTERIOR EDEN: A SERIES OF GENUFLECTIONS, RUMINATIONS AND GYROSCOPES by j/j hastain
INTERVIEW
Tom Beckett Interviews NF Huth
FEATURE ARTICLE
“Make a Wish…and Blow out the Candles: An Explication of Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie” by Nicholas T. Spatafora
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Sunnylyn Thibodeaux
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE
Paul Lai Reviews AUTOMATON BIOGRAPHIES by Larissa Lai
ADVERTISEMENTS
Poets on the Great Recession: Poets reflect on the Great Recession, and its impact on their Poetry. Because
"To bring the poem into the world / is to bring the world into the poem."
Poets On Adoption:
Poetry: it inevitably relates to -- among others -- identity, history, culture, class, race, community, economics, politics, power, loss, health, desire, regret, language, form and genre disruption, love ... as well as the absences thereofs. The same may be said about Adoption."
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A Thousand Words Plus...!
Tuesday, April 05, 2011
Issue No. 16 TABLE OF CONTENTS
April 5, 2011
[N.B. You can click on highlighted names or titles to go directly to the referenced article.]
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
John Herbert Cunningham reviews THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO WALLACE STEVENS edited, and with an introduction by, John N. Serio; WALLACE STEVENS: SELECTED POEMS edited, and with an introduction by, John N. Serio; and WALLACE STEVENS AND THE AESTHETICS OF ABSTRACTION by Edward Ragg
Andrew Durbin reviews THE DIHEDRONS GAZELLE-DIHEDRALS ZOOM by Leslie Scalapino
Allen Bramhall reviews DOGGY DOO by Bob Brueckl & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
Marthe Reed reviews SONJA SEKULA: GRACE IN A COW’S eye : A MEMOIR : by Kathrin Schaeppi
Eileen Tabios engages SONJA SEKULA: GRACE IN A COW’S eye : A MEMOIR : by Kathrin Schaeppi
Allen Edwin Butt reviews PETALS, EMBLEMS by Lynn Behrendt
Eileen Tabios engages FOR THE ORDINARY ARTIST: SHORT REVIEWS, OCCASIONAL PIECES & MORE by Bill Berkson
T.C. Marshall reviews THE ARAKAKI PERMUTATIONS and WORLDBOOK: 1925—A POEM, both by James Maughn
Nicholas T. Spatafora reviews DAYS POEM, Volume I and Volume II by Allen Bramhall
Peg Duthie engages THE GODDESS OF GOODBYE by James R. Whitley and IGNOBLE TRUTHS by Gail White
Catherine Daly reviews HOW MANY MORE OF THEM ARE YOU? and VICINITIES, both by Lisa Lubasch
Eileen Tabios engages THE NEW POETICS by Mathew Timmons
Caleb Puckett reviews HOW TO BE PERFECT and HOW LONG, both by Ron Padgett
Kimberly Wine reviews CUNTIONARY / REPENT AT YOUR LEISURE (OR THE FOLKLORE OF HELL) by Benjamin Perez
Nicholas T. Spatafora reviews THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego and Eileen Tabios
Andrew Durbin reviews THIS TIME WE ARE BOTH by Clark Coolidge
T.C. Marshall reviews OPENING DAY and THE WHALEN POEM, both by William Corbett
Harry Thorne reviews THE ECO LANGUAGE READER edited by Brenda Iijima and IF NOT METAMORPHIC by Brenda Iijima
Tom Beckett reviews IF NOT METAMORPHIC by Brenda Iijima
Eileen Tabios engages 100 SCENES by Tim Gaze
Simon Perchik reviews CREATURELY DRIFT, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Allen Planz; EROS DESCENDING, POEMS by Edward Butscher; THE DISCOURSE LETTERS by Anselm Parlatore; THAT NOD TOWARD LOVE, NEW POEMS by Graham Everett; SILVER FISH, POEMS by Ray Freed; SHARPSBURG by Joel Chace; and BLUE EDGE by Susan Tepper
Allen Edwin Butt reviews TERMINAL HUMMING by K. Lorraine Graham
Micah Cavaleri reviews ENGLISH FRAGMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOUL by Martin Corless-Smith
Jessica Bozek reviews SUM OF EVERY LOST SHIP by Allison Titus
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews NOTES ON CONCEPTUALISMS by Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman
Eileen Tabios engages THE SOURCE by Noah Eli Gordon; THUS & by Derek Henderson; and DOG EAR by Erica Baum
Tammi McCune reviews ITERATION NETS by Karla Kelsey
Jim McCrary reviews PITCH – DRAFTS 77-95 by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and DAY OUT OF DAYS (STORIES) by Sam Shepard
Jonathan Lohr reviews DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY by Macgregor Card
Steven Johannes Fowler reviews IN THE ASSARTS by Jeff Hilson
Peg Duthie engages THE BOOK OF WHISPERING IN THE PROJECTION BOOK by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Guillermo Parra reviews YOU AND THREE OTHERS ARE APPROACHING A LAKE by Anna Moschovakis
Eileen Tabios engages X (ANGEL CITY) by Joseph Lease
Steven Johannes Fowler reviews CLERICAL WORK by Wayne Clements
Genevieve Kaplan reviews VENTRAKL by Christian Hawkey
Crag Hill reviews AD FINITUM by P. Inman
Eileen Tabios engages BONE BOUQUET: A JOURNAL OF POETRY BY WOMEN, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Winter 2011
Jerry Brunoe reviews A THIRST THAT'S PARTLY MINE by Liz Ahl
John Herbert Cunningham reviews THE SELECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN edited by Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan
Jim Tolan reviews AS IF FREE by Burt Kimmelman
Fiona Sze-Lorrain reviews AIRS & VOICES by Paula Bonnel
Eileen Tabios engages THE HISTORY OF VIOLETS by Marosa Di Giorgio, Trans. By Jeannine Marie Pitas
T.C. Marshall reviews ARRANGING THE BLAZE and PARABLE OF HIDE AND SEEK, both by Chad Sweeney
Bill Scalia reviews THE PACKAGE INSERT OF SORROWS by Angela Genusa
Micah Cavaleri reviews SCENIC FENCES | HOUSES INNUMERABLE by Aby Kaupang
Michael Boughn engages the article "THE HERO AND THE GUNSLINGER: DID ROBERT CREELEY AND ED DORN LOSE THEIR WAY IN MIDDLE AGE?" by Aram Saroyan
Marianne Villanueva reviews SONNETS by Camille Martin
Eileen Tabios engages NOVALESS (ELEMENTS TOWARDS A METAPHYSICS) by Nicholas Manning
Jerry Brunoe reviews ISHMAEL AMONG THE BUSHES by William Allegrezza
Jeff Harrison engages COMPLICATIONS by Garrett Caples
G. Justin Hulog reviews DIWATA by Barbara Jane Reyes
Aileen Ibardaloza engages BABAYLAN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FILIPINA AND FILIPINA AMERICAN WRITERS, co-edited by Nick Carbo and Eileen Tabios and THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF LITERATURE BY WOMEN: THE TRADITIONS IN ENGLISH, Third Edition, volume 2, co-edited by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Eileen Tabios engages CHAPTER & VERSE: POEMS OF JEWISH IDENTITY edited by Sim Warkov, Rose Black, Margaret Kaufman, Melanie Maier & Susan Terris, and BLOOD HONEY by Chana Bloch
FEATURE ARTICLES
The Quincouplet: a Matter of Words
by Benjamin C. Krause
Kingdom by the Harbor by Nicholas T. Spatafora
THE CRITICS WRITE POEMS
Marthe Reed
Simon Perchik
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Moira Richards reviews CARRYING THE FIRE and BURNT OFFERING, both by Joan Metelerkamp
Richard Kostelanetz reviews the article "Re: Print: Poems from Ten Exciting New Books,"
ADVERTISEMENTS
Hay(na)ku for Haiti--a Haiti Relief Fundraiser
Poets On Adoption:
Poetry: it inevitably relates to -- among others -- identity, history, culture, class, race, community, economics, politics, power, loss, health, desire, regret, language, form and genre disruption, love ... as well as the absences thereofs. The same may be said about Adoption."
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie...
April 5, 2011
[N.B. You can click on highlighted names or titles to go directly to the referenced article.]
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
John Herbert Cunningham reviews THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO WALLACE STEVENS edited, and with an introduction by, John N. Serio; WALLACE STEVENS: SELECTED POEMS edited, and with an introduction by, John N. Serio; and WALLACE STEVENS AND THE AESTHETICS OF ABSTRACTION by Edward Ragg
Andrew Durbin reviews THE DIHEDRONS GAZELLE-DIHEDRALS ZOOM by Leslie Scalapino
Allen Bramhall reviews DOGGY DOO by Bob Brueckl & Jukka-Pekka Kervinen
Marthe Reed reviews SONJA SEKULA: GRACE IN A COW’S eye : A MEMOIR : by Kathrin Schaeppi
Eileen Tabios engages SONJA SEKULA: GRACE IN A COW’S eye : A MEMOIR : by Kathrin Schaeppi
Allen Edwin Butt reviews PETALS, EMBLEMS by Lynn Behrendt
Eileen Tabios engages FOR THE ORDINARY ARTIST: SHORT REVIEWS, OCCASIONAL PIECES & MORE by Bill Berkson
T.C. Marshall reviews THE ARAKAKI PERMUTATIONS and WORLDBOOK: 1925—A POEM, both by James Maughn
Nicholas T. Spatafora reviews DAYS POEM, Volume I and Volume II by Allen Bramhall
Peg Duthie engages THE GODDESS OF GOODBYE by James R. Whitley and IGNOBLE TRUTHS by Gail White
Catherine Daly reviews HOW MANY MORE OF THEM ARE YOU? and VICINITIES, both by Lisa Lubasch
Eileen Tabios engages THE NEW POETICS by Mathew Timmons
Caleb Puckett reviews HOW TO BE PERFECT and HOW LONG, both by Ron Padgett
Kimberly Wine reviews CUNTIONARY / REPENT AT YOUR LEISURE (OR THE FOLKLORE OF HELL) by Benjamin Perez
Nicholas T. Spatafora reviews THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego and Eileen Tabios
Andrew Durbin reviews THIS TIME WE ARE BOTH by Clark Coolidge
T.C. Marshall reviews OPENING DAY and THE WHALEN POEM, both by William Corbett
Harry Thorne reviews THE ECO LANGUAGE READER edited by Brenda Iijima and IF NOT METAMORPHIC by Brenda Iijima
Tom Beckett reviews IF NOT METAMORPHIC by Brenda Iijima
Eileen Tabios engages 100 SCENES by Tim Gaze
Simon Perchik reviews CREATURELY DRIFT, NEW AND SELECTED POEMS by Allen Planz; EROS DESCENDING, POEMS by Edward Butscher; THE DISCOURSE LETTERS by Anselm Parlatore; THAT NOD TOWARD LOVE, NEW POEMS by Graham Everett; SILVER FISH, POEMS by Ray Freed; SHARPSBURG by Joel Chace; and BLUE EDGE by Susan Tepper
Allen Edwin Butt reviews TERMINAL HUMMING by K. Lorraine Graham
Micah Cavaleri reviews ENGLISH FRAGMENTS: A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE SOUL by Martin Corless-Smith
Jessica Bozek reviews SUM OF EVERY LOST SHIP by Allison Titus
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews NOTES ON CONCEPTUALISMS by Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman
Eileen Tabios engages THE SOURCE by Noah Eli Gordon; THUS & by Derek Henderson; and DOG EAR by Erica Baum
Tammi McCune reviews ITERATION NETS by Karla Kelsey
Jim McCrary reviews PITCH – DRAFTS 77-95 by Rachel Blau DuPlessis and DAY OUT OF DAYS (STORIES) by Sam Shepard
Jonathan Lohr reviews DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY by Macgregor Card
Steven Johannes Fowler reviews IN THE ASSARTS by Jeff Hilson
Peg Duthie engages THE BOOK OF WHISPERING IN THE PROJECTION BOOK by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
Guillermo Parra reviews YOU AND THREE OTHERS ARE APPROACHING A LAKE by Anna Moschovakis
Eileen Tabios engages X (ANGEL CITY) by Joseph Lease
Steven Johannes Fowler reviews CLERICAL WORK by Wayne Clements
Genevieve Kaplan reviews VENTRAKL by Christian Hawkey
Crag Hill reviews AD FINITUM by P. Inman
Eileen Tabios engages BONE BOUQUET: A JOURNAL OF POETRY BY WOMEN, Vol. 1, Issue 1, Winter 2011
Jerry Brunoe reviews A THIRST THAT'S PARTLY MINE by Liz Ahl
John Herbert Cunningham reviews THE SELECTED POEMS OF TED BERRIGAN edited by Alice Notley, Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan
Jim Tolan reviews AS IF FREE by Burt Kimmelman
Fiona Sze-Lorrain reviews AIRS & VOICES by Paula Bonnel
Eileen Tabios engages THE HISTORY OF VIOLETS by Marosa Di Giorgio, Trans. By Jeannine Marie Pitas
T.C. Marshall reviews ARRANGING THE BLAZE and PARABLE OF HIDE AND SEEK, both by Chad Sweeney
Bill Scalia reviews THE PACKAGE INSERT OF SORROWS by Angela Genusa
Micah Cavaleri reviews SCENIC FENCES | HOUSES INNUMERABLE by Aby Kaupang
Michael Boughn engages the article "THE HERO AND THE GUNSLINGER: DID ROBERT CREELEY AND ED DORN LOSE THEIR WAY IN MIDDLE AGE?" by Aram Saroyan
Marianne Villanueva reviews SONNETS by Camille Martin
Eileen Tabios engages NOVALESS (ELEMENTS TOWARDS A METAPHYSICS) by Nicholas Manning
Jerry Brunoe reviews ISHMAEL AMONG THE BUSHES by William Allegrezza
Jeff Harrison engages COMPLICATIONS by Garrett Caples
G. Justin Hulog reviews DIWATA by Barbara Jane Reyes
Aileen Ibardaloza engages BABAYLAN: AN ANTHOLOGY OF FILIPINA AND FILIPINA AMERICAN WRITERS, co-edited by Nick Carbo and Eileen Tabios and THE NORTON ANTHOLOGY OF LITERATURE BY WOMEN: THE TRADITIONS IN ENGLISH, Third Edition, volume 2, co-edited by Sandra M. Gilbert and Susan Gubar
Eileen Tabios engages CHAPTER & VERSE: POEMS OF JEWISH IDENTITY edited by Sim Warkov, Rose Black, Margaret Kaufman, Melanie Maier & Susan Terris, and BLOOD HONEY by Chana Bloch
FEATURE ARTICLES
The Quincouplet: a Matter of Words
by Benjamin C. Krause
Kingdom by the Harbor by Nicholas T. Spatafora
THE CRITICS WRITE POEMS
Marthe Reed
Simon Perchik
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Moira Richards reviews CARRYING THE FIRE and BURNT OFFERING, both by Joan Metelerkamp
Richard Kostelanetz reviews the article "Re: Print: Poems from Ten Exciting New Books,"
ADVERTISEMENTS
Hay(na)ku for Haiti--a Haiti Relief Fundraiser
Poets On Adoption:
Poetry: it inevitably relates to -- among others -- identity, history, culture, class, race, community, economics, politics, power, loss, health, desire, regret, language, form and genre disruption, love ... as well as the absences thereofs. The same may be said about Adoption."
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Let Sleeping Dogs Lie...
Tuesday, December 07, 2010
Issue No. 15 TABLE OF CONTENTS
Dec. 7, 2010
[N.B. You can click on highlighted names or titles to go directly to the referenced article.]
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Camille Martin reviews SALINE by Kimberly Lyons
Patrick James Dunagan reviews DEAR SANDY, HELLO: LETTERS FROM TED TO SANDY BERRIGAN, Edited by Sandy Berrigan and Ron Padgett
Jon Curley reviews AUTOPSY TURVY by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason
Eileen Tabios engages HAD SLAVES by Catherine Sasanov
John Herbert Cunningham reviews SELECTED POEMS OF GARCILASO DE LA VEGA, Edited and translated by John Dent-Young
Kathryn Stevenson reviews MONEY FOR SUNSETS by Elizabeth J. Colen
T.C. Marshall reviews VANCOUVER: A POEM by George Stanley and IN THE MILLENIUM by Barry McKinnon
Eric Dickey reviews AS IT TURNED OUT by Dmitry Golynko, Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky. Translated by Eugene Ostashevsky and Rebecca Bella with Simona Schneider
Peg Duthie engages THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF GRAVITY AND GRACE by Ernesto Priego
Patrick James Dunagan reviews UNTAM’D WING: RIFFS ON ROMANTIC POETRY by Jeffrey C. Robinson
Harry Thorne reviews NEIGHBOR by Rachel Levitsky
Michael Pollock engages "El Dorado" by Edgar Allan Poe, Spanish translation by Mario Murgia in EL CURVO Y OTROS POEMAS by Edgar Allan Poe, Edicion bilingue with Traduccion del proyecto Helbardot and Ilustraciones de Gustavo Abascal
Barbara Roether reviews FIRE EXIT by Robert Kelly
Allen Bramhall reviews SITUATIONS by Laura Carter
Eileen Tabios engages 1000 SONNETS by Tim Atkins
Eric Hoffman reviews ESCHATON by Michael Heller
Jon Curley reviews 100 NOTES ON VIOLENCE by Julie Carr
Genevieve Kaplan reviews NETS by Jen Bervin and THE MS OF M Y KIN by Janet Holmes
Aileen Ibardaloza reviews THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT, Curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego & Eileen Tabios and THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II, Edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young
John Herbert Cunningham reviews COLLECTED POEMS by Dylan Thomas
Eileen Tabios engages 2ND NOTICE OF MODIFICATIONS TO TEXT OF PROPOSED REGULATIONS by John Bloomberg-Rissman
Allen Bramhall reviews NOT BLESSED by Harold Abramowitz
Moira Richards reviews A IS FOR ANNE by Penelope Scambly Schott
Peg Duthie engages "GOTHENBURG" FROM THREE GEOGAOPHIES: A MILKMAID'S GRIMOIRE by Arielle Guy
John Herbert Cunningham reviews DISJUNCTIVE POETICS: FROM GETRUDE STEIN AND LOUIS ZUKOFSKY TO SUSAN HOWE by Peter Quartermain
Rebecca Loudon reviews GOD DAMSEL by Reb Livingston
Eileen Tabios engages REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD by Oliver de la Paz
Kristi Castro reviews EDGE BY EDGE, collection of poetry chaps by Gladys Justin Carr, Heidi Hart, Emma Bolden, and Vivian Teter
Allen Bramhall reviews I-FORMATION BOOK 1 by Anne Gorrick
Lynn Behrendt reviews I-FORMATION BOOK 1 by Anne Gorrick
Eileen Tabios engages Lynn Behrendt's review of Anne Gorrick's I-FORMATION BOOK 1
Michael Caylo-Baradi reviews MISSPELL by Lars Palm
John Herbert Cunningham reviews PENURY by Myung Mi Kim
Albert B. Casuga reviews TRAJE DE BODA: POEMS by Aileen Ibardaloza
Richard Lopez reviews SOME SONNETS, Edited by Tim Wright
Eileen Tabios engages APPARITION POEMS by Adam Fieled
L.M. Freer reviews BEATS AT NAROPA: AN ANTHOLOGY, Edited by Anne Waldman and Laura Wright
Moira Richards reviews (MADE) by Cara Benson
Thomas Fink reviews DRUNKER/HOLDING EMBER by Raymond Farr
Edric Mesmer reviews ON SECRETS OF MY PRISON HOUSE by Geoffrey Gatza
Peg Duthie engages EATING HER WEDDING DRESS: A COLLECTION OF CLOTHING POEMS, Edited by Vasiliki Katsarou, Ruth O’Toole, and Ellen Foos
Eileen Tabios engages BEHAVE: CALIFORNIA RANT 66 by Steve Tills
Jim McCrary reviews MR. MAGOO by Steve Tills
Nicholas T. Spatafora reviews AUTOPSY TURVY by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason
Margaret H. Johnson reviews MANHATTAN MAN (AND OTHER POEMS) by Jack Lynch
Eileen Tabios engages AT TROTSKY'S FUNERAL by Mark Young
Marianne Villanueva reviews ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF FLAMENCO by Sandy McIntosh
Hadas Yatom-Schwartz engages “Nathan, in the Ancient Language”, a poem in ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO by Sandy McIntosh
Patrick James Dunagan reviews COLLECTED POEMS / GUSTAF SOBIN, Edited by Esther Sobin, Andrew Joron, Andrew Zawacki, and Ed Foster
Jon Curley reviews CLEANING THE MIRROR: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS by Joel Chace
Tom Beckett reviews CLEANING THE MIRROR: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS by Joel Chace
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews AT THE FAIR by Tom Clark
Peg Duthie engages 32 SNAPSHOTS OF MARSEILLES by Guy Bennett
Jim McCrary reviews THE HAY(NA)KU FOR HAITI SERIES, Edited by Eileen Tabios
Kristina Marie Darling reviews THE FRENCH EXIT by Elisa Gabbert
Anny Ballardini reviews BRAINOGRAPHY by Evelyn Posamentier
Richard Lopez reviews 2ND NOTICE OF MODIFICATIONS TO TEXT OF PROPOSED REGULATIONS by John Bloomberg-Rissman
G.E. Schwartz reviews THE FUTURE IS HAPPY by Sarah Sarai
Kristina Marie Darling reviews TINDERBOX LAWN by Carol Guess
Eileen Tabios engages DIWATA by Barbara Jane Reyes
Peg Duthie engages DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY by Macgregor Card
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews ADAMANTINE by Shin Yu Pai
Jeff Harrison reviews GRIEF SUITE by Bobbi Lurie
Allen Bramhall reviews OPULENCE by Stephen Ellis
Peg Duthie engages SPRING HAS COME: SPANISH LYRICAL POETRY FROM THE SONGBOOKS OF THE RENAISSANCE by Alvaro Cardona-Hine
Jim McCrary reviews CARRY CATASTROPHE by Megan Kaminski
Moira Richards reviews THEN, SOMETHING by Patricia Fargnoli
Eileen Tabios engages KING OF THE JUNGLE by Zvi A. Sesling
Genevieve Kaplan reviews POETS ON TEACHING: A SOURCEBOOK, Edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Kristina Marie Darling
FOCUS ON POETS
Tom Beckett interviews ANNE GORRICK
Thomas Fink interviews JOANNA FUHRMAN
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEW
Lisa Bower reviews SKIRT FULL OF BLACK by Sun Yung Shin
Eric Dickey reviews LIGHT FROM A BULLET HOLE: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED, 1950–2008 by Ralph Salisbury
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Dec. 7, 2010
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Camille Martin reviews SALINE by Kimberly Lyons
Patrick James Dunagan reviews DEAR SANDY, HELLO: LETTERS FROM TED TO SANDY BERRIGAN, Edited by Sandy Berrigan and Ron Padgett
Jon Curley reviews AUTOPSY TURVY by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason
Eileen Tabios engages HAD SLAVES by Catherine Sasanov
John Herbert Cunningham reviews SELECTED POEMS OF GARCILASO DE LA VEGA, Edited and translated by John Dent-Young
Kathryn Stevenson reviews MONEY FOR SUNSETS by Elizabeth J. Colen
T.C. Marshall reviews VANCOUVER: A POEM by George Stanley and IN THE MILLENIUM by Barry McKinnon
Eric Dickey reviews AS IT TURNED OUT by Dmitry Golynko, Edited by Eugene Ostashevsky. Translated by Eugene Ostashevsky and Rebecca Bella with Simona Schneider
Peg Duthie engages THE AMAZING ADVENTURES OF GRAVITY AND GRACE by Ernesto Priego
Patrick James Dunagan reviews UNTAM’D WING: RIFFS ON ROMANTIC POETRY by Jeffrey C. Robinson
Harry Thorne reviews NEIGHBOR by Rachel Levitsky
Michael Pollock engages "El Dorado" by Edgar Allan Poe, Spanish translation by Mario Murgia in EL CURVO Y OTROS POEMAS by Edgar Allan Poe, Edicion bilingue with Traduccion del proyecto Helbardot and Ilustraciones de Gustavo Abascal
Barbara Roether reviews FIRE EXIT by Robert Kelly
Allen Bramhall reviews SITUATIONS by Laura Carter
Eileen Tabios engages 1000 SONNETS by Tim Atkins
Eric Hoffman reviews ESCHATON by Michael Heller
Jon Curley reviews 100 NOTES ON VIOLENCE by Julie Carr
Genevieve Kaplan reviews NETS by Jen Bervin and THE MS OF M Y KIN by Janet Holmes
Aileen Ibardaloza reviews THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT, Curated by Ivy Alvarez, John Bloomberg-Rissman, Ernesto Priego & Eileen Tabios and THE HAY(NA)KU ANTHOLOGY, VOL. II, Edited by Jean Vengua and Mark Young
John Herbert Cunningham reviews COLLECTED POEMS by Dylan Thomas
Eileen Tabios engages 2ND NOTICE OF MODIFICATIONS TO TEXT OF PROPOSED REGULATIONS by John Bloomberg-Rissman
Allen Bramhall reviews NOT BLESSED by Harold Abramowitz
Moira Richards reviews A IS FOR ANNE by Penelope Scambly Schott
Peg Duthie engages "GOTHENBURG" FROM THREE GEOGAOPHIES: A MILKMAID'S GRIMOIRE by Arielle Guy
John Herbert Cunningham reviews DISJUNCTIVE POETICS: FROM GETRUDE STEIN AND LOUIS ZUKOFSKY TO SUSAN HOWE by Peter Quartermain
Rebecca Loudon reviews GOD DAMSEL by Reb Livingston
Eileen Tabios engages REQUIEM FOR THE ORCHARD by Oliver de la Paz
Kristi Castro reviews EDGE BY EDGE, collection of poetry chaps by Gladys Justin Carr, Heidi Hart, Emma Bolden, and Vivian Teter
Allen Bramhall reviews I-FORMATION BOOK 1 by Anne Gorrick
Lynn Behrendt reviews I-FORMATION BOOK 1 by Anne Gorrick
Eileen Tabios engages Lynn Behrendt's review of Anne Gorrick's I-FORMATION BOOK 1
Michael Caylo-Baradi reviews MISSPELL by Lars Palm
John Herbert Cunningham reviews PENURY by Myung Mi Kim
Albert B. Casuga reviews TRAJE DE BODA: POEMS by Aileen Ibardaloza
Richard Lopez reviews SOME SONNETS, Edited by Tim Wright
Eileen Tabios engages APPARITION POEMS by Adam Fieled
L.M. Freer reviews BEATS AT NAROPA: AN ANTHOLOGY, Edited by Anne Waldman and Laura Wright
Moira Richards reviews (MADE) by Cara Benson
Thomas Fink reviews DRUNKER/HOLDING EMBER by Raymond Farr
Edric Mesmer reviews ON SECRETS OF MY PRISON HOUSE by Geoffrey Gatza
Peg Duthie engages EATING HER WEDDING DRESS: A COLLECTION OF CLOTHING POEMS, Edited by Vasiliki Katsarou, Ruth O’Toole, and Ellen Foos
Eileen Tabios engages BEHAVE: CALIFORNIA RANT 66 by Steve Tills
Jim McCrary reviews MR. MAGOO by Steve Tills
Nicholas T. Spatafora reviews AUTOPSY TURVY by Thomas Fink and Maya Diablo Mason
Margaret H. Johnson reviews MANHATTAN MAN (AND OTHER POEMS) by Jack Lynch
Eileen Tabios engages AT TROTSKY'S FUNERAL by Mark Young
Marianne Villanueva reviews ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF FLAMENCO by Sandy McIntosh
Hadas Yatom-Schwartz engages “Nathan, in the Ancient Language”, a poem in ERNESTA, IN THE STYLE OF THE FLAMENCO by Sandy McIntosh
Patrick James Dunagan reviews COLLECTED POEMS / GUSTAF SOBIN, Edited by Esther Sobin, Andrew Joron, Andrew Zawacki, and Ed Foster
Jon Curley reviews CLEANING THE MIRROR: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS by Joel Chace
Tom Beckett reviews CLEANING THE MIRROR: SELECTED AND NEW POEMS by Joel Chace
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews AT THE FAIR by Tom Clark
Peg Duthie engages 32 SNAPSHOTS OF MARSEILLES by Guy Bennett
Jim McCrary reviews THE HAY(NA)KU FOR HAITI SERIES, Edited by Eileen Tabios
Kristina Marie Darling reviews THE FRENCH EXIT by Elisa Gabbert
Anny Ballardini reviews BRAINOGRAPHY by Evelyn Posamentier
Richard Lopez reviews 2ND NOTICE OF MODIFICATIONS TO TEXT OF PROPOSED REGULATIONS by John Bloomberg-Rissman
G.E. Schwartz reviews THE FUTURE IS HAPPY by Sarah Sarai
Kristina Marie Darling reviews TINDERBOX LAWN by Carol Guess
Eileen Tabios engages DIWATA by Barbara Jane Reyes
Peg Duthie engages DUTIES OF AN ENGLISH FOREIGN SECRETARY by Macgregor Card
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews ADAMANTINE by Shin Yu Pai
Jeff Harrison reviews GRIEF SUITE by Bobbi Lurie
Allen Bramhall reviews OPULENCE by Stephen Ellis
Peg Duthie engages SPRING HAS COME: SPANISH LYRICAL POETRY FROM THE SONGBOOKS OF THE RENAISSANCE by Alvaro Cardona-Hine
Jim McCrary reviews CARRY CATASTROPHE by Megan Kaminski
Moira Richards reviews THEN, SOMETHING by Patricia Fargnoli
Eileen Tabios engages KING OF THE JUNGLE by Zvi A. Sesling
Genevieve Kaplan reviews POETS ON TEACHING: A SOURCEBOOK, Edited by Joshua Marie Wilkinson
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Kristina Marie Darling
FOCUS ON POETS
Tom Beckett interviews ANNE GORRICK
Thomas Fink interviews JOANNA FUHRMAN
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEW
Lisa Bower reviews SKIRT FULL OF BLACK by Sun Yung Shin
Eric Dickey reviews LIGHT FROM A BULLET HOLE: POEMS NEW AND SELECTED, 1950–2008 by Ralph Salisbury
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Wednesday, May 05, 2010
Issue No. 14 TABLE OF CONTENTS
May 5, 2010
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EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Crag Hill reviews SHOULDER SEASON by Ange Mlinko
Steven Fama reviews MUCH LIKE YOU SHARK by Logan Ryan Smith
Patrick James Dunagan reviews FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD by Neeli Cherkovski; THE PLEROMA by Vincent Ferrini; THIRSTING FOR PEACE IN A RAGING CENTURY: SELECTED POEMS 1961-1985 (NEW & REVISED EDITION) by Edward Sanders; LET’S NOT KEEP FIGHTING THE TROJAN WAR: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1986-2009 by Edward Sanders; BODY CLOCK by Eleni Sikelianos; and LEAVES OF GRASS, 1860: THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY FACSIMILE EDITION by Walt Whitman, edited by Jason Stacy
Kristen Orser reviews THE LAST 4 THINGS by Kate Greenstreet
Richard Kostelanetz reviews POESIE DER ENTSCHLEUNIGUNG: EIN LESEBUCH by Robert Lax, Ed. Sigrid Hauff
Jim McCrary reviews MONDO CRAMPO by Juliet Cook; SILVERONDA by Lucy Harvest Clarke; THE CONTORTIONS by Nicole Mauro; GOODNIGHT VOICE by Dana Ward; GUTTER CATHOLIC LOVE SONG by Joseph Wood; and MY DAY AIMLESSLY WALKING VANCOUVER, WASH by James Yeary, illustrated by Nate Orton
John Herbert Cunningham reviews SELECTIONS by André Breton, edited and with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti; MARTINIQUE: SNAKE CHARMER by André Breton, translated by David W. Seaman with introduction by Franklin Rosemont; HYPODERMIC LIGHT: THE POETRY OF PHILIP LAMANTIA AND THE QUESTION OF SURREALISM by Steven Frattali; and TAU by Philip Lamantia / JOURNEY TO THE END by John Hoffman, ed. Garrett Caples
Tom Beckett reviews BHARAT JIVA by kari edwards and NO GENDER (REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF kari edwards), Edited by Julian Brolaski, erica kaufman & E. Tracy Grinnell
Eileen Tabios engages BHARAT JIVA by kari edwards and NO GENDER (REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF kari edwards), Edited by Julian Brolaski, erica kaufman & E. Tracy Grinnell
Fiona Sze-Lorrain reviews NEW EXERCISES by Franck André Jamme, Translated from the French by Charles Borkhuis
Joey Madia reviews GRIEF SUITE by Bobbi Lurie
Thomas Fink reviews GENJI MONOGATARI by Mark Young
Eileen Tabios engages GENJI MONOGATARI by Mark Young
Peg Duthie engages THE FAT SHEEP EVERYONE WANTS by Bern Mulvey
Petra Backonja reviews CATALOGUE OF BURNT TEXT by Timothy David Orme
Delia Tramontina reviews MANHATTEN by Sarah Rosenthal
Eileen Tabios engages NTST: THE COLLECTED PWOERMDS OF GEOF HUTH
John Herbert Cunningham reviews CHARLES BAUDELAIRE by Rosemary Lloyd; THE FLOWERS OF EVIL by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Keith Waldrop; ARTHUR RIMBAUD: COMPLETE WORKS, translated by Paul Schmidt; and THE ILLUMINATIONS by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Donald Revell
Harry Thorne reviews BOOK MADE OF FOREST by Jared Stanley
Jai Arun Ravine reviews POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT by Ronaldo V. Wilson
William Allegrezza reviews AS IF FREE by Burt Kimmelman
Crag Hill engages TAKE IT by Joshua Beckman
Eileen Tabios engages DESTRUCTION MYTH and CREATION MYTHS, both by Mathias Svalina
Peg Duthie engages REFUSING DESPAIR: SELECTED POEMS AND JOURNAL WRITINGS by Teresa Anderson
Meredith Caliman reviews POETRY OF THE LAW: FROM CHAUCER TO THE PRESENT, co-edited by David Kader and Michael Stanford
Fiona Sze-Lorrain reviews AURA: LAST ESSAYS by Gustaf Sobin
Eileen Tabios engages EASY EDEN by Micah Ballard and Patrick James Dunagan
Emmanuel Sigauke reviews INTWASA POETRY [anthology of 15 Zimbabwean poets] edited by Jane Morris
Derek Coyle reviews NEW SHADOWS by Jon Curley
Eileen Tabios engages INSIDES SHE SWALLOWED by Sasha Pimentel Chacon; EASTER SUNDAY by Barbara Jane Reyes; and SIMON J. ORTIZ; A POETIC LEGACY OF INDIGENOUS CONTINUANCE, co-edited by Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez and Evelina Zuni Lucero
Jeff Harrison engages PRAU by Jean Vengua
Marianne Villanueva reviews THE TRANSLATOR’S DIARY by Jon Pineda
Eileen Tabios engages TIME OF SKY / CASTLES IN THE AIR by Ayane Kawata, Translated by Sawako Nakayasu
Julie T. Ewald reviews TONGUE LIKE A STINGER by Juliet Cook
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews GURLESQUE: THE NEW GRRLY, GROTESQUE, BURLESQUE POETICS co-edited by Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg
Eileen Tabios engages NINETEEN HOURS (RADIO EDIT) by Jim Warner
Crag Hill reviews GREEN CAMMIE by Crysta Casey
Tom Hibbard reviews BLUE MOUNT TO 161 and NIGHTBIRDS, both by Garin Cycholl
Kristina Marie Darling reviews FABULOUS ESSENTIAL by Niina Pollari
Eileen Tabios engages A MUSICS by Carrie Hunter
Julie T. Ewald reviews MAKE BELIEVE by Thom Donovan
Eileen Tabios engages THE OTHER BLUEBOOK: ON THE HIGH SEAS OF DISCOVERY by Reme Grefalda
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
William Allegrezza
FOCUS ON POETS
Conversation with THOMAS FINK
LYNN BEHRENDT: An Interview
Featured Poet: ANITA MOHAN
FEATURE ARTICLE
Herman Hesse's Siddhartha: A Fictional Account of the Life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha by Nicholas T. Spatafora
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEW
Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez reviews POEMS SINGKWENTA’Y CINCO by Alfred A. Yuson
Erika Moya reviews SLAVES TO DO THESE THINGS by Amy King
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May 5, 2010
[N.B. You can click on highlighted names or titles to go directly to the referenced article.]
EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios
NEW REVIEWS
Crag Hill reviews SHOULDER SEASON by Ange Mlinko
Steven Fama reviews MUCH LIKE YOU SHARK by Logan Ryan Smith
Patrick James Dunagan reviews FROM THE CANYON OUTWARD by Neeli Cherkovski; THE PLEROMA by Vincent Ferrini; THIRSTING FOR PEACE IN A RAGING CENTURY: SELECTED POEMS 1961-1985 (NEW & REVISED EDITION) by Edward Sanders; LET’S NOT KEEP FIGHTING THE TROJAN WAR: NEW AND SELECTED POEMS 1986-2009 by Edward Sanders; BODY CLOCK by Eleni Sikelianos; and LEAVES OF GRASS, 1860: THE 150TH ANNIVERSARY FACSIMILE EDITION by Walt Whitman, edited by Jason Stacy
Kristen Orser reviews THE LAST 4 THINGS by Kate Greenstreet
Richard Kostelanetz reviews POESIE DER ENTSCHLEUNIGUNG: EIN LESEBUCH by Robert Lax, Ed. Sigrid Hauff
Jim McCrary reviews MONDO CRAMPO by Juliet Cook; SILVERONDA by Lucy Harvest Clarke; THE CONTORTIONS by Nicole Mauro; GOODNIGHT VOICE by Dana Ward; GUTTER CATHOLIC LOVE SONG by Joseph Wood; and MY DAY AIMLESSLY WALKING VANCOUVER, WASH by James Yeary, illustrated by Nate Orton
John Herbert Cunningham reviews SELECTIONS by André Breton, edited and with an introduction by Mark Polizzotti; MARTINIQUE: SNAKE CHARMER by André Breton, translated by David W. Seaman with introduction by Franklin Rosemont; HYPODERMIC LIGHT: THE POETRY OF PHILIP LAMANTIA AND THE QUESTION OF SURREALISM by Steven Frattali; and TAU by Philip Lamantia / JOURNEY TO THE END by John Hoffman, ed. Garrett Caples
Tom Beckett reviews BHARAT JIVA by kari edwards and NO GENDER (REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF kari edwards), Edited by Julian Brolaski, erica kaufman & E. Tracy Grinnell
Eileen Tabios engages BHARAT JIVA by kari edwards and NO GENDER (REFLECTIONS ON THE LIFE AND WORK OF kari edwards), Edited by Julian Brolaski, erica kaufman & E. Tracy Grinnell
Fiona Sze-Lorrain reviews NEW EXERCISES by Franck André Jamme, Translated from the French by Charles Borkhuis
Joey Madia reviews GRIEF SUITE by Bobbi Lurie
Thomas Fink reviews GENJI MONOGATARI by Mark Young
Eileen Tabios engages GENJI MONOGATARI by Mark Young
Peg Duthie engages THE FAT SHEEP EVERYONE WANTS by Bern Mulvey
Petra Backonja reviews CATALOGUE OF BURNT TEXT by Timothy David Orme
Delia Tramontina reviews MANHATTEN by Sarah Rosenthal
Eileen Tabios engages NTST: THE COLLECTED PWOERMDS OF GEOF HUTH
John Herbert Cunningham reviews CHARLES BAUDELAIRE by Rosemary Lloyd; THE FLOWERS OF EVIL by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Keith Waldrop; ARTHUR RIMBAUD: COMPLETE WORKS, translated by Paul Schmidt; and THE ILLUMINATIONS by Arthur Rimbaud, translated by Donald Revell
Harry Thorne reviews BOOK MADE OF FOREST by Jared Stanley
Jai Arun Ravine reviews POEMS OF THE BLACK OBJECT by Ronaldo V. Wilson
William Allegrezza reviews AS IF FREE by Burt Kimmelman
Crag Hill engages TAKE IT by Joshua Beckman
Eileen Tabios engages DESTRUCTION MYTH and CREATION MYTHS, both by Mathias Svalina
Peg Duthie engages REFUSING DESPAIR: SELECTED POEMS AND JOURNAL WRITINGS by Teresa Anderson
Meredith Caliman reviews POETRY OF THE LAW: FROM CHAUCER TO THE PRESENT, co-edited by David Kader and Michael Stanford
Fiona Sze-Lorrain reviews AURA: LAST ESSAYS by Gustaf Sobin
Eileen Tabios engages EASY EDEN by Micah Ballard and Patrick James Dunagan
Emmanuel Sigauke reviews INTWASA POETRY [anthology of 15 Zimbabwean poets] edited by Jane Morris
Derek Coyle reviews NEW SHADOWS by Jon Curley
Eileen Tabios engages INSIDES SHE SWALLOWED by Sasha Pimentel Chacon; EASTER SUNDAY by Barbara Jane Reyes; and SIMON J. ORTIZ; A POETIC LEGACY OF INDIGENOUS CONTINUANCE, co-edited by Susan Berry Brill de Ramirez and Evelina Zuni Lucero
Jeff Harrison engages PRAU by Jean Vengua
Marianne Villanueva reviews THE TRANSLATOR’S DIARY by Jon Pineda
Eileen Tabios engages TIME OF SKY / CASTLES IN THE AIR by Ayane Kawata, Translated by Sawako Nakayasu
Julie T. Ewald reviews TONGUE LIKE A STINGER by Juliet Cook
John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews GURLESQUE: THE NEW GRRLY, GROTESQUE, BURLESQUE POETICS co-edited by Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg
Eileen Tabios engages NINETEEN HOURS (RADIO EDIT) by Jim Warner
Crag Hill reviews GREEN CAMMIE by Crysta Casey
Tom Hibbard reviews BLUE MOUNT TO 161 and NIGHTBIRDS, both by Garin Cycholl
Kristina Marie Darling reviews FABULOUS ESSENTIAL by Niina Pollari
Eileen Tabios engages A MUSICS by Carrie Hunter
Julie T. Ewald reviews MAKE BELIEVE by Thom Donovan
Eileen Tabios engages THE OTHER BLUEBOOK: ON THE HIGH SEAS OF DISCOVERY by Reme Grefalda
THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
William Allegrezza
FOCUS ON POETS
Conversation with THOMAS FINK
LYNN BEHRENDT: An Interview
Featured Poet: ANITA MOHAN
FEATURE ARTICLE
Herman Hesse's Siddhartha: A Fictional Account of the Life of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha by Nicholas T. Spatafora
FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEW
Wilfredo Pascua Sanchez reviews POEMS SINGKWENTA’Y CINCO by Alfred A. Yuson
Erika Moya reviews SLAVES TO DO THESE THINGS by Amy King
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Tiny Poetry Books Feeding the World...Literally!
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Loud Buzzing...and Snores...
