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Issue No. 16 TABLE OF CONTENTS
[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,"
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