April 1, 1995
Try Bondage
Saturday Night at the Pahala Theatre by Lois-Ann Yamanaka. Honolulu: Bamboo Ridge Press, 1993. 140 pages. $8.00, paper. Joker, Joker, Deuce by Paul Beatty. New York: Penguin Books, 1994. 108 […]
January 1, 1995
Acts of Reclamation
August Zero by Jane Miller. Port Townsend: Copper Canyon Press, 1993. 90 pages. $22, hardbound; $11.00, paper. Greed by Ai. New York: Norton, 1993. 96 pages. $17.95, hardbound. The Country […]
January 1, 1995
The Heart’s Difficult Speech
Before Our Eyes by Lawrence Joseph. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1993. 72 pages. $18.00, cloth. In a Time of Violence by Eavan Boland. New York: W. W. Norton […]
October 1, 1994
The Push of Reading
Materialism by Jorie Graham. Hopewell, NJ: Ecco Press, 1993. 146 pp. $22.00. Red Trousseau by Carol Muske. New York: Viking Penguin, 1993. 82 pp. $18.00. The City of Women by […]
July 1, 1994
The Virtual Theater of Herbert Blau
To All Appearances: Ideology and Performance by Herbert Blau. New York: Routledge, 1992. 224 pages. $15.95, paper. Thirty years ago Herbert Blau wrote The Impossible Theater to talk up a […]
July 1, 1994
Smashing the Mold Straight off: Feminist Poetry Now
No More Masks! An Anthology of Twentieth-Century American Women Poets edited with an introduction by Florence Howe. New York: Harper-Collins, 1993. 488 pages. $15.00, paper. In the last twenty years, […]
April 1, 1994
The New Shape-Changers
Cultivating Excess by Lori Anderson. Portland: Eighth Mountain Press, 1992. 110 pages. $9.95, paper. The Rapture of Matter by Frankie Paino. Cleveland: Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1991. 61 pages. […]
January 1, 1994
Journeys to Love
The Path to Fairview by Julia Randall. Baton Rouge, La.: Louisiana State University Press, 1992. 186 pages. $24.95. Collected Shorter Poems 1946-1991 by Hayden Carruth. Port Townsend, Wash.: Copper Canyon […]
January 1, 1994
Stay Together, Learn the Flowers, Go Light
Counting Myself Lucky: Selected Poems 1965-1992 by Edward Field. Santa Rosa: Black Sparrow Press, 1992. 307 pages. $12.50, paper. No Nature: New and Selected Poems by Gary Snyder. San Francisco: […]
October 1, 1993
The Tension between Memory and Forgetting in the Poetry of Yusef Komunyakaa
Copacetic by Yusef Komunyakaa. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 1984. 58 pages. $10.95, paper. I Apologize for the Eyes in My Head by Yusef Komunyakaa. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, […]
July 1, 1993
Canon Revision Update: A 1992 Edition
1959 by Thulani Davis. New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1992. 297 pages. $19.95. Through the Ivory Gate by Rita Dove. New York: Pantheon, 1992. 278 pages. $21.00. Bailey’s Café by Gloria […]
July 1, 1993
Betrayals and Boundaries: A Question of Balance
South America Mi Hija by Sharon Doubiago. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1992. 298 pages. $12.95, paper. The Business of Fancydancing by Sherman Alexie. Brooklyn: Hanging Loose Press, 1992. 84 […]