Tag Archives: fall 2006

COLE PORTER: Selected Lyrics

Edited by Robert Kimball The Library of America ($20) by Spencer Dew Even educated fleas recognize Cole Porter as a ubiquitous presence in American culture, and now the Library of America's American Poetry Project—having already published the likes of Whitman, Poe, Lazarus, and Brooks—assembled a selection of his lyrics. Editor Robert Kimball—who has co-written a […]

Identity Crisis: AN ESSAY ON JOHN KINSELLA'S AMERICA, (A POEM) AND THE CONCEPTION OF "AMERICAN" NATIONALITY

John Kinsella Arc Publications by Julia Istomina When I came to the United States from the then near-crumbling Soviet Union, America was a vast, vociferous, and unapologetically boisterous "land of opportunity." However, the kind and devoted Russian community quickly informed my parents which neighborhoods and ethnicities to steer clear of; America's proverbial melting pot seemed […]

AN EARTH OF TIME

Jean Grosjean Translated by Keith Waldrop Burning Deck ($14) by Mark Tursi It's difficult not to read Jean Grosjean's first book Terre du temps (An Earth of Time), recently translated by Keith Waldrop, without considering the author's struggle with religion and his personal relationship to God. The editor's note at the end of the collection tells us Grosjean […]

Raymond Federman: An Inner-View

by David Moscovich Raymond Federman is the author of thirteen novels, scores of articles and plays, recipient of the American Book Award and a German National Book Award, and part founder of the Fiction Collective. Born in Paris, he is the only Holocaust survivor in his family: the story of his life begins in a […]