Tag Archives: summer 1999

VOICE-OVER

Elaine Equi Coffee House Press ($13.95) by Mary Ann Koruth . . . in poetry too we like our lyricism minus the garlic on the poet's breath. These lines from the title poem of Voice-Over, describe more than a poet's thoughts on the art; they describe the manner in which Elaine Equi practices it. Nowhere in […]

POLYVERSE

Lee Ann Brown Sun & Moon ($11.95) by Chris Fischbach The release of Talisman House's An Anthology of New (American) Poets is rapidly being recognized as a watershed. Whether or not the book will prove to be as influential as Donald Allen's New American Poetry is yet to be seen. But there is a changing of the guard, and […]

TROUBLED LOVERS IN HISTORY

Albert Goldbarth Ohio State University Press ($18.95) by Jeffrey Shotts Reading Albert Goldbarth's poetry is like simultaneously tuning in to late-night news, listening to a Hank Williams album, watching an Ed Wood science fiction flick, and all the time attending to the language of the book in your hands. Amazingly, all the plates Goldbarth keeps […]

SEX FOR THE MILLENNIUM

Harold Jaffe Black Ice Books/FC2 ($9) by Trevor Dodge Sex for the Millennium, Harold Jaffe's sixth collection of fictions, opens another front in his relentless guerrilla campaign to seek out (and eventually destroy, no doubt) a narrative expression that is appropriate and necessary for the deeply conflicted, hypersexual morality wonderland we live in at the […]

INTIMACY

Hanif Kureishi Scribner ($16) by Brad K. Jacobson “Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately," Hanif Kureishi writes. But wherein lies the fascination? In the rush of experiencing true love, or in the emotional schizophrenia of infidelity? Or is it hidden in the drudgery of serial monogamy? Perhaps we find it most interesting when someone […]

BURNING SKY

Rachel Pollack Cambrian Publications ($29) by Emily Streight Rachel Pollack is critically acclaimed for her science fiction novels—she has won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the World Fantasy Award, and has been nominated for a Nebula—and she is equally renowned for her expert commentary on the Tarot. Burning Sky rounds up her short fiction, demonstrating yet […]

PROFILES IN MURDER | FALL GUYS

PROFILES IN MURDER An FBI Legend Dissects Killers and Their Crimes Russell Vorpagel Plenum Press ($26.95) FALL GUYS False Confessions and the Politics of Murder Jim Fisher Southern Illinois University Press ($16.95) by Kris Lawson Russell Vorpagel, one of the founders of the FBI Behavioral Science Profiling Unit, now works as a consultant, training law […]

THE LONG SLOW DEATH OF JACK KEROUAC

Jim Christy ECW Press ($12.95) by Brian Foye In 1962, while working a 13-hour shift selling caramel popcorn at the Bazaar of All Nations in Clifton Heights, Pennsylvania, Jim Christy came across a paperback copy of Jack Kerouac's On the Road. Like a few before him, and perhaps many thousands since, Christy's own road was changed […]