The Poetry Project

#156--February-March 1995

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Editor: Gillian McCain

Columns:

  • Dirt by Gillian McCain

Features:

  • "Susan Sontag and Richard Hell" by Victor Bockris
    -"Give It Up" by Maggie Dubris
  • "Bob Dylan" by Al Aronowitz
  • Reader's Survey: Best Records to Spin While Writing

Book Reviews:

  • Rimbaud and Jim Morrison: The Rebel as Poet, a Memoir by Wallace Fowlie; reviewed by Todd Colby
  • The "Priest" They Called Him produced by James Grauerholz; reviewed by Jose Padua
  • Early Work by Patti Smith and Sweet Nothings: An Anthology of Rock and Roll in American Poetry edited by Jim Elledge; reviewed by Patricia Spears Jones
  • Cameo by Michael Friedman; reviewed by Kevin Killian
  • Black Noise: Rap Music and Black Culture in Contemporary America by Tricia Rose
  • Solow by Lynn Crawford; reviewed by Tyrone Williams
  • Live at The Ear edited by Charles Bernstein; reviewed by Tony Door
  • The Portable Paul and Jane Bowles edited by Millicent Dillon; reviewed by Tim Griffin
  • CONFESSIONS OF A RAVING UNCONFINED NUT by Paul Krassner; reviewed by Christian X. Hunter
  • A Wedding in Hell by Charles Simic; reviewed by Jo Ann Wasserman
  • VillainElle by Lynn Crosbie; reviewed by Jeffery Conway
  • Last Train to Memphis by Peter Guralnick; reviewed by Michael Lydon
  • These Are My Rivers: New & Selected Poems 1955-1993 by Lawrence Ferlinghetti; reviewed by Jon Mazur
  • Rotten: No Irish No Blacks No Dogs by John Lydon; reviewed by Gene Christian
  • Anna Akhmatova: Poet and Prophet by Roberta Reader; reviewed by Tom Clark

Poems:

  • "Mao Tse Tung Wore Khakis" by Charles Bernstein
  • "94 Beat" by Harris Schiff

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  • books & magazines received

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