The Poetry Project

#157--April-May 1995

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Editor: Gillian McCain

Columns:

  • Dirt by Gillian McCain

Features:

  • "Jack Smith" by Nick Zedd
    -"Auditioning for 'On the Road'" by Tim Griffin
  • "At the Audition" by Sparrow
  • "The Poet on Celluloid: Eight Trailers" by Amanda Bristow
  • Short Cuts by Jeffery Conway, Wang Ping, Lisa Janssen, & Jaime Manrique
  • "Biographers on the Couch: The New Plath/Sexton Biographies" by Jo Ann Wasserman

Book Reviews:

  • Mob by Abigail Child; reviewed by Robert Hale
  • Jack Kerouac is Pregnant by Aurelie Sheehan; reviewed by Sharon Mesmer
  • Conversations with Amiri Baraka edited by Charles Reilly; reviewed by David Mills
  • Fresh Girls and Other Stories and Oedipal Dreams by Evelyn Lau; reviewed by Denise Duhamel
  • Memory Play by Carla Harryman; reviewed by Barbara Henning
  • Exact Change Yearbook #1 edited by Peter Gizzi; reviewed by Jordan Davis
  • Most Way Home by Kevin Young; reviewed by Gavin Moses
  • Talking Pictures: The Photography of Rudy Burckhardt by Rudy Burckhardt and Simon Pettet; reviewed by Murat Memat Nejat
  • Rubbed Stones: Poems from 1960-1992 by Rochelle Owens; reviewed by Maureen Owen
  • The Art of Practice: 45 Contemporary Poets edited by Dennis Barone and Peter Ganick; reviewed by Lisa Jarnot
  • Rodent Press; reviewed by Brenda Coultas
  • Images by David Lynch; reviewed by David Vogen
  • Poems for the Whole Family by Daniel Krakauer; reviewed by Frank Nims
  • Distance without Distance by Barbara Einzig; reviewed by Lewis Warsh
  • Larry Fagin Collabs; reviewed by Joel Lewis
  • The Desires of Mothers to Please Others in Letters by Bernadette Mayer; reviewed by John Yau
  • Poetry Live at the Knitting Factory by Nuyorican Symphony; reviewed by Edwin Torres

Poems:

  • "B-Movie Remake" by Robert Hershon
  • "Hollywood Unrealism" by Susan Cataldo

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