Contents
Issue 24.3 (October 1997)
Diversity and American Poetries
Essays
Jerry McGuire .......................................................................................1
Introduction: Diversity, Factionalism, and Audience.
Richard N. Masteller ............................................................................17
Between Silence and Banality: The Poetic Search for Community.
Janet Zandy.........................................................................................33
Fire Poetry on the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911
Fire Poetry on the Triangle Shirtwaist Company Fire of March 25, 1911
Walter Kalaidjian ................................................................................55
"Deeds Were Their Last Words": The Return of Edwin Rolfe.
Albert Cook..........................................................................................70
Metrical Inventions: Zukofsky and Merwin.
Metrical Inventions: Zukofsky and Merwin.
Karen J. Ford ........................................................................................................................................84
These Old Writing Paper Blues: The Blues Stanza and Literary Poetry.
Jonathan N. Barron .............................................................................................................................104
At Home in the Margins: The Jewish American Voice Poem in the 1990s.
Nicky Marsh .........................................................................................................................................124
"Out of My Texts I AM Not What I Play": Politics and Self in the Poetry of Susan Howe
Charles Bernstein ................................................................................................................................138
Riding Reasons: An Introduction to Laura (Riding ) Jackson and Schuyler Jackson,
Rational Meaning : Toward a New Foundation of Words.
Rational Meaning : Toward a New Foundation of Words.
Review Essays
Timothy Brennan .................................................................................................................................152
"Controlling Terms: Originality in African Diasporic Studies."
[Review of Tejumola Olaniyan, Scars of Conquest/Masks of Resistance; Farah Jasmine Griffin, "Who Set You Flowin'?": The African-American Migration Narrative.]
Anthony Dawahare ..............................................................................................................................158
"The Remembering and Remaking of American Working Class Life and Literature."
[Review of Constance Coiner, Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur; Janet Zandy, ed., Liberating Memory: Our Work and Our Working-Class Consciousness.]
David Stouk .........................................................................................................................................164
"Willa Cather and Cultural Studies."
[Review of Joseph R. Urgo, Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration' Walter Benn Michaels. Our America: Nativism, Modernism, and Pluralism.]
Marc Ratner .........................................................................................................................................169
"A Larger ‘Slice of Life’: Re-assessing Literary Naturalism."
[Review of Paul Civello, American Literary Naturalism and Its Twentieth-Century Transformations; James R. Giles, The Naturalistic Inner-City Novel in America: Encounters with the Fat Man.]
T.J. Arant .............................................................................................................................................174
"Trouble with Anthologies."
[Review of John Ed Pearce, Days of Darkness: The Feuds of Eastern Kentucky; Robert J. Higgs, Ambrose N. Manning, and Jim Wayne Miller, eds., Appalachia Inside Out, Volume II: Culture and Custom.]
Feroza Jussawalla ..............................................................................................................................180
"Children’s Literature."
[Review of Peter Hunt, An Introduction to Children's LIterature; Gillian Avery, Behold the Child: American Children and Their Books 1621-1922.]
Book Reviews
James Mandrell ...................................................................................................................................187
Review of David K. Herzberger, Narrating the Past: Fiction and Historiography in Postwar Spain.
Donna M. Bickford ...............................................................................................................................189
Review of Kathleen De Grave, Swindler, Spy, Rebel: The Confidence Woman in Nineteenth-Century America.
Kathryn Murphy Anderson ...................................................................................................................191
Review of Donald E. Hall, ed., Muscular Christianity: Embodying the Victorian Age.
Robert Baker-White .............................................................................................................................193
Review of Bruce King, Derek Walcott and West Indian Drama.
Appendices
Books Received ..................................................................................................................................197
Index: Volume 24, 1997 .......................................................................................................................203
Announcements ..................................................................................................................................207
