Tuesday, July 22, 2008

GALATEA RESURRECTS ITS PURTY HEAD ... FOR THE TENTH TIME

with a record number of new reviews!!! 68 new engagements with poetry projects -- well, wooot!

Go HERE for the issue. I'll also print the Table of Contents below for y'all's convenience:


ISSUE NO. 10 TABLE OF CONTENTS

EDITOR’S INTRODUCTION

By Eileen Tabios


NEW REVIEWS
Jeffrey Side reviews WHERE THE THREE RIVERS MEET by Aine MacAodha

Nicholas Manning reviews BEAUTIFUL, UNFINISHED: PARABLE/SONG/CANTO/POEM by M.T.C. Cronin

Eileen Tabios engages ENDGAMES by Márton Koppány

Patrick James Dunagan reviews DERIVATIVE OF THE MOVING IMAGE by Jennifer Bartlett, BEAUTY [IS THE NEW ABSURDITY] by Jennifer Scappettone, DOG GIRL by Heidi Lynn Staples and THE MARVELOUS BONES OF TIME by Brenda Coultas

Eric Hoffman reviews PASSING OVER by Norman Finkelstein

Pamela Hart reviews BONE PAGODA by Susan Tichy

Tim Wright reviews GOING GOING by Jen Hofer

Nicholas Manning reviews PPL IN A DEPOT by Gary Sullivan

Tyrone Williams reviews THE ANATOMY OF OIL by Marcella Durand

Nicholas Manning reviews CORNSTARCH FIGURINE by Elizabeth Treadwell

Eileen Tabios engages & PERSONA, poems by Mackenzie Carignan and photographs by Felicia Ohnmacht

Francie Noyes reviews MIDNIGHTS, poetry by Jane Miller & artwork by Beverly Pepper

H. Francisco V. Penones, Jr. reviews AMIGO WARFARE by Eric Gamalinda

Francie Noyes reviews BLIND DATE WITH CAVAFY by Steve Fellner

Tyrone Williams reviews THE STRAITS by Kristin Palm

Eileen Tabios engages BE THAT EMPTY: APOLOGIA FOR AIR by Alice B. Fogel

Richard Lopez reviews BREAK ME OUCH by Michael Farrell

Tyrone Williams reviews OPEN BOX (IMPROVISATIONS) by Carla Harryman

James Stotts reviews ENTER MORRIS IMPOSTERNAK, PURSUED BY IRONIES by Eugene Ostashevsky

Thomas Fink reviews TRAVELING WITH THE DEAD by Carole Stone

Laurel Johnson reviews THE BLUE MOON SERIES by Rodger Martin

Ryan Daley reviews ... AND THEN engages FLOWERS OF BAD: A FALSE TRANSLATION OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE’S LES FLEURS DU MAL by David Cameron

John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews HORACE: POEMS by Tim Atkins; COVERS by Susan Landers; and FLOWERS OF BAD: A FALSE TRANSLATION OF CHARLES BAUDELAIRE’S LES FLEURS DU MAL by David Cameron

Karen Rigby reviews ISLE OF THE SIGNATORIES by Marjorie Welish

Eileen Tabios engages THEORY OF COLORS by Mercedes Roffe

Pamela Hart reviews THE ORCHARD by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

Kristina Marie Darling reviews CHANTEUSE/CANTATRICE by Catherine Daly

Michael Layne Heath reviews WORDS IN YOUR FACE: A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH 20 YEARS OF THE NEW YORK CITY POETRY SLAM by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

Andy Frazee reviews THE CITY VISIBLE: CHICAGO POETRY FOR THE NEW CENTURY edited by William Allegrezza and Raymond Bianchi

Jim McCrary reviews SPADE by David Bromige & Rychard Denner; ART IS WAR by Anne Boyer; THE ROMANCE OF HAPPY WORKERS by Anne Boyer; from THE TRADITIONS by Juliana Spahr; NO FACE by Judith Roitman

Evelyn Hampton engages THE SMALL ANYTHING CITY by Cynthia Arrieu-King

Christopher Mulrooney engages THE DEVELOPMENT OF AERIAL MILITARISM AND THE DEMOBILIZATION OF EUROPEAN GROUND FORCES, FORTRESSES, AND NAVAL FLEES by Paul Scheerbart, trans. by M. Kasper

Eileen Tabios engages FORGET READING by Anthony Hawley

Denise Dooley reviews THE RIVER IS WIDE / EL RIO ES ANCHO: TWENTY MEXICAN POETS Edited and Translated by Marlon L. Fick

Pamela Hart reviews CHILD IN THE ROAD by Cindy Savett

Nicholas Manning reviews THIS POEM/WHAT SPEAKS?/A DAY by Tom Beckett

Eileen Tabios engages ORANGES & SARDINES, Summer 2008, Vol. 1 Issue, Edited by David Krump, Andy Nicholson, Meghan Punschke and Didi Menendez

Karen Rigby reviews THE BOYS I BORROW by Heather Sellers

Eileen Tabios engages RAFETOWN GEORGICS by Garin Cycholl

Laurel Johnson reviews DEFIANCE by Hugh Fox

Jeff Harrison reviews SKINNY BUDDHA by Sheila E. Murphy

Pamela Hart reviews THE MARVELOUS BONES OF TIME by Brenda Coultas

Leny M. Strobel engages PRAU by Jean Vengua

Francie Noyes reviews CLOUD VIEW POETS: MASTER CLASSES WITH DAVID ST. JOHN, edited by Morley Clark, Jane Downs, CB Follett, and Susan Terris

Patrick James Dunagan reviews SHINY, No. 14, 2008, edited by Michael Friedman

Bob Marcacci reviews TWO HATS APPEAR WHEN APPLAUDED by Raymond Farr, OCCASION IN THE MOSAIC DISTANCE by Paul Klinger, [from SLOT (TO PULL AN HISTORICAL SITE FORM YOU)] by Jill Magi, SPECIMEN by Marci Nelligan, INSECT COUNTRY (B) by Sawako Nakayasu, and SOUVENIRS by Bronwen Tate

Derek Motion reviews ORIGAMI SHIPWRECK by Craig Perez and Katy Acheson

William Allegrezza reviews IT’S ALL A MOVIE by Alex Gildzen

Nathan Logan reviews NEVER CRY WOOF by Shafer Hall

Prosy Abarquez-Delacruz reviews AN MAUPAY HA MGA WARAY UF IBA PA NGA MGA SIDAY (Waray poems with English translations) by Voltaire Oyzon

Rebecca Mabanglo-Mayor reviews BEIJING BACKGROUND by Bob Marcacci

Eileen Tabios engages ORGY IN THE BEEF CLOSET by Michael Koshkin

Laurel Johnson reviews SUDDENLY, FRUIT by Linda Tomol Pennisi


THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
"{ . . . from HOMO SENTIMENTALIS : A GUIDE IN VERSE TO MODERN EMOTIONAL INTIMACY}" By Nicholas Manning


FEATURE ARTICLES
FEATURED POET: Cynthia Schwartzberg Edlow

Thomas Fink interviews Jennifer Kwon Dobbs


FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Francie Noyes reviews AVERNO by Louise Gluck

Allen Gaborro reviews STAGE PRESENCE: CONVERSATIONS WITH FILIPINO AMERICAN PERFORMING ARTISTS, edited by Theodore S. Gonzalves

Allen Gaborro reviews PRAU bv Jean Vengua

Juaniyo Arcellana reviews PINOY POETICS: A COLLECTION OF AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL ESSAYS ON FILIPINO AND FILIPINO-AMERICAN POETICS, edited by Nick Carbo


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