I. Featured Items
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The Ties of the Railroad Tracks Home: the Poetry of Jared Carter(Kindle book / prose). Richmond, VA:The Virtual Vanaprastha, 2014. Amazon/Kindle |
Peace (Book Review). Dreaming the End of War by Benjamin Alire Sáenz. Copper Canyon Press. 2006. Eclectica.
Accidental Being (Book Review). A Marzipan Factory: New and Selected Poems by Grzegorz Wróblewski.Otoliths. 2010. Eclectica.
An Eddy in the Flow of Time (Book Review). The Lover's Guide to Trapping by Wyatt Prunty. Johns Hopkins University Press. 2009. Eclectica.
Cinderella Story (Book Review). On Speaking Terms by Connie Wanek. Copper Canyon Press. 2010. Eclectica.
Sex, Nudity, X-Rated, Nascar Racing Crashes, Adorable Kittens (Book Review/Essay). Multiple titles and media. Eclectica.
The Book of Common Prayer (Book Review). Break the Glass by Jean Valentine. Copper Canyon Press. 2010. Eclectica.
It is ourselves we want to be now... (Book Review). The Dangerous Shirt by Alberto Rios. Copper Canyon Press. 2009. Eclectica.
Before the Threshold (Book Review). Breaker by Sue Sinclair. Brick Books, 2009. Eclectica.
"The T=0 Complexity Theory of Consciousness" (Philosophy Paper). Hermeneutics Blog.
Upright words sound upside down (Book Review). Lao-tzu's Taoteching, trsl. by Red Pine. Copper Canyon Press, 2009. Eclectica.
"Gacela of Unforeseen Love" and "Casida of the Branches" by Federico Garcia Lorca (Translation/Poetry). Jacket Magazine .
Toward the South Country (Movie Review). Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life. Directed by Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack. Image Entertainment, 2000. Eclectica.
II. Online Journalism
Alberto Cutie Enters the Episcopal Church with Ruhama Canellis by his Side (Article). Biscayne Bay Review Keywords: cameras, Ruhama Buni Canellis, clergy, Alberto Cutie, Deacon, Diocese of Southeast Florida, Bishop Leo Frade, Italian mosaics, media, pews, Roman Catholic priest, transept, Trinity Episcopal Cathedral.
Brokered Republican Convention in '08? (Article). TPMCafe. No longer posted.
Congressional Leadership Knew The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords: Rodney Alexander, John Boehner, Congressman, Mark Foley, Dennis Hastert, John Kildee, National Republican Congressional Committee, Tom Reynolds, Roll Call, John Shimkus, Talking Points Memo, Jeff Trandahl.
Context Haiti 05/02/04 The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords: Herard Abraham; Joseph Jean Baptist; Winter Etienne; FRAPH; Gerard Latortue; Raboteau massacre; Jean Tatoun; Ferdinand Wilfort.
Context Haiti: 04/10/04 The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords: Boniface Alexander; Amnesty International; Andre "Andy" Apaid; Civil Society; Caribbean Community Secretariat (CARICOM); cocaine; Wilfort Ferdinand (Ti Will); James Foley; Reynold Georges; Me Alexander Paul; Jesse Lee Peterson; Himmler Rebu; Maxine Waters.
Context Haiti 03/25/04 The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords: Herard Abraham; Henri Bazin; Josette Bijoux; Boca Raton, Florida; Pierre Buteau; Adeline Magloire Chancy; Lamartine Clermont; Council of Sages; Paul Denis; Flashpoints; Bernard Gousse; Adamo Guino; Ariel Henry; International Monetary Fund (IMF); Anne-Marie Issa; Mac Donald Jean; Daniele Magloire; Philippe Mathieu; Miami, Florida; Smark Michel; Organization of American States (OAS); Evans Paul; Christian Rousseau; Daniel Saint-Lot; Yvon Simeon; Paul Emile Simon; United Nations; Leslie Voltaire; Yves Andre Wainwright.
Election 2004 Primer (Part 1): A Matter of Philosophy. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Election 2004 Primer (Part 2): A Matter of Approach. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Election 2004 Primer (Part 3): The Best Laid Plans... The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Election 2004 Primer (Part 4): In the Trenches. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Election 2004 Primer (Part 5): Cocaine. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Florida Anti-Gay Marriage Forces Declare Constitutional Emergency (Article) TPMCafe. No longer posted.
The Florida Democratic Un-Primary Turns Meaningful (Commentary) TPMCafe. No longer posted. Keywords:
Foley Resigns, Much More to Come The Catalyzer Journal Keywords: ABC News, Rodney Alexander, Congress, Congressman, e-mail, Florida's 16th District, GOP, House Page Board, male page, Nancy Pelosi, Thomas Reynolds, Roll Call, John Shimkus, U. S. House of Representatives.
From the Trenches: the Palanca Food Pantry (Article) Virtual Grub Street. Keywords: appeal; Associated Press; banking sector; Ben Bernanke; central banks; court case; credit markets; credit ratings; Dow Jones; electricity, equity markets; Federal Reserve; fixed income; gas; healthcare; Home Depot; homeless; insurance; labor halls; Lake Worth, Florida; minimum-wage; mortgage crisis; panhandlers; safety net; shelter; stimulus package; subcontractors; stock market; tax cut; trailers; unemployment; utilities bills; Westgate Tabernacle; working poor; world markets.
From the Trenches: the Palanca Food Pantry (Article) TPMCafe. No longer posted.
From the Trenches: Primary Experience (Article) Virtual Grub Street. Keywords:
From the Trenches: Primary Experience (Article) TPMCafe. No longer posted.
Gay Republican Congressman Confronted Foley in 2000 The Catalyzer Journal Keywords: Clerk of the House, Korenna Cline, Congressman, Florida, Mark Foley, Karen Hass, Internet, John Kolbe, page, Representative.
Hastert Says He May Have Been Told The Catalyzer Journal Keywords: Congressman, John Davis, e-mail, Mark Foley, GOP, Dennis Hastert, National Republican Congressional Committee, New York's 26th District, Thomas Reynolds, Speaker of the House, teenage boy.
The Little Guy Gets His The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Man-Boy Love Advocate Accused of Using Wikipedia to Troll for Interested Parties (Article). Rookie Revolyob, Clayboy, Zanthalon, et al: Why is Wikpedia a Pedophile Haven? Eye Online. Keywords:
A Mandate To Do Whooo-wut? The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Manufacturing Consent The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Mark Foley the Day After The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords:
Mark Foley and the Florida Legislature's Page Program: a Scarey Thought The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords:
Mark Foley Scandal Expands on New ABC Report The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords:
Mark Foley Scandal To Go Nuclear in the Week Ahead The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. Keywords:
Miami Cult Member Selling Ruhama Canellis Dot Com (Article). Biscayne Bay Review.
The Revolution Proceeds Apace The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. Keywords:
The Theater of Coup: Roger Noriega and "The Opposition" The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
The Theater of Coup: Roger Noriega and "The Opposition" Haiti Action. Keywords: Andre Apaid; Jean-Bertrand Aristide; Rudolph Boulos; Bush Administration; Dominican Republic; Gonaives; Group of 184; Haitian Democracy Project; International Republican Institute; Guy Philippe; Port Au Prince; Republican Party.
The Theater of Coup: Who is Guy Philippe? The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
The Theater of Coup: Who is Guy Philippe? Haiti Action. Keywords: Jean-Bertrand Aristide; Democratic Convergence; Fanmil Lavalas; FRAPH; Group of 184; Haiti Democracy Project; International Republican Institute (IRI); Movement for National Unity; National Endowment for Democracy (NED).
Tom DeLay’s Old Sock Puppet Calls It Quits. (Article). TPMCafe. No longer posted. Keywords:
The United States On The Road To Being Third World Country (Article). TPMCafe. No longer posted. Keywords:
Where the Strange Worlds of Fundamentalism and Homelessnesss Meet and The Kanawha County Uprising of 1974. The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords: 1974; anti-abortion; Avis Hill; Avis Hill Band; Avis Hill Ministries; Bible; Bishop; Charleston Daily Mail; Constitution; day labor; Fundamentalism; gay sex; homeless; homeless shelter; Florida; Marvin Horan; Kanawha County; Sherry McGee-Hill; minimum-wage; minister; National Coalition for the Homeless; Oasis; Palm Beach County; panhandling; prison; Progressivism; Protestant; public nuisance; realtor; Rhode Island; salvation; scripture; Seattle; Barry Silver; trespassing; Washington; West Palm Beach; West Virginia; Westgate Tabernacle.
Will Poor Market Day Affect Super Tuesday Outcomes? (Article). Daily Kos. Keywords:
Why This Must Not Be War. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted. Keywords:
Why This Must Not Be War. Clamor Magazine. No longer posted.
With Florida Tied Behind Our Back! (Commentary). Virtual Grub Street. Keywords: caucus; Alvaro Cifuentes; Howard Dean; Democrat; Democratic National committee (DNC); Florida Democratic Party; Election Commission; Lane Hudson; Huffington Post; Iowa; Iraq; January 29th; Frank LaMere; Bel Leong-Hong; Nevada; New Hampshire; nominating process; pre-window period; primary; President; Republican; Virgie Rollins; Rules and Bylaws committee; South Carolina; Rick Stafford; swing-state; voter turnout.
With Florida Tied Behind Our Back! (Commentary). TPMCafe. No longer posted.
III. Online Poetry
55 Madonna. All Info About Poetry. No longer posted.
American Cafe. The Danforth Review.
Anaktoria on the Stoop. Monadnock Review.
The Cardinal Del Monte's Collection. Polyphony. No longer posted. Keywords: Michelangelo Amerighi da Caravaggio.
The Hordes. Polyphony. No longer posted.
Love's Discipline. All Info About Poetry. No longer posted. Keywords: Rachel Marie Purdy.
Mark Hanna Under Starry Skies. Palm Beaches Review.
Mark Hanna Under Starry Skies and Poetry 2000TM. Cosmoetica.
A Meeting of the Garden Club. All Info About Poetry. No longer posted.
On First Looking into Lowell's Notebooks. Limestone Magazine. Keywords: Robert Lowell; William Meredith; Sylvia Plath; Anne Sexton; Paul Valery.
Poetry 2000TM. Virtual Grub Street.
Professor Tograth's Seminar. Polyphony. No longer posted. Keywords: Guillaume Apollinaire.
Seed. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts.
September 12th, 2001. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Storm. Consciousness, Literature and the Arts.
Tintoretto's Paradise. Monadnock Review. Keywords: Jacopo Robusti.
Victory Garden. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
IV. Online Translation
"Gacela of Unforeseen Love" and "Casida of the Branches" by Federico Garcia Lorca (Translation/Poetry). Jacket Magazine .
Four Poems by Ungaretti. (Poetry) All Info About Poetry. No longer posted.
How Fill with Joy, Happy and Well-Informed... by Michelangelo Buonarroti. (Poetry). Virtual Grub Street.
The Infinite by Giacomo Leopardi. (Poetry). Virtual Grub Street.
To Himself by Giacomo Leopardi. (Poetry). Virtual Grub Street.
Gacela of the Dead Boy and Gacela of the Terrible Presence by Federico Garcia Lorca (Poetry).
Cipher Journal.
Gacela of Distracted Love by Federico Garcia Lorca (Poetry).
Palm Beaches Review.
Gacela of the Memory of Love by Federico Garcia Lorca (Poetry).
Palm Beaches Review.
Vanity by Giuseppe Ungaretti. (Poetry). Poetry International (San Diego State University) companion web site.
V. Online Essays / Obits / Memorials
Aime Cesaire Dies at 94 (Memorial). Daily Kos.
Between Zero and a Hard Place. Jacket Magazine.
The 'Curse' of Salemi. Point and Circumference.
The 'Curse' of Salemi. The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
Dr. Salemi's Obituary and the Consumption of Poetry. Cosmoetica.
The Elegy and the Internet. Virtual Grub Street.
The Enigma of W. D. Snodgrass. Elimae.
The Enigma of W. D. Snodgrass. Limestone Magazine.
Guy Davenport's Memorial Service Was Held This Morning.. Virtual Grub Street.
Het Nieuve Wereldbeeld: the Magical World of Guy Davenport. Elimae.
Jon Norman: Tortured Enfant Anti-Hero. (Essay). Virtual Grub Street. Keywords:
O Christmas Tree! O Christmas Tree! The Catalyzer Journal. No longer posted.
True Stone and Epitaph: the Poetry of Pablo Neruda. Eclectica.
VI. Online Interviews
An Interview with Olga Magieres (Interview). Eclectica.
VII. Online Book Reviews (Poetry)
After the Lightning Strike (Book Review). The Lichtenberg Figures by Ben Lerner. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Eclectica..
Ah, the Beloved (Book Review / Essay). Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved by Gregory Orr. Copper Canyon Press, 2005. Jacket Magazine.
American Gothic. Delights and Shadows by Ted Kooser. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Valparaiso Poetry Review.
The Art of Artlessness. Tasting the Dark: New and Selected Poems by George Amabile. J. Gordon Shillingford/The Muses Company, 2001. Eclectica.
Avoiding Those Who Deliver Letters. (Book Review). Our Flying Objects by Grzegorz Wroblewski. Equipage, 2007. These Extraordinary People by Grzegorz Wroblewski. Erbacce Press, 2008. Eclectica.
The Belle of Goshen (Book Review). What Love Comes To: New and Selected Poems by Ruth Stone. Copper Canyon Press. 2008. Rattle.
Brisk Leaps the Heart. Chapters into Verse ed. by Robert Atwan and Lawrence Wieder. Oxford University Press, 1995, 2000. The Language of Spring ed. by Robert Atwan. Beacon Press, 2003. All Info About Poetry.
By Way of Sarajevo. Immigrant Blues by Goran Simic. London, Ontario: Brick Books, 2003. Rain Taxi.
Charm School (Book Review). More Than Peace and Cypresses by Cyrus Cassells. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Eclectica.
Closing Thoughts (Book Review). The Memory Orchard by Tim Bowling. Brick Books, 2005. Eclectica.
Desperately Seeking Sylvia (Book Review). Wedding Day by Dana Levin. Copper Canyon Press, 2003. Eclectica.
Doc Pereira. Saying the World by Peter Pereira. Copper Canyon Press, 2003. Eclectica.
Dutiful (Book Review). The Armillary Sphere by Ann Hudson. Ohio University Press, 2006. Eclectica.
Elbows and Toads (Book Review). The Theater of Night by Alberto Rios. Copper Canyon Press, 2005. Eclectica.
Erin Belieu Does the Poetry Bus and Other Associated Necrophilia (Book Review). Black Box by Erin Belieu. Copper Canyon Press, 2006. Eclectica.
Eye of the Beholder. eye: poems & retina prints by Elizabeth Goldring. BkMk Press, 2002. Virtual Grub Street. The text of this review is hyperlinked to provide an accompanying slide show.
Eye of the Beholder. eye: poems & retina prints by Elizabeth Goldring. BkMk Press, 2002. Sidereality.
Excursus (Book Review). Path, Crooked Path by John Balaban. Copper Canyon Press, 2007. Eclectica.
For Good Measure. The Secret Language of Women by A. M. Juster. Indiana: The University of Evansville Press, 2003. Eclectica.
From whence comes war.... Disarmament by John Terpstra. Gaspereau Press, 2003. The Danforth Review.
Fruitful Cluter. In the Dark by Ruth Stone. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Eclectica.
The Game We Play with the Game We Play. Praising It New: The Best of the New Criticism ed. Garrick Davis. Swallow Press. 2008.
Garbo Brushes Her Teeth! Gilbert & Garbo In Love: A Romance in Poems by Christopher Conlon. The Word Works, Inc., 2003.
...how different the world has become... Secrets of Weather and Hope (2001) and Mortal Arguments (2003) by Sue Sinclair. Brick Books. The Danforth Review.
If You Have A Niche Scratch It. Alfred Dorn's chapbooks From Cells to Mindspace Somers Rocks Press, 1997 and Voices from Rooms Somers Rocks Press, 1997. Monadnock Review.
In Two Senses. Eight Pale Women by James C. Hopkins. Word Works, Inc., 2003. Eclectica.
The Intifadah of a Personal Humanity. So What: New & Selected Poems, 1971-2005 by Taha Muhammad Ali. Translated by Peter Cole, Yahya Hijazi and Gabriel Levin.Copper Canyon Press, 2006. Eclectica.
Mr. Pereira's Neighborhood (Book Review). What's Written on the Body by Peter Pereira. Copper Canyon Press, 2007. Eclectica.
The Meat Cage. (Book Review). Inseminating the Elephant by Lucia Perillo. Copper Canyon Press, 2009. Eclectica.
The Mississinewa County School of Poetry (Book Review). Cross This Bridge at a Walk by Jared Carter. Wind Publications, 2007. Eclectica.
More Mortal Accolades (Book Review). The Girl with Bees in Her Hair by Eleanor Rand Wilner. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Eclectica.
Murdering Myself for a Living. Christening the Dancer by John Amen. Uccelli Press, 2003. Eclectica.
One Woman in Her Time. In the Shadow of the Globe by Michelle Cameron. Lit Pot Press, 2003. Eclectica.
Pierce Butler, Fanny Kemble, et al (Book Review/Essay). The Weeping Time: Elegy in Three Voices by Christopher Conlon. Argonne House Press, 2004. Palm Beaches Review.
Pierce Butler and Fanny Kemble: the Poetry of Slavery (Book Review). The Weeping Time: Elegy in Three Voices by Christopher Conlon. Argonne House Press, 2004. The Compulsive Reader.
The Poet's Progress. The Collected Poems of Eldon Grier. Ekstasis Editions, 2001. The Danforth Review.
A Portrait of the Artist. The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected and New by Judith McCombs. Word Works, Inc, 2005. Eclectica.
Prima Materia. The Feast: Prose Poem Sequences by Walter Bargen. BkMk Press, 2003. The Pedestal Magazine.
Reconstructing the Poetry of John Willis Menard. Lays from Summer Lands by John Willis Menard. Ed. by Carter Brown, Jr., Richard Matthews and Larry Eugene Rivers. University of Tampa Press, 2003. The Catalyzer Journal.
The Reconstruction of John Willis Menard. Lays from Summer Lands by John Willis Menard. University of Tampa Press, 2003. All Info About Poetry.
A Short History of the Perverse. One Unblinking Eye by Norman Williams. Athens, Ohio: Swallow Press/University of Ohio Press, 2003. Eclectica.
A Short History of the Perverse. One Unblinking Eye by Norman Williams. Swallow Press/University of Ohio Press, 2003. Poetry Kit Magazine.
Show Your Work! (Book Review). The Human Line by Ellen Bass. Copper Canyon Press, 2007. Eclectica.
Someone Somewhere (Book Review). The Portable Famine by Rane Arroyo. BkMk Press, 2005. Eclectica.
Star Stuff (Book Review). Migration by W.S. Merwin. Copper Canyon Press, 2005. Eclectica.
Stopping the Bombs (Book Review). D.C. Poets Against the War: an Anthology Ed. by Sarah Browning, Michele Elliot, and Danny Rose. Argonne House Press, 2004. Eclectica.
A T'ang Canon. Poems of the Masters: China's Classic Anthology of T'ang and Sung Dynasty Verse trans. Red Pine. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Quarterly Literary Review Singapore.
Tapestry. The Girl with Bees in Her Hair by Eleanor Rand Wilner. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Eclectica.
Tapestry [pdf format]. The Girl with Bees in Her Hair by Eleanor Rand Wilner. Copper Canyon Press, 2004. Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry. Journal defunct.
True Stone and Epitaph: the Poetry of Pablo Neruda. The Essential Neruda ed. Mark Eisner. City Lights Publishers, 2004. Eclectica.
Two Books from Albany. Distant Kinships by Anthony Bernini. A.P.D., 2002. Three Sides to the Looking Glass by Rachel Zitomer. A.P.D., 2004. Eclectica.
The Vulgar Tongue. Churlsgrace by William Hathaway. University Press of Florida, 1992. Eclectica.
The Way of Mrs. Wei. The Tao of Mrs. Wei by Hilary Tham. The Bunny and the Crocodile Press, 2003. Thunder Sandwich.
We Redeem What We May. Ca Dao Viet Nam transl. John Balaban. Copper Canyon Press, 2003. Jacket Magazine.
What I Did Over the Summer. (Book Review/Journalism). Days of Creativity: a Collection of Poems by Jon Norman ed. by James Stidfole. Little Red Tree Publishing, 2007. Eclectica.
Where We Are Now. Prayer against famine and other Irish poems by John Knoepfle. BkMk Press, 2004. Eclectica.
With Joaquin Miller for a Muse. Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller's Cabin, 1984-2001 ed. by Jacklyn W. Potter, Dwaine Rieves, and Gary Stein. Word Works, Inc, 2003. Eclectica.
Within the Envelope (Book Review). Escape Artist by Terry Blackhawk. BkMk Press, 2003. Eclectica.
A Word Association Test. Words Brushed by Music ed. by John T. Irwin. Johns Hopkins University Press. The Catalyzer Journal.
VIII. Online Book Reviews (Prose)
As Through a Glass Darkly (Book Review / Essay). Reinventing the Soul by Mari Ruti. Other Press. 2006. Eclectica.
The Citizen Strikes Back . Citizens of the Empire: the Struggle to Claim Our Humanity by Robert Jensen. San Francisco: City Lights Publishers, 2004. The Catalyzer Journal.
The Citizen Strikes Back (Book Review). Citizens of the Empire: the Struggle to Claim Our Humanity by Robert Jensen. City Lights Books, 2004. The Compulsive Reader. Keywords:
A Footnote No Longer (Book Review). You'll Be Okay: My Life with Jack Kerouac by Edie Kerouac-Parker. City Lights Books. 2007. Eclectica. Keywords:
Dueling Mythologies. Extracting Appalachia: Images of the Consolidation Coal Company 1910-1945 by Geoffrey L. Buckley. Ohio University Press, 2004. Virtual Grub Street. Keywords:
From the Lay-by. Falling into Place by John Terpstra. Gaspereau Press, 2002. The Danforth Review. Keywords: Belledune; Robert Bly; John Burroughs; carp; Dundurn Castle; Hamilton, Ontario; Father Louis Hennepin; Iroquois Bar; Jaquet; George Washington Johnson; Miramichi; Native American; Nepissisquit; Niagra Escarpment; Revolutionary War; thrush; veery; white throated sparrow.
Here's Spyin' On You, Kid (Book Review). Illusions of Security: Global Surveillance and Democracy in the Post-9/11 World by Maureen Webb. City Lights Publishers, 2007. TPMCafe. Keywords:
The Hero of Howl (Book Review / Essay). Howl on Trial ed. Bill Morgan and Nancy J. Peters. City Lights Books, 2007. Eclectica.
A Man He'll Rise... African-American Poetry of the Nineteenth Century: An Anthology. ed. by Joan R. Sherman. University of Illinois Press, 19XX. Invisible Poets: Afro-Americans of the Ninteenth Century. University of Illinois Press, 19XX. All Info About Poetry. Keywords: African Methodist Episcopal Church; Black Baptist Church; John Brown; William Cullen Bryant; Aime Cesaire; L. Maria Child; John Clare; Daniel Webster Davis; Paul Laurence Dunbar; Timothy Thomas Fortune; Haiti; Harlem Renaissance; Joel Chandler Harris; George Moses Horton; Klu Klux Klan; Alain Locke; Henry Wadsworth Longfellow; Adah Isaacs Menken; Vincente Oge; Rosa Parks; Ezra Pound; Reconstruction; Elymas Payson Rogers; Theodore Roosevelt; William Henry Seward; Percy Bysshe Shelley; slavery; Charles Sumner; Uncle Remus; George Vashon; Booker T. Washington; Ellen Francis Watkins; Phillis Wheatley; Walt Whitman; Albery Allson Whitman.
New Wine in Old Wineskins (Book Review). Ambition and Survival: Becoming a Poet by Christian Wiman. Copper Canyon Press, 2007. Eclectica. Keywords:
No Common Commonplace Book. (Book Review). Quote Poet Unquote ed. by Dennis O'Driscoll. Copper Canyon Press. 2008. Eclectica.
A Review of K. D. Miller's Holy Writ. Holy Writ by K. D. Miller. The Porcupine's Quill, 2000. The Danforth Review. Keywords: Emily Bronte; Melinda Burns; Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.
A Review of The Solid Form of Language by Robert Bringhurst. (PDF format) Gaspereau Press, 2004. The Georgia Review. Keywords: Arabic; dialect; Cyrillic; Devanagari; The Elements of Typographical Style; Hebrew; Helvetica; pictograph; Industrial Revolution; Native American; Latin; Moslem; postindustrial; scripts; Serbo-Croatian; Tajik; typeface.
Sex Trek: the New Generation. Sex Carnival by Bill Brownstein. ECW Press, 2000. The Danforth Review. Keywords: Amsterdam; birth control; Guinness Book of World Records; K-Y Jelly; Las Vegas; Los Angeles; Montreal; New York; Paris.
Slouching Toward Sausalito (Book Review). In the Heart of the Heart of Another Country by Etel Adnan. City Lights Publishers, 2005. The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords:
Small Book, Big Issues. Nothing Sacred by T. F. Rigelhof. Keywords: altar boy; Bible; Catholic Church; charismatic religion; chimpanzee; Christian; civil unions; Judy Garland; gay; gay marriage; homosexual; hunter-gatherer; Cardinal Bernard Law; Jesus; Mahabharata; THomas Merton; Nazareth; Steven Pinker; Jean Jacques Rousseau; St. Pius X Seminary; secular liberation theology; sex scandal; sexual abuse; Solar Temple cult; Vatican II; E. O. Wilson; Tom Wolfe.
Traversing Omphalos (Book Review). Honorable Bandit: a walk across Corsica by Brian Bouldrey. University of Wisconsin Press, 2007. The Compulsive Reader. Keywords:
What She Said. Wisdom & Metaphor by Jan Zwicky. Gaspereau Press, 2004. The Danforth Review. Keywords: analogy; Roland Barthes; Andre Breton; Complexity Theory; Deconstructionism; epistomology; gestalt; Hermeneutic Phenomenology; F. R. Leavis; Modernism; ontology; Post-Modernism; Semiotics; Ludwig Wittgenstein.
Whittling Away at the Beast. Superpatriots by Michael Parenti. City Lights Publishers, 2004. The Catalyzer Journal. Keywords: abolitionist movement; the beast; Julius Caesar; child labor; Christian Science Monitor; enfranchisement; Senator William Fullbright; gender equality; Mohandas Ghandi; Imperialism; Marxism; McDonald's; peace movement; protests; Pulitzer Prize; Rome; John Ruskin.
IX. CD & DVD Reviews
Baraka Directed by Ron Fricke. (Movie Review). Eclectica. Keywords: 70mm; aboriginal Australians; Allah; American West; anthill; The Arches National Park; armored vehicles; Auschwitz; bag pipes; Bali; "Blessing"; Brazil; Buddha; cacophony; Calcutta; camera; carnage; China; cistern; cityscapes; drums; Eastern Orthodox; empire; emperor; Far East; featurette; hot spring; garbage dump; Saddam Hussien; Indonesia; Iraq; Japan; Java; Jewish song of lament; Kathmandu; Kayapo; Kecak Dance; Konya; Khmer Rouge; Kuwaiti oil fields; Kyoto; Laos; lodge; Luxor; Mark Magidson; Monkey Temple; monoliths; Mt Bromo; Near East; Nepal; New York; Persian mausoleum; poverty; salvage; Samsara; Sao Paolo; simian; snow monkeys; South America; Michael Stearns; soldiers; Sufi; Swayambhunath Stupa; terracotta army of Qin; Tibetan water music; time-lapse; Tokyo; tribe; Turkey; untouchables; Utah; violin; volcano; votive candles; whirling dervishes; Xi'an; Yanomami; YouTube; Zen meditation garden;
Ginsberg's Farewell to London (Movie Review). Allen Ginsberg: Live in London Dream/Diva Pictures Ltd., 2005. Eclectica.. Keywords:
Plink, Click, Click, eeeeEEEEE, Swish-sh-sh-sh-sh-sh... Plink (Music Review). Piano & Poetry by Olga Magieres. Base Point Media, 2006. Eclectica. Keywords: accompanist; Lotte Anker; avant-garde; Copenhagen; curriculum vitae; cymbals; dissonant; drums; eclectic; electric bass; electronic music; Europe; fantasia; free jazz; improvisational; Jerusalem; P. O. Joergens; Joel Leonard Katz; Martin Klapper; MAF Trio; melody; musical toys; Peter Friis Nielson; pianist; piano; "Quintet with Klapper II"; R2D2; Royal Danish Music Academy; Rubin Academy of Music; Skraep; "Smoke Gets in Your Eyes"; snares; Tel Aviv; tenor saxophone; "Thursday"; track; "Wednesday I"; White Night Festival;
Toward the South Country (Movie Review).Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life. Directed by Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack. Image Entertainment, 2000. Eclectica. Keywords:
X. Author Information
