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» 06 «

Into the Great Wide Open, by Kevin Canty
Reviewed by Chad Driscoll
Oyster Boy Review 06 (January 1997): 60-61.
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The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven, by Rick Moody
Reviewed by Steve Kistulentz
Oyster Boy Review 06 (January 1997): 62-63.
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Crossing Water, by Florence Nash
"A Life by Water"
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 07 (September 1997): 41.
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Mountains and Rivers Without End, by Gary Snyder
"A Literary Limb"
Reviewed by Thomas Rain Crowe
Oyster Boy Review 07 (September 1997): 37-39.
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The Right Man for the Job, by Mike Magnuson
Reviewed by Steve Kistulentz
Oyster Boy Review 07 (September 1997): 40-41.
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Presently a Beast, by Gay Brewer
"Gay Brewer's Boxing Poetry"
Reviewed by M. A. Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 07 (September 1997): 36-37.
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Hints of His Mortality, by David Borofka
"Eager Fools of Summer"
Reviewed by Nelson Taylor
Oyster Boy Review 07 (September 1997): 39-40.
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» 08 «   - Poetry Annual -

A Cure For Optimism, by Paul Dilsaver
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 08 (January 1998): 51-52.
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Anthems of an Uncut Field, by Danielle Truscott
Reviewed by Florence Nash
Oyster Boy Review 08 (January 1998): 50.
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Willy Slater's Lane, by Mitch Wieland
Reviewed by Nelson Taylor
Oyster Boy Review 08 (January 1998): 52-53.
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Autobiography of Red & Eros the Bittersweet, by Anne Carsons
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998): 48-49.
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Word Up Baltimore: A Poetry Collection, by Blair Ewing
Reviewed by Debra Kaufman
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998): 49-50.
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Already Dead, by Denis Johnson
Reviewed by Steve Kistulentz
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998): 46-47.
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A Painter Passing Through, by Gordon Lightfoot
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998): 53-54.
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Perfect Night, by Lou Reed
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998): 51-52.
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Postponing the Worm, by John Danley
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998): 52-53.
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Ballons and Twisted Pins, by Steve Conway & Cari Taplin
Reviewed by C. C. Russell
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998): 51.
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Word Up Baltimore: A Poetry Collection, by Blair Ewing
Reviewed by C. C. Russell
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998): 50.
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Three Books from Graywolf Press
Reviewed by Nelson Taylor
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998): 46.
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» 10 «   - 5th Anniversary Issue -

Giscombe, Madsen, & Myles
Reviewed by Kevin Bezner
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999): 56-57.
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The Luminous Disarray, by Mary E. Martin
Reviewed by E. Barnsley Brown
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999): 54-55.
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Old Love: A Novel, by Margaret Erhart
Reviewed by Lucy Harrison
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999): 48-50.
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Babylon in a Jar
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999): 53-54.
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Mr. Universe and Other Plays
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999): 52-53..
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Other Voices, Too
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).
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Exquisite Politics
Reviewed by Jennifer Pierson
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999): 55.
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Live at the Green Door
Reviewed by C. C. Russell
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999): 56.
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Nicole Blackman
Reviewed by C. C. Russell
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999): 55-56.
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Genii Over Salzburg
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999): 51.
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» 11 «   - Poetry Annual -

Anthologies for Dinner
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999): 49-50.
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Tom Waits's Mule Variations
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999): online only.
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Lisa Williams's The Hammered Dulcimer
Reviewed by Florence Nash
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999): 57.
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Margaret Rabb's Figments of the Firmament
Reviewed by Florence Nash
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999): 56.
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Michael McNeilley's Punch Lines & Virgil Hervey's David Called Today
Reviewed by Mark Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999): 55-56.
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Richard Tayson's The Apprentice of Fever & Paul Dilsaver's Medi-Phoria
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999): 56-57.
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Robert Creeley's So There: Poems 1976-1983
Reviewed by Miles Efron
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000): 53-54.
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Gabrielle Burton's Heartbreak Hotel
Reviewed by Zoe Francesca
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000): 54-55.
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Toni Graham's The Daiquiri Girls
Reviewed by Lucy Harrison
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000): 52-53.
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Mark Jacobs's Stone Cowboy
Reviewed by Lindsay Martell
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000): 57.
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Steven Polansky's Dating Miss Universe
Reviewed by Jessica Mersky
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000): 55-56.
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King of the Roadkills by Bucky Sinister
Reviewed by Jill Meyers
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000): 56-57.
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Rick Harsch's The Driftless Zone
Reviewed by Jill Meyers
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000): 56.
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Al Miginnes's Taking Up Our Daily Tools
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000): 56.
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'Illume' by Andrea Rosenberg
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 63-64.
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Cappellazzo & Licata's In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 62.
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Cid Corman's Nothing Doing
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 69.
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Dan Gerber's Trying to Catch the Horses
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 58-59.
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Keith Aldritt's The Poet as Spy: The Life and Wild Times of Basil Bunting
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 69.
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Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc' by Gustaf Sobin
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 56.
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The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics' by Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Peter Quartermain, editors
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 67-68.
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'Rain Mirror' by Michael McClure
Reviewed by J. W. Bonner
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 65.
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'At Dusk Iridescent: A Gathering of Poems, 1972-1977' by Thomas Meyer
Reviewed by Jim Cory
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 61.
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'Wherever' by Kevin Bezner
Reviewed by Miles Efron
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 66-67.
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'Mixing Cement' by Peter Tomassi
Reviewed by Zoë Francesca
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 60-61.
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'Serpent' by Nicholas Mosley
Reviewed by Zoë Francesca
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 63.
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'Before It's Light' by Lyn Lifshin
Reviewed by Mark Hornburg
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 59.
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'The Love-Artist' by Jane Alison
Reviewed by Larry Johnson
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 62-63.
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Amor Eterno by Patricia Preciado Martin
Reviewed by Lindsay Martell
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 64.
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'Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan' by Howard Sounes
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 57-58.
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'The Body Artist' by Don DeLillo
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 64-65.
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'The Dying Animal' by Philip Roth
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 61-62.
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'Once in Vermont' by Bob Arnold
Reviewed by M. A. Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 68.
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The Poetry of Benjamin Saltman
Reviewed by M. A. Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 56-57.
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'Blizzard of One' & 'The Weather of Words' by Mark Strand
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 59-60.
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'Of Moment' by Jonathan Greene
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 65-66.
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'Silent Treatment' by Lisa Lewis
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001): 67.
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'Particularities' by Kevin Bezner
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 54-55.
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Anne Carson's Economy of the Unlost & Men in the Off Hours
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 57-58.
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Blackbird Dust by Jonathan Williams
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 55-56.
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Evaporate Again by C. A. Conrad
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 56-57.
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Four Books by Ricky Garni
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 53-54.
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Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 55.
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Three Books about Books
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 52-53.
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To Do As Adam Did by Ronald Johnson
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 53.
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Ford Swetnam's Ghostholders Know
Reviewed by Kevin Bezner
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 61-62.
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Nature: Poems Old and New by May Swenson
Reviewed by Kevin Bezner
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 60-61.
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Thom Gunn's Boss Cupid & Anne Stevenson's Granny Scarecrow
Reviewed by Kevin Bezner
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 60.
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Andrea Selch & George Elliott Clarke's Succory & Gold Indigoes
Reviewed by J. W. Bonner
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 59-60.
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Ancestors by Kamau Brathwaite
Reviewed by Keith Mitchell
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 62.
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The Lost Sea by Keith Flynn
Reviewed by Mark Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 63-64.
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'A Certain Light' by Debra Kaufman
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 61.
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Re-Sounding: Selected Later Poems by Theodore Enslin
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 62-63.
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When I Find You Again It Will Be in Mountains
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001): 63.
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Pagan Days
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 60-62.
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At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 63.
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Drunk on the Wine: 100 Poems of Hafiz
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 64.
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Reviewed by Zoë Francesca
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 63-64.
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Herrera's New Loteria
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 58.
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What's the Tough Guy Feeling?
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 64.
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Escaping Reality: Bees and Marijuana and Everything In Between
Reviewed by Lucy Harrison
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 55-56.
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Boulevard: A Novel of New Orleans
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 58-59.
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Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): online only.
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Lullaby
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 62-63.
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Common Ectoids of Arizona
Reviewed by Laurel Savino
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 54-55.
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A Luminous Desert: Kenny Fries' Painterly Poetics
Reviewed by Reginald Shepherd
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 59-60.
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Poems of the Quotidian World
Reviewed by Reginald Shepherd
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 57-58.
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The Hell Screens
Reviewed by Karen Trimbath
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 56-57.
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Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography
Reviewed by Ted Wojtasik
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002): 57.
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Animate Objects
Reviewed by J. W. Bonner
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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Poet's Last Word Review
Reviewed by C. A. Conrad
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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Remembering Joe Brainard
Reviewed by Jim Cory
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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'Some of these tunes hold up remarkably well.' The Seventies as We Lived Them.
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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Not Far From Music
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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Throwing Fire at the World
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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Harryette Mullen's Abecedarian Dreams
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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Poet in a Landscape
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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Recipes from Oblivia
Reviewed by Josh Hockensmith
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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More Than I Really Wanted to Know
Reviewed by Florence Nash
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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Dear Lorine
Reviewed by David Preece
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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Rucksack Poems
Reviewed by David Preece
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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The Order of Things
Reviewed by David Preece
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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Becoming Marianne Moore
Reviewed by Reginald Shepherd
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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Political Personal
Reviewed by Delacey Skinner
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).
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The Dog Star, by Donald Windham
Reviewed by Chad Driscoll
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Beyond the Water Dance, by L. Teresa Church
"Southern Memories"
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Home Movies of Narcissus, by Rane Arroyo
"The Seer and the Seen"
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Mahrem--Things Men Should Do for Men: A Suite for O, by Edward Foster
"The Poet as Stranger in a Strange Land"
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Liars and Saints, by Maile Meloy
Reviewed by Lucy Harrison
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Haiku: Poetry Ancient and Modern, by Jackie Hardy & The Japanese Haiku, by Kenneth Yasuda
"All Grown Up: English-language Haiku After Half a Century"
Reviewed by Josh Hockensmith
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Ancient Teachers
Reviewed by John Martone
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Echoes of Memory, by Lucio Mariani
"Connoisseur of the Void"
Reviewed by Patricia Moyer
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Fresco: Selected Poetry, by Luljeta Lleshanaku
"Commune of Translators"
Reviewed by Patricia Moyer
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Taping Images to Walls, by Dan Stryk
"On Writing Poetry Despite the Fact that Your Town (and Your Son) Doesn't Listen"
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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The Blue Hour, by Carolyn Forche
"Opening Heart-Worlds, Breaking Language"
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Let Those Who Appear, by Kazuko Shiraishi
"Japan's Allen Ginsberg"
Reviewed by David Preece
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude, by Jonathan Williams
Reviewed by Mark Allen Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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I Will Say Beauty, by Carol Frost
Reviewed by Reginald Shepherd
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Spar, by Karen Volkman
Reviewed by Reginald Shepherd
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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Blues for Cannibals, by Charles Bowden
Reviewed by Corvin Thomas
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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You Shall Know Our Velocity, by Dave Eggers
Reviewed by Karen Trimbath
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).
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