Critical Book Reviews

The American Dissident
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Critical Reviews

The editor has been an unpaid book reviewer for Counterpoise (Gainesville, FL), distributed to libraries across the country. Most of the following reviews are the editor's and have appeared in that periodical or The American Dissident. These reviews are all unusually critical. Review #10 and #17 are written by Mather Schneider.

1. Hard Night by Christian Wiman, editor of Poetry magazine
2. 100 Essential Poems, Selected and Introduced by Joseph Parisi

3. Line Break: Poetry as Social Practice by James Scully
3. We Want Freedom by Mumia Abu-Jamal (

4. Literature and Revolution by Leon Trotsky

5. Acadian Redemption: From Beausoleil Broussard to the Queen’s Royal Proclamation by Warren A. Perrin

6. Lilies and Cannonballs Review, Editor Daniel Connor

7. Poetry Flash
8. Alternative Press Review, Editor Jason McQuinn

9. New York Quarterly

10. The Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski and the Second Coming Revolution by A.D. Winans
11. The Best American Poetry 2006, Guest Editor, Billy Collins
12. New Orleans, Mon Amour, Twenty Years of Writings from the City by Andrei Codrescu
13. Rattle: Poetry for the 21^st Century
14. Howl on Trial: The Battle for Free Expression
15. Provincetown Arts, Christopher Busa, Founding Editor

16. Tales of the Out & the Gone, short stories by Amiri Baraka

17. The American Poetry Review, The Missouri Review et al

18. The Republic of Poetry by Martín Espada
19. Donatello’s Version by James Scully
20. Academe (Bulletin of the American Association of University Professors)
21. New England Review (Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT)

22. Corporate Crooks: How Rogue Executives Ripped off Americans… and Congress Helped Them Do It! By Greg Farrell.
23. In Bad Taste: A Critical Essay Written Around The Best American Poetry 2007
24. Raritan: A Quarterly Review

25. Beloit Poetry Journal

26. Prairie Schooner

27. Poetry Magazine