The American Dissident
A Journal of Literature, Democracy & Dissidence

In the Samizdat Tradition of Writing against the Machine

Critical Reviews by the Editor
For several years now, the editor has been an unpaid book reviewer for Counterpoise (Gainesville, FL), distributed to libraries across the country.  Most of the following reviews were thus published either in Counterpoise.  Some were also published in Small Press Review, Vox, and The American Dissident. 

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
4.  We Want Freedom by Mumia Abu-Jamal 

5.  Literature and Revolution by Leon Trotsky 

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

7.  Lilies and Cannonballs Review, Editor Daniel Connor

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

10. New York Quarterly

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

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

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
28. Vallum
29. The Sun

30. Poetry & Protest:  A Dennis Brutus Reader

31. Some for the Road:  Poems for Gerald Locklin

32. Indoctrinate U

33. Poets & Writers Magazine

 
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