Volume 43, Number 3, Fall 2022
Contents
From the Editor
The Wild Wild West
Jeffrey R. Di Leo
Focus: Soldier Writing
The Challengers
M. C. Armstrong
HED: Afghanistan, Changing Room of Empires
Adrian Bonenberger
Matt Gallagher, Empire City: A Novel
Caleb S. Cage
Lauren Hough, Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing: Essays
MaxieJane Frazier
Ahmed Sadaawi, trans. Jonathan Wright, Frankenstein in Baghdad
Colin Cutler
David Chrisinger, Stories Are What Save Us: A Survivor’s Guide to Writing about Trauma
Collin Halloran
Ryan Leigh Dostie, Formation: A Woman’s Memoir of Rape, Rage, and War
Bettina Hindes
The Forward Operating Base as Heterotopia
Peter Molin
Nomi Stone, Kill Class
Amalie Flynn
In Search of the Twenty-First Century’s “Great American Graphic War Novel”
Randy Brown
Pamela Hart, Mothers Over Nangarhar
Tracy Crow
There Is Nothing Strange in This at All
Brian Turner
Interventions
An Interview with Christopher Sorrentino
Frederick Luis Aldama
Lost and Found
An Inaugural Address by the Committee
Anthony Madrid
Fiction
Brooks Steritt, The History of America in My Lifetime
Erin H. Davis
Lydia Millet, A Children’s Bible
Joe Sacksteder
John Michael Flynn, How the Quiet Breathes
Spencer Harrison
Patricia Ann McNair, Responsible Adults
Jane Rosenberg LaForge
Rone Shavers, Silverfish
Phill Provance
Scott Nadelson, One of Us: Stories
Spencer Harrison
Jaimee Wriston, How Not to Drown
Em Williamson
Matt Roberson, Interim
Matthew Kirkpatrick
Marc Jampole, The Brothers Silver
Richard Squires
E-Feature
Black Herman and the Rest of Us
E. Ethelbert Miller
Memoir
John Giorno, Great Demon Kings: A Memoir of Poetry, Sex, Art, Death, and Enlightenment
Ilka Scobie
Marc Levy, The Best of Medic in the Green Time: Writings from the Vietnam War and Its Aftermath
Richard Levine
Biography
Carl Rollyson, The Last Days of Sylvia Plath
Patricia Laurence
Patricia Laurence, Elizabeth Bowen: A Literary Life
Robert Higney
Poetry
Nikky Finney, Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts
Jerry Harp
Barbara Henning, Digigram
Kit Robinson
Anne Whitehouse, Outside from the Inside
Hilary Sideris
Andrea Witzke Slot, The Ministry of Flowers
Phill Provance
Christina Pugh, Stardust Media
Jane Rosenberg Laforge
Kimiko Hahn, Foreign Bodies
Alicia Ostriker
Rodney A. Brown, Typescenes
Jeff Wright
Esteban Rodriguez, (Dis)placement
Daniel Mendoza
Matthew Cooperman and Aby Kaupang, NOS (disorder, not otherwise specified)
Siobhán Scarry
Muhyiddin Ibn ‘Arabi, trans. Michael Sells, The Translator of Desires: Poems
Allan Graubard
Andrew Zawacki, Unsun
Zach Peckham
Art
Robert Vas Dias, Poetics of Still Life: A Collage
Stephanie Rauschenbusch
Printers and Poets
O, O, O
Charles Alexander
From Our Own
Cris Mazza, Yet to Come
Matthew Roberson
Scenes
Desert Palm Press: An Interview with R. Lee Fitzsimmons
Poetics to Come
Apotheosis or Apophrades: Toward a Poetics of Life and Death in Late Stevens
Daniel T. O’Hara
The Departed
Leaving Archer City: In Memoriam Larry McMurtry
Stephen G. Kellman