American Book Review

Volume 45, no. 3 (Fall 2024)
Special Issue: Listening
Guest editor: Bryan Counter

Contents
From the Editor
Worlding Literature
Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Focus: Listening
The Wonder of Listening for Silence
Bryan Counter

Onomatopoeia
W. Jason Miller

Sound Games: The Clap of One Hand Sounding
John Mowitt

Auto-tunality
and the Break in the Voice, or Listening to Race
Irving Goh

An Unheard-of
Political Concept
Naomi Waltham-Smith

The Signature of the Voice
Peter Schwenger
42 Archephonai, or the Devastating Sounds of the Wombtomb
James Martell

Listening to Ourselves
Justin St. Clair

How to Listen to Philosophy
Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Toward a Cosmopolitan Listening
Ruochen Bo

From Phonemes and Sonemes to Qualia, Aspects,
and Collateral Observation
Michael Lucey

Postlapsarian Homesick Alien
Nathan Wainstein

Interventions
The Borderlands Is Us: A Conversation with Alberto Ríos
Frederick Luis Aldama

Lost and Found
On Girolamo Fracastoro’s Syphilis, or A Poetical History of the French Disease and Its First Translation into English
Anthony Madrid

Fiction
Lance Olsen, Absolute Away
Justin Courter

Thomas Mann: New Selected Stories, translated by Damion Searls
Daniel T. O’Hara

Ashley Hutson, One’s Company
Daniel Gonzalez

E-Feature
Books Are Us
E. Ethelbert Miller

Cartographies
“The arm that wields a pick or drives a spike”: Revisiting C. L. R. James’s Mariners, Renegades, and Castaways
Robert T. Tally Jr.

Translation
Translation’s Tapestry
Brian O’Keeffe

Poetry
Ronald Johnson, Valley of the Many-Colored Grasses
Michael Joyce

Kathryn Weld, Afterimage
Jane Rosenberg LaForge

Bill Tremblay, The Luminous Racetrack: A Memoir in Poems
Neil Shepard

Maryam Ala Amjadi, Where Is the Mouth of That Word? Selected Poems
Miho Kinnas

Ron Slate, Joy Ride
Michael Collins

The Laureates
A Survivor of Survivors: An Interview with Denise Lajimodiere, Poet Laureate of North Dakota
Renee H. Shea

Memoir
S. L. Wisenberg, The Wandering Womb: Essays in Search of Home
Jane Rosenberg LaForge

Criticism
Curtis White, Transcendent: Art and Dharma in a Time of Collapse
Adam Theron-Lee Rensch

Ranjan Ghosh, The Plastic Turn
Jessi Rae Morton

From Our Own
Christina Milletti, The Girling Season
Gates Wesley

Scenes
North Dakota State University Press: An Interview with Suzzanne Kelley

Poetics to Come
Seeing through Tina Barr’s Invisible Telescope: A Contemporary Poetics
Daniel T. O’Hara

The Departed
Barbara Ehrenreich
Sharon O’Dair

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Editor: Jeffrey R. Di Leo

Managing Editor: Jeffrey A. Sartain

Assistant Editor: JJ Hernandez

Past Publishers: Ronald Sukenick, Charles B. Harris

Associate Editors: Charles Alexander, Rudolfo Anaya, Frederick Luis Aldama, Mark Amerika, R.M. Berry, Christine Hume, Charles Johnson, A. Van Jordan, Anthony Madrid, Cris Mazza, Gina M. MacKenzie, Christina Milletti, Doug Nufer, John Tytell, Barry Wallenstein, Tom Williams

Contributing Editors: Ron Arias, Michael Bérubé, Rosellen Brown, Andrei Codrescu, Rikki Ducornet, Dagoberto Gilb, C.S Giscombe, Joseph D. Haske, Russell Hoover, Clarence Major, Carole Maso, Larry McCaffery, Michael McClure, Joyce Carol Oates, Daniel T. O'Hara, Marjorie Perloff, Robert Peters, Corinne Robins, Charles Russell, Paul Schiavo, Barry Seiler, Charles Simic, Bruce Sterling, Regina Weinreich