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» B «

Crossing Water, by Florence Nash
A Life by Water
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 07 (September 1997).

Autobiography of Red & Eros the Bittersweet, by Anne Carsons
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998).

Anthologies for Dinner
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999).

Cappellazzo & Licata's In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

Cid Corman's Nothing Doing
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

Dan Gerber's Trying to Catch the Horses
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

'Illume' by Andrea Rosenberg
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

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).

Luminous Debris: Reflecting on Vestige in Provence and Languedoc' by Gustaf Sobin
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

The Objectivist Nexus: Essays in Cultural Poetics' by Rachel Blau DuPlessis & Peter Quartermain, editors
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

Anne Carson's Economy of the Unlost & Men in the Off Hours
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Blackbird Dust by Jonathan Williams
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Evaporate Again by C. A. Conrad
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Four Books by Ricky Garni
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

'Particularities' by Kevin Bezner
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Ravishing DisUnities: Real Ghazals in English
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Three Books about Books
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

To Do As Adam Did by Ronald Johnson
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Pagan Days
Reviewed by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Giscombe, Madsen, & Myles
Reviewed by Kevin Bezner
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Ford Swetnam's Ghostholders Know
Reviewed by Kevin Bezner
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Nature: Poems Old and New by May Swenson
Reviewed by Kevin Bezner
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Thom Gunn's Boss Cupid & Anne Stevenson's Granny Scarecrow
Reviewed by Kevin Bezner
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

'Rain Mirror' by Michael McClure
Reviewed by J. W. Bonner
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

Andrea Selch & George Elliott Clarke's Succory & Gold Indigoes
Reviewed by J. W. Bonner
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Animate Objects
Reviewed by J. W. Bonner
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

The Luminous Disarray, by Mary E. Martin
Reviewed by E. Barnsley Brown
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Jack Spicer Joins the Canon
Reviewed by Ted Burke
Oyster Boy Review 22 (Fall 2015).

» C «

A Voice All Their Own
Zbigniew Joachimiak's Dreams of Fire: 100 Polish Poems 1970-1989
Reviewed by Ricks Carson
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Listen Up: A Witness Speaks!
Jerome Rothenberg's A Book of Witness
Reviewed by Ricks Carson
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

How Much Heat Can You Take?
Reviewed by Ricks Carson
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Poet's Last Word Review
Reviewed by C. A. Conrad
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

'At Dusk Iridescent: A Gathering of Poems, 1972-1977' by Thomas Meyer
Reviewed by Jim Cory
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

Remembering Joe Brainard
Reviewed by Jim Cory
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

From Voice to Ear
John Balaban's Ca Dao Viet Nam: Vietnamese Folk Poetry
Reviewed by Jim Cory
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Ian Hamilton Finlay edited by Alec Finlay
Reviewed by Alison Croggon
Oyster Boy Review 22 (Fall 2015).

Mountains and Rivers Without End, by Gary Snyder
A Literary Limb
Reviewed by Thomas Rain Crowe
Oyster Boy Review 07 (September 1997).

» D «

Area Riches
Reviewed by Kate Daniels
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

"As if This Moment Were Ageless and Could Always Return"
With His Lyre, Singing within the Cataclysm
Reviewed by Jeff Davis
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

In, on, and about the River
Reviewed by Jeff Davis
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

At the Sky's Edge: Poems 1991-1996
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Drunk on the Wine: 100 Poems of Hafiz
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Not Far From Music
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

'Some of these tunes hold up remarkably well.' The Seventies as We Lived Them.
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Throwing Fire at the World
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Dabney Stuart's The Man Who Loves Cezanne
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Jim Clark's Buried Land
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Joy and Rage
Jeff Walt's The Danger in Everything
Reviewed by Cy Dillon
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Finding the Heart of the Fruit
One Mother's Story of Raising a Child with Autism
Reviewed by Lisa Dordal
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Love's No Labor Lost
Georgia Scott's The Penny Bride
Reviewed by Michael Dowdy
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Into the Great Wide Open, by Kevin Canty
Reviewed by Chad Driscoll
Oyster Boy Review 06 (January 1997).

The Dog Star, by Donald Windham
Reviewed by Chad Driscoll
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Mary Roach's Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers
Reviewed by Chad Driscoll
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Soundings, i.e. Proofs
John Phillips on what's "there
Reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

» E «

Robert Creeley's So There: Poems 1976-1983
Reviewed by Miles Efron
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000).

'Wherever' by Kevin Bezner
Reviewed by Miles Efron
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

Spoken and Unspoken Conversation
Muriel Spark's The Poetry of Muriel Spark
Reviewed by Anne C. Elguindi
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Spoken and Unspoken Conversation
The Poetry of Muriel Spark
Reviewed by Anne C. Elguindi
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

» F «

Venetian Memories
Reviewed by Sue Farlow
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

They Carry a Promise: Selected Poems
Reviewed by Michael Ferguson
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Visiting Dr. Williams edited by Sheila Coghill and Thom Tammaro
Reviewed by Michael Ferguson
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Succinct edited by Jonathan Greene and Robert West
Reviewed by Michael Ferguson
Oyster Boy Review 22 (Fall 2015).

'Mixing Cement' by Peter Tomassi
Reviewed by Zoë Francesca
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

'Serpent' by Nicholas Mosley
Reviewed by Zoë Francesca
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

4
Reviewed by Zoë Francesca
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Gabrielle Burton's Heartbreak Hotel
Reviewed by Zoe Francesca
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000).

» G «

The Scales of Life in Barbara Kremen's Short Stories
Reviewed by Catherine Gallagher
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

The Enduring Howl of Gil Scott-Heron's "B-Movie"
"B-Movie," a Selection from the Album Reflections
Reviewed by Brian Gilmore
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Walt Whitman's Songs of Male Intimacy and Love edited by Betsy Erkkila
Reviewed by Mitchell Santine Gould
Oyster Boy Review 22 (Fall 2015).

Lorine Niedecker by Margot Peters
Reviewed by Jonathan Greene
Oyster Boy Review 22 (Fall 2015).

» H «

Mysterious Wisdom by Rachel Campbell-Johnston
Reviewed by Ross Hair
Oyster Boy Review 22 (Fall 2015).

Songs of Antonio Botto edited by Josiah Blackmore
Reviewed by Grady Harp
Oyster Boy Review 22 (Fall 2015).

Herrera's New Loteria
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

What's the Tough Guy Feeling?
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Harryette Mullen's Abecedarian Dreams
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Poet in a Landscape
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Beyond the Water Dance, by L. Teresa Church
Southern Memories
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Home Movies of Narcissus, by Rane Arroyo
The Seer and the Seen
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

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).

On the Edge of the Everyday
Shirley Kaufman's Threshold
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Sacred Lust
Sam Hamill's The Erotic Spirit: An Anthology of Poems of Sensuality, Love, and Longing
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

A Voice for the Innocent Bystanders
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Northern Light
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Sailing the Whirlwind
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Sound of the World Splitting Open
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Fragments of the Particular
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

The New Maroons: Redefining (the) Black Aesthetic
Reviewed by Reginald Harris
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Old Love: A Novel, by Margaret Erhart
Reviewed by Lucy Harrison
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Toni Graham's The Daiquiri Girls
Reviewed by Lucy Harrison
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000).

Escaping Reality: Bees and Marijuana and Everything In Between
Reviewed by Lucy Harrison
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Liars and Saints, by Maile Meloy
Reviewed by Lucy Harrison
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Writing Between Worlds
The Long, Passionate Journey of Junzaburō Nishiwaki
Reviewed by Kathleen Hellen
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Take this book outside
Reviewed by Don Hendershot
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Recipes from Oblivia
Reviewed by Josh Hockensmith
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

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).

Beyond Expression
Two Approaches to Zen Arts
Reviewed by Josh Hockensmith
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Poet Before an Open Painting
Reviewed by Josh Hockensmith
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Life after Blyth: New Visions for Haiku's Future
Reviewed by Josh Hockensmith
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

'Before It's Light' by Lyn Lifshin
Reviewed by Mark Hornburg
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

» I «

A Glimpse of the Immortal
Reviewed by Luisa A. Igloria
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

» J «

'The Love-Artist' by Jane Alison
Reviewed by Larry Johnson
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

» K «

Word Up Baltimore: A Poetry Collection, by Blair Ewing
Reviewed by Debra Kaufman
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998).

The Ring of Brightest Angels around Heaven, by Rick Moody
Reviewed by Steve Kistulentz
Oyster Boy Review 06 (January 1997).

The Right Man for the Job, by Mike Magnuson
Reviewed by Steve Kistulentz
Oyster Boy Review 07 (September 1997).

Already Dead, by Denis Johnson
Reviewed by Steve Kistulentz
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998).

Patricia Dienstfrey's The Grand Permission
Reviewed by Rachel Kubie
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

» L «

A Georgic for Our Time
Crazy for the Good Earth
Reviewed by Janet Lembke
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Ardency by Kevin Young
Reviewed by Gina Marie LoBianco
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

As We Are Sung by Christina Mengert
Reviewed by Gina Marie LoBianco
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Seamless Matter by Ravi Shankar
Reviewed by Gina Marie LoBianco
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

» M «

Mark Jacobs's Stone Cowboy
Reviewed by Lindsay Martell
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000).

Amor Eterno by Patricia Preciado Martin
Reviewed by Lindsay Martell
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

Ancient Teachers
Reviewed by John Martone
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Driven to Abstraction by Rosmarie Waldrop
Reviewed by John Martone
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Stone Girl E-Pic by Ed Baker
Reviewed by John Martone
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

A Cure For Optimism, by Paul Dilsaver
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 08 (January 1998).

A Painter Passing Through, by Gordon Lightfoot
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998).

Perfect Night, by Lou Reed
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998).

Postponing the Worm, by John Danley
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998).

Babylon in a Jar
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Mr. Universe and Other Plays
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Other Voices, Too
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Tom Waits's Mule Variations
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999).

'Down the Highway: The Life of Bob Dylan' by Howard Sounes
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

'The Body Artist' by Don DeLillo
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

'The Dying Animal' by Philip Roth
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

Boulevard: A Novel of New Orleans
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Everything's Eventual: 14 Dark Tales
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Lullaby
Reviewed by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Steven Polansky's Dating Miss Universe
Reviewed by Jessica Mersky
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000).

King of the Roadkills by Bucky Sinister
Reviewed by Jill Meyers
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000).

Rick Harsch's The Driftless Zone
Reviewed by Jill Meyers
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000).

Healing the Social Body in Pain
Erica Hunt's Piece Logic
Reviewed by Dr. Keith B. Mitchell
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Ancestors by Kamau Brathwaite
Reviewed by Keith Mitchell
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Echoes of Memory, by Lucio Mariani
Connoisseur of the Void
Reviewed by Patricia Moyer
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Fresco: Selected Poetry, by Luljeta Lleshanaku
Commune of Translators
Reviewed by Patricia Moyer
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

» N «

Anthems of an Uncut Field, by Danielle Truscott
Reviewed by Florence Nash
Oyster Boy Review 08 (January 1998).

Lisa Williams's The Hammered Dulcimer
Reviewed by Florence Nash
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999).

Margaret Rabb's Figments of the Firmament
Reviewed by Florence Nash
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999).

More Than I Really Wanted to Know
Reviewed by Florence Nash
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

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).

The Blue Hour, by Carolyn Forche
Opening Heart-Worlds, Breaking Language
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Grief's Clear Light
Lyn Lifshin's A New Film about a Woman in Love with the Dead
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Hidden Surfaces of Love
Jill Hoffman's Black Diaries
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Moving Deeper into the Veils
Jocelyn Emerson's Sea Gate
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Rainer Maria Rilke's Stories of God
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

The Coasts of Language
Thomas Meyer's Coromandel
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

The Uncertain Archive
Jim Cory's Facts in the Case of E. A. P.
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

What Water is Said?
A Review Essay
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

B Jenkins by Fred Moten
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

The Beginning of Sorrows by Edward Foster
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

What He Ought to Know by Edward Foster
Reviewed by David Need
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

» P «

Exquisite Politics
Reviewed by Jennifer Pierson
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Woman in Verse
Marly Youmans' Claire
Reviewed by Tara Powell
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Dear Lorine
Reviewed by David Preece
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Rucksack Poems
Reviewed by David Preece
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

The Order of Things
Reviewed by David Preece
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Let Those Who Appear, by Kazuko Shiraishi
Japan's Allen Ginsberg
Reviewed by David Preece
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

» R «

Accommodating the Mess
Andrew Hughes' Sweethearts of the Great Migration
Reviewed by Christopher Rizzo
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Playing the Instrument of Language
Andrew Hughes' Now Lays the Sunshine By
Reviewed by Christopher Rizzo
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

"The Music We Hear"
Jess Mynes' Sky Brightly Picked
Reviewed by Christopher Rizzo
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Presently a Beast, by Gay Brewer
Gay Brewer's Boxing Poetry
Reviewed by M. A. Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 07 (September 1997).

'Once in Vermont' by Bob Arnold
Reviewed by M. A. Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

The Poetry of Benjamin Saltman
Reviewed by M. A. Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

Michael McNeilley's Punch Lines & Virgil Hervey's David Called Today
Reviewed by Mark Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999).

The Lost Sea by Keith Flynn
Reviewed by Mark Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Writing Under Olson's Eye
Michael Rumaker's Black Mountain Days
Reviewed by Mark A. Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

A Palpable Elysium: Portraits of Genius and Solitude, by Jonathan Williams
Reviewed by Mark Allen Roberts
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Ballons and Twisted Pins, by Steve Conway & Cari Taplin
Reviewed by C. C. Russell
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998).

Word Up Baltimore: A Poetry Collection, by Blair Ewing
Reviewed by C. C. Russell
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998).

Live at the Green Door
Reviewed by C. C. Russell
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Nicole Blackman
Reviewed by C. C. Russell
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Tim Mitchell's Sedition and Alchemy: A Biography of John Cale
Reviewed by Douglas Russell
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

» S «

Nadeem Aslam's Maps For Lost Lovers
Reviewed by Hemant Sareen
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Common Ectoids of Arizona
Reviewed by Laurel Savino
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Breaking the Rules
Laozi's Daode Jing
Reviewed by J. P. Seaton
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

A Luminous Desert: Kenny Fries' Painterly Poetics
Reviewed by Reginald Shepherd
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Poems of the Quotidian World
Reviewed by Reginald Shepherd
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Becoming Marianne Moore
Reviewed by Reginald Shepherd
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

I Will Say Beauty, by Carol Frost
Reviewed by Reginald Shepherd
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Spar, by Karen Volkman
Reviewed by Reginald Shepherd
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Political Personal
Reviewed by Delacey Skinner
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Flash on Bukowski
Reviewed by Mark Spitzer
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

The Travesty of Louis XXX
Reviewed by Mark Spitzer
Oyster Boy Review 22 (Fall 2015).

» T «

Hints of His Mortality, by David Borofka
Eager Fools of Summer
Reviewed by Nelson Taylor
Oyster Boy Review 07 (September 1997).

Willy Slater's Lane, by Mitch Wieland
Reviewed by Nelson Taylor
Oyster Boy Review 08 (January 1998).

Three Books from Graywolf Press
Reviewed by Nelson Taylor
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998).

Blues for Cannibals, by Charles Bowden
Reviewed by Corvin Thomas
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

The Hell Screens
Reviewed by Karen Trimbath
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

You Shall Know Our Velocity, by Dave Eggers
Reviewed by Karen Trimbath
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

David Payne's Early From the Dance
Reviewed by Karen Trimbath
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

» W «

Genii Over Salzburg
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Richard Tayson's The Apprentice of Fever & Paul Dilsaver's Medi-Phoria
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999).

Al Miginnes's Taking Up Our Daily Tools
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000).

'Blizzard of One' & 'The Weather of Words' by Mark Strand
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

'Of Moment' by Jonathan Greene
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

'Silent Treatment' by Lisa Lewis
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

'A Certain Light' by Debra Kaufman
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Re-Sounding: Selected Later Poems by Theodore Enslin
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

When I Find You Again It Will Be in Mountains
Reviewed by Robert West
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Glenway Wescott Personally: A Biography
Reviewed by Ted Wojtasik
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

» Y «

The Blossoming of Bei Dao
Reviewed by Marly Youmans
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).