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Against the workshop : provocations, polemics, controversies
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- Creator
- Anis Shivani
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- First edition
- Huntsville, Tex. : Texas Review Press, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xv, 300 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781933896724, 1933896728
- OCLC
- ocn727710253
- Includes bibliographical references.
- The agent's letter (provocation) -- Publisher's reader's notes on recent submission (provocation) -- Why is American fiction in its current dismal state? (essay) -- Writers in universities (provocation) -- American poetry in an age of constriction (essay) -- Is this the best American poetry? (review of best american poetry 2004) -- India abroad : how not to alienate the Western reader when writing about the Indian diaspora (review of Jhumpa Lahiri and Monica Ali) -- White American male playing it safe : the growing phenomenon of the "Kirby poet" (review of David Kirby) -- The young do not read novels anymore (provocation) -- The best American poetry gets better (review of Best American Poetry 2005 & 2006) -- The poet as anti-narclssist (review of Elaine Equi) -- Honest clarity (review of Jay Parini) -- Feminist poetry the way it used to be (review of Judy Grahn) -- How competence has killed the American short story (review of Best new American Voices 2007) -- Voice in ficton : a favorite MFA/creative writing shibboleth (provocation) -- New rules for writing fiction (provocation) -- My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums (review of Teddy Wayne) -- Interim India (review of Aravind Adiga) -- Can writing be taught? : the systems-theory rationalizations of an insider (review of Mark McGurl) -- Why is it so difficult to write about the working class? (essay) -- Rehabilitating the working man from the clutches of false realism (review of Eric Miles Williamson) -- Decadence, American-style : whatever happened to the American short story? (review of the O. Henry Prize Stories 2007 and Best New American Voices 2008) -- Don't be cruel (review of Richard Burgin) -- Midwestern pastoral at its best (review of David Rhodes) -- The doozy deconstructive deliberations of a double-edged dame (review of Best American Poetry 2007) -- The new biography of pathology (review of Blake Bailey and Tracy Dougherty) -- License to kill : the biographer's deadly art (review of Christopher Miller) -- Announcing the death of the post-9/11 novel (provocation) -- America's most prominent emerging poets respond to the Obama administration (review of Starting Today) -- Reflections on the conversant Buddha soul (review of Dave Brinks) -- Reckoning globalization's discontents (review of C.D. Wright) -- The new ecopoetry (review of Melissa Kwasny) -- Two poets of southwestern alienation (review of Benjamin Alire Saenz and Carrie Fountain) -- Why the new Best American Poetry sucks even more than its twenty-one predecessors (review of Best American Poetry 2009) -- Is postmodernism in decline? (provocation)