RALPH FOLIOS

NUMBERS 10 - 19

Summer 2001 - Early Fall 2003
[In Reverse Order]

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Early Fall, 2003 [#19]

Juke Joint
Birney Imes,
Photographer
(University Press of Mississippi)

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Husbands Eaten by Ferocious Tigers
Ananya Roy
(University Press of Minnesota)

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Amblyopia
Reneé Gisell
[Poem]

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Schubert's Winterreise
A Winter Journey in
Poetry, Image, and Song
John Harbison, Susan Youens
(University of Wisconsin Press)

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Sleeping with the Dictionary
Harryette Mullen
(University of California Press)

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Tumbling After
Pedaling Like Crazy after Life Goes Downhill
Susan Parker
(Crown)

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Remarkable Trees
Of the World
Thomas Pakenham
(Norton)

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Radical Compassion
Finding Christ in
The Heart of the Poor
Gary Smith, S. J.
(Jesuit Way/Loyola)

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Serve It Forth
Mary F. K. Fisher
(North Point Press)

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Down & Out
The Life and Death of
Minneapolis's Skid Row
Joseph Hart,
Edwin Hirschoff,
Photographer
(University of Minnesota Press)

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So Many Books, So Little Time
A Year of Passionate Reading
Sara Nelson
(Putnam)

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The Au Pair, on Barbiturates
Michael Earl Craig
[Poem]

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Breath Sweeps Mind
Jakusho Kwong Roshi
(Sounds True Audio)

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Spring 2003 [#18]

Media Violence and its Effect on Aggression
Assessing the Scientific Evidence
Jonathan L. Freedman
(University of Toronto)

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Nativity Poems
Joseph Brodsky
(Farrar Straus)

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Pied Piper:
The Many Lives of Noah Greenberg
James Gollin
(Pendragon Press)

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American Standard
John Blair
(Pittsburgh)

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The Rejection Slip Blues
Carlos Amantea

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The Chrysler Building
Creating a New Icon Day by Day
David Stravitz
(Princeton Architectural)

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[LETTER]
RALPH Magazine and
the Other RALPH

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The Hamilton-Medewar
Treatment of Mortality
Dr. Phage

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Shy Bladder Syndrome
Your Step-by-Step Guide
To Overcoming Paruresis
Steven Soifer, et al
(New Harbinger)

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Leumel
L. W. Milam

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Letter to Poetry Magazine
Lolita Lark

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Late Fall 2002 [#17]
[Note: Financial problems precluded our sending out #17. Thus, some of these items are duplicated in Folio #18.]

Shy Bladder Syndrome
Your Step-by-Step Guide
To Overcoming Paruresis
Steven Soifer, et al
(New Harbinger)

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My Fine Feathered Friend
William Grimes
(North Point)

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[LETTER]
Nanaprobe Tracers and
Mind-Transducers

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Pied Piper:
The Many Lives of Noah Greenberg
James Gollin
(Pendragon Press)

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Portrait of a Burger as a Young Calf
The Story of One Man, Two Cows, and
the Feeding of a Nation
Peter Lovenheim
(Harmony)

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The Hamilton-Medewar
Treatment of Mortality
Dr. Phage

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Jacobson's Organ
And the Remarkable Nature of Smell
Lyall Watson
(Norton)

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The Rejection Slip Blues
Carlos Amantea

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Yoga Mala
The Seminal Guide to
Ashtanga Yoga by The Living Master
Sri K. Pattabhi Jois
(North Point)

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Late Summer 2002 [#16]

Doctors and Discoveries
Lives that Created Today's Medicine
John Galbraith Simmons
(Houghton Mifflin)

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The Death of Sweet Mister
Daniel Woodrell
(Putnam)

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The Compact Peters World Atlas
The Earth in True Proportion
Kummerly & Bern
Oxford Cartographers
(Hammond)

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Letter
Franz Wright

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Learning to Fall
The Blessings of
An Imperfect Life
Philip Simmons
(Bantam)

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The Desert Smells Like Rain
A Naturalist in
O'odham Country
Gary Paul Nabhan
(University of Arizona)

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The Little Girl Who Was Too Fond of Matches
Gaétan Soucy
(Arcade)

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The Voice of the Poet: Wallace Stevens
J. D. McClatchy
(Random House Audio)

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Raw Meat Speed Bumps
Carlos Amantea

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Letter
Concerning the sale of one testicle

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Going Down
The Instinct Guide to Oral Sex
Ben R. Rogers, Joel Perry
(Alyson)

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Ceramic Water Closets
Munroe Blair
(Shire)

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Overtime
Joseph Millar
(Eastern Washington University Press)

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Letter
Why our e-mail address is "poo"

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Early Summer 2002 [#15]

My Brilliant Career
Dr. Phage

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Among the Missing
Dan Chaon
(Ballentine)

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St. Agnes and the Passion of the Dunes
Wilfred McCorkle

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The Mordida
Carlos Amantea

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Madagascar Wildlife
A Visitor's Guide
Nick Garbutt, Hilary Brandt, Derek Schuurman
(Brandt/Globe Pequot)

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Arizona Traveller's Handbook
Bill Weir
(Moon)

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The Invisible Made Visible
Angels from the Vatican
Allen Duston, Arnold Nesselrath
(Art Services International/Abrams)

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Poem
G. B. Shaw Does Dallas

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The Night Torn with Mad Footsteps
Charles Bukowski
(Black Sparrow)

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The Voice of the Poet:
Langston Hughes
(Random House Audio)

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Letter
Public Relations and Osama Bin Laden

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Twenty-Five Worthy Books
The Editors of RALPH

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Early Spring 2002 [#14]

"Sin Nombre"
A Story

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All the King's Men
Revised Version
Robert Penn Warren
Noel Polk, Editor
(Harcourt)

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Letter
Re: Dale Smith and Cradle of Valor

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Desert Survivor
The Adventurer's Guide to Exploring the Great American Desert
John Annerino
(Four Walls Eight Windows)

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Poem
The End The End

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Summer in Baden-Baden
Leonid Tsypkin
Roger and Angela Keys, Translators
(New Directions)

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Taking Haiti
Military Occupation and the Culture of U. S. Imperialism--- 1915 - 1940
Mary A. Renda
(Chapel Hill)

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The Egg Man of The Fillmore:
Leslie A. Wattles
Otto W. Fedders, PhD
(Omphaloskepsis Press)

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Paradox of the Month
The Inside & The Outside

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The Best American Essays of the Century
Joyce Carol Oates, Robert Atwan, Editors
(Houghton Mifflin)

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More Letters
"I was shocked and disgusted by your lack of empathy for a devastating mental illness"
&
"I thoroughly enjoyed RALPH'S atomization of Jason Epstein's idiotic book."

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The Stranger Next Door
The Story of a Small Community's Battle over Sex, Faith, and Civil Rights
Arlene Stein
(Beacon Press)

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Early Winter 2001 [#13]

Editors' Picks
Twenty-one of the best and the brightest titles that have come our way in the last six months.

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The Biography of Karl Marx
Francis Wheen
(Norton)

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Gangrene and Glory
Medical Care During the American Civil War
Frank R. Freemon
(Illinois)

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The Same Sea
A Reading
Amos Oz
(Harcourt)

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The Floating Opera
John Barth
(Avon)

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The Autobiography of Abbie Hoffman
(Four Walls/Eight Windows)

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Animal Quackers
(On raising ducks)

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Of Beetles and Angels
A True Story of the American Dream
Mawi Asgedon
(Megadee)

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My Friend, You Are Legally Blind
A Writer's Struggle with Macular Degeneration
Charles Champlin
(John Daniel & Co.)

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Early Fall 2001 [#12]

Being Dead
Jim Crace
(Picador USA)

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Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
James Agee
Walker Evans, Photographs
(Houghton Mifflin/Mariner)

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San Diego: A Pictorial History
Raymond G. Starr
(Donning)

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The RALPH Top Pop Hits
Those reviews in RALPH from the last seven years
receiving the most hits over the past few weeks.

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My Lucky Star
Zdenka Fantolvá
Translated by Deryck Viney
(Herodias)

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National Private Radio
Some thoughts on the 30th Anniversary of the founding of NPR
L. W. Milam

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Testament of Revolution
Béla Lipták
(Texas A & M Press)

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Keep Singing
Two Mothers, Two Sons, and Their Fight Against Jesse Helms
Patsy Clarke and Eloise Vaughn
(Alyson)

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Chump Change
Dan Fante
(Sun Dog)

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Late Summer 2001 [#11]

The Ice Palace That Melted Away
How Good Design Enhances Our Lives
Bill Stumpf
(Minnesota)

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A Prize-Winning Garbage Dump
From "A Geezer in Paradise"
Carlos Amantea

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White Waters And Black
Gordon MacCreagh
(Chicago)

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America's Famous and Historic Trees
From George Washington's Tulip Poplar to Elvis Presley's Pin Oak
Jeffrey G. Meyer
(Houghton Mifflin)

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The Original Dada Manifesto

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Lie, Lie, Lie
How I Wrote The School of Beauty and Charm
Melanie Summer
(Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill)

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An Epitaph
From 1641 on a monument erected at Colmworth Church, Bedfordshire, by Lady Catherine Dyer, addressed to her now departed husband Sir William Dyer

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The Life and Works of
Frank Lloyd Wright
Maria Constantino
(Courage)

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The Uses of Rubber Bands
or
"Var Är Min Paraply"
Dr. Phage

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War and Our World
John Keegan
(Vintage)

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Queen for a Day
Denise Duhamel
(University of Pittsburgh)

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Koans of the Month

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Summer 2001 [#10]

The Art of War on Land
David G. Chandler
(Penguin)

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Beautiful Summer In New Jersey
A Story

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The Seven Ages
Louise Glück
(ECCO/HarperCollins)

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Poem
Blue Cloud Rides Horses

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The Little Ice Age
How Climate Made History
Brian Fagan
(Basic Books)

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The Last Cheater's Waltz
Beauty and Violence in The Desert Southwest
Ellen Meloy
(Arizona)

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The Collected Works of
William Howard Taft
Volume I
David H. Burton, A. E. Cambell,
Editors
(Ohio)

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Whiter than the Whitewash on the Wall
A Story

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Unholy Ghost
Writers on Depression
Nell Casey, Editor
(Morrow)

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Wall-to-Wall
America Post Office Murals in The Great Depression
Karal Ann Marling
(Minnesota)

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Poem
My Father With Cigarette Twelve Years Before the Nazis Could Break His Heart