RALPH FOLIOS
NUMBERS 30 - 40
Late Mid-Summer 2007
to
Mid-Summer 2012Mid-Summer 2012 [#39]
Arizona
A Celebration of the Grand Canyon State
Jim Turner
(Gibbs Smith)A Personal Letter from Timothy Geithner
[Letter]When Birds Sing at Night
From There But for the
Ali SmithAbbott Awaits
A Novel
Chris Bachelder
(Louisiana State University Press)The Woman in the Row Behind
Françoise Dorner
Adriana Hunter,
Translator
(Other Press)Lester Higata's 20th Century
Stories
Barbara Hamby
(University of Iowa)from unwritten histories
Eugenijus Ališanka
H. L. Hix, Translator
(Host)A Winter in Arabia
A Journey through Yemen
Freya Stark
(Tauris Parke)You Can't Chop Your Mama Up in Massachusetts
Not Even If You're tired of Her Cuisine
Michael BrownCream of Kohlrabi
Stories
Floyd Skloot
(Tupelo Press)A Flotilla of Boobs
[News Item]Silence
50th Anniversary Edition
John Cage
Kyle Gann, Editor
(Wesleyan)Children in Reindeer Woods
Kristín Ómarsdóttir
Lytton Smith, Translator
(Open Letter)The Vagabond's Breakfast
Richard Gwyn
(Alcemi)On Being Mayor
Thomas D'Alessandro III
[Reading]The Highway of the Atom
Peter C. van Wyck
(McGill-Queen's University Press)Distributions of Death, Mayhem and Dress
in Four Episodes of Rambo
From War and Ideas
John Mueller
© 2011 Routledge PressCall Me When You Land
Michael Schiavone
(The Permanent Press)Heathen Bible Pictures
(Mrs.) Louisa A Traylor
The Foursquare Gospel Hope Chapel in Christ
Falfurras TXLate Summer 2011 [#38]
Soviet Cars
Dr. Phage
[Article]Tina Fey in New York
[Paradox-of-the-Month]warty bliggins the toad
Don Marquis
[Reading]Stairway to Heaven
Douglas Cruickshank
[Article]Whales and Other
Marine Mammals of
California and Baja
Tamara Eder
(Lone Pine)Advertising in RALPH?
[Letter]A Gift of Angels
The Art of Mission San Xavier del Bac
Bernard L. Fontana
Edward McCain, Photographer
(University of Arizona Press)Mark Twain's Own Autobiography
The Chapters from
The North American Review
Michael J. Kiskis, Editor
(University of Wisconsin)The Sound of Music
Jenny Diski
[Reading]Confucius in 90 Minutes [G]
Paul Strathern
(Ivan R. Dee)Life on a Chicken Ranch
Betty MacDonald
[Reading]The Menudo of a
Cuchifrito Love Affair
Miguel Piñero
[Poem]The Daring Spectacle
Adventures in Deviant Journalism
Mark Morford
(Rapture Machine)Where Is Gogol
Now that We Need Him?
[Press Release of the Month]Mental Health in Maine
Wendy Burden
[Reading]Prof of Prof
Geoffrey Brock
[Poem]Dead Neon
Tales of Near-Future Las Vegas
Todd James Pierce
Jarret Keene, Editors
(University of Nevada)Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto
Maile Chapman
(Graywolf Press)Frying the Flag
Lawrence Durrell
[Reading]At Broadcasting House
Joseph O'Connor
[Reading]star wars
Eugenijus Ališanka
[Poem]Please Take Me
Off the Guest List
Zachary Lipez
(Akashic Books)The Poets Laureate Anthology
Elizabeth Hun Schmidt, Editor
(Norton)Life Along the
Inner Coast
A Naturalist's Guide to the
Sounds, Inlets, Rivers
and Intracoastal Waterway
from Norfolk to Key West
Robert and Alice J. Lippson
(University of North Carolina Press)The Lady Missionary
Gail Dendy
[Poem]Late Late Fall 2010 [#37]
A Bomb in Every Issue
How the Short, Unruly Life of
Ramparts Magazine Changed America
Peter Richardson
(The New Press)When We Were Countries
Poems and Stories by
Outstanding High School Writers, 2010.
Mark Pawlak et al, Editors
(Hanging Loose Press)Dining on the B&O
Recipes and Sidelights
From a Bygone Age
Thomas J. Greco
(Johns Hopkins)A Light that Reaches to Heaven
Bible Banners
[Letters to RALPH]Signs You Are Ovulating
Christine Hamm
(Plain View Press)Résistance
A Woman's Journal of Struggle and
Defiance in Occupied France
Agnès Humbert
Barbara Mellor,
Translator
(Bloomsbury)The Best American Travel Writing 2009
Simon Winchester, Editor
(Mariner)America's Famous and Historic Trees
From George Washington's Tulip Poplar
To Elvis Presley's Pin Oak
Jeffrey G. Meyer
(Houghton Mifflin)The Bug Club
Douglas Cruickshank
[Article]Glaucoma Love Poem
Reneé Gisell
[Poem]Flawless
Inside the Largest
Diamond Heist in History
Scott Andrew Selby,
Greg Campbell
(Union Square)Oscar Wilde in America
The Interviews
Matthew Hofer,
Gary Scharnhorst
Editors
(University of Illinois)The Dark Diceman
William Faulkner
[Reading]A Colossal Failure of Common Sense
The Incredible Inside Story of
The Collapse of Lehman Brothers
Larry McDonald, Patrick Robinson
(Ebury Press)Lonely Planet's
Best Ever Travel Tips
Tom Hall, Editor
(Lonely Planet)Chroma
A Book of Color
Derek Jarman
(Minnesota)Masaccio's Madonna:
The Page Three Girl
Derek Jarman
[Reading]Let's Get Free
A Hip-Hop Theory of Justice
Paul Butler
(The New Press)The River Merchant's Wife:
A Letter
Ezra Pound
[Poem]The Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
Robertson Dean, Reader
(Books on Tape)The Dominican Republic,
Lies and History, and
The Fessenden Review
[Letters to RALPH]Spooner
Peter Dexter
(Grand Central Publishing)
[Reading]Early Summer 2010 [#36]
The Dervish
David Tucker
[Reading]The Exploding Eye
Carlos Amantea
[Article]The Day We Found the Universe
Marcia Bartusiak
(Pantheon)A Friend in Zagreb
Shon Meckfessel
(AK)Question
May Swenson
[Poem]Erotic Poems
e. e. cummings
(Norton)Going Green
True Tales from Gleaners,
Scavengers and Dumpster Divers
Laura Pritchett, Editor
(Oklahoma)Florida's Rivers
Charles R. Boning
(Pineapple Press)Ninety-Six-Year-Old Estonian
Jim Harrison
[Poem]
(Copper Canyon Press)Louis H. Sullivan
And the 19th-Century Poetics
of Naturalized Architecture
Lauren S. Weingarden
(Ashgate)William Faulkner
Javier Marías
[Reading]Revolution 1989
The Fall of the Soviet Empire
Victor Sebestyen
(Pantheon)The McPoem
Ronald Wallace
[Poem]Apollo:
Through the Eyes
Of the Astronauts
Robert Jacobs, et al, Editors
(Abrams)The Art of Rockefeller Center
Christine Roussel
(Norton)Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi
Geoff Dyer
(Pantheon)Bryson's Dictionary of Troublesome Words
A Writer's Guide to Getting it Right
Bill Bryson
(Broadway Books)In the Time of the Lime Trees
Olga Tokarczuk
(Twisted Spoon)On the Death of Mr Barker of Hammon,
and his wife who dyed both together
George Herbert
[Poem]Mitsubishi Galante
Jon Gallant
[Article]Backgammon
Jessica Lander
[Poem]
(Hanging Loose Press)Early Fall 2009 [#35]
The Headpots of Northeast Arkansas and
Southern Pemiscot County, Missouri
James F. Cherry
(University of Arkansas)Guanajuato, Mexico
Burros and Paintbrushes:
A Mexican Adventure
Everett Gee Jackson
(Texas A&M University Press)Birdsong by the Seasons
A Year of Listening to Birds
Donald Kroodsma
(Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)Terror Eye
Deborah Fernández Badillo
(Arte Público Press)Tornado Alley[G]
Monster Storms of the Great Plains
Howard B. Bluestein
(Oxford)Nights in the Pink Motel
An American Strategist's
Pursuit of Peace in Iraq
Robert Earle
(Naval Institute Press)Legend of A Suicide
David Vann
(University of Massachusetts Press)Jacob Bronowski and
"Is You Is Or Is You Ain't My Baby?"
[Letter]All-American Poem
Matthew Dickman
(American Poetry Review)confessions of a
teenage drama queen
D. A. Powell
[Poem]
(Graywolf Press)Idle Thoughts on
Jerome K. Jerome
A 150th Anniversary Celebration
Jeremy Nicholas, Editor
(The Jerome K. Jerome Society)How to Make Irish Stew
Jerome K. Jerome
[Reading]My Secret Delight
From Serve It Forth
Mary F. K. Fisher
[Reading]Jacobson's Organ[G]
And the Remarkable
Nature of Smell
Lyall Watson
(Norton)Vanishing
Candida Lawrence
(Unbridled Books)Pumping Bile
From The Egg and I
Betty MacDonald
(J. B. Lippincott Co.)Summer 2009 [#34]
Eskimo Architecture
Dwelling and Structure in
The Early Historic Period
Molly Lee, Gregory A. Reinhardt
(University of Alaska Press)Songs of Love, Moon & Wind
Poems from the Chinese
Kenneth Rexroth, Translator
(New Directions)Labor Pains and Birth Stories
Essays on Pregnancy, Childbirth,
And Becoming a Parent
Jessica Powers, Editor
(Catalyst Book Press)Lonely Planet's Best in Travel 2009
850 Trends, Destinations, Journeys &
Experiences for the Year Ahead
Geoff Howard, Editor
Lonely Planet)The Benign Indifference of the Universe
Albert Camus
[Reading]Feldwebel Zorn's Motorcycle
Senaden Musabegovic (b. 1970)
Translated from the Bosnian by Ulvija Tanovic
[Poem]Hijos del Pueblo
Gender, Family, and Community
In Rural Mexico, 1730 - 1850
Deborah E. Kanter
(University of Texas Press)Œdipus the King
Sophocles
Ian Johnson
Translator
(Richer Resources)World Made By Hand
James Howard Kunstler
(Atlantic Monthly Press)Strand
An Odyssey of
Pacific Ocean Debris
Bonnie Henderson
(Oregon State University Press)Godzilla in Mexico
Roberto Bolaño
[Poem]Bonehead English
How to Make Students Shine
(Despite Themselves)
L. W. MilamNear Death in the Arctic
True Stories of Disaster and Survival
Cecil Kuhne, Editor
(Vintage Books)A People's History of
Poverty in America
Stephan Pimpare
(The New Press)Red Mutiny
Eleven Fateful Days on
The Battleship Potemkin
Neal Bascomb
(Houghton Mifflin)Presidential Doodles
Two Centuries of Scribbles, Scratches,
Squiggles & Scrawls from the Oval Office
David Greenberg
(Basic)Where the Sea Meets the Desert
Antony and Cleopatra Swam at Mersa Matruh
Clive James
[Poem]Understanding Gregory Bateson
Mind, Beauty, and the Sacred Earth
Noel G. Charlton
(SUNY)Late Summer 2008 [#33]
Taxi
Khaled Al Khamissi
Jonathan Wright, Translator
(Aflame Books)Eating the Girl
In the Wreck
Reading from Of Kids & Parents
Emil Hakl
(Twisted Spoon Press)Night Haunts
A Journey through
The London Night
Sukhdev Sandhu
(Artangel/Verso)Japanese Women Poets
An Anthology
Hiroaki Sato
(M. E. Sharpe)Natural Shocks
Richard Stern
(TriQuarterly/
Northwestern University)Marita Therapy & The Fear of Snakes
Thomas Merton
[Reading]The Accidental Explorer
Wayfinding in Alaska
Sherry Simpson
(Sasquatch)The Kayak Disaster
Sherry Simpson
[Reading]Sole Custody
Poem from Overtime
Joseph Millar
(Eastern Washington
University Press)Eccentric Billionaire
John D. MacArthur --- Empire Builder,
Reluctant Philanthropist, Relentless Adversary
Nancy Kriplen
(Amacom)Life Class
Pat Barker
(Doubleday)Buildings for Tomorrow
Architecture that Changed Our World
Paul Cattermole
(Overlook)The Young Man from Savoy
Charles-Ferdinand Ramuz
Blake Robinson, Translator
(Host)The House of Widows
Askold Melnyczuk
(Graywolf Press)The Mirror in the Well
Micheline Aharonian Marcom
(Dalkey Archive)The Magical Campus
Thomas Wolfe
University of North Carolina Writings --- 1917 - 1920
Matthew J. Bruccoli, Aldo P. Magi, Editors
(University of South Carolina)Twentieth Century United States Photographers
A Student's Guide
Kristin G. Congdon, Karas Kelley Hallmark
(Greenwood Press)Riding the D-Train
Enid Dame
[Poem]Of Kids & Parents
Emil Hakl
Marek Tomin, Translator
(Twisted Spoon Press)Early Summer 2008 [#32]
Winged Wonders
A Celebration of Birds
In Human History
Peter Watkins & Jonathan Stockland
(BlueBridge)The First Total War
Napoleon's Europe and The Birth of
Warfare As We Know It
David A. Bell
(Houghton Mifflin)Charles Colson
[Letter]
John Klyder
Ten Poems to Change
Your Life Again & Again
Roger Housden
(Harmony Books)Romance in the Ivory Tower
The Rights and Liberty of Conscience
Paul R. Abramson
(The MIT Press)Bowl
[Poem]
Tom Crawford
(Eastern Washington University Press)[The Most Paradoxical Paradoxes]
The Consequences of War
Al Qaeda & Norway
Ahoy There!
The Flag
The Rainmaker
The Primary Origin of
World War TwoA Poem Of Hope
P. J. WeiseThe Farther Shore
Matthew Eck
(Milkweed)Foot Orthotics and RALPH
Link Exchange RequestIn a Prominent Bar in Secaucus
New and Selected Poems, 1955 - 2007
X. J. Kennedy
(Johns Hopkins)Les Cloches
Guillaume Apollinaire
Translated by X. J. Kennedy
(Johns Hopkins University)Warm, Soft,
Chewy, Delicious
Flesh Tortillas
[Article]
Carlos AmanteaFulgencio Batista
From Revolutionary to Strongman
Frank Argote-Freyre
(Rutgers University Press)Nice Website
[Letter]
MurrisMy Father Says Grace
Donald Platt
(Arkansas)The Prophet of Literature
[Reading]
Roberto Bolaño
Chris Andrews, Translator
(New Directions)Death and Kings
From The Peterborough ChroniclesThe Queen Is
In the Countinghouse
[Poem]
P. J. WeiseThe Last of the Mohicans
James Fenimore Cooper
Robertson Dean, Reader
(Books on Tape)Soup
[Poem]
Enid Dame
(New York University Press)Sibelius:
The Orchestral Music
David Hurwitz
(Amadeus Press)Teach the Free Man
Peter Nathaniel Malae
(Swallow)Battle Creek
James Sallis
(Walker)Dead Man Walking
Edward Field
(University of Pittsburgh Press)Early Winter 2007[#31]
The Coldest Winter
A Stringer in Liberated Europe
Paula Fox
(Picador)Ambers Aglow:
An Anthology of Contemporary
Polish Women's Poetry
Regina Grol, Editor
(Host)"Advice for Her Who
Was Named A Woman"
[Poem]Julia Hartwig
Beethoven
The Universal Composer
Edmund Morris
John McDonough, Reader
(Recorded Books)Ticket to Exile
A Memoir
Adam David Miller
(Heyday Books)Grass
Carl Dennis
Unknown Friends
(Penguin Books)"Carl Friedrich Gauss
Meets Immanuel Kant"
Measuring the World
Daniel Kehlmann
Carol Brown Janeway, Translator
(Pantheon Books)"Debussy:
The Quiet Revolutionary"
[Letter]Diego Rivera
Pete Hamill
(Abrams)"Who Beats Your Heart?"
[Article]
L. W. Milam"The Pain of Original Sin"
The Sanity We Are Born With
Chögyam Trungpa
[Reading]
(Shambhala)Horse Latitudes
Paul Muldoon
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux)Mark O'Brien and Self-Publishing
[Letter]Sex Texts from the Bible
Selections Annotated and Explained
Teresa J. Hornsby
(SkyLight Paths)"Hurricane Fred"
[Poem]
Pete WinslowFire in the City
Savonarola and the Struggle for
The Soul of Renaissance Florence
Lauro Martines
(Oxford)Afghanistan
Paul Clammer
(Lonely Planet)Inventing Los Alamos
The Growth of An Atomic Community
Jon Hunner
(Oklahoma)"The Touch and the Taste"
Urszula M. Benka
[Poem]
From Ambers Aglow:
An Anthology of Contemporary
Polish Women's PoetryTrue Grit
Charles Portis
Donna Tartt, Reader
(Recorded Books)Thoreau's Laundry
Ann Harleman
(Southern Methodist University Press)The Book that Changed My Life
71 Remarkable Writers Celebrate
The Books that Matter Most to Them
Roxanne J. Coady, Joy Johannessen, Editors
(Bantam)"East Hampton Airport"
From Ooga-Booga
Frederick Seidel
(Farrar, Straus, and Giroux)"The Dew-Line Bears"
[Article]
Paul NickelLate Mid-Summer 2007[#30]
Pierre-Luigi Zucchini
Lorenzo de Monteclaro
(Pepperoni Press)Tradition
[Poem]
Quan BerryDada East
The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire
Tom Sandqvist
(MIT)Gray-Beard Pornographia
[Letter]
Fiifi SeyThe Volcano Adventure Guide
Rosaly Lopes
(Cambridge University)Serve It Forth
Mary F. K. Fisher
(North Point Press)Time Leap:
Relativity and Alzheimer's
[Letter]
Paul NickelWhat Do I Say
Talking with Patients
About Spirituality
Elizabeth Johnston Taylor
(Templeton Foundation)The Search for
Unpolluted Drinking Water
Steven Johnson
(Riverhead Books)The Bloomsday Dead
Adrian McKinty
Gerard Doyle, Reader
(Blackstone Audio)Ham and the Moon
[Poem]
Jesse Lee KerchevalCold Skin
Albert Sánchez Piñol
(Canongate)The Somme
The Coward
A. D. Gristwood
(South Carolina)My Brilliant Career
[Essay]
Dr. PhageNeither/Nor
[And W. H. Fowler]
[Letter]On Retirement
75 Poems
Robin Chapman,
Judith Strasser, Editors
(University of Iowa)Lurid Movies
[Reading]
Umberto EcoFasting
Spiritual Freedom
Beyond Our Appetites
Lynne M. Baab
(Formatio)I Golfed Across Mongolia
How an Improbable Adventure
Helped Me Rediscover
The Spirit of Golf (And Life)
André Tolmé
(Thunder's Mouth Press)My Bloody Life
Reymundo Sanchez
[Letter]Medieval Obscenities
Nicola McDonald, Editor
(University of York)