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» B «

Some People Think, Some Don't
Editor's Note
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 06 (January 1997).

Editor's Note
Poems with Holes in Them
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 08 (January 1998).

Buddhist Poetry in English Translation
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Editor's Note
A Letter to Paradise
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999).

Read & Recommended
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999).

Read & Recommended
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000).

The Listeners
Editor's Note
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 14 (Winter 2001).

Antler: The Selected Poems
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Basil Bunting On Poetry
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Don't Touch the Poet: The Life and Times of Joel Oppenheimer
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Manifesto: A Century of Isms
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

The Soul of Rumi
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Two Anthologies
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Voices of Light
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Desire for a Beginning, Dread of One Single End, by Edmond Jabès
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Eyes to See Otherwise, by Homero Aridjis
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Fuck You--Aloha--I Love You, by Juliana Spahr
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Ideograms of China, by Henri Michaux
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Love Stories: Sex Between Men Before Homosexuality, by Jonathan Ned Katz
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

New & Collected Poems, by George Oppen
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Old Sunflower, You Bowed to No One
Poet Lorine Niedecker
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Surrealist Love Poems, by Mary Ann Caws
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

The Book of Mystical Chapters, translated by John Anthony McGuckin
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

The Collected Poems of Tennessee Williams
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

The Shrubberies, by Ronald Johnson
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

250 Grams of Poetry, by Spike Hawkins
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Forbidden Words: Selected Poetry, by Eugénio de Andrade
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Minima St., by Joseph Massey
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Selected Poems and Prose, by Paul Celan
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

The Collected Poems, Kathleen Raine
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

The Complete Poems, by Kenneth Rexroth
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

The Selected Poems, by Denise Levertov
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Various Works by Dylan Thomas
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Various Works by John Martone
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Voices, by Antonio Porchia & Transparence of the World, by Jean Follain
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 18 (Winter 2003–4).

Read & Recommended
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Fall 2010).

Read & Recommended
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

Aaaaw to Zzzzzd: The Words of Birds, North America, Britain, and Northern Europe
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Aaron Tieger's Anxiety Chant
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Anne Carson's Nox
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

C. P. Cavafy: Poems
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Cold Mountain Poems: Zen Poems of Han Shan, Shih-Te, and Wang Fan-chih
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Cralan Kelder's Give Some Word
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Jack Gilbert's The Dance Most of All
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Joe Massey's Areas of Fog
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Juan Ramón Jiménez's The Poet and the Sea
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Kenneth Patchen: Off the Beaten Path
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Kent Johnson's Homage to the Last Avant-Garde
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Ko Un's Ten Thousand Lives
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

M. C. Richards: The Fire Within
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Malcolm de Chazal's Sens-Plastique
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Patrick Dougherty's Stickwork
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Pocket Poetry
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Poems for the Millennium, Volume Three
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Polis is This: Charles Olson and the Persistence of Place
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Quote Poet Unquote: Contemporary Quotations on Poets and Poetry
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Radical Vernacular: Lorine Niedecker and the Poetics of Place
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Sufi Rapper: The Spiritual Journey of Abd al Malik
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

The Chinese Written Character as a Medium for Poetry
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

The Poems of Rumi
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

The Present Moment
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

The Star You Steer By: Basil Bunting and British Modernism
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

The Way of Chuang Tzu
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Thomas A. Clark's The Hundred Thousand Places
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

Visual Poetry in the Avant Writing Collection
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 20 (Summer 2012).

A Renaissance for Michael Rumaker
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Alexandros by Stanley Barber
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Books by Scott Watson and Taneda Santōka
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Convalescent by Robert West
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Dickinson edited by Helen Vendler
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Ksana by John Martone
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Ladder of Shadows by Gustaf Sobin
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Places for the Spirit by Vaughn Sills
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Plain-Spoken Love
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

Ronald Johnson's Modernist Collage Poetry edited by Ross Hair
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

The Etiquette of Freedom edited by Paul Ebenkamp
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

The Flower Seeker by Philip Lee Williams
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

The Influence of Robert Bly
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

The Next One Thousand Years by Cid Corman
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

What Other Choice by Jeremy Halinen
Essay by Jeffery Beam
Oyster Boy Review 21 (2014).

A Location Constantly Occurring
Creeley, Olson, and the Genesis of Black Mountain Poetry
Essay by Kevin Bezner
Oyster Boy Review 11 (April 1999).

» C «

Peace Corps Journal: Yemen
Essay by Cindy Chu
Oyster Boy Review 01 (February 1994).

Superfluous Man
Essay by Joshua Citrak
Oyster Boy Review 19 (Summer 2011).

» D «

Days of Summer Gone: This is One of Them
Essay by Chad Driscoll
Oyster Boy Review 02 (March 1995).

Editor's Note
Essay by Chad Driscoll
Oyster Boy Review 07 (September 1997).

Editor's Note
Essay by Chad Driscoll
Oyster Boy Review 12 (January 2000).

» M «

Editor's Note
Essay by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 10 (January 1999).

Editor's Note
Essay by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 13 (Summer 2001).

From a Buick 8
Essay by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Old Gods Almost Dead: The 40-Year Odyssey of the Rolling Stones
Essay by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Roscoe
Essay by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

Shoppers: Two Plays
Essay by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
Essay by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

The Pursuit of Oblivion: A Global History of Narcotics
Essay by Kevin McGowin
Oyster Boy Review 16 (Winter 2002).

» S «

Last Best Places: A Correspondence
Essay by David Sapio
Oyster Boy Review 01 (February 1994).

Editor's Note
Essay by Damon Sauve
Oyster Boy Review 02 (March 1995).

Editor's Note
Essay by Damon Sauve
Oyster Boy Review 03 (October 1995).

Editor's Note
Essay by Damon Sauve
Oyster Boy Review 04 (Spring 1996).

Editor's Note
Essay by Damon Sauve
Oyster Boy Review 09 (May 1998).

Introduction
Essay by Mark Spitzer
Oyster Boy Review 17 (Fall 2003).

Letter from an Editor
Essay by Chris Stafford
Oyster Boy Review 03 (October 1995).