Alive to history in the making (and the weight of the past) this
volume examines Obama's presidency and Lyndon Johnson's, the
killing of Trayvon Martin and the death of Andrew Breitbart, Occupy
Wall Street and "America Beyond Capitalism." It presents essays,
poems, and plays that speak to our times and challenge the liberal
imagination. The title, That Floating Bridge, evokes Representative
John Lewis' line--"Obama is what comes at the end of that bridge in
Selma"--as it quotes a track on Gregg Allman's Low Country Blues,
which Scott Spencer lauds here in a review for the Ages.
That Floating Bridge's peerless range of contributors includes
Amiri Baraka, Gar Alperovitz, Bernard Avishai, Uri Avnery, Bill
Ayers, Paul Berman, John Chernoff, Mark Dudzic, Carmelita
Estrellita, Henry Farrell, Fr. Rick Frechette, Donna Gaines, David
Golding, Eugene Goodheart, Lawrence Goodwyn, Lisa Guenther, Alec
Harrington, Malcolm Harris, Casey Hayden, Christopher Hayes,
Patterson Hood, Roxane Johnson, Ben Kessler, Bob Levin, Philip
Levine, Bongani Madondo, Greil Marcus, Scott McLemee, Judy
Oppenheimer, Jedediah Purdy, Nick Salvatore, Aram Saroyan, Tom
Smucker, Fredric Smoler, Violet Socks, A. B. Spellman, Scott
Spencer, Richard Torres, Jesmyn Ward, and Pablo Yglesias.
An account of how Franz Boas "did more to combat race prejudice
than any other person" anchorsone section, but the volume also
addresses devolutions of "diversity" linked with careerism in the
art world and academe. An un-scholastic section titled "Criticism
of Life"celebrates older and younger critics/poets. Songs are key
to this volume's good times. Music writing--ranging from Eddie
Hinton's Very Extremely Dangerous to Berlioz's Romeo and
Juliet--enhances the pleasures of this text.
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