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45 Albert Deserta Lo! A Hot Wind Blows From The Bronx! (Poemsfound on the answeringmachine of'NewYouth Connections) I. My name is J.W. Faren. I go to Christopher Columbus High School. in the Bronx. I unfortunately received a copy of your newspaper and this Anthony Fitzgerald Reid charector, whoever he is, the weird kid, who wrote the article on George Bush, it was nauseating, disgusting, it was just a total disgrace to America, what George Bush did, ask the people of Panama who applauded our troops when we went and if he don't like America, he can get the fuck out. II. It figures you're not on the damn phone. If I were you, I wouldn't pick up the phone either. I think your magazine's a damn disgrace. and if you don't like down there, 46 the minnesota review III. It's a lot of affirmative action, racist, minority, bullshit, stereotypical, faggot, pig-headed magazine, and it shouldn't be given to schools ever! IV. I think you're a bunch of commie bastards and you should stick your ass in a bucket of shit. V. Fucking anti-American, get the fuck out! If you don't like America, leave it! And we go to Christopher Columbus High School. It's our country. If you don't like it, get the fuck out. Deserta 47 We challenge you all to a debate at Christopher Columbus High School. Come on down: we'll fix you good. Ode to NYC HeUo, my name is M_____ R I teach at I.S. 181 in the Broooonx. And I just refuse to give your newspaper to my students because I feel it's biased anti-white minority liberal propaganda. So, get lives, will ya? 48 the minnesota review Scholia and Conjectures for "Hot Wind" Title: ostensibly a reply to Shelley's "Ode to the West Wind." See Sherman Paul, Hart's Bridge, pps. 23-36. J.W. Faren: possiblyJ.D. McFarren, horn man in The Band. CE, then, "Rock of Ages, The Band in Concert." Christopher Columbus: discoverer ofColumbus Circle, 59th St. and Central Park West, Manhattan. "this Anthony Fitzgerald Reid charector" (sic): Fitzcarl Anthony Johnson Reid, b. Bronx, N.Y., c. 1972. Arrested after posing naked (E.F. Gombrich says "nude") on roof of Met, as "human sculpture." Now teaching English in Korea and pursuing tumultuous relationship with reluctant Japanese woman. George Bush: Director of Central Intelligence Agency, 1970-72. Panama: a country reportedly outside the borders of the U.S. bucket of shit: until at least 1993, said bucket stood ("sat," sez Marjorie Garber) at corner of 161st St. and River Ave., the Bronx. M____ R_____: purveyor of liberal anti-white propaganda and brother of Harold Robbins. ...

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