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A note to anxious contributors: Jacket is traditionally late, usually by a few months, and number 36 is no exception. When we say ‘Late 2008’ (see above) we really mean ‘Early 2009’. This issue is being built as we speak — with the patience and attention to detail of a blind Swiss clockmaker in a self-induced hypnotic trance — using an old fountain pen, a Remington 30–30 mechanical typewriter and a beaker of Chateau Baron Munchausen ‘Bateau Ivre’ ’68, but as editor John Tranter is buried deep in the salt-mines of a doctoral thesis for the next month, Jacket 36 will not be complete and finished until February 2009. Think of it as a delayed Christmas present to yourself. [Ed.]

Feature:
New Russian Poetry

Editor: Peter Golub

Russian movie poster, detail.

[»»] Peter Golub: A New Beginning: The Young Post-Soviet Poets

[»»] Peter Golub: Справочник: Who is Helping the New Russian Poetry?

[»»] Anastasia Afanaseva: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Interview: Mikhail Aizenberg in conversation with Peter Golub

[»»] Aleksandr Anashevich: Tr. Vitaly Chernetsky

[»»] Nikolai Baitov: Tr J. Kates

[»»] Polina Barskova: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Sveta Bodrunova: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich

[»»] Oleg Dark: Tr. Marian Schwartz

[»»] Danila Davydov: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Nastya Denisova: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Sergey Gandlevsky: Tr. Philip Metres

[»»] Dina Gatina: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Marianna Geide: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Pavel Goldin: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Dmitry Golynko: Tr. Eugene Ostashevsky

[»»] Anna Gorenko: T. J. Kates and Sibelan Forrester

[»»] Mikhail Gronas: Tr. Christopher Mattison with the author

[»»] Julia Idlis: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Nina Iskrenko: Tr. Vitaly Chernetsky

[»»] Nina Iskrenko: Tr. Olga Livshin

[»»] Olga Livshin:
          Nina Iskrenko (1951–1995):
          Lyricism at the End of an Era

[»»] Viktor Ivaniv: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Vadim Kalinin: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Gennady Kanevsky: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich

[»»] Natalya Kluchareva: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Sergei Kruglov: Tr. Vitaly Chernetsky

[»»] Ilya Kukulin: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich

[»»] Inga Kuznetsova: Tr. Chris Mattison

[»»] Zhenya Lavut: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich

[»»] Dmitry Lazutkin: Tr. Vitaly Chernetsky

[»»] Anna Logvinova: Tr. Christopher Mattison

[»»] Stanislav Lvovsky: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Ksenya Marennikova: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Tatyana Moseeva: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Oleg Pashchenko: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Alexandra Petrova: Tr. Stephanie Sandler

[»»] Peter Popov: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Dmitri Prigov: Tr. Chris Mattison and Philip Metres

[»»] Arseny Rovinsky: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Lev Rubinstein: Tr. Philip Metres

[»»] Anna Russ: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich

[»»] Boris Ryzhii: Tr. Tom Dolack

[»»] Andrei Sen-Senkov: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich

[»»] Irina Shostakovskaya: Tr. Zachary Schomberg

[»»] Gleb Shulpyakov: Tr. Chris Mattison

[»»] Aleksandr Skidan: Tr. Genya Turovskaya and Natasha Randal

[»»] Dmitry Tonkonogov: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Dmitry Vodennikov: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich

[»»] Sveta Zdvig: Tr. Peter Golub

[»»] Olga Zonberg: Tr. Peter Golub

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Feature

Maged Zaher

Maged Zaher

[»»] Three Egyptian Poets: edited by Maged Zaher:  — Osama El-Dinasouri — 
Mohamed Metwalli — Ahmed Taha

Interviews

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[»»] A Document of Listening: H L Hix in conversation with Philip Metres, November 2007-May 2008

[»»] Clayton Eshleman in conversation with Paul Hoover and Maxine Chernoff: «Sulfur» and «New American Writing»: A Dialogue

[»»] Clayton Eshleman in conversation with Ian Irvine (late 2007-early 2008)

Barry Gifford

Barry Gifford





[»»] ‘The Truth is in the Work’: Barry Gifford in conversation with Noel King, Berkeley, California, 2007


[»»] Dennis Phillips in conversation with Sheila Murphy, 2008 (see below)

[»»] Hope: an excerpt from Dennis Phillips’ novel Hope.

 

Articles

[»»] Thomas Basboll: Decision and Desire: A ‘Rain-sparkling Crystogram’ in Nabokov’s «The Defence»

[»»] Art Beck: And Yet Another Archaic Torso — Why?

Archaic torso

Archaic torso

 

[»»] Rachel Blau DuPlessis: The Hole: Death, Sexual Difference, and Gender Contradictions in Creeley’s Poetry

[»»] Rachel Blau DuPlessis and William Watkin: “Draft 33: Deixis”/Notes on “Deixis”: a Midrashic Chain: an exchange of thoughts

[»»] Susan Briante: Coultas and Robertson Write the City from Surface to Detritus, from I to We

[»»] Emily Carr: Happily, Revision: Reading Rosmarie Waldrop’s «The Reproduction of Profiles»

[»»] Ian Davidson: Frank O’Hara’s Places

[»»] Seth Forrest: The Body of the Text: Cerebral Palsy, Projective Verse and Prosthetics in Larry Eigner’s Poetry

[»»] Andy Frazee: “Present-Absent”: The Dependence on/Transcendence of “Shakespeare” in Stephen Ratcliffe’s «[where late the sweet] BIRDS SANG» and Jen Bervin’s «NETS»

[»»] Paul Hoover: Black Painting Divided by a White Painting: Newlipo: Bringing Proceduralism and Chance-Poetics into the 21st Century.

[»»] Jane Joritz-Nakagawa: Essay: Mistaken Indemnities

[»»] Kent Johnson: Notes on Notes on Translation: ‘Translation must seek to bring over the strangeness, obvious or latent, of the original, and always guard against the temptation to familiarize it. It is this, after all, that is the gain of translation — the new surplus, semantic or grammatical, that languages can invest in the general economies of others.’

[»»] Basil King: Learning to Draw/A History: 14 Eyes — Desire: on Paul Blackburn

[»»] Graham Lyons: Citation as Explanation: Walter Benjamin and Louis Zukofsky, Colporteurs

[»»] John Muckle: Hazlitt’s Paroxysms

[»»] Jeffrey Side: Empirical and Non-Empirical Identifiers

[»»] Jordan Stempleman: Still, Life Supports a Tending

[»»] J. Townsend: Spiritual Man, Modern Man: The Poetics of Frank Samperi

[»»] William Watkin: “Though we keep company with cats and dogs”: Onomatopoeia, Glossolalia and Happiness in the work of Lyn Hejinian and Giorgio Agamben

Poems

[»»] Robert Adamson: Poem: At Rock River

[»»] Adam Aitken: Three poems: Pol Pot in Paris / Letter to Marguerite Duras / Lines from «The Lover»

[»»] Iain Britton: Two poems: The Ornamental Room / Still Fall the Clear Steel Nibs of Night

[»»] Janet Charman: Three poems: singer machine / debate / the forgetting option

[»»] Maxine Chernoff: Three poems: Oracular / And words for / What it contains

[»»] Tom Clark: Two poems: O Friend! / Fireside Chat

[»»] Chris Edwards: So Not Orpheus: Rilke Renditions 1–11

[»»] Phillip A Ellis: Emily Dickinson’s Birds

[»»] Michael Farrell: Two poems: structures p / bad diction

[»»] Annie Finch: Three poems:
She That / Resolution / Night Rain

[»»] Norman Fischer: Felstentor

[»»] Barry Gifford: Three poems and a play: Monk’s Funeral / The Generalissimo Waves / Hey, Ludwig, Grab Yourself a Pigfoot / The Farm Team (A story in the form of a play)

[»»] Noah Eli Gordon: Diminishing Returns

[»»] Michele Leggott: Four poems: ascensore / passaggiata / primavera / redentore

[»»] Rachel Loden: Two poems from «Dick of the Dead»: Cheney Agonistes / Autumn Daze

[»»] Nicolás Mansito III: Four poems from «On Third and Seventh»

[»»] John Muckle: Two poems: I Should Be So Lucky / On Ebury Bridge Road

[»»] Sheila E Murphy and Douglas Barbour: Continuations LVIII

[»»] Stephen Vincent: Ocean Beach

Feature

Bosch, detail

[»»] Clayton Eshleman:
      Tavern of the Scarlet Bagpipe:
      On Bosch’s «Garden of Earthly Delights»

Denise Levertov
Editor: Kevin Gallagher

Denise Levertov, 1923-1997, photo by Jonathan Williams, 1957

Denise Levertov, 1923–1997: Photo by Jonathan Williams, 1957

[»»] Kevin Gallagher: Templum: Introduction to Denise Levertov Feature

[»»] Anne-Marie Cusac: Reading Levertov in Wartime

[»»] Anne Dewey: Gender Difference and the Construction of Social Space in Levertov’s Writing after the Duncan-Levertov Debate

[»»] John Felstiner: “that witnessing presence”: Life Illumined Around Denise Levertov

[»»] Sam Hamill: In Her Company: Denise Levertov

[»»] Donna Krolik Hollenberg: A Poet’s Revolution: The Life of Denise Levertov: An excerpt from Donna Krolik Hollenberg’s biography: from Part Two: Chapter Seven

[»»] Rachelle K. Lerner: Ecstasy of Attention: Denise Levertov and Kenneth Rexroth

[»»] Dick Lourie: Two poems

[»»] Mark Pawlak: Draft: From «Glover Circle Notebooks»

[»»] José Rodríguez Herrera: In Homage to Levertov: Translating Sands of the Well

[»»] Ron Silliman: Unerasing Early Levertov

[»»] Tino Villanueva: Poet in the World: A Tribute to Denise Levertov

[»»] Also see: Denise Levertov (poem): Eros, in Jacket 16

[»»] Also see: Robert J. Bertholf: From Robert Duncan’s Notebooks: On Denise Levertov, in Jacket 28

[»»] Also see: Robert J. Bertholf: The Robert Duncan / Denise Levertov Correspondence: Duncan’s View, in Jacket 28

Feature: George Oppen
Editor: Thomas Devaney

Mary Oppen, George Oppen, Swathmore, 1979. Photo Robert S. DuPlessis.

Mary Oppen, George Oppen, Swathmore, 1979. Photo Robert S. DuPlessis

[»»] Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Oppen from seventy-five to a hundred, 1983–2008

[»»] Pat Clifford: George Oppen, Buddhadev Bose and Translation

[»»] Stephen Cope: As if Objectivist: Oppen’s Political Epistemophelia

[»»] George Evans: Pacific

[»»] Al Filreis: Believing in the World Because It Is Impossible

[»»] Zack Finch: “I am / of that people the grass / blades touch”: Walt Whitman and the Aesthetics of Curiosity in George Oppen’s Critique of Violence

[»»] Kathleen Fraser: This in which I remember George Oppen

[»»] Bobbie Louise Hawkins: George Oppen, Mary Oppen and a Poem

[»»] Michael Heller: from «Oppen’s Thematics: [what are poets for?]» (a talk given at the Kelly Writers House celebration of George Oppen, April 7, 2008)

[»»] Eric Hoffman: Of Hours: George Oppen, Albert Camus and the Illuminated World

[»»] Geoffrey O’Brien: In Memory of Oppen

[»»] Bob Perelman: Oppen’s Poetics and Politics Today

[»»] Patrick Pritchett: Writing the Disasters: Late Modernism and the Persistence of the Messianic in George Oppen and Michael Palmer

Reviews

[»»] Unexplained evidence: George Albon: «Momentary Songs», reviewed by Michael Cross

[»»] Textures of otherness: Charles Alexander: «Certain Slants», reviewed by Jonathan Stalling

[»»] Questions of Travel: Ana Bozicevic-Bowling: «Document», reviewed by Matthew Thorburn

[»»] A Gathering of Words: Michael Brennan: «Unanimous Night», reviewed by David McCooey

[»»] Reflections on a Paper Mirror: Joel Chace: «Cleaning The Mirror», reviewed by John Olson

[»»] Jack Collom and Lyn Hejinian: «Situations, Sings» (collaborative poems), reviewed by Robert Grenier

[»»] Haunting: Brenda Coultas: «The Marvelous Bones of Time: Excavations and Explanations», reviewed by Jesse Morse

[»»] Our Best Failed Distinctions: Thomas Devaney: «A Series of Small Boxes», reviewed by John Emil Vincent

[»»] Stuart Dybek: «Streets in Their Own Ink», reviewed by Virginia Konchan

[»»] Geoffrey Gatza: «Not So Fast Robespierre», reviewed by Jared Schickling

[»»] «The Salt Companion to Lee Harwood » edited by Robert Sheppard (Salt, 2007) reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan

Harwood book cover
 

[»»] The voice of instinct: Christine Hume: «Lullaby», reviewed by Chris Glomski

[»»] Patrick Jones and Peter O’Mara: «How To Do Words With Things», reviewed by Astrid Lorange

[»»] Daniil Kharms: «Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms» Edited and translated by Matvei Yankelevich; reviewed by Larissa Shmailo

[»»] Strange meetings: Kent Johnson: «I Once Met», reviewed by Cralan.

[»»] Hank Lazer: Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays 1996–2008, reviewed by Sue Walker

[»»] Greg McLaren: «The Kurri-Kurri Book of the Dead» reviewed by Nick Riemer

[»»] Escape from New York: Ange Mlinko: «Starred Wire» and «The Children’s Museum», reviewed by Dan Thomas-Glass

[»»] ‘Love boats of rainbow alien barf’: Sharon Mesmer: «Annoying Diabetic Bitch» reviewed by Stan Apps

[»»] Three books, reviewed by Micaela Morrissette: «The Glimmer Palace» by Beatrice Colin; «Tranquility», by Attila Bartis, translated by Imre Goldstein; and «Train to Trieste» by Domnica Radulescu

[»»] Bern Mulvey: «The Fat Sheep Everybody Wants», reviewed by Virginia Konchan

[»»] «Intersection, Sidewalks and Public Space». ed. Marci Nelligan & Nicole Mauro, reviewed by josé felipe alvergue

[»»] Gavin Selerie: «Roxy» and «Le Fanu’s Ghost», reviewed by Robert Hampson

[»»] “To educate desire,” “to repurpose kitsch”: Robert Sheppard: «Complete Twentieth Century Blues», reviewed by Todd Nathan Thorpe

[»»] My colonic is my confession: Eleni Stecopoulos: «Autoimmunity», reviewed by Thom Donovan

[»»] The tragic and the wacky: Gary Sullivan: «PPL in a Depot» reviewed by Stan Apps

Orangerie, Versailles

Orangerie, Versailles

[»»] “As if you could open a jar of sugar forever”: Cole Swensen: «Ours», reviewed by Donna Stonecipher

[»»] Flight from ‘The Ten Thousand Things’: Nathaniel Tarn: «Recollections of Being», reviewed by Martin Anderson

[»»] Carol Watts: «When blue light falls», reviewed by Robert Grenier

[»»] «The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen», reviewed by Laurie Duggan

[»»] The Lyricism of Sluts and Drunks: Meg Withers: «A Communion of Saints» reviewed by L.J. Moore

[»»] ‘Each evening he would write/ what had happened to him’ : Formality and occasionality in the poems of Mark Young : «Pelican Dreaming: Poems 1959–2008» Poems by Mark Young, reviewed by Nicholas Manning.

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