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Feature: Barbara Guest 
Barbara Guest, Sermoneta, Italy, 1968 [»»] Matthew Cooperman: Envy and Architecture: On Barbara Guest’s Realisms [»»] Rachel Blau DuPlessis: ‘The other window is the lark’: on Barbara Guest [»»] Ken Edwards: Pageant of creativity [»»] Catherine Kasper: Barbara Guest’s Career: Defensive Rapture [»»] Erica Kaufman: On “The Location of Things” [»»] Will Montgomery: Sound Leads to Structure: Dissonant lyricism in Barbara Guest’s «Miniatures» [»»] Elizabeth Robinson: Direction [»»] Marjorie Welish: Spaced Intertext
Also see the Barbara Guest
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Editor:
[»»] Peter Golub: Справочник: Who is Helping the New Russian Poetry? [»»] Interview: Mikhail Aizenberg in conversation with Peter Golub [»»] Oleg Dark: On Anastasia Afanasieva Tr. Marian Schwartz [»»] Anastasia Afanasieva: Tr. Peter Golub
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Olga Livshin: [»»] Maxim Amelin: Tr. Christine A. Dunbar [»»] Aleksandr Anashevich: Tr. Vitaly Chernetsky [»»] Polina Andrukovich: Tr. Christine A. Dunbar [»»] Nikolai Baitov: Tr J. Kates [»»] Polina Barskova: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Sveta Bodrunova: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich [»»] Dmitry Bushuev: Tr. Rebecca Gould and Peter Golub [»»] Danila Davydov: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Alexei Denisov: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Nastya Denisova: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Elena Fanailova: Tr. Stephanie Sandler and Genya Turovskaya [»»] 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 [»»] Lenor Goralik: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Anna Gorenko: T. J. Kates and Sibelan Forrester [»»] Mikhail Gronas: Tr. Christopher Mattison with the author [»»] Julia Idlis: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Viktor Ivaniv: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Vadim Kalinin: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Gennady Kanevsky: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich [»»] Natalya Kluchareva: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Mikhail Kotov: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Ilya Kriger: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Sergei Kruglov: Tr. Vitaly Chernetsky [»»] Sergei Kruglov: Tr. J. Kates [»»] Ilya Kukulin: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich [»»] Inga Kuznetsova: Tr. Chris Mattison [»»] Zhenya Lavut: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich [»»] Dmitry Lazutkin: Tr. Vitaly Chernetsky [»»] Valery Ledenev: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Olga Livshin: Original work [»»] Anna Logvinova: Tr. Christopher Mattison [»»] Gila Loran: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Stanislav Lvovsky: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Mara Malanova: Tr. Stephanie Sandler [»»] Ksenya Marennikova: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Kiril Medvedev: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Tatyana Moseeva: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Valery Nugatov: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Oleg Pashchenko: Tr. Peter Golub and Sibelan Forrester [»»] Alexandra Petrova: Tr. Stephanie Sandler [»»] Andrei Polyakov: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Peter Popov: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Dmitri Prigov: Tr. Chris Mattison and Philip Metres [»»] Evgenii Proshchin (Egor Kirsanov): Tr. Sibelan Forrester [»»] Eugenia Ritz: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Andrei Rodionov: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich [»»] Arseny Rovinsky: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Lev Rubinstein: Tr. Philip Metres [»»] Anna Russ: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich [»»] Boris Ryzhii: Tr. Tom Dolack [»»] Sveta Sdvig: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Andrei Sen-Senkov: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich [»»] Irina Shostakovskaya: Tr. Zachary Schomburg [»»] Gleb Shulpyakov: Tr. Chris Mattison [»»] Aleksandr Skidan: Tr. Genya Turovskaya and Natasha Randall [»»] Maria Stepanova: Tr. Tatyana Golub and Rebecca Gould [»»] Daria Sukhovei: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Fyodor Svarovsky: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Dmitry Tonkonogov: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Dmitry Vodennikov: Tr. Matvei Yankelevich, Peter Golub, and Tatyana Golub [»»] Olga Zonberg: Tr. Peter Golub [»»] Nikolai Zvyagintsev: Tr. Peter Golub and Matvei Yankelevich [»»] List of Translators Feature 
Maged Zaher
[»»] Three Egyptian Poets: edited by Maged Zaher: — Osama El-Dinasouri — Interviews 
[»»] 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
[»»] 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 [»»] 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 [»»] Deborah Meadows: Lecture Notes on Icons and Iconoclasts [»»] John Muckle: Hazlitt’s Paroxysms [»»] David B. Olsen: People are Stranger: Listening to Graham Foust [»»] Richard Owens: Gael Turnbull: The Bricklayer Reconsidered: Editing Gael Turnbull’s Collected Poems [»»] Andrew Schelling: In Which Our Current Post Coyote Poetry Gets Tracked to the 1970s [»»] 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 [»»] Donald Wellman: Seventies prosody: “the tone leading vowels” |
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Clayton Eshleman:
Denise Levertov 
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 
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 
Robert Adamson, 2/56 Terry Street, Rozelle, 5 July 1985 [»»] Robert Adamson: «The Golden Bird: New and selected poems», reviewed by Joseph Donahue [»»] 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 [»»] Julie Carr: «Equivocal», reviewed by Andy Frazee [»»] 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 
[»»] The voice of instinct: Christine Hume: «Lullaby», reviewed by Chris Glomski [»»] Brenda Iijima: «Animate, Inanimate Aims», reviewed by Thomas Fink [»»] 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 [»»] George Messo: Entrances, reviewed by Alistair Noon [»»] 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 [»»] Jennifer Moxley: «The Line», Reviewed by Matt Gagnon [»»] 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 [»»] “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. 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 [»»] Stephen Emmerson: Two poems [»»] Michael Farrell: Two poems: structures p / bad diction
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Annie Finch: Three poems: [»»] 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 [»»] Andrej Khadanovich: Three Poems. Translated by David Kennedy with the assistance of Valzhyna Mort [»»] 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» [»»] Andrew Mossin: Nocturne [»»] 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 |
“There are only 10 kinds of computer programmers: those who know binary and those who don’t.”
Feature: Omar Pérez
Kristin Dykstra: On Omar Pérez, b. Havana, 1964
Cuban poet Omar Pérez
in conversation with
Kent Johnson, 2007
Kristin Dykstra: Gossiping Cuba: Omar Pérez and the Name of the Father
Omar Pérez: Eight poems from the manuscript «Lingua Franca» translated by Kristin Dykstra
Omar Pérez: Bibliography and Links to English-Language Internet Resources
Articles: 200 pages
Robert Bond: Babylon Afterburn: Adventures in Iain Sinclair’s «The Firewall» [30 pages]
John Cunningham: Dance of Words: The poetry of John Newlove [4 pages]
Alan Davies: To Call Them by Their Dead Name (on Emanuel Carnevali) [21 pages]
Rod Smith: «Deed», reviewed by Matthew M. Gagnon [6 pages]
Michael Gottlieb: «Jobs of the Poets» [15 pages]
John Hennessy: Poetry’s Share: Don Share — Established Editor, Emerging Poet [9 pages]
Jason Morris: The Time Between Time: Messianism & the Promise of a “New Sincerity” [20 pages]
Nate Pritts: my memory is the history of time: Towards a Theory of Time in Olson [5 pages]
Susan M. Schultz: Dementia Blog (January 2007-December 2006) [15 pages]
Jason Stumpf: Essay: Of Lyric Poetry [2 pages, but very pungent]
Poems
Two Russian Poets, translated by Peter Golub: Eugenia Ritz and Andrei Sen-Senkov
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 88: X-Posting
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 89: Interrogation
Angela Gardner: Three poems: Now that I am in Madrid and can think / Fade / when I leave the clouds
Christopher (Kit) Kelen: Four poems after the Tang poet, Meng Jiao
Ron Koertge: Three ghazals: Around the bush; Drinks; Gizmo
Gregory O’Brien: Wet Jacket Arm
Peter Robinson: Two poems: Graffiti Service / At the Institute
Lisa Samuels: Three poems: This bus kneels on request; Art’s fire sale; True likeness
William Stobb: Four poems: In a Mountain Pasture; Some Purple; Release; In/and
Matthew Tierney: Two poems: Batt & Roll; Perpetual Motion Machine
Feature: Sarajevo
Interviews: 175 pages
US poets Robert Grenier and Charles Bernstein: A Conversation, illustrated [76 pages]
Cuban poet José Kozer in conversation with Nicolás Mansito III, 28 December 2007 [17 pages]
British poet Peter Riley in conversation with Todd Nathan Thorpe [21 pages]
Reviews
Rae Armantrout: «Next Life», reviewed by Kristina Marie Darling
Michael Ayres: «Kinetic» reviewed by Alistair Noon
Rachel Tzvia Back: «On Ruins and Return» reviewed by Andrew Mossin
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: «Torques: Drafts 58—76», reviewed by Patrick F. Durgin
Stephen Burt: «Parallel Play: Poems», reviewed by Michael Aiken
Mahmoud Darwish: «The Butterfly’s Burden», reviewed by Philip Metres
Angela Gardner: «Parts of Speech», reviewed by Pam Brown
Johannes Göransson: «A New Quarantine Will Take My Place», reviewed by Sean Kilpatrick
Noah Eli Gordon: «A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow», reviewed by Andrew Grace
Arpine Konyalian Grenier: «Part, Part Euphrates», reviewed by Celia Lisset Alvarez
Anthony Hawley: »The Concerto Form», reviewed by Andrew Rippeon
Cath Kenneally: «Ci Vediamo», reviewed by Michael Aiken
Jennifer L. Knox: «Drunk By Noon», reviewed by John Findura
Photo (detail) © Walter Crump, used with permission
Ruth Lepson and Walter Crump: «Morphology», reviewed by John Mercuri Dooley
Lewis MacAdams: «The River: Books One, Two, and Three», reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan
Duncan McNaughton: «Bounce», a note by Robert Grenier
Paul Metcalf: «Collected Works», reviewed by David McCooey.
Philip Metres: «To See the Earth», reviewed by Christopher Kempf
Stephen Paul Miller: «Being with a Bullet» reviewed by Thomas Fink
Maggie Nelson: «Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions», reviewed by Andrew Epstein
«OCHO» # 14, guest ed. Nick Piombino, reviewed by Nicholas Manning
«OCHO» # 15, ed. Francisco Aragón, reviewed by Craig Santos Perez
Ted Pelton: «Malcolm & Jack: and other famous American criminals», reviewed by Matthew Hotham
Adrienne Rich: «Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth», reviewed by Jill M. Neziri
Peter Robinson: «The Look of Goodbye: Poems 2001—2006» reviewed by Ben Hickman
Leonard Schwartz: «Ear and Ethos», reviewed by Christine Pagnoulle
Mark Scroggins: «The Poem of A Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofksy», reviewed by Nicholas Manning
Jeffrey Side: «Carrier of The Seed» reviewed by Pam Brown
Dale Smith: «Susquehanna», reviewed by David Hadbawnik
Jordan Stempleman: «Facings», reviewed by Adam Fieled
Keston Sutherland: «Hot White Andy», reviewed by John Wilkinson: Mandarin Ducks and Chee-chee Chokes
Eileen Tabios: «I Take Thee, English, for My Beloved», reviewed by Anny Ballardini
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Contemporary Turkish 
A selection of poems and essays drawn from Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry
edited by Murat Nemet-Nejat, published by
Talisman House, New Jersey, and available through Small Press Distribution. Features
About Now, by Joanne Kyger, Introduction by Linda Russo
Interviews
Jackson Mac Low, 1997, photo John Tranter
Articles
Ezra Pound, 26 May 1945
Poems
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Canadian Poetry:
Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century
Reviews
Language Poetry by the Bay: James Sherry: «The Grand Piano» Project:
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Herbert Huncke, Allen Ginsberg, near window of Ginsberg’s E. 12th Street apartment, New Year’s 1976. Photo copyright © Gordon Ball. Feature
Brenda Hillman “The generic convention of the book review is monologic; however nuanced and subtle, the constraints of the form typically allow the inclusion of only one perspective. This collection of short texts on the poems in Brenda Hillman’s Pieces of Air in the Epic intends first, to present a kind of collective ‘book review,’ that is, a form of writing about poems that demands a plurality of individual voices; and second, to provide a forum in which poets respond to and explore a particular poem.” — B.C.F.
Reviews
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Interviews
Kathleen Fraser, 1964 “SR: Silence has been a central trope in your writing since early on. It carries a range of meanings, from erasure to grief and loss to the spaciousness of an open field. Perhaps we could trace some of the ways in which silence has come up in your work over time.” 
Articles 
Feature: Humor in Poetry
George Bowering
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Poems
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Edited by Christopher Kelen
Christopher Kelen: Introduction
Peter Riley: Quotation: ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing’
Tony Barnstone: The Cannibal at Work: Five Discourses on Translation, Transformation, Imitation, and Transmutation
Gary Blankenship: After Wang Wei
Forrest Gander: The Strange Case of Thomas Traherne
Kent Johnson: Imitation, Traduction, Fiction, Response
Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Moure: C’s Garden
chus pato, andrés ajens et al.: correspondencias (lalín, galicia – santiago, chile; iowa city/buenos aires, la paz, ciudad juárez/los angeles
Christopher Kelen: conversation with Tang Poets: some notes on the practice
[ More to come ]
The Holiday Album: Greeting Card poems for All Occasions
Edited by Elaine Equi
Elaine Equi: Best Wishes (Introduction)
Elaine Equi: Happy New Year
David Lehman: Time Frame
Wayne Koestenbaum: Short Subjects
Cover image — detail:
Dirk Rowntree
Rae Armantrout: Address
Nick Piombino: Valentine’s Day
— Valentine’s Day — Feb. 14th
David Shapiro: Colorful Hands
— Holi: The Festival of Colors (Indian) — first weekend in March
Tom Clark: Equinox
— March 21/22
Vincent Katz: Back From The Dead
— The Veneralia (Roman) — April 1st
Jeanne Marie Beaumont: Fête of the Little Boats
— (French) — April 6th
Martine Bellen: On John Ashbery Day — A Cento
— April 7th
Cathy McArthur: At the Wildlife Center
— Bird Day — May 4th
Jerome Sala: Mother’s Day
Jeanne Marie Beaumont: Flower & Camera
— Flower & Camera Day — June 29th
Chris Martin: Independence Day
Stacy Szymaszek: Hammock Day
— July 22nd
Erica Kaufman: admit you’re happy day
— Aug. 8th
Erica Kaufman: elvis week
— Aug. 8-16th
Fanny Howe: Our Lady of Knock, August 21, 1879
Jerome Sala: Anniversary
Gregory Crosby: Columbo Day
— Oct. 12th
Connie Deanovich: Happy Hamlet Day
— Oct 15th
Amy Gerstler: All Saints’ Day
— Nov. 1st
Joe Brainard: Thanksgiving
David Trinidad: Doll Memorial Service
— Doll Memorial Day — second Saturday in December
David Shapiro: After Ryokan
— Winter Solstice — Dec. 21st
John Tranter: East Village, NYC, 2005
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Articles
Anthony Stephens: Cutting Poets to Size — Heidegger, Hölderlin, Rilke
Martin Heidegger (front right), November 1933
Gilbert Adair: “Child-Emporererer (vacncy)”: Apprehending U.S. Empire through Robert Fitterman’s «Metropolis»
Andrea Brady: The Other Poet: John Wieners, Frank O’Hara, Charles Olson
Stephen Fredman: Edward Dorn
Steve Halle: Against Lightning Flashes: Inspiration in Kristin Prevallet’s «Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation, and Image-Text Projects», by Kristin Prevallet
Douglas Messerli: What is to be Done?
Clément Oudart: Genreading and Underwriting: A Few Soundings and Probes into Duncan’s «Ground Work»
David Rosenberg: The Lost Poets of the Wild: The Influence of the First Writing Poets in Sumer
Interviews
Nicomedes Suárez-Araúz: In Search of the Night: on translating Jaime Saenz: an Interview with his translators, Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander
Wayne Koestenbaum in conversation with Tony Leuzzi, 22 October 2004, Le Gamin Coffee Shop, Chelsea, New York
Deborah Meadows in conversation with Romina Freschi, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006
Feature:
Pressure to Experiment
Introduction (Bloomfield et al.)
Joan Retallack: What is Experimental Poetry & Why Do We Need It?
Jena Osman: Is Poetry the News?: The Poethics of the Found Text
Harriet Tarlo: Radical Landscapes: experiment and environment in contemporary poetry
Caroline Bergvall: The Franker Tale (Deus Hic, 2)
Caroline Bergvall: Short aside to ‘The Franker Tale’.
Vincent Broqua: Pressures of Never-at-home
Nikolai Duffy: The Poetics of Emergency
Josh Robinson: ‘Innocence and incapability impose’: Towards an Ethic of Experimentation
Luke Harley: Music as prod and precedent: Nathaniel Mackey’s niggling at the limits of language
Reviews
Alice Notley, 2006
Raewyn Alexander: «Red the Fiend» by Gilbert Sorrentino
Raewyn Alexander: «Sundays on the Phone», by Mark Rudman
Raewyn Alexander: «Rain» by John Woodward
James Belflower: «Harrow», by Elizabeth Robinson
Marcelo Coelho: «Rapid Departures» by Vincent Katz, illustrations by Mario Cafiero
Ian Davidson: «Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005», by Alice Notley
Marcella Durand: «secure portable space», by Redell Olsen
Clive Faust: «Language Is» by John Phillips
Tom Goff: «Tap-Root: Poems» by Indigo Moor
Michael Gottlieb: «The Anger Scale» by Katie Degentesh
David Hart: Peter Redgrove: eight books
Andrew Mossin: «Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work», by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Linda Russo: «Terminal Humming» by K. Lorraine Graham
Linda Russo: «Crop» by Yedda Morrison
Linda Russo: «Chantry» by Elizabeth Treadwell
Standard Schaefer: «Broken World», by Joseph Lease
James Sherry: «The Grand Piano» Project:
…an ongoing experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers identified with Language poetry in San Francisco. It takes its name from a coffeehouse at 1607 Haight Street, where from 1976–79 the authors took part in a reading and performance series. The writing project, begun in 1998, was undertaken as an online collaboration, first via an interactive web site and later through a listserv.
«The Grand Piano» Part 1 reviewed.
«The Grand Piano» Part 2 reviewed.
Alan Sondheim: «The Flowers of Evil», by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Keith Waldrop, Wesleyan University Press, 2006
Jason Stumpf: «Necessary Stranger» by Graham Foust
Donald Wellman: «Figured Image» by Anne-Marie Albiach, trans. Keith Waldrop
Poems
Iain Britton: Lemurs and Missing Links in Loops
Bruce Covey: Two poems: ‘Still’; ‘Good & Plenty’
Romina Freschi: Initials (2004/05)
Michael Kelleher: Number Crunch
Ronald Koertge: Three Haibun
Kristin Prevallet: Tales of Caw
Robert Sheppard: Sonnets from «September 12»
Edited by
Michael Kelleher
Robert Creeley, ‘Wow. I called it and why not:’ 7 letters, 1950–1961, edited by Rod Smith, Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.
Charles Alexander: Robert Creeley: The Speech that Seeks Company (two brief notes)
Amiri Baraka: CREELEY TRIBUTE, MAY 06 JUST BUFFALO
Benjamin Friedlander: Reading in Pieces
Susan Howe: Leaf Flower in the Wind Falling Blue The Dark River
From Words to Pieces: On Robert Creeley, A tape-essay by Tosa Motokiyu, Ojiu Norinaga, and Okura Kyojin, with an introduction by Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez
Alexander Jorgensen: Emails to a Younger Poet
Margaret Konkol: Creeley in Age: Negative Poetics in Robert Creeley’s Late Work
Ruth Lepson: “It Is All a Rhythm”: Robert Creeley and Steve Lacy
Stan Persky: About Robert Creeley (1926–2005)
Kyle Schlesinger: GETTING Behind the Word: Creeley’s TyPOGRAPHY
Dale Smith: Space Suits: the Empirical Tradition in Robert Creeley’s «A Day Book»
Joel Weishaus: A Poem Addressed to Robert Creeley on His Poem “Histoire De Florida.”
Don Wellman: Creeley’s Ear
Robert Creeley
in earlier issues of Jacket:
Jacket 12 - Robert Creeley: Preface to /Against the Silences/, by Paul Blackburn
Jacket 12 - Robert Creeley: Preface to 'Charles Olson...', by Tom Clark
Jacket 14 - Robert Creeley: Scholar's Rocks (poem) — art by Jim Dine
Jacket 15 - Robert Creeley: For Kenneth [Koch]
Jacket 22 - Robert Creeley: In Memoriam Ric Caddel
Jacket 25 - Robert Creeley — Simon Pettet’s Calling
Jacket 25 - Robert Creeley in Conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 24 November, 2003
Jacket 26 – Robert Adamson: Robert Creeley, 1926–2005
Feature: Letters to Poets
Introduction: Dana Teen Lomax and Jennifer Firestone: Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community
Kathleen Fraser and Patrick Pritchett
Paul Hoover and Albert Flynn DeSilver
Leslie Scalapino and Judith Goldman
Articles
Charles Bernstein: Afterword to «The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser» (Revised and Expanded Edition) Edited by Miriam Nichols
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Manhood and its Poetic Projects: The construction of masculinity in the counter-cultural poetry of the U.S. 1950s
Jonathan Fedors: Writing Class in Kevin Davies’ «Comp»
John Felstiner and David Goldstein: The Lure of the God: Robert Duncan on Translating Rilke
Chris Glomski: Leafing The Now: «Depth Theology» by Peter O’Leary, «The Totality for Kids» by Joshua Clover
Piers Hugill: «Fig» by Caroline Bergvall, and «Via: Poems 1994–2004», by Caroline Bergvall
Tom Jones: «The Unconditional: A Lyric» by Simon Jarvis
Poets Behaving Badly: Robert Sheppard: «Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court» by Peter Barry: ‘What the Arts Council’s investigating team had failed to achieve in months I accomplished in seconds,’ boasts Osborne of the fateful meeting when the avalanche of resignations was triggered by chairman Jeff Nuttall. ‘They marched out of the room, and I asked the Secretary to be certain to record their resignations in the minutes, for fear they should come to what senses they possessed and march back in again. But they didn’t return. Was ever a victory so inadvertently achieved?’
Anthony Stephens: Nietzsche’s Unease: The Ambiguity of Poetic Metaphor
Poems
Caroline Bergvall: The Summer Tale (Deus Hic, 1)
Sean Carey: Looking at Peter Porter after many years
Sharon Dolin: Four poems: Missed Hummer / The Give, Seek, Am / This Scabbard’s Free / Lick-Over
Landis Everson: Jack, My Vocabulary Said This
Adam Fieled: Apparition Poems
Alan Gilbert: from “Pretty Words Made a Fool Out of Me”
rob mclennan: Four poems
D.S. Marriott: the levees
Geoff Page: Ugly Beauty
Hazel Smith: In camera
Mark Yakich: New Love Poem
Jeffrey Yang: Bedsong for A — after Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)
Todd Swift: Four poems: Confessions / The Serious Business / I’m In Love With A German Film Star / Hume
John Tranter: Girl in Water
Harriet Zinnes: Possibilities
Grzegorz Wróblewski: Two poems: A Summation Scheme (About the Illness of John T.) / Black Head
Editor: Karlien van den Beukel
Karlien van den Beukel
Rotterdam, 2005
photo: John Tranter
Karlien van den Beukel: Introduction [to come]
Paul Bogaert: ADDRESS, translated by John Irons
Arjen Duinker: Senses and Desires, translated by Jeltje Fanoy
Hans Faverey: Poems from Three Cycles: translated by Francis R. Jones
Astrid Lampe: 4 Poems from «Spuit je Ralkleur» (Spray your RAL Colour)
Lucebert: Four Poems, translated by Diane Butterman
Erik Spinoy: Three poems, translated by John Irons
Dirk van Bastelaere: Wwwhhhooossshh (The Opera Ain’t Over Till The Fat Lady Sings), trans. Willem Groenewegen
F. van Dixhoorn: Two Poems: ‘All at sea’ and ‘Big batten’, trans. Astrid Alben, with a note on the translation
…more to follow
Reviews:
Andrew Duncan: «The Last to Leave» by Dirk van Bastelaere
Douglas Messerli: Three reviews: Hugo Claus, Remco Campert, Hans Faverey
Eliot Weinberger: «Preface Against the Forgetting: Selected Poems» by Hans Faverey, trans. by Francis Jones
Interviews
Janet Cardiff in conversation with Anthony Easton
The Romantic Objectivist: Hugh Seidman in conversation with Molly Nason,
2006
More on Flarf
Michael Gottlieb: Googling Flarf
Rick Snyder: The New Pandemonium: A Brief Overview of Flarf
Reviews
Erik Anderson: Cockerels and Testicles: «Exchanges of Earth & Sky» by Jack Collom
Martin Anderson: «New and Selected Poems» by Kelvin Corcoran
Scott Bentley: «Perspective Would Have Us» by Erica Carpenter
Clive Bush: «Myne. New and Selected Poems and Prose, 1976–2005» by Frances Presley
John Couth: «Inside to Outside» by Christopher Gutkind
Ian Davidson: «Collected Poems» by Lee Harwood
Thomas Fink: «The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. 1» by Eileen R. Tabios
Kass Fleisher: «Nightbirds» by Garin Cycholl
Tom Goff: «Must Be Present to Win», poems by Meg Withers
Henry Gould: «Breeze» by John Latta
Lisa Guidarini: «Jagged With Love» by Susanna Childress
Edmund Hardy: «The Places As Preludes» by Gustaf Sobin
Edmund Hardy: «Ancestors and Species: New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry» by Tom Lowenstein
Tim Kahl: «Mulberry», by Dan Beachy-Quick
David Kennedy: Ken Bolton, «At The Flash & At The Baci» — Four Coffees with Ken Bolton
Michael Leddy: Homer: «Iliad» 12 CDs and «Odyssey» 10CDs, translated and read by Stanley Lombardo: ‘…I have been reading and teaching the Iliad and the Odyssey in Lombardo’s translations for several years, and I’m delighted by the ways in which listening to these readings allows nuances of the poems to register.’
Ben Lerner: «Curves to the Apple», by Rosmarie Waldrop
Nicole Mauro: «Twin Towers» by Basil King
Nicole Mauro: «Gogol in Rome» by Katia Kapovich
Bridie McCarthy: «Strange Attractors», by Louis Armand
Tim Morris: «Word is Born», by Michael Kindellan and Reitha Pattison
Robert Mueller: «Ledger» by Susan Wheeler
Paul Nelson: «Lost in the Chamiso» by Amalio Madueño
Paul Nelson: «Fulcrum» Number Four 2005
Craig Perez: «Involuntary Lyrics» by Aaron Shurin
Gilbert Wesley Purdy: «Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved» by Gregory Orr
Brian Richards: «Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets» by Kent Johnson
Peter Riley: «Blue Grass» by Peter Minter
Dale Smith: «Solution Simulacra» by Gloria Frym
Rob Stanton: «Open Clothes» by Steve Benson
James Stuart: «The Trees: Selected Poems 1967–2004» by E. Montejo and «Walking to Point Clear» by David Brooks
Ezra Tessler: «The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch», by Kenneth Koch
Carolyn van Langenberg: «The Hoplite Journals» by Martin Anderson
Mark Wallace: «Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture» by Joe Amato:
‘… That such forums continue to exist in a society often so hostile to them gives Amato at least a degree of optimism on which to conclude a book that spends most of its time detailing a vast industry of unfreedom and the anguish it causes.’
Ivan Weiss: «Gagarin Street» by Piotr Gwiazda
Marjorie Welish: «Spinoza in Her Youth» by Norma Cole
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Credit: Creeley jacket photo: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005, University of California Press, 1976.
People strike sparks off each other; that is what I try to note down. But mark well, they only do this when they are talking together. After all, we don't write letters now, we telephone. And one of these days we are going to have TV sets which lonely people can talk to and get answers back. Then no one will read anymore.
— British novelist Henry Green
(to Terry Southern, Paris Review interview, 1958)
Louis Zukofsky
Feature: Zukofsky
Introduction by Michael Golston:
The Louis Zukofsky Centennial Conference
at Columbia University and Barnard College
Charles Bernstein: Introduction to Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems, American Poets Project of the Library of America (2006)
Hélène Aji: Useless, Usable, Useful: Louis Zukofsky’s American Designs
Bruce Andrews: What’s the Word: An Essay on Reading, for Louis Zukofsky’s Centennial, words from his «‘A’ 1 – 24» and «Complete Short Poetry»
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: "A Test of Poetry" and Conviction
Robert Fitterman: 1-800-FLOWERS: Inventory as poetry in Louis Zukofsky’s 80 Flowers,an essay in verse
Benjamin Friedlander: FOR ZUKOFSKY/100
Robert Grenier: A letter to Peter Quartermain
Abigail Lang: The Remembering Words or «how zukofsky used words»
Bob Perelman: Zukofsky at 100: Zukofsky as a Body of Work
Peter Quartermain: Thinking with the Poem
Jerome Rothenberg: Louis Zukofsky: A Reminiscence
Steve Shoemaker: Modern Times: “Objectivist” Movies and Thinking Matter in Louis Zukofsky’s Poems of the Thirties, Or, The Behavior of Objects in the Gas Age
Paul Stephens: Zukofsky, Aristotle, Objectivism, Biology
Benoît Turquety: ‘
Our
St. Matthew Passion:’ Louis Zukofsky & Film
Tim Woods: Zukofsky at Columbia
Feature: Chile
Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson:
«Ni Pena ni Miedo:» A Sentimental Education in Chile
Feature: The Romantic- Modern Lyric
Dale Smith: «The Romantic-Modern Lyric»: Poetry for the Non-poet
Chris Stroffolino reviews «The Romantic-Modern Lyric» by Dale Smith
Dale Smith: A Measure of Poetry
Articles
David J. Alworth: Robert Fitterman’s "Metropolis XXX" and the Politics of Appropriation
Edmund Hardy: Grass Anti-Epic: Charles Reznikoff’s «Testimony»
James Keery: The Zone of Thermal Death (on Andrew Duncan’s «The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry» Salt, 2003)
Marjorie Perloff: The Palm at the End of the Mind: Thomas Hines’s Wilshire, Ed Ruscha’s Sunset, Robbert Flick’s Pico
Eliot Weinberger: Niedecker/ Reznikoff
Reviews
Nicholas Birns: «Look Slimmer Instantly» by Jerome Sala
Nicholas Birns «A Question of Gravity» by Elizabeth Smither
Ryan Daley reviews «Also, With my Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords,» by Araki Yasusada et al.
Jennifer K Dick: «Anabranch» by Andrew Zawacki
Patrick F. Durgin: «Dancing on Main Street» by Lorenzo Thomas
T. Hibbard: «Haze» by Mark Wallace
T. Hibbard: The Endless Crossing: Michael Rothenberg and the ejournal «Big Bridge»
Fred Johnston: «Because Why: Poems» by Sarah Fox
Tim Kahl: «My Devotion» by Clayton Eshleman
Daniel Kane: «Meteoric Flowers» by Elizabeth Willis
Jon Leon: «Vaudeville» by Allyssa Wolf
Greg McLaren: «James Stinks (and so does Chuck)» by Nick Riemer
John Most: «The Burial of the Count of Orgaz and Other Poems» by Pablo Picasso
Aram Saroyan: «Where X Marks the Spot» poems by Bill Zavatsky.
Dale Smith: "The Sweet Singer of Modernism & Other Art Writings 1985-2003" by Bill Berkson
Feature: Flarf
Gary Sullivan: Introduction
Anne Boyer: Three Poems: A Vindication of the Rights of Women / Mom’s Undiminished Lamb Jacket / Everything Nice Has a Crafted Satin Finish
Chickee Chickston: Three Poems: My Mary Oliver / Truckin’ Poem / My Kangaroo
Jordan Davis: Three poems: On an 87 Ford Taurus Left Taillight / Poems About Me / Pablo Escobar Shopping T-Shirt
Katie Degentesh: Three poems: I Loved My Father / No One Cares Much What Happens to You / I Sometimes Tease Animals
Benjamin Friedlander: Three Poems: Galang / Why Do Jews Reject Jesus as Their Savior? / When a Cop Sees a Black Woman
Drew Gardner: Three poems: I Am «So» Stupid / Norman Mailer / Dividing My Time
Nada Gordon: Three poems: Abnormal Discharge / Lick My Face / ‘A Gumby episode’
Rodney Koeneke: Three poems: The Adorno Corollary / Europe. Memory. Squid Parts. Grace. / Otto of Rose and Lavender
Michael Magee: Two excerpts: from My Angie Dickinson / Fascist Fairytales #6
Sharon Mesmer: Two poems: Juan Valdez Has a Little Juan Valdez (i.e., Energy Cannon) in His Pants / Squid Versus Assclown / At Princess Olga’s
K. Silem Mohammad: Three Poems: ‘The swans come hither in great numbers’ / Goldmine / Anti-Ass
Tim Peterson: Three Poems: Unmade Arts / From the Gecko / Biggest Dichter
Rod Smith: Three poems: What’s happening to My Bottom (part 3) / What is Happening to My Bottom? (s’appelle Charles the Bald) / The Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being
Christina Strong: Two Poems: Don’t prufrock me! / You need a valium (or «bored with blogs»)
Gary Sullivan: Two plays: Gray Matter / PPL in a Depot
Tarzan: Tarzan Workshop
Poems
Ian Davidson: The Body Con
Thomas Devaney: Deliberate — «After Lorenzo Thomas»
Liam Ferney: Two poems: A Stolen Letter / Blonde on Blonde
Daniel Kane: Ostentation of Peacock (I counted eighty-five tail feathers)
John Kinsella: Graphology 590: Peak
John Latta: Two poems: Kid / Qualms
Gregory O’Brien: Solidarity with the anchovy
Simon Perril: daylight robbery
George Wallace: Purple Eggplants in the Rain, for Stanley Kunitz
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died on May 17.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
Donald Phelps: Extra Space
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
Marcin Baran: Hot embitterments
Julia Fiedorczuk: November on the Narew
Darek Foks: Farewell, Haiku
Mariusz Grzebalski: Slaughterhouse / Then
Krzysztof Jaworski: I used to be a slender guy
Bartłomiej Majzel: Scrumping
Maciej Melecki: Summer, getting away from yourself
Andrzej Niewiadomski: Retineo
Edward Pasewicz: Bird bones
Tadeusz Pióro: Bug hour
Marta Podgórnik: Final destination
Krzysztof Siwczyk: Metaphors and comparisons
Krzysztof Śliwka: Sestina
Dariusz Sośnicki: Washroom / Leaves / How to walk downstairs
Andrzej Sosnowski: A song for Europe / For children
Marcin Świetlicki: Battlefield / So long ago, so distinctly / McDonald’s
Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki: XII Moon rises over the Vistula / Dernier cri / LII (‘We drink…’) / LXXX Heat / XC (‘We’d just wept… ’)
Adam Wiedemann: Aesthetics of the word
Grzegorz Wróblewski: Tangerines / Argument from Enghave Station / I put off the knife from my hand till tomorrow
Supplement, 2006:
Maciej Melecki: Cases and Variants / Three Colours
Tadeusz Pióro: Some Methods of Crowd Control
Andrzej Sosnowski: Closer / On the Hoof / Founding a Colony
Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkalo: Event
Grzegorz Wróblewski: Eight Poems
Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry / Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401 / The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning / Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
Erik Anderson: Join the Planets, by Reed Bye
Jasper Bernes: The Hounds of No by Lara Glenum and A Defense of Poetry by Gabriel Gudding
Michael Cross: Rumored Place by Rob Halpern
Elaine Equi Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems, by Tom Clark
Michael Farrell reviews "Hyper Taiwan: Art Design Culture", by Kurt Brereton
Thomas Fink: 60 lv bo(e)mbs, by Paolo Javier
John Hall: Whisper ‘Louise’, A double historical memoir and meditation, by Douglas Oliver
David Koehn reviews: Profane Halo by Gillian Conoley
Michael Leddy: More Winnowed Fragments by Simon Pettet
David McCooey: Compared to What: Selected Poems 1971-2003 and The Ash Range by Laurie Duggan
Jill Magi reviews Fantasies in Permeable Structures by Laura Elrick
Nicole Mauro: The Kindly Ones, by Susan Hampton
Marianne Morris: Embrace, by Andrea Brady
Chris Murray: Small Works by Pam Rehm
John Olson: What He Ought To Know, New and Selected Poems by Edward Foster
Gerald Schwartz: Drunken Sailor by John Montague
Erik Sweet: American Music by Chris Martin
Erik Sweet: Father of Noise by Anthony McCann
Eileen Tabios: The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems by Jesse Glass
Nathaniel Tarn: Red Sky Café by Geoffrey O’Brien
Ed Taylor: The Beautifully Worthless, by Ali Liebegott
Andrés Ajens: Translucinating Forrest Johnson [to American-Spanish]
Dustin Collis: Two poems: Title Poem / Light Plucked
Alfred Corn: Rip at the Half Moon
Wystan Curnow: Three poems from Modern Colours
Denise Duhamel and Stephen Paul Miller: from ‘Hurricanes’: 2. B-Boy / 4. Desperate Young Americans / 6. If RFK had become President
Luciano Erba: Twelve poems from Remi in barca [Shipping the Oars] translated by Peter Robinson
Jon Fosse: The train in one's heart: English version by May-Brit Akerholt
Bill Freind: Four poems: Serenade for Intercom and Tardy Chorister /
Dispensationalist Foxtrot / Deportation Celebrant / Chillun of the Hods
John Hall: An essay on lyric ethics
Anthony Hawley: Six poems: ‘Awhile’ — Field Guide for Voices / Five poems from P(r)etty Sonnets
Brian Henry: Three poems: Poem for the Man / Dead Aesthetic / Jesus/Stick
Kent Johnson: Prosodic Structure (A bit after Barbara Guest)
Kent Johnson: Julian in Nicomedeia — after Cavafy
Andrew Johnston: Mauve
Peter Larkin: Urban Woods (Section 1 of Open Woods)
Norman MacAfee: The Coming of Fascism to America
Nicholas Messenger: The Pleasures of Reading
John Muckle: Speed Dating
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
Maged Zaher: my software mission
Robert Bertholf’s Robert Duncan — Kenneth Cox — Bowering — and more
Robert J. Bertholf: Introduction
Robert Bertholf: Robert Duncan: A Biographical Sketch
Robert Duncan, Ten Poems, 1940 to 1980
Robert Duncan, Ten Letters, 1939 to 1960
Robert Duncan, Ten Prose Pieces, 1945 to 1978
Robert J. Bertholf: Robert Duncan’s ‘The Venice Poem’ and Symphonic Form
Robert J. Bertholf: The Robert Duncan / Denise Levertov Correspondence: Duncan’s View
Robert J. Bertholf: From Robert Duncan’s Notebooks: On Denise Levertov
“Here at the last minute”: Letters from Robert Duncan to Chris Edwards, 1977–1980 (excerpts)
Robert J. Bertholf: Preliminary Checklist of Robert Duncan’s Reference Library
Robert Bertholf: The Poetry Collection at the State University of New York at Buffalo: A Sketch
Information about the Robert Duncan Conference at Buffalo in April 2006
Edited by Jenny Penberthy
Introduction: Jenny Penberthy: Kenneth Cox 1916–2005
August Kleinzahler: Kenneth Cox
Kenneth Cox: Donald Davie’s History ( a review of Donald Davie, Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain 1960–1988. Manchester: Carcanet, 1989.)
Kenneth Cox: Basil Bunting reading Wordsworth
Kenneth Cox: Laforgue
Kenneth Cox: Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry
Sorley Maclean: Raasay Woods (“Englished by Kenneth Cox”)
Kenneth Cox on Translating
Eliot Weinberger: Kenneth Cox
Michael O’Brien: About Kenneth Cox
Michael Hamburger: Ave Atque Vale
Roger Guedalla
Edited by rob mclennan
rob mclennan: Introduction: George Bowering at 70
George Bowering: Three poems: His Friend Waiting / Q&A / The Figure of outward
George Bowering in conversation with Eric Eggertson, 1979
Jonathan Ball: “Is winter my country”: Bowering’s Kanada
rob mclennan: Changing on the Fly, The Best Lyric Poems of George Bowering
rob mclennan: from variations: plunder verse (book 3 of the other side of the mouth): six variations on George Bowering’s “Do Sink”
Tim Conley: Reading Bowering Fearfully
Rob Budde: Curiouser: George Bowering
Aaron Belz: Five poems: There is Bowering / Bowering / George on a Bike / Mountains are Somebody’s Back Yard / Baseball
Kent Johnson: I Remember Once, Years Ago
Lionel Kearns: Calling
David W. McFadden: Two poems: Chinese / Saskatoon
rob mclennan: George Bowering Bibliography (selected)
‘The Wedding Dress: Meditations On Word and Life’: Fanny Howe in conversation with Leonard Schwartz
‘Making Things Difficult’: Douglas Messerli in conversation with Charles Bernstein
‘Bumper-car effect’: Rodrigo Toscano in conversation with Leonard Schwartz
Joel Bettridge: Surfaces by John Tipton
Ken Bolton: The Roads by David Kennedy
Daniel Borzutzky: Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz, translated by Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander
Kerry Brown: A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Works of Richard Yates, by Blake Bailey
Colin Browne: ‘Shadowtime’, Composer: Brian Ferneyhough; Librettist: Charles Bernstein; North American premiere: Lincoln Center Festival 2005, July 21 and 22, 2005; Shadowtime, by Charles Bernstein: Green Integer Books
Sophie Calle and Grégoire Bouillier: Questionnaire, translated by Bill Berkson, answered by Harry Mathews, then by Andrei Codrescu
Cyrus Console: The Lichtenberg Figures, by Ben Lerner
Stuart Cooke: Music — Prose and Poems by Martin Harrison
Jon Curley: Uncertain Poetries — Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics, by Michael Heller
Jim Feast: Poems From the Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh, translated by Steve Bradbury
Adam Fieled: Wordsworth @ McDonald’s
Thomas Fink: Incessant Seeds, by Sheila E. Murphy
Lyman Gilmore: William Bronk and Cid Corman
Noah Eli Gordon: Folding Ruler Star, by Aaron Kunin
Noah Eli Gordon reviews 23 recent American chapbooks
Timothy Gray: ‘Fictions Dressed Like Water’: Aqueous Imagery in the Poetry of Barbara Guest (15,000 words)
T.Hibbard: Avenue Noir by Vernon Frazer
Brenda Hillman: Nathaniel Tarn’s Selected Poems 1950–2000
Piers Hugill: Shut Up Shut Down, by Mark Nowak with an afterword by Amiri Baraka
Paul Foster Johnson: Fourier Series, by Joshua Corey
Paul Kahn: three books by James Koller: Snows Gone By — New & Uncollected Poems — 1964-2002 / Looking For His Horses / Crows Talk To Him
Ben Lerner: Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S Merwin
James Maynard: Precipitations — Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice, by Devin Johnston
Kim Minkus: American Standard/Canada Dry, by Stephen Cain
Jim O’Donoghue: Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan, and Dylan’s Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks
Richard Owens: Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz — Eleven Submissions to the War, by Kent Johnson
Liz Parsons: ode ode by Michael Farrell
Lance Phillips: Growing Still by Deborah Meadows
Chris Pusateri: To Tell the Lamp, by Lisa Lubasch
Larry Sawyer: The Vermont Notebook by John Ashbery and Joe Brainard
Laura Sims: Emptied of All Ships by Stacy Szymaszek
Madeline Tiger: Somehow (Poems) by Burt Kimmelman
Jim Wanless: The Compete Love Elegies of Sextus Propertius, translated by Vincent Katz
John Welch: Being There: the literary life in London
Laura Wright: The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History, by Kass Fleisher
Louis Armand: Croatoan
Aaron Belz: Three poems: Tim Burton Explodes / In Bed with Meryl Streep / Gary Cooper in the Intellectual Graveyard
Stephen Bett: For the Nine Guys
Bill Berkson: Exhibit A
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 66: Scroll
Tom Clark: All: for Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
Joshua Clover: Three poems: Triple Sonnet / Early Style / Whiteread Walk
Clayton Eshleman: Two poems: An Arsenal In Seattle / Monumental
Landis Everson: Woof
Annie Finch: Excerpt from The Encyclopedia of Scotland, Section 4: ‘Feeding the Admiral’s Pussycat’
Vincent Katz: Three poems: Psalm / The Regattas at Sainte-Adresse / Hell
Philip Hammial: Three poems: Grammar / France / Kamikaze
Lawrence Joseph: The Bronze-Green Gold-Green Foreground / On That Side / The Pattern-Parallel Map Or Graph
David Lehman: To You
Joel Lewis: Eight Poems From "Anhedonia"
Steve McOrmond: Happy Hour
Ange Mlinko: Two Poems: Femme Fatale Geography / Everything’s Carousing
Chus Pato: CHARENTON (excerpt), translated from the Galician by Erín Moure
Erín Moure: Extract from ‘The Fall’
Stephen Ratcliffe: Poems from HUMAN / NATURE
Peter Robinson: from Other Trespasses
Linda Russo: ‘I was a doctor...’ / perfecto fiesta / gender mark-down / It’s a boy and It’s a girl / “Photoillustration of Martha’s last laugh” and “post-attack” / ‘Here is love and peace’ / ‘My biggest problem’ / ‘don’t do or say that to that’
Lisa Samuels: Two poems: I’m not waiting for anything / Riddle of the covering cherub
Anamaría Crowe Serrano: Pitter patter
Peter Jay Shippy: Tristan & Isolde
Spencer Selby: Three poems: Patex Ont / Please Wireless / Original Veneer
Pete Spence: Heading...For a fall
Erik Sweet: Two poems: 8 Tender Buttons / Double a World
Rodrigo Toscano: Truax Inimical
César Vallejo: Two poems, translated by Clayton Eshleman: The Book Of Nature / Let the Millionaire Walk Naked
John Wilkinson: Crown of Nettles
Lewis Warsh: Reversible Destiny
Pam Brown Author page
Edited by Alan Gilbert and Daron Mueller
Anne Waldman, Berlin 2002, photo: John Tranter
Introduction: by Alan Gilbert and Daron Mueller
Maria Damon: Making the World Safe for Poetry (or, How Is Anne Waldman Different from Woodrow Wilson?)
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Anne Waldman: Standing Corporeally in One’s Time
Alan Gilbert: Anne Waldman Changing the Frequency
Lorenzo Thomas: Anne Waldman: Finding Poetry’s Public Voice
Anselm Hollo: Anne’s School
Akilah Oliver: Hold the Space: The Poetics of Anne Waldman
Laura Bardwell: Anne Waldman’s Buddhist “Both Both”
Kristin Prevallet: Navigating the New Chaos: Anne Waldman’s Collaborations with Visual Artists
Jena Osman: Tracking a Poem in Time: The Shifting States of Anne Waldman’s ‘Makeup on Empty Space’
Andrei Codrescu: Who’s Afraid of Anne Waldman?
Joanne Kyger: Anne Waldman: The Early Years... 1965—1970
Eleni Sikelianos: The Lefevre-Sikelianos-Waldman Tree and the Imaginative Utopian Attempt
Jennifer Maiden in conversation with Catherine Kenneally, December 2004
Jennifer Maiden: Three poems: Tactics / The Problem of Evil (Part four) / Madeleine Albright Wears Two Lapel Pins
Martin Duwell: Two essays on Jennifer Maiden
Rae Armantrout: Cosmology and Me
George Bowering: Diamond in the Rain (on Vancouver)
Michael Brennan: In absentia: Mourning and Friendship
Michael Brennan: Last words: Tranter and Rimbaud’s silence.
Kate Fagan and Peter Minter: Murdering Alphabets, Disorienting Romance: John Tranter and Postmodern Australian Poetics
Brian Henry: Bloom’s Kinsella: The Politics of Selection in Peripheral Light
Paul Hoover: The System: A Logic
Pierre Joris: A short good-bye for Jacques Derrida
Brian Reed: Locating Zaum: Mnatsakanova on Khlebnikov
Susan M. Schultz: Most Beautiful Words: Linh Dinh’s Poetics of Disgust
Ron Silliman: “As to Violin Music”: Time in the Longpoem
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge: in conversation with Laura Hinton (three conversations, 2003)
Ken Bolton: in conversation with Peter Minter, 2004 and 2005
Jeanne Heuving: in conversation with Dodie Bellamy, 2004
Steve Evans: Rousseau’s Boat by Lisa Robertson
Michael Farrell: Pierre Joris, The Rothenberg Variations
Marcelle Freiman: Goddess of Mercy by S. K. Kelen
Anna Gibbs: Jeanne Heuving’s Incapacity
Paul Kane: The Imageless World, by Michael Brennan
Greg McLaren: Impermanence.com, by Adam Aitken
Peter Minter: Struggle and radiance: ten commentaries by Jill Jones
Angela Rockel: Mangroves, by Laurie Duggan
Angela Rockel: smoke encrypted whispers, by Samuel Wagan Watson
Adam Aitken: Force Zero / To my Double
Rae Armantrout: Clear / Close
Anselm Berrigan: To protect my piracy / To the earth
Edmund Berrigan: Throwaway
Ken Bolton: (Pinkham) / Good Friday at the EAF / Hindley Street Today, with a view of Michael Grimm / Poem (“the ice in my glass”) / Some Thinking
Michael Brennan: Who is Alibi Wednesday? / The disaster of grace
Maxine Chernoff: [the world owes more than the world can pay] / [that time gives it its form]
Gillian Conoley: Advent
Laurie Duggan: from Blue Hills
Kate Fagan: from ‘Book of Hours for Narrative Lovers’
Michael Farrell: Prayer positions / DUDE DONT go
Jane Gibian: Suspended / nhó : (verb) to miss; to remember
Keri Glastonbury: Triggering Town: a sequence of prose pieces
Carla Harryman: from ‘Open Box’
Brian Henry: Clam of Reason / Route 25, Plymouth-Wentworth, NH / Sidewalk Cachet
Two poems by Friedrich Hölderlin, translated by Maxine Chernoff and Paul Hoover: The Ister / The Titans
Paul Hoover: Edge and Fold
Jill Jones: To Sleep Inside Rain / Broken hour / All that surrounds you
Pierre Joris: Eight poems
Claudia Keelan: Camera Lucida / Gateway to the West / Tide Table / Via Americana
S.K.Kelen: Ba Vi / Empery / Extreme Orient / The Information Superhighway / One Year Sentence
John Kinsella: Graphology — Six poems
Noelle Kocot: Death in Ohio / Positive Monsters / Resurgence of the Purple
Michele Leggott: Journey to Portugal
Cassie Lewis: Higher Maths / Strand / Green Apple
Kate Lilley: Cento [Around Vienna] / Miltonic / My Bad
Geraldine McKenzie: Using a line from another poem / Village life / blurt
Peter Minter: Political Economy & Raphael’s ‘Madonna of the Pinks’
Jennifer Moxley: Experience / The Line / Mystical Union / Categories
Eileen Myles: That Country
Ted Nielsen: hibiya lines / own
Alice Notley: In the Circuit / My Lady Shadow / The Main Offense
Ron Padgett: Mir / Coffee Corner / Fantasy Block / Bastille Day / Night Jump / I Remember Lost Things / The Way You Wear Your Hat / This for That / Bargain Hunt /
Lisa Robertson: Wooden Houses
Gig Ryan: Cracked avenues / Kangaroo and Emu
Susan M. Schultz: At the Tanning Salon / Former Child Star / Local Politician /
The Conspiracy Theorist
Amanda Stewart: Trading Centres
John Tranter: By Blue Ontario’s Shore
Karen Weiser: 2.4.04 / 2.5.04 / 2.1.04 / 2.3.04
Susan Wheeler: The Dream of Someone Spitting in Her Mouth
John Tranter and Pam Brown, Berlin, 2001. Photo taken by Jane Zemiro.
Jack Beeching * Robert Duncan * Landis Everson * Tom Raworth * Norwegian Audio * Etc
Robert Adamson: Robert Creeley, 1926–2005 with Poem: ‘Letter to Robert Creeley’ (2001)
Jack Beeching: Five poems
Bill Luckin and Barry Wood: Poet as Expatriate: Jack Beeching, 1922–2001
David Kennedy: Alum Raptures — in memoriam Jack Beeching 1922–2001
Robert Duncan, 1985, photo by John Tranter
Lisa Jarnot’s biography: The Young Robert Duncan — a 20-page excerpt
Robert Duncan in conversation with John Tranter, San Francisco, 1985
Robert Duncan: A metaphysical quotient —
Michael Davidson in conversation with John Tranter, recorded in 1989, with a postscript, 2005
Robert Adamson: Eurydice Reads ‘Roots and Branches’
Stephen Collis: A Duncan Etude: Dante and Responsibility
Dale Smith: Here I Go — 1999–2002
Peter Gizzi: Often I am Allowed These Messages
Gabriel Gudding: Poem About My Strabismus, for Robert Duncan
Jeff Hamilton: Wrath Moves In the Music: Robert Duncan, Laura Riding, Craft and Force in Cold War Poetics (30 pages)
John Latta: Two poems: To Robert Duncan, A Notebook of First Permission
Maureen N. McLane: years/ catches for robert duncan
Landis Everson: Six poems from 1960
Landis Everson: Five New Poems
Landis Everson, interviewed by Kevin Killian in 2004 °
Kevin Killian: Fulcrum number three,
with commentary on Landis Everson °
Thirteen photographs of Landis Everson
Introduction
Robert Adamson: Letter to Tom Raworth
Robert Adamson: Wow, Those Symbolists
Bruce Andrews: Dang Me
Charles Bernstein: This Poem Intentionally Left Blank
Nicole Brossard: Prose poem
Clint Burnham: Three sonnets
Richard Caddel: Little Winter Suite: For Tom Raworth
Graca Capinha - a comet (after Tom Raworth)
Andrew Carrigan: Firmament
Miles Champion: poem (‘stuffed chair...’)
Cris Cheek: poem
Claudio Cometta: A Tom, albero raro
William Corbett: On West Broadway
Michael Davidson: Vacant Weather
Ken Edwards: from Glory Boxes
William R. Fuller: A Sailor’s Life
Anselm Hollo: from Guests Of Space
Árni Ibsen: In a Different Language Zone
Trevor Joyce: Dark Senses Parallel Streets
Robert Kelly: For Raworth, A translation from Middle High Cat
Esther Roth: A Simple Melody for Tom (graphic)
Keith Tuma: '‘till mute attention Struck my listning Ear’
Frank O’Hara: ‘Den dagen Lady døde’ — vocals and Norwegian translation of ‘The Day Lady Died’ by Jan Erik Vold: text, MP3 and RealAudio tracks of the 1986 reading by Jan Erik Vold of ‘Den dagen Lady døde’, with Red Mitchell’s jazz accompaniment
Caroline Bergvall: Fiona Templeton’s Cells of Release °
For six weeks, in 1995, the poet and performer Fiona Templeton locked herself up in the lugubrious corridors of the abandoned Eastern Penitentiary of Philadelphia to write. Why would she do this? Why would one do this? But this she did, “over six weeks”, writing by hand with an indelible marker, no return no edit, “I wrote without the possibility of erasure”, on one long string of paper, “where a spool of paper ran out, I sewed on the next one”, guiding it through one prison cell per day, and for as long as it would take to work through the thirty-eight cells that make up this one corridor of the dreadful panopticon.
Ken Bolton: The Poetry of John Forbes: An Introduction °
Robert Bond: No Traveller Returns, by Vahni Capildeo °
Mark DuCharme: Extremes and Balances by Jack Collom °
Jim Feast: The Holy Grail: Charles Bukowski [etc.] by A.D. Winans
°
“...Freud must select a schema from a foreign discipline, while Winans has to compose his (stealth) autobiography around not his own but another man’s life.”
John Hawke: In the Year of Our Lord Slaughter’s Children, by Philip Hammial °
David Kennedy — British Poetry Never Was; or, Some Observations of Andrew Duncan’s ‘The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry’ °
Kevin Killian: Fulcrum number three, with commentary on Landis Everson °
No: Ben Lerner in conversation with Kent Johnson
Deborah Meadows: The Poetics of Drifting Devotions: The poetry of Reina María Rodríguez
Meredith Quartermain: Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling by Kathleen Fraser
Tad Richards: Calendars, by Annie Finch
Francis Raven: Dancing in Odessa, by Ilya Kaminsky
Peter Riley: W.S. Graham, New Collected Poems, edited by Matthew Francis:
“...It had by 1940 become a clearly identified position in poetry, increasingly seen as an extremist one, as the far left in a dichotomising politics of poetry which ran through the later 1940s, and it was so incessantly and viciously attacked in poetical journalism that by the 1950s it seemed to cave in under the pressure. But in the first years of the 1940s it was a flourishing concern and Graham leaped wholeheartedly into it with no holds barred... ”
Shivaji Sengupta: After Taxes by Thomas Fink
Laura Sims: the false sun recordings by James Wagner
Eileen Tabios: four poetry books by Basil King
Michael Thornhill: Conversations: Walter Murch and the Art of Editing Film by Michael Ondaatje.
— ‘What are you up to these days?’
— ‘I’m doing Orson Welles’s cut of Touch of Evil.’
— ‘You’re not doing anything, I hope, to the beginning of the film.’
— ‘That’s the first thing I’m changing.’
Tony Towle: The Escape, by Jo Ann Wasserman
Francisco Aragón: Three poems
Louis Armand: Port Lights Shadows & Particles
Iain Britton: Two poems: — Scenes of Stanley Spencer cooking; — Night-time activity
Liam Ferney: jurisprudence
Alec Finlay (and others): ‘The Hidden Gardens’ — Hyakuin renga
John Hennessy: New Corinthian — Letter to Paul
Kent Johnson: ‘Even though he’s known as a Language poet, I want to write like Norman Fischer’
Aaron McCollough: Two prose poems
Stephen Ratcliffe: poems from CLOUD / RIDGE
Michael Palmer: Dream of a Language that Speaks
Photo Credits:
— Robert Duncan, May 1985, by John Tranter
— Landis Everson, Coronado, California, February 1950:
photograph by his father
— Philadelphia prison cell by Bill Jacobson
From Jacket 26, a degree sign ° indicates that a book review or interview has been entered into the relevant Jacket database
— Robert Glück - Donald Allen (1912-2004)
— Kevin Killian: Donald Allen (1912–2004)
— Marjorie Perloff: In Memoriam: Donald Allen (1912–2004)
— Aaron Shurin: Donald Allen (1912–2004)
Carl Rakosi
— Carl Rakosi in conversation with Tom Devaney, with Olivier Brossard
— Carl Rakosi: audio recordings at U Penn (a note from Al Filreis, University of Pennsylvania)
— Jane Augustine: For Carl Rakosi’s 100th Birthday Celebration
— Robert Creeley: For Carl, Again & Again
— Laurie Duggan: An invitation (poem)
— Michael Heller: For Carl
— Kent Johnson: Prosody and the Outside: Some Notes on Rakosi and Stevens
Photo of Carl Rakosi, San Francisco, March 1989, by John Tranter
Barbara Guest, 1992
— Barbara Guest and Kathleen Fraser
— in conversation with Elisabeth Frost and Cynthia Hogue
— Sara Lundquist: ‘Two voices, one joking’': the Metapoetic Comedy of Barbara Guest’s Poetry
— Barbara Guest reads from The Red Gaze
— Thirty MP3 audio recordings from PennSound
— David Howard: Resurrection (for Kathleen Fraser)
— Nicole Mauro: Ode to Barbara Guest — ‘Full Noon’
— Patrick Pritchett: White Blink — On Kathleen Fraser’s ‘Wing’
Off-site: Paul Kane has a review of Miniatures and Other Poems. Barbara Guest. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002; and By Reason of Breakings. Andrew Zawacki. Athens,
GA: The University of Georgia Press, 2002. In the Notre Dame Review, as an Adobe Acrobat PDF file, at this URL:
http://www.nd.edu/~ndr/issues/ndr18/contents18.html
— Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson:
Jaime Saenz — An Introduction to The Night
...notes from Bolivia, June 20-30, 2004
— Gael Turnbull - ‘At Least Once...’
— Laurie Duggan on Gael Turnbull: Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets
— John Lucas: ‘Tea and Sympathy’ — i.m. Gael Turnbull
— Robert Creeley in Conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 24 November, 2003
— Unprotected Text: Tom Beckett in Conversation with Richard Lopez
— Peter Robinson in conversation with Steve Clark
— Peter Robinson — Six Poems:
— ‘Furniture Music, Musical Chairs’; — ‘A Quiet Day’; — ‘Hearing Difficulties’;
— ‘Raubkunst’; — ‘In a Fog’; — ‘Leaving the Country’
— Robert Creeley: Simon Pettet’s Calling
— Simon Pettet in conversation [ to come ]
— Simon Pettet — six poems and a photo:
— ‘The sheer mass of available information..’;
— ‘There is a cruel messianic...’; — ‘Sleep fitful wake grumpy...’;
— ‘Peter Stupid...’; — ‘If we had our copper vessel’; — ‘The Sentence’.
— Dale Smith: Words Inside Out: a Note on the Poetry of Simon Pettet
— Leo Edelstein: Memoir 1960–63 and Nine Immaterial Nocturnes, by Tony Towle
— Tony Towle in conversation with Leo Edelstein
— Tony Towle — Five poems:
— Digression, 5/10/03; — Bagatelle;
— Anthropomorphic Etiquette; — Hypotheses; — Ethnicity
Robin Hyde, 1932
— Susan Ash: Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde, edited by Michele Leggott
— Michele Leggott: Introduction (excerpt) to Young Knowledge: The Poems of Robin Hyde
Photo: Robin Hyde, 1932
— Wilson Baldridge: Juniper Fuse: Upper Paleolithic Imagination by Clayton Eshleman
— Dan Beachy-Quick: ‘Co-Temporary/ Contemporary’ — on Martin Corless-Smith
— Scott Bentley: On the Day the Blood Let Fall: The Mastery of Mystery in Fanny Howe’s [SIC] and Forged
— Sally Carthew on physicist and remarkably productive British poet Mario Petrucci, author of a prize-winning book of poems about the victims of Chernobyl
— Stephen Collis: The Midnight, by Susan Howe
— Laurie Duggan: Unhurried Vision, by Michael Rothenberg
— Elaine Equi: The Poetry of Ed Ruscha
— Logan Esdale: As In Every Deafness, by Graham Foust
— Lara Glenum: ‘I see’ ‘with my voice’: The Performance of Crisis in Alice Notley’s The Descent of Alette
— Thomas Fink: The Frequencies: a poem by Noah Eli Gordon
— Thomas Fink: Vanishing Points of Resemblance, by Tom Beckett
— Camille Guthrie: The Habitable World, by Beth Anderson
— Tom Hibbard: Marijuana Soft Drink, by Buck Downs
— Tom Hibbard reviews Collages of Guy R. Beining
— Tom Hibbard: The Same Old Things — The poetry of Larry Eigner
— Ilya Kaminsky: Fulcrum magazine, Number 2, 2003
— Suzanne Kiernan: Paolo Bartoloni, Interstitial Writing. Calvino, Caproni, Sereni and Svevo
— Philip Metres: Nets, by Jen Bervin
— Sheila E. Murphy: Introduction to the Introduction to Wang Wei by Pain Not Bread
— Patrick Pritchett: Exigent Futures: New and Selected Poems, by Michael Heller
— Chris Pusateri: Leave the Room to Itself, by Graham Foust
— Meredith Quartermain: Writing in the Dark, by Richard Caddel
— Meredith Quartermain: Around Sea, by Brenda Iijima
— Meredith Quartermain: Paravane: New and Selected Poems 1996–2003 by Frances Presley
— Meredith Quartermain: Word Group by Marjorie Welish
— Peter Riley: Some Values of Landscape and Weather, by Peter Gizzi
— Randy Roark: Unhurried Vision, by Michael Rothenberg
— Joe Safdie: Ed Dorn and the Politics of Love
— Barry Schwabsky: Winter Sex, Poems by Katy Lederer
— Peter Simpson: How To Occupy Ourselves, poems by David Howard and photographs by Fiona Pardington
María Sabina, detail
— Laura Sims: Bright Turquoise Umbrella by Hermine Meinhard
— Dale Smith: Shake Hands, by Carl Thayler
— Rob Stanton: Up to Speed, by Rae Armantrout
— Nathaniel Tarn: María Sabina: Selections, Edited by Jerome Rothenberg with texts and commentaries by Álvaro Estrada and Others (see photo, right)
— Nathaniel Tarn: Partly a monologue, partly also a dialogue with Stephen Watson about his The Other City: Selected Poems 1977–1999
— Tony Tost: The Miseries of Poetry: Traductions from the Greek, by Alexandra Papaditsas and Kent Johnson
— James Cummins: — The Poets March On Washington
— Clayton Eshleman: — Sheela-na-Gig
— Alec Finlay: Two poems: — Night For Day; — Day For Night
— Albert Flynn DeSilver: — The Bumper Sticker Wars
— Brian Henry: Two poems: — Dusty or Not, This Girdle; — Notes for a Missive
— John Latta: — To my Readers in the Year 2099; — Kingdom and Itch
— Ben Lerner: Three prose poems from "The Angle Of Yaw"
— Ethan Paquin: Two poems: — Scathologue; — Why do I Wait for the Thunder Nightly
Kevin Nolan:
Capital Calves: Undertaking an Overview
Steve Clark:
Prynne and The Movement
Andrew Duncan:
Response to Steve Clark’s ‘Prynne and the Movement’
James Keery: ‘Schönheit Apocalyptica’:
An Approach to The White Stones by J.H. Prynne
Simon Jarvis: Clear as mud:
J.H. Prynne’s Of Sanguine Fire
Neil Reeve: Twilight Zones:
J.H. Prynne’s The Land of Saint Martin
Simon Perril: Hanging on Your Every Word:
J.H. Prynne's Bands Around The Throat
Simon Jarvis:
The Incommunicable Silhouette
Olivier Brossard: The film The Last Clean Shirt by Alfred Leslie and Frank O’Hara.
Still, below: from The Last Clean Shirt
When We With Rexroth: A Jacket Tribute, edited by Kevin Gallagher
Kenneth Rexroth, 1957
Kevin Gallagher: Introduction: Natural Numbers
Audio: Poetry and Jazz at the Blackhawk
Sam Hamill: The Poetry of Kenneth Rexroth
Lise Haines: Dower House
Homero Aridjis: Los Espacios Azules de la Iluminacion
Anastasios Kozaitis: Rexroth Today
Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin: Unpublished Interview with Kenneth Rexroth: April, 1958:
Rexroth: ...today the social fabric is falling apart
so fast, it makes your head swim.
Jerome Rothenberg: Variations & Visions, from a poem by Rexroth
Eliot Weinberger: At the Death of Kenneth Rexroth
Eliot Weinberger: Rexroth From the Chinese
Steve Bradbury: Reading Rexroth Rewriting Tu Fu in the ‘Permanent War’
Mark Lamoureux: On Kenneth Rexroth’s 100 Poems from the Chinese
Samuel B. Garren, The Influence of Kenneth Rexroth’s Bird in the Bush and Assays on North American Poetry in the 1960s
Beatrice Farwell Duncan: The Paintings of Kenneth Rexroth
Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno: Rexroth Memories
Link to Ken Knabb’s Kenneth Rexroth Archive, a rich trove of connections and resources (Note: This link is off-site): http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/
Thomas Fink: David Shapiro’s ‘Possibilist’ Poetry
David Shapiro (in conversation with John Tranter, 1984)
David Shapiro: Six poems (from A Burning Interior, 2000)
The Weak Poet
Light Bulb
After Three Chinese Poems
A Poet Named Open
Henry Hudson Looks at the Hudson
After Poetry
Carl Whithaus: Immediate Memories — (Nostalgic) Time and (Immediate) Loss in the Poetry of David Shapiro
Nathan Hauke: Meditations on David Shapiro: Memory and Lateness
Kent Johnson: Poem Upon a Typo Found in an Interview of Kenneth Koch, Conducted by David Shapiro
Film and Literature: Michael Wood (in conversation with Noel King)
Leslie Scalapino (in conversation with Sarah Rosenthal)
Nada Gordon (in conversation with Tom Beckett)
Lytle Shaw (in conversation with Gary Sullivan)
Douglas Barbour: Fq, Alan Brunton’s final book
Douglas Barbour: Inside Out: an autobiography, and Mulberry Leaves: New & Selected Poems 1970-2001, by Robert Adamson
Thomas Fink: Ugh Ugh Ocean, by Joanna Fuhrman
Skip Fox: Edward Dorn: A World of Difference, by Tom Clark
Brian Henry: Dear Deliria: New and Selected Poems, by Pam Brown
Tom Hibbard: Affordable Poetry, a brief chapbook of poems by Larry Sawyer
Subhash Jaireth: Poetry, Resistance and City-Space: Reclaiming the City through Poetry (poetry in Moscow under the Soviets)
Hank Lazer: Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès by Rosmarie Waldrop
Geraldine McKenzie: Calques, by Javant Biarujia
Ben Mazer: Monkey Time, by Philip Nikolayev
John Olson: Everwhat, poems by Clayton Eshleman
Marjorie Perloff: The Oulipo Factor — The Procedural Poetics of Christian Bök and Caroline Bergvall
Patrick Pritchett: Apprehend, by Elizabeth Robinson
Patrick Pritchett: The Monster Lives of Boys and Girls, by Eleni Sikelianos
Gilbert Wesley Purdy: Ca Dao Viet Nam transl. by John Balaban
Gilbert Wesley Purdy: Between Zero and a Hard Place
(on Roland Barthes’ Writing Degree Zero)
Larry Sawyer: AsEverWas: memoirs of a beat survivor, by Hammond Guthrie
Michael Scharf: Cable Factory 20 and The Lobe by Lytle Shaw
Gerald Schwartz: Engravings Torn From Insomnia by Olga Orozco
Eileen Tabios: Serious Pink by Sharon Dolin
Mark Wallace: Writer and Self in the Work of Nick Piombino
Christopher Barnes: — After Rabi Paneloux’s Reading of the Torah;
— Rue du Coq D’or, Paris
Bruce Covey: — Nurse’s Song; — 10 Pins, 10 Frames
Katia Kapovich: — A Komsomol Act; — They Called Them ‘Blue’; — Christmas
Denis Gallagher: — the habit of irony
Joel Lewis: — Snowstorm looming; — Poem; — Entering Whitehall Terminal
Chris Martin: — G; — Q
Geraldine McKenzie: — Currency
Mark Pallas: — Scopolamine
Eleni Sikelianos: — from The California Poem
Evan Willner: — Fluity
Caroline Bergvall
Pam Brown
Clark Coolidge
Bruce Andrews, The Ear Inn, New York; photo John Tranter
Edited by Nick Lawrence
Bruce Andrews: Strike Me, Lightning
Joel Bettridge - Bruce Andrews’s Language of Belief
Gregg Biglieri: Invitation to a Misreading:
Andrews’ Lip Service
Sherry Brennan: On Lip Service to Paradise
Louis Cabri: Mere Essay at Bruce Andrews’ ‘Social’
Barbara Cole: Bruce Andrews’s Venus:
Paying Lip Service to Écriture Féminine
Bill Freind: Modernism, Advertising, and 'Lip Service'
Alan Golding: Visual Materiality in Bruce Andrews
Bob Perelman: This Just In: Past Haunts Lip Service
Roberto Tejada: Becoming Bruce Andrews: A User’s Guide to Starting Over Stars
OFF-SITE: a link to Brian Stefans’ magazine Arras, featuring Bruce Andrews’ Introduction to his POLI SCI: the political science writings
Meredith Quartermain: Lyric Capability: the Syntax of Robin Blaser (a review of Miriam Nichols, ed., Even on Sunday: Essays, Readings, and Archival Materials on the Poetry and Poetics of Robin Blaser)
Edited by Susan Gevirtz
Susan Gevirtz: Poetic Intermission: editor’s Note
Robert Grenier: For David Bromige (from As In T as in Tether)
David Bromige: Ten poems (from As In T as in Tether)
David Bromige: In Place of a Preface (from As In T as in Tether)
Kathleen Fraser: Perturbed dialogues in Bromige’s ‘Six of One, Half-a-Dozen of the Other’
Gary Sullivan: My David Bromige
Doug Powell interviews David Bromige
Barbara Weber: David Bromige, an Annotated Bibliography
Carla Hall and Heather Woods: David Bromige, an Annotated Bibliography
Edited by Peter Quartermain
Start here: the master file, with its own Contents List and all the contributions
Harry Gilonis, Obituary from The Independent
Tony Baker, Memoir from the Northern Review
David Annwn, poem: Celadon
Jane Augustine, prose memoir
Tony Baker, two poems: Poem without end, and Variants before a theme
David Banks, poem: OE Bread Recipe
William Corbett, poem: Ric Caddel
Kelvin Corcoran, prose memoir
Martin Corless-Smith, poem excerpt: from ‘For the Fallen’, in memoriam Ric Caddel
Cid Corman, poem
Robert Creeley, prose memoir, and poem: For Ric, who Loved this World
Leszek Engelking, Two poems from The Calligraphy Mistress, and Translated from the Polish
George Evans, prose memoir
Alec Finlay and others, poem: Writing in the dark ( a nijuin renga in Spring)
Allen Fisher, poem: Shimmy
Roy Fisher, prose memoir
Kathleen Fraser, prose memoir
Harry Gilonis, poem: [long after the old Welsh of the Canu Taliesin]
Bill Griffiths, prose memoir
Harry Guest, poem
Alan Halsey, poem
Robert Hampson, prose memoir
Michael Heller, poem: Visiting briggflats with ric
Árni Ibsen, poem: Prelude
Adriaan Jaeggi, poem: Appointment in Amsterdam
Pierre Joris, prose:
The Quiet Wit of Richard Caddel
Laurynas Katkus, prose memoir
John Kinsella, poem: In memoriam, Ric Caddel
Peter Makin, prose memoir
Anthony Mellors, poem: Get a grip
Petr Mikeš, poem: the Lord / of the bees
Billy Mills, poem: three for Ric
Frances Presley, poem: The elephant trees
Patrick Pritchett, poem: Six Malts and a Knell
Meredith Quartermain, poem: Tulip glass
Carl Rakosi, poem: In Memory of Richard Caddel
Tom Raworth, poem: The spaghetti tree
Peter Riley, prose memoir
John Seed, poem: From Ric Caddel’s back kitchen window
Gavin Selerie, poem: Forty-nine comes Clare
Aidan Semmens, two poems: Lamentation, and Upon the death of John Barleycorn
Robert Sheppard, poem: (haiku for piano
Peterjon Skelt, collage
Pete Smith, poem: What in the world we see
Jüri Talvet, poem: Building chairs is science
Harriet Tarlo, poem: title necessary?
Paul Taylor, prose memoir
Lawrence Upton, prose memoir
Scott Watson, poem: Ghost dance
Bibliographical Note
Peter Quartermain, Closing note
Ric’s Japanese Seal (illustration)
On a separate page:
Catherine Walsh, poem: Pomepleat 1
Linda Russo: Mostly Experimental: Recent Writings By and About Contemporary Women Poets and Writers; a review of
Caroline Bergvall: A Conversation with David Antin, with David Antin and Charles Bernstein
Caroline Bergvall: BODY & SIGN: Some thoughts around the work of Aaron Williamson, Hannah Weiner, and Henri Michaux
Stephen Burt: Without Evidence (remarks on reading contemporary poetry and on reading about it)
Peter Campion: Collected Studies in the Use of English by Kenneth Cox
Terence Diggory: Hyperscapes in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, by Hazel Smith
Tyler Doherty: Tea Shack Interior: New & Selected Poems by Andrew Schelling
Carrie Etter: Method by Mark Salerno
Geraldine McKenzie: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity — Essays by Kathleen Fraser
Deborah Meadows: Platform by Rodrigo Toscano
Philip Metres: Morning Constitutional by Michael Magee
Mark Neely: 'Steal Away: selected and new poems by C.D. Wright
John Newton: Kin of Place by C.K. Stead
Patrick Pritchett reviews Drafts 1–38, Toll, by Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Susan M. Schultz: Eleven 747 Poems by Pam Brown
Dale Smith: Evidence of the Paranormal, by Ron Padgett and others
Dale Smith: Under the Sun by Rachel Levitsky
Nathaniel Tarn: Robert Duncan and the Poetry of Illness by Peter O'Leary
J.P. Auxeméry: Odyssey 1 to 8, trans. Nathaniel Tarn
Joel Bettridge: As We Would Say
Iain Britton: Three poems
Pam Brown: — Moments; — Weeds; — Lightbulbs
Carrie Etter: Three poems
David Kennedy: On Reading John Kinsella’s Peripheral Light
Leevi Lehto: Four poems
John Muckle: Nathaniel Hawthorne
Tenney Nathanson: Home on the Range (excerpt)
Simon Perril: — à Grand Hotel de L’Univers
Nathaniel Tarn: from ‘Dying Trees’
Edwin Denby in Venice
Feature: Edwin Denby, 1903–1983
— edited by Karlien van den Beukel
Rudy Burckhardt: ‘And then I met Edwin...’: Rudy Burckhardt talks to Simon Pettet
Yvonne Jacquette Burckhardt: Edwin Denby
Jacob Burckhardt: Martens Bar (with photo of Martens Bar and MP3 audio file of Edwin Denby reading ‘Disorder, mental, strikes, me; I’)
‘The Cinema of Looking’: Rudy Burckhardt and Edwin Denby in conversation with Joe Giordano
Lynne Hjelmgaard: Ten poems
Vincent Katz: Poem: Edwin Sitting
Nicole Mauro: Ode: To Edwin Denby
Alice Notley: Intersections with Edwin's Lines
Simon Pettet: poem: ‘Fortunate proximity of lives...’
Noel Sheridan: Remembering Edwin Denby
Simon Smith and Ron Padgett: A conversation about Edwin Denby
Brian Kim Stefans: poem: A california submerged
Anne Waldman interviews Edwin Denby, 1981
Edwin Denby interviews artist Neil Welliver
Audio links: Edwin Denby reads five of his poems
Vincent Katz’s site curated for the New York Studio School on
‘Rudy Burckhardt’s Maine’ contains eight sonnets by Edwin Denby: ‘The sonnets he wrote later in life, in Maine, where he spent summers with Burckhardt’s family, show his characteristic compression and opacity taken to new extremes.’ [This link takes you off the Jacket site. Use your ‘Back’ button to return.]
Across the Line
Across the Line / Al otro lado The Poetry of Baja California
edited by Harry Polkinhorn and Mark Weiss
with an Introduction by Mark Weiss, and including poems by:
Raúl Antonio Cota
Francisco Morales
Estela Alicia López Lomas
Raúl Jesús Rincón Meza
Víctor Soto Ferrel
Luis Cortés Bargalló
Javier Manríquez
Roberto Castillo Udiarte
Edmundo Lizardi
Rosina Conde
Gilberto Zúñiga
Gabriel Trujillo Muñoz
Elizabeth Algrávez
Carlos Adolfo Gutiérrez Vidal
Heriberto Yépez
Juan Reyna
Dante Salgado
Pamela Petro: The Hipster of Joy Street
Jack Kimball: John and the Four Dunn(e)s
John Wilkinson: Ladders
Tom Clark’s novel Who is Sylvia? Chapters one, three and four
Tom Clark interviewed by Beat Scene editor Kevin Ring
Michael Leddy interviews Stanley Lombardo, Professor of Classics at the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kansas, translator of Homer’s Iliad (recipient of the Byron Caldwell Book Award) and Odyssey, Hesiod’s Works and Days and Theogeny (National Translation Center Award), and Poems and Fragments of Sappho.
Stanley Lombardo: Translations from the Greek:
Odyssey 23.156–253
Iliad 19.379–end
Sappho
Rachel Loden interviewed by Kent Johnson
Kenneth Goldsmith in conversation with Marjorie Perloff
John Tranter
The United States Poet Laureate — some background, with an adumbration of a brace of Controversies, and a list of the Consultants in Poetry from 1937 to 2002.
Ira Cohen
Nina Zivancevic reviews Poems from the Akashic Record
Ira Cohen interviewed by Nina Zivancevic
Jane Augustine: Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works, edited by Jenny Penberthy
Stephanie Baker: Bread & Fish by Mark Terrill
Tom Clark: ‘Double Take: Creeley’s New Poems’
Tom Devaney: Chinese Whispers, by John Ashbery
Patrick F. Durgin: Page, by Hannah Weiner
Chris Emery: Noctivagations, by Geraldine Monk
Noah E. Gordon reviews Hocquard and Gevirtz
Brian Henry: Anthem by Jean Donnelly
Tom Hibbard: The Makeshift, by Ethan Paquin
Geraldine McKenzie: Days, by Hank Lazer
Jane Sprague: Miniatures and Other Poems, by Barbara Guest
Jane Sprague: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers, by Bhanu Kapil Rider
Nathaniel Tarn: Castaways of the Image Planet, by Geoffrey O'Brien
Harriet Zinnes: Chinese Whispers, by John Ashbery
Tom Clark and Anne Waldman: Zombie Dawn
David Lehman: The Murder Mystery, Film Noir, and Poetry
Tom Clark, thirteen poems
Patrick F. Durgin, Four poems
michael farrell, Two poems
Kevin Gallagher, Two poems
Stanley Lombardo, from the Greek
M. F. McAuliffe, Workroom
Ben Mazer, Four poems
Deborah Meadows, from ‘The Theory of Subjectivity in Moby-Dick‘
Sheila E Murphy and Douglas Barbour, Continuations 30
Sam Sampson, Hearsay
Tom Savage, Four poems
Peter Riley, Second Sett
Bob Slaymaker and Joe Sorge, Beginning Poets
Chris Tysh, Two poems
Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Photo: Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Cambridge, 1972
copyright © Jonathan Culler 1972, 2001
Brian Kim Stefans: Veronica Forrest-Thomson and High Artifice — NOTE: This article is in Jacket 14
J.H. Prynne: Veronica Forrest-Thomson: A Personal Memoir (1976)
Veronica Forrest-Thomson: five poems
Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Swinburne as Poet: a reconsideration (an unpublished essay)
Swinburne Chronology — 1837 to 1909
Veronica Forrest-Thomson: A letter to G.S. Fraser
George Fraser: poem: A Napkin with Veronica’s Face, not Christ’s
James Keery: ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ and the Levels of Artifice: Veronica Forrest-Thomson on J.H. Prynne — a fifty-page analysis of VF-T’s analysis of J.H. Prynne’s poem ‘Of Sanguine Fire’
Peter Robinson reviews Veronica Forrest-Thomson: On the Periphery (from Perfect Bound
magazine, Cambridge, Number 1, 1976.)
Robert Sheppard: poem: Parody and Pastoral
Suzanne Raitt reviews Alison Mark, Veronica Forrest-Thomson and Language Poetry
John Tranter: poem: Address to the Reader
Andrew Duncan: A Various Art and the Cambridge Leisure Centre
Andrew Duncan reviews Trevor Joyce, a body of work 1966–2000
Andrew Duncan reviews Paul Holman, Helen Macdonald, and DS Marriott
Paddy Fraser: G.S. Fraser, A Memoir... ‘Like many Scotsmen, George had strong appetites and an even stronger sense of guilt about indulging them.’
Jérôme Game: Anti-Freeze, by Keston Sutherland
John Kerrigan: Paul Muldoon’s Transits
John Kinsella: Cambridge Notes (1996)
Rod Mengham: Bourgeois News: Humphrey Jennings and Charles Madge (‘We are [...] working out a complete plan of campaign, which will be possible when we have not fifty but 5,000 observers. The following are a few examples of problems that will arise: Behaviour of people at war memorials. Shouts and gestures of motorists. The aspidistra cult...’)
Kate Price: Experiment magazine, 1928–31 — William Empson, William Hare, Jacob Bronowski, Hugh Sykes Davies and Humphrey Jennings.
Peter Quartermain: CADDEL
Hugh Sykes-Davies
George Watson — ‘Remembering Prufrock’ — Hugh Sykes Davies 1909–1984
Hugh Sykes Davies, Four Poems:
‘Decline of Phæthon’ (1929)
‘Sententiæ’ (1931)
‘In the stump of an old tree...’ (1936)
‘It doesn't look like a finger...’ (1938)
Hugh Sykes Davies, Prose:
Sympathies with Surrealism (1936)
Review of Narration, by Gertrude Stein (1936)
Cambridge Poetry (1955)
John Kerrigan: Checklist of the publications of Hugh Sykes Davies
from Quid magazine, Cambridge
Editor: Keston Sutherland
Durs Grünbein, from ‘Variation auf kein Thema’
Peter Manson, ‘Envoy’
Tim Morris, ‘Dramatis Personæ’
Keston Sutherland, ‘Ten Past Nine’
John Wilkinson, ‘The Line of Definition’
Tom Clark: Letters home from Cambridge, (1963–65)
Editors: Drew Milne & Simon Jarvis
Andrea Brady: Song (for Florida)
Clark Coolidge: Two poems
Fanny Howe: excerpt from Reconstruction
Simon Jarvis: Quality and the non-identical in J.H.Prynne’s ‘Aristeas, in seven years’
Grace Lake: Three poems
Rod Mengham: Down in the Mouth
Drew Milne: Agoraphobia, and the embarrassment of manifestos
Drew Milne reviews Poets on Writing: Britain, 1970–1991, Ed. Denise Riley
Dell Olsen: from Corrupted by Showgirls
Neil Reeve and Richard Kerridge: Deaf to Meaning: On J.H.Prynne's The Oval Window
Denise Riley: Knowing in the real world
Keston Sutherland: Ritalin Daiquiri
John Wilkinson: Getting Shot Of It
Contemporary Chinese poetry
Poems:
Che Qianzi
Zhou Yaping
Yi Cun
Huang Fan
Hong Liu
Prose:
Zhou Yaping: Letter to J.H. Prynne
Huang Fan: Poetry’s new shore: Language
Biographical Notes
Jeff Twitchell: Note on the translations
J.H. Prynne: Afterword
Interview: Nate Dorward talks to editor Peter Robinson about Perfect Bound magazine, issued from Cambridge from 1976 to 1979
Contents list: Over twenty pages of writing from Perfect Bound magazine:
J. H. Prynne: The Land of Saint Martin
John James: After Christopher Wood
Peter Robinson: Veronica Forrest-Thomson: On the Periphery
Tom Raworth: Magnetic Water
John Matthias: After the Death of Chekhov
Rod Mengham: from Beds & Scrapings
John Wilkinson: Political Health
Aidan Semmens: The Strange Geometry
Adam Clarke-Williams: The Ambassadors: Raymond Williams in Cambridge, Christmas in Portsmouth.
Douglas Oliver: Fun House
Wendy Mulford: Chinese Postcard Sequence
J.H. Prynne: Reader’s Lockjaw
Pierre Reverdy: Poem
Peter Riley: Digest of the Poetical Works of Dora Oliver
Denise Riley: A Nueva York
Geoffrey Ward: It’s My Town (But I Had to Leave It)
Elaine Feinstein: Two Lyrics From ‘An England Sequence’
Marcus Perryman: from Outposts
Peter Robinson: Looking Up
Gael Turnbull: The Borders Revisited
John Welch: Grieving Signal
Bob Cobbing and Robert Sheppard: ‘Blatent blather/virulent whoops’
Robert Hampson: ‘the beacon’, ‘no signal detected’, and ‘eroded marks’
Lawrence Joseph, ‘Stop Me If I've Told You’
David Kennedy, ‘Minster’, or ‘Liber Lathomorum’
John Kinsella: Four (Cambridge) poems
Tony Lopez, ‘About Cambridge’
David Marriott, ‘De L’autocritique’
Drew Milne, from ‘Ill at these numbers’
Peter Robinson, ‘Pressure Cooker Noise’ and ‘Living in the Workroom’
Cambridge Scenic Vignettes by John Tranter
Verse magazine co-production
Poems
Edward Bartók-Baratta: The Girl, the Dog, and the Book
John Beer: Two poems
Charles Bernstein: In Particular
Judith Bishop: The Birds reported from the South
David Blair: You Are So Beguiling
Charles Borkhuis: You'll Never See My Eyes
Pam Brown: Two poems
C.S. Carrier: When To Rest
Cynie Cory: Two poems
Ray DiPalma: Three poems
Timothy Donnelly: Anything to Fill in the Long Silences
Jordan Davis: Someone on the Carpet
Lana Derkac: Botanical Fictions
Lana Derkac: Medusa in a Meadow
Michael Dumanis: Two poems
Michael Farrell: preludes
Graham Foust: Three poems
Sarah Fox: Imagining Girls
Ray Gonzalez: Two poems
Johannes Göransson: The Seminal Union of Carvers
Paul Guest: The God of Neglect, Overheard
Judith Hall: Two poems
David Hamilton: Four poems
James Harms: My Dream of Bob Marley
Bob Hicok: Three poems
Ernie Hilbert: Ulysses Deriding Polyphemus
Terence Huber: Thrice
Marzanna Bogumila Kielar: ***
Nancy Kuhl: The Affair of the Fire Eaters
Steve Langan: Notes on Exile
Radmila Lazic: Two poems
David Dodd Lee: Curvature of the Spine
James McCorkle: Two poems
Jerry McGuire: Heat Strokes # 1
Matthew Miller: The Circuit
Mông-Lan: coyote
Daniel Nester: Coy Apology
James Norcliffe: Villon in Millerton
Ethan Paquin: Two poems
Kevin Prufer: Three poems
Justin Quinn: Untitled
Anna Rabinowitz: Windows
Srikanth Reddy: Four poems
Peter Redgrove: Preliminaries
Rebecca Reynolds: Two poems
Leonard Schwartz: Three poems
B.T. Shaw: One More Name You Won’t Associate With Water
Laurie Sheck: Two poems
Penelope Shuttle: November x 2
Bruce Smith: Every Water: A Letter to My Daughter
Mark Strand: The Seven Last Words
Cole Swensen: Two poems
James Tate: Intruders
Sam Truitt: Jalopy Life
Nanos Valaoritis: Playing with the Pretorian Guard
Jason Vincz: Two poems
Lucy Wilks: Three poems
Terence Winch: Three poems
Dean Young: Three poems
Ivana Zuzul: Two poems
Reviews
Nadia Herman Colburn: The Beauty of the Husband:
a fictional essay in 29 tangos by Anne Carson
Thomas Fink: With Strings by Charles Bernstein, and
Source Codes by Susan Wheeler
Thomas Fink: Arcady by Donald Revell
Noah Gordon: Trouble Lights by William Olsen
Lisa Gorton: Heroic Money by Gig Ryan
Arielle Greenberg: Torn Awake by Forrest Gander
Arielle Greenberg: The Body by Jenny Boully
Dave Gunton: Freezing by Steve Langan, and Shiner by Maggie Nelson
Omaar Hena: The Day Underneath the Day by C. Dale Young
Omaar Hena: Mercury by Phillis Levin
David Ingle: Doctor Jazz by Hayden Carruth
Christopher Janke: Heartwall by Richard Jackson
Andrew Johnson: Many Glove Compartments: Selected Poems by Oskar Pastior
Jacques Khalip: Collected Poems by Donald Davie
Paul Killebrew: A Border Comedy by Lyn Hejinian
L.S. Klatt: Brief Moral History in Blue by Beth Roberts
Brett Lauer: By and Large by Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Andrew Neilson: The Nowhere Birds by Caitríona O’Reilly, and
Dead Redhead by Tracey Herd
Andrew Neilson: Voodoo Shop by Ruth Padel
Travis Nichols: The Red Bird by Joyelle McSweeney
Travis Nichols: Tremolo by Spencer Short
Ethan Paquin: Twice Removed by Ralph Angel, and
Pennsylvania Collection Agency by Michael Burkard
Ethan Paquin: World: Poems 1991–2001 by Maxine Chernoff
Christina Pugh: Hothouse by Tracy Ryan
David Roderick: Brilliant Water, by Christopher Merrill
Susan Rosenbaum: Blast from the Past: Stories, Poems,
Song Lyrics & Remembrances,
by Kenward Elmslie
Mark Tardi: music or forgetting by E. Tracy Grinnell
Ian Tromp: Unsleeping, by Michael Burkard
Terence Winch: Jumping the Line by Ted Greenwald, and
Protective Immediacy by Rod Smith, and
Integrity & Dramatic Life by Anselm Berrigan
THIS ISSUE of Jacket is a co-production with Verse magazine, and is published in print form as Verse, Volume 19, Number 3 (2002).
Founded in 1984 in Oxford, England, Verse was edited until 1994 by Robert Crawford, David Kinloch, and Henry Hart from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland and the College of William and Mary in Virginia. The founding editors’ final issue, Talking Verse, a collection of interviews that originally appeared in the magazine, was published in 1994, and Verse was temporarily defunct until resurrected in 1995 by Brian Henry with the help of Nancy Schoenberger and Andrew Zawacki. Since 1998, Henry and Zawacki have co-edited the magazine, with various poets around the world acting as UK editors, contributing editors, assistant editors, and managing editors.
Interviews
Henry J.-M. Levet (1874-1906)
David Hadbawnik interviews Diane di Prima
Corinna Hasofferet interviews Vénus Khoury-Ghata
Y. T. Wong interviews Steven Ford Brown
Feature: Henry J.-M. Levet (1874–1906)
Postcards: ten poems by Henry J.-M. Levet
translated by Kirby Olson
Articles and Reviews
Charles Alexander reviews The Pretext by Rae Armantrout
Aaron Belz, Flood Editions: The Conversation
Brooke Bergan reviews A Book of the Book
Joel Bettridge reviews On the Cave You Live In, by Philip Jenks
Sharon Dolin reviews Darkling: A Poem, by Anna Rabinowitz
David Hess reviews 4, by Noelle Kocot
Tom Hibbard reviews Dovecote, by Heather Fuller
Tom Hibbard reviews The Good House, by Rod Smith
David Lehman: The Mysterious Romance of Murder
Rachel Loden reviews World, by Maxine Chernoff
Deborah Meadows reviews Revenants, by Mark Nowak
Ramez Qureshi reviews Your Name Here by John Ashbery, and The Promises of Glass by Michael Palmer
Jenny Penberthy: Introduction to Lorine Niedecker: Collected Works
Marjorie Perloff reviews John Tranter and Paul Hoover
Libbie Rifkin reviews Disobedience, by Alice Notley
Linda Russo reviews Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde by Libbie Rifkin, and Leaving Lines of Gender: A Feminist Genealogy of Language Writing by Ann Vickery
Larry Sawyer reviews a purchase in the white botanica, by Piero Heliczer
Larry Sawyer reviews Swimming in the Ground: Contemporary Hungarian Poetry
John Wilkinson reviews Versary, by Kate Lilley
Michelle Woods reviews The Good Soldier Švejk (Book One), trans. Sadlon and Joyce
Philip Whalen
Michael Hrebeniak: In Memoriam Philip Whalen
Murray Edmond: Alan Brunton, 1946–2002: A Memoir
A Tribute to Agha Shahid Ali
Photo: Philip Whalen, 1960s, photo Ken Walden,
from the back cover of On Bear’s Head, 1969,
courtesy Dale Smith
Poems
Ingeborg Bachmann, Three poems, translated by Johannes Beilharz
Miguel Barnet, Four poems, translated by Mark Weiss
Erwin Einzinger, Six poems, translated by Johannes Beilharz
Fred Johnston, Two poems
Daniel Kane, Two poems
José Kozer, Four poems, translated by Mark Weiss
Sheila Murphy, Additional Rehearsals
Philip Nikolayev, Lights Out
Todd Swift, Two poems
Prose: Hilton Obenzinger, From Satan’s Asshole, Chapter Three
Postcard: Arthur Rainbow’s house in Harar, Ethiopia
Some Canadian poets, edited by rob mclennan
Rob Budde
Stephen Cain
Chris Chambers
Gil McElroy
rob mclennan
George Murray
K.I. Press
nathalie stephens
Julia Williams
rob mclennan interviews Douglas Barbour
Donato Mancini interviews Dorothy T.Lusk
Shane Rhodes reviews The Natural Selection by Christopher Dewdney
Feature: Professor Winkelschnippe’s diagram of the structural dynamics of the typical late-twentieth-century North American poetry career
Ern Malley
The Ern Malley Story... poster
Press Clippings from 1944:
Faking Literature: Patrick Herron: Ken Ruthven’s Faking Literature (and Ern Malley)
Faking Literature: The Bibliography Ken Ruthven: 25 pages of rare and hard-to-find source materials (including Ern Malley)
Girls on the Run: Michael Leddy: John Ashbery and Henry Darger (and Ern Malley)
Hans Magnus Enzensberger’s ‘Poetry Machine’: A three-page Introduction to this poetry-writing computer is given in English; a twenty-page paper by Enzensberger explaining the theory and operation of the machine is published (in German) in this issue of Jacket: Einladung zu einem Poesie-Automaten.
Catherine Daly: Marjorie Allen Seiffert and the ‘Spectra’ Hoax
Schuldt: ‘Homi Bhabha and the Forty Words’
Free Grass magazine: an electronic edition of the only extant number of Free Grass, a five page mimeographed magazine, which splashed into the pond of little ‘underground’ magazines in Australia in 1968. Free Grass had a secret...
A sampler of writing selected by Jacket editor John Tranter from the 630-page Granary Books anthology of material from the collection of Angel Hair magazine and books edited by Lewis Warsh and Anne Waldman (photo, left) between 1966 and 1978.
Introduction — Anne Waldman
Introduction — Lewis Warsh
Jack Anderson, American Flag
John Ashbery, The Hod Carrier
Bill Bathurst, To Marthe
Bill Berkson, Sheer Strips
Ted Berrigan, from To Clear the Range
Ted Berrigan, Two prose poems
Ted Berrigan, For You
Clark Coolidge, ‘though in should’
Edwin Denby, ‘Out of Bronx subway...’
Robert Duncan, At the Poetry Conference: Berkeley / After the New York Style
Kenward Elmslie, Feathered Dancers
Larry Fagin, Little Hand
Mary Ferrari, Eternity
Barbara Guest, Homage
Dick Gallup, Guard Duty
Lee Harwood, The Seaside
Allan Kaplan, Hey
Denise Levertov, Eros
Frank O’Hara, Two poems: ‘A Raspberry Sweater’, and ‘To John Ashbery’
Tony Towle, Poem (‘The lead drains...’)
Anne Waldman, The De Carlo Lots
Lewis Warsh, Inside Long Treks
Philip Whalen, Coming Forth by Day
Cover photo (above) of Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh (in front of Angelica and Tom Clark’s house, Nymph Road, Bolinas, 1968) © Tom Clark 2001
Joe Brainard
Bill Corbett, Introduction
Anselm Berrigan, ‘I remember hearing Joe read’
Lee Ann Brown, ‘Joe Over Easy’
Tom Carey, ‘Joe B.’
Maxine Chernoff, ‘Sonnet: Some Things I Miss About Joe’
Tom Clark, ‘My Joe Brainards’
Elaine Equi, ‘A Freshly Painted Poem’
Paul Hoover, ‘Winter (Mirror)’
Nathan Kernan, ‘Premonition’
Wayne Koestenbaum, ‘Two Little Elegies for Joe Brainard’
David Lehman, ‘For Joe Brainard’
Ange Mlinko, ‘Boston Flower Market’
Eileen Myles, ‘Worst Seat in the House’
Charles North, ‘Romantic Note 1’
Ron Padgett, About S
Jerome Sala, ‘I’m Glad I Don’t Understand the Writing of Joe Brainard’
David Trinidad, ‘9 Cigarettes’
Anne Waldman, ‘& color changed...’
Bill Berkson: Working with Joe
Kristin Prevallet: interviews Kenward Elmslie
Kristin Prevallet: Joe Brainard & Poetry
Pam Brown: Introduction
Ken Bolton reviews New and Selected Poems, by Tony Towle
Murray Edmond: No Paragraphs (Meditations on Noh, Poetry, Theatre and the Avant-garde)
Poems:
Maxine Chernoff ¶
Gillian Conoley ¶
Lidija Cvetkovic ¶
Mary di Michele ¶
Linh Dinh ¶
Laurie Duggan ¶
Michael Farrell ¶
Denis Gallagher ¶
Jane Gibian ¶
Noelle Kocot ¶
Bronwyn Lea ¶
Michele Leggott ¶
Kate Lilley ¶
Rachel Loden ¶
Geraldine McKenzie ¶
Eileen Myles ¶
Ted Nielsen ¶
Alice Notley ¶
Brendan Ryan ¶
Ron Silliman ¶
Sam Wagan Watson ¶
Kent Johnson: Photograph of Emily Dickinson — for John Wieners
Poet John Wieners died on 1 March 2002 in Boston, USA.
Smoking Jacket — Philip Mead reviews the Big Smoke anthology, and books by Michele Leggott and David Howard
Terence Diggory: The Red Wheelbarrow Goes Global — The Value of the Local in William Carlos Williams and Postmodern Art — featuring the art of German Wolfgang Kaiser and the video art of New Zealander Bridget Sutherland
Peter Robinson reviews Bill Manhire
Poems:: Alan Brunton: In the Wilderness of Being
Janet Charman: Two Poems ¶
Murray Edmond: Three Ballads
Michele Leggott: milk and honey taken far far away (i)
Pooja Mittal: Three poems ¶
Ian Wedde: Epistle: to John Dickson
Yang Lian: Two poems ¶
Mark Young: 3 Poems
Excerpt from Tom Clark’s biography of Ed Dorn
Kent Johnson interviews Eliot Weinberger
Toh Hsien Min interviews Bob Perelman
John Tranter interviews Chris Emery, of Salt Publications
Nina Zivancevic in Paris interviews Jerome Rothenberg
George Evans: A Working Boy’s Whitman
Ram Devineni interviews Ravi Shankar, editor of Drunken Boat
Michael Hrebeniak: — In Memoriam Fielding Dawson, 1930–2002
Miekal And ¶
Johannes Beilharz ¶
Tom Clark (i.m. Philip Whalen) ¶
Maria Damon ¶
Sharon Dolin ¶
Chris Emery ¶
Edwin Honig ¶
Ron Koertge ¶
Rebecca Lu Kiernan ¶
Pura López-Colomé ¶
Jeni Olin ¶
Peter Porter ¶
Spencer Selby ¶
Andrzej Sosnowski
Kenneth Koch, New York, 1989
Photo by John Tranter
A selection of poems and photographs from the benefit readings to support the World Trade Center Relief Fund on Wednesday October 17, 2001.
Ian Hamilton Finlay
Brian Kim Stefans on Ian Hamilton Finlay
Ian Hamilton Finlay interviewed by Nagy Rashwan
Drew Milne: ‘Adorno's Hut’ — Ian Hamilton Finlay's neoclassical rearmament programme
Mark Scroggins: The Piety of Terror: Ian Hamilton Finlay, the Modernist Fragment, and the Neo-classical Sublime
Keston Sutherland: The Trade in Bathos
Craig Dworkin and Michel Delville: Conference, May 18-20, 2000, Universidad de Salamanca
Homero Aridjis
Aaron Belz
Peter Boyle
Chris Edwards
John Hawke
J.Nicole Hoelle
S.K.Kelen
John Kinsella
Helen Lambert
David Lehman
Cassie Lewis
Geraldine McKenzie
Mark Mahemoff
Ange Mlinko
Chris Tysh
Ethan Paquin
C.D.Wright
Yang Lian
Steven Clay of Granary Books interviewed by Olivier Brossard
Alice Notley interviewed by Brian Kim Stefans
Dale Smith interviewed by Kent Johnson
C.D.Wright interviewed by Kent Johnson —
with Deborah Luster's remarkable photographs
of inmates from Louisana prisons
C.D.Wright: excerpt from her poem sequence Deepstep Come Shining
This issue of Jacket is a co-production with SALT magazine
Salt is edited from Cambridge England by John Kinsella
Charles Bernstein: Poetry and/or the Sacred
Graham Foust: Wallace Stevens’s Manuscript: As If in The Dump
Marjorie Perloff: on Wittgenstein and Duchamp
Lyn Hejinian: Continuing Against Closure
Susan M. Schultz: Of Time and Charles Bernstein’s Lines: A Poetics of Fashion Statements
Brian Kim Stefans: Veronica Forrest-Thomson and High Artifice
Feature: France — Edited by Tracy Ryan
Judith Bishop: on Yves Bonnefoy
Pamela Brown: Paris, France
Maryline Desbiolles trans. Tracy Ryan
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Lorand Gaspar trans. Peter Riley
Franck André Jamme trans. Olivier Brossard and Lisa Lubasch
Vénus Khoury-Ghata, trans. Marilyn Hacker
Harry Mathews: Rue de Rochechouart
Michael Scharf: The Hills of Dublin and Czernowitz . . .
John Tranter: In Paris
Chris Andrews
Jan Baeke
Mary Jo Bang
Douglas Barbour
Anselm Berrigan
Richard Caddel
Alfred Corn
Bei Dao
Catherine Daly
Marcella Durand
Elaine Equi
michael farrell
Bob Harrison
Coral Hull
Kate Lilley
Victor Hugo Limón
Drew Milne
Peter Minter
Ted Nielsen
Kevin Nolan
Ian Patterson
Gig Ryan
Michael Scharf
Joanna Smith Rakoff
Office for Soft Architecture
Candice Ward
McKenzie Wark
Mark Weiss
Marjorie Welish
Susan Wheeler
Carla Harryman: From Gardener of Stars — a novel
Juliana Spahr reviews Rob Wilson, Reimagining the American Pacific
Maria Damon reviews Joseph Lease, Human Rights
Lucy Sheerman reviews Jennifer Moxley, Grace Lake and John Forbes
Robert Creeley: Scholar’s Rocks: + sculpture by Jim Dine
Clark Coolidge
This issue of Jacket is a co-production with New American Writing magazine.
Clark Coolidge: ten poems
Tom Orange: An Interview with Clark Coolidge
Tom Orange: Arrangement and Density: A Context for Early Clark Coolidge
Alan Halsey: From a Diary of Reading Clark Coolidge
Michael Gizzi: XIV: In the Namewakes
Linh Dinh: Our Newlyweds
Mark McMorris: Journals from The Café at Light (A Selection)
Founded in 1986, New American Writing is a literary magazine with an emphasis on contemporary American poetry. Edited by Paul Hoover, poet and editor of Postmodern American Poetry (W. W. Norton, 1994), and Maxine Chernoff, poet and author of the works of fiction Bop and American Heaven, it appears once a year in early June from 369 Molino Avenue, Mill Valley CA 94941, USA.
Larry Smith — Kenneth
Patchen — Poetry and Jazz days, 1957-1959 — From the
book Kenneth Patchen: Rebel Poet in America by Larry Smith
Rob
Wilson: From the Sublime to the Devious:
Writing the Experimental/ Local Pacific —
I. "Two
Postmodernisms"
II. Hawai’i: Becoming Miss
Universe?
III. More Panic Poetics, As
Such
Joe Amato — a
response to Rob Wilson’s "Writing the Experimental/
Local Pacific"
Rae Armantrout — Mary Jo Bang — Aaron Belz — Caroline Bergvall — Joanne Burns — Gary Catalano — Tom Clark — poems and illustrations from Cold Spring: A Diary — Timothy Donnelly — Michael Farrell — Dorothy Hewett — Brian Henry — John Latta — Cassie Lewis — Duane Locke — Rachel Loden — eight poems — from Hotel Imperium — Anthony Macris — The Olympia (prose) — Rod Mengham — Ethan Paquin — Gary Sullivan — Carl Thayler — Hugh Tolhurst — George Wallace — Chris Wallace-Crabbe — Mark Weiss — Max Winter
From Issue # 11, this Catalog page provides links to take you directly to each article in the issue. Click on the green button to visit the Contents Page for Issue # 11, or click on an individual link below to go to an individual article. Earlier issues do not have these direct links.
Joanne Kyger
Linda Russo: Introduction
Joanne Kyger — poem
— "Man" from
Man/Women
Kevin Killian — The "Carola
Letters"
Charlie Vermont — "Form/id/able" and Joanne Kyger
Linda Russo — an
interview with Joanne Kyger
Andrew Schelling on Joanne
Kyger’s Portable Poetics
Stephen Vincent — The Work
of Joanne Kyger
Dale Smith — an interview with Joanne
Kyger
Joanne Kyger — poem — "Phillip Whalen’s Hat"
Dan Coffey — on Joanne Kyger’s
Phenomenological
Jonathan Skinner — The
Travel Poems
Anne Waldman — Introduction to Joanne Kyger’s Japan and India
Journals
Joanne Kyger’s "Letter to Nemi April 10
1962" from The Japan and India Journals
" . . . Peter Orlofsky locks himself in the bathroom all night and smokes opium and then vomits all the next morning so we travel slowly."
Philip Whalen
Introduction — Dale
Smith
Philip Whalen — About Writing and Meditation
Philip Whalen — Interviewed by David Meltzer
Anselm Berrigan — on
Philip Whalen’s Overtime
Bill Berkson — a note
about Whalen and Mallarmé
Daniel Bouchard — An
Hour with Philip Whalen
Paul Christensen — "To
hunt for words under the stones"
Tom Devaney — reading the poetry of Philip Whalen
Norman Fischer — reviews Philip Whalen’s Overtime
Lewis MacAdams
— What do I love about Philip Whalen’s poems?
Michael Rothenberg — a
poem for Philip Whalen
Tensho David Schneider — "Looking things up with Philip Whalen"
Lew Welch — reviews Whalen’s On Bear’s Head, 1969
Martin Johnston
...ten linked prose pieces: ". . . Sitting in the last row of the plane next to a Belizean woman of uncertain age. The choice for lunch was pasta, fish, or chicken, but by the time the meal cart reached us, there was only pasta or fish. My seatmate smiled sweetly at the stewardess and said, ’Next time you’ll have to kill more chickens’."
From the conference on "Poetry Criticism: What is it for?" in New York early in 2000, Kristin Prevallet’s report and papers by Michael Scharf and Stephen Burt.
Peter Riley talks to Keith Tuma
Maureen Owen talks to Marcella Durand
— Joe Amato: Cary
Nelson’s Anthology of Modern American Poetry
— John Bennett reviews
M.T.C.Cronin
— Andrew Crozier reviews Tony
Lopez: False Memory
— Thomas Epstein reviews John
High’s The Desire Notebooks
— Geraldine McKenzie — Anne Carson’s Autobiography of Red
(" . . . One is tempted to say this is
not even good prose, let alone good poetry.")
— Mark Scroggins
— reviews Norman Finkelstein’s Track
— Brendan Lorber reports on the Issue Zero conference
in New York City (March 10-12, 2000) — thirty little magazine editors and one hundred and fifty
fans!
Michael Brennan / Marcella Durand / Kate Fagan / Allen Fisher / Martin Harrison / Ron Koertge / : "Seven
Brides for Seven Brothers", with special background story on Livy’s The Rape of the Sabine Women / Cassie Lewis / Tony Lopez / Ian McBryde / Geraldine McKenzie / Leith Morton / John Wilkinson
Great Moments
in Literature # 11 — Hilbert Trogue’s
"Pants Poem" a
knockout!
Gift Idea: Has your new book received an unkind review? Send your favorite critic this "screaming rat" toy — a gift to remember!
Barbara Guest, Sermoneta, Italy, 1968, photographer unknown
Charles Bernstein
— Introducing Barbara Guest
Susan Gevirtz — on Barbara
Guest
Barbara Guest — from The
Confetti Trees
Sara Lundquist on Barbara Guest’s
The Countess From Minneapolis
Wendy Mulford on Barbara Guest’s
The Blue Stairs
Ramez Qureshi on Barbara Guest’s
Rocks on a Platter
John Tranter — poem — The
Twilight Guest
Geoff Ward reviews Barbara Guest’s
If So, Tell Me
Marjorie Welish: "The Lyric
Lately" (a work-in-progress)
Frank O’Hara
Russell Ferguson
— Frank O’Hara and American Art
Lytle Shaw — On Coterie: Frank
O’Hara
Ron Koertge — prose poem — "Homage"
John Latta — poem — "Elogio di Frank O’Hara"
David Lehman — poem — "Ode to Modern Art"
". . . Perhaps, despite the pejorative
flavor of the word, it might be more accurate to call them a
‘coterie’ — if we define as coterie a group of
writers rejected by the literary establishment who found strength
to continue with their work by what the anarchists used to call
"mutual aid". — John Bernard Myers
Jacket’s "Great Moments in Literature" No. 10 — Belgrade researchers pinpoint location of "Poetry Gland"
Joe Amato ¶ Stephen Burt
¶ Denise Duhamel ¶ Chris Emery ¶ Ulli Freer ¶ John Kinsella
¶ Kate Lilley ¶ Peter Minter
¶ Lytle Shaw
¶ Dale Smith
¶ Pete Spence ¶ Nathaniel Tarn ¶ Tony Towle
¶ Geoff Ward
¶ Charles Harper Webb ¶ Marjorie Welish
Letters to the Editor — Michael Rothenberg, Red Slider (New!)
Photo of Frank O’Hara (wearing bow tie), New York, 1966, © George Cserna
for EDWARD DORN (1929–1999)
"Maybe it’s in part because he had a lonely and precarious beginning in life that later on Dorn always liked to surround himself with congenial company . . . The great honor of friendship he conferred on me was to number me as an outrider of that party of outriders, along with other diverse disparate friends."
— Andrea Brady on John Wilkinson’s Reverses
— Robert Sheppard on Bob Cobbing, in honour of his 75th
birthday
— Robert Sheppard on Ulli Freer
— Pete Smith on Jennifer Moxley
— Nathaniel Tarn reviews Selected Non-Fictions by Jorge
Luis Borges, Eliot Weinberger (Translator), Esther Allen, Suzanne
Jill Levine
— Mark Wallace on Carl Thayler’s Poems from Naltsus
Bichidin
¶ Angie Angel ¶ Francisco Aragon ¶ Louis Armand ¶ Andrea Brady ¶ Pam Brown ¶ Tom Clark ¶ Henry Gould ¶ Kate Lilley ¶ Geraldine McKenzie ¶ Ralph Monday ¶ Alice Pero ¶ Leonard Schwartz ¶ Robert Sheppard ¶ Carl Thayler
— poet and playwright Dorothy Hewett interviewed by Nicole Moore
— Seven early letters of Araki Yasusada by Tosa Motokiyu
Robert Sheppard on Robert Sheppard: Twentieth
Century Blues
JEREMIAD — Nathaniel Tarn — on Octavio Paz and the Future of Poetry
Great Moments in Literature # 9 — Hiram Bamburger’s
1951 "Poetry Machine"
Lee Ann Brown
Poems — Stephen Bett, Ken Bolton, Lee Ann Brown (left), M.T.C.Cronin, Henry Gould, Griffin Hansbury, Hsia Yü, Garrie Hutchinson, John Latta, Katherine Lederer, David Lehman, Simon Perchik, David Prater, Rodney Pybus, Gerald Schwartz, Andrea Sherwood, Guy Shahar, Chris Wallace-Crabbe
Jaime Saenz — five poems / Also — excerpts from the long poem "Immanent Visitor" / translations by Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander...
Bolivian poet Jaime Saenz (1921-1986) is Bolivia’s leading writer of the 20th century. Prolific as poet, novelist, and non-fiction writer, his baroque, propulsive syntax and dedication to themes of death, alcoholism, and otherness make his poetry among the most idiosyncratic in the Spanish-speaking world.
Report — The 1999 Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry
Jack Spicer
Guest Editor
— Christopher W.Alexander
Comment / Elaine Equi — Unspeakable Ambitions
Reviews — Alice Notley on Kenward Elmslie — Andrew Joron on Peter Gizzi — Dale Smith on Lewis MacAdams — Juliana Spahr on Bernadette Mayer’s book "Sonnets" — Tom Clark on Philip Whalen’s "Overtime — Selected Poems" — Garrie Hutchinson on Australian painter Arthur Boyd
Articles — Libbie Rifkin on Anne Waldman, Bernadette Mayer and the Gender of an Avant-Garde Institution — J.H.Prynne — John Kinsella and Rod Mengham: an Introduction to the poetry of J.H.Prynne — Leslie Scalapino — Secret Occurrence
Prose Poem — Hazel Smith / Poems — David Baratier, Gabriel Gudding, Joel Lewis, Leslie Scalapino, Stephen Oliver, Brian Kim Stefans, Rob Wilson
Indian Prince mask
Frank O’Hara — WHAT’S WITH MODERN ART? — reviews of art shows from Art News, 1953–55 — and a rare O’Hara photo by Renate Ponsold Motherwell
Paul Hoover — THE PLOT AGAINST THE GIANT — a review of David Lehman’s The Last Avant-Garde
Eliot Weinberger: What Was Formalism?
John Kinsella: commentary on a poem by J.H.Prynne
Poems : — Richard Caddel — Maxine Chernoff — Bill Griffiths — Lisa Jarnot — Robert Kelly — John Kinsella — Jennifer Moxley — Sheila Murphy — J.H. Prynne — Michael Rothenberg — Douglas Rothschild — Ron Silliman — Nathaniel Tarn — Adrian Wiggins
Notices : You can read a report by Robert Archambeau on the Post-War American Poetry Conference in Liège, Belgium, held in March 1999 — and check out the Women’s Poetry conference at Barnard College in New York City April 8 to 10, 1999 — and the 9th Cambridge Conference of Contemporary Poetry to be held at Trinity College, Cambridge, England, in late April 1999 — and the 22nd Festival Franco-anglais de Poésie in Paris from 10 to 15 May 1999 - the theme is LANGAGES DU TEMPS MOBILE and you can read all about it at "La Traductière", the Internet site for the literary translation magazine edited by the indefatigable Jacques Rancourt in Paris
Mina Loy
Introductory Chapter to "Becoming Modern — the Life of Mina Loy", by Carolyn Burke / Carolyn Burke interviewed by Pam Brown / excerpts from reviews of "Becoming Modern" / Marjorie Perloff on ENGLISH AS A "SECOND" LANGUAGE: Mina Loy’s "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose" / Keith Tuma reviews Mina Loy, "The Lost Lunar Bædeker"
Other Features — Charles Bernstein : The Value of Sulfur / "Very Rapid Acceleration" — Kenneth KOCH interview / David Lehman — Introduction to "The Last Avant-Garde" — on the New York School of poets
On Yasusada — Eliot Weinberger’s original "exposé", with a postscript / On Larsen and YASUSADA : Kent Johnson interviewed by Norbert Francis / On YASUSADA : Kent Johnson letter to American Book Review
Douglas Oliver : The School of Bedlam from "Whisper Louise", a work-in-progress / Steve Evans reviews Emmanuel HOCQUARD and Bill LUOMA / Dale Smith : Reading Philip Whalen
Poems — Thomas Bell, Bill Berkson, Bill Freind, Pierre Joris, John Kinsella, Kate Lilley, Kevin Nolan, Alice Notley, Haki Pok, Chris Stroffolino
...includes the new Jacket QUIZ, David Lehman on Postmodernism, Eliot Weinberger on the mysterious ghosts of Iceland, a review of Enzensberger’s "Kiosk" by Lawrence Joseph, John Tranter: Mr Rubenking’s "Breakdown" — on computers and writing (with a Real Audio reading of a computer-assisted poem by robot poet Joy H.Breshan), Caddel and Quartermain : OTHER British and Irish Poetry since 1970, Forrest Gander’s review of Yasusada : DOUBLED FLOWERING, Noel King’s interview with Pete Ayrton, publisher of Serpent’s Tail books, Tom Clark’s "White Thought" reviewed by Dale Smith . . . and, as usual, a lather of photographs and other visuals, as well as glittering poems by Adam Aitken, Charles Alexander and Sheila Murphy — a collaboration, John Anderson, Gary Catalano, Maxine Chernoff, Bernard Cohen, M.T.C.Cronin, Elaine Equi, Coral Hull, David Lehman, Tony Lopez, Rod Mengham, Ian Patterson, Roger Pellett, Gig Ryan, Keston Sutherland, and Robert Vandermolen, and much more!
John Forbes
... is dedicated to the memory of Australian poet John Forbes, 1950-1998 : JOHN FORBES — poem — Speed, a Pastoral / Gig Ryan — in memoriam John Forbes / some pieces by his friends . . . Ken Bolton / Carl Harrison-Ford / Rae Desmond Jones / John Kinsella / Nigel Roberts / Tracy Ryan / Ken Searle portrait / Keston Sutherland / Hugh Tolhurst / John Tranter / Karlien van den Beukel . . .
PLUS other writing by . . .Harry Mathews / Tom Clark / John Wilkinson / Ron Padgett / Russell Chatham of Clark City Press, Montana, interviewed by Noel King / Joel Lewis / Eliot Weinberger on Omar Cáceres / Michele Leggott / Andrea Brady / Mark Ford / Kris Hemensley / Johanna Drucker / Hugh Tolhurst / Drew Milne / Satire : Thank God for the Bourgeoisie / Reviews: Rimbaud in Africa and Wilkinson’s Sarn Helen / Peter Gizzi / Enzensberger — Four Poems / Jacket’s Photo Tip No 1 and Great Moments in Literature No 3 / and more...
John Ashbery (right)
¶ Eliot
Weinberger on James Laughlin (1914-1997)
¶ David Lehman — more on the Ern Malley
hoax
¶
Yasusada — hoax, deception, or work of art?
¶ Bob Perelman’s "The
Marginalization of Poetry" discussed by Silliman,
Lauterbach, Spahr, Evans, Perelman, and Kate
Lilley...
¶ poems by August Kleinzahler, Eileen
Myles, Forrest Gander, Robert Adamson, S.K.Kelen, John Kinsella,
Lisa Jarnot, Michael Heller, Jennifer Moxley, Peter Riley, Lee
Ann Brown, Tim Davis, Denis Gallagher
¶ Eliot Weinberger — Letter from New
York: "Vomit"
¶ TYPE — John Tranter — Lost
Things in the Garden of Type
¶ ... and other poems and articles.
Photo: (l. to r.) Patsy Southgate, Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, photo copyright © Mario Schifano, 1964. Patsy Southgate died on 18 July 1998 at the age of seventy.
Hedy Lamarr
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