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Sydney, 2007
photo John Tranter
Visit Jacket 34: Late 2007
Contemporary Turkish
Poetry
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.
Read the poems. Read the essays. Buy the book here!
Features
Post-Marginal Positions: Women and the UK Experimental/ Avant-Garde Poetry Community, moderated by Catherine Wagner
‘Between revelation and persuasion’: Eric Mottram and Robert Duncan: A Compilation by Amy Evans and Shamoon Zamir
Lucas Klein: «Stèles» / 古今碑錄, Volumes 1 and 2, by Victor Segalen
About Now, by Joanne Kyger, Introduction by Linda Russo
For decades, Joanne Kyger has played a crucial role in California’s poetry scene. Her poetry has been influenced by her studies in Zen Buddhism and her connection to the poets of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance, and the Beat Generation. In this issue of Jacket:
Linda Russo’s Introduction to the book,
Jane Falk provides a reader’s response, and
Dale Smith looks at Kyger’s developing poetics through her long career, and
Robert Adamson presents two poems written for Joanne Kyger.
Note:
Jacket 11 contains a multi-voiced feature on Joanne Kyger edited by Linda Russo.
Interviews
From the Hither Side: Innovative Women Poets — Cynthia Hogue and Elisabeth Frost in conversation with Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
Jackson Mac Low, 1997, photo John Tranter
Jackson Mac Low in conversation: Making Poetry “Otherwise”, 28 January 2001
Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Vermont Poet: Bob Arnold in conversation with Gerald Hausman
Shanxing Wang in conversation with Nathan Brown
Articles
What’s Really Going on in Persicos Odi? Art Beck on Horace.
Jeff Derksen: “These Things Form Poems When I Allow It”: after John Newlove
Laurie Duggan: On Gael Turnbull’s «Collected Poems», with a digression on his aleatory, kinetic and other off-the-page practices
John Felstiner: “It looks just like the Cascades” — Gary Snyder’s Eye for the Real World
Thomas Fink: The Poetry of Questions
Noah Eli Gordon: Considering Chapbooks: A Brief History of the Little Book
Noah Eli Gordon: Considering Chapbooks: Belladonna* books
Philip Metres «d.a.levy & the mimeograph revolution», edited by Larry Smith and Ingrid Swanberg
Ezra Pound, 26 May 1945
Jonathan Morse: The Startle Reflex: Some Episodes from the Lives of Ezra Pound’s Language
Jennifer Moxley: Rimbaud’s Foolish Virgin, Wieners’s “Feminine Soliloquy,” and the Metaphorical Resistance of the Lyric Body
Sandeep Parmar: Mina Loy’s ‘Colossus’ and the Myth of Arthur Cravan
Brian M. Reed: ‘Lost Already Walking’: Caroline Bergvall’s ‘Via’
Anthony Stephens: Reflecting tragedy: Nietzsche, Lacan, Narcissus
John Temple: Haven of the Heart: The Poetry of John Wieners
John Emil Vincent: Escaping the future: John Ashbery’s «Girls on the run»
Poems
Robert Adamson: Two poems (for Joanne Kyger)
Louis Armand: Six Parts for a Requiem
Jen Crawford: sixteen
Laurie Duggan: Two poems from ‘The skies over Thanet’
Joel Deane: Tuk-tuk
Jesse Glass: Two poems
Scott Glassman and Sheila E. Murphy: from «Section 2»
Philip Hammial: Two poems
Ella Holcombe : The magazine
Vincent Katz: Three poems
Poems by Ko Un, translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé, Young-moo Kim, and Gary Gach
Katy Lederer: In the Hole
Philip Metres: The Old Haunts: A Guided Tour
Carol Mirakove: Five poems
Aryanil Mukherjee: Two Poems
John Newlove: Three poems
Benjamin Paloff: Four poems
Tomaž Šalamun: Two poems, trans. Brian Henry
Peter Dale Scott: Five poems
Spencer Selby: Text From My Visual Book
Elizabeth Smither: Practising scales
Grzegorz Wróblewski: Two poems: Migraine; Jesse Owens and Luz Long
Photo: John Tranter
Canadian Poetry:
Language Acts: Anglo- Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century
Editors: Jason Camlot & Todd Swift
Jason Camlot and Todd Swift: Introduction to «Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century» Jacket Feature
Robert Allen: Seven poems
Oana Avasilichioaei: from «Gossip in the Valley»
Stephanie Bolster: Six poems
Asa Boxer: Four poems
Jason Camlot: The Debaucher
Angela Carr: Six Poems from the Rose Concordance
Leonard Cohen: Three poems
Mary di Michele: Four poems
Endre Farkas: Four poems
Raymond Filip: Three poems
Jon Paul Fiorentino: Five poems
artie gold: Five Jockey Poems
Michael Harris: Five poems
D.G. Jones: Six poems
Steve Luxton: Four poems
David McGimpsey: Four poems
Donald McGrath: Five poems
Stephen Morrissey: Three poems
Erín Moure: Map of Calgary
Robyn Sarah: Six poems
David Solway: Five poems
Carmine Starnino: Five poems
Andrew Steinmetz: Five poems
Nathalie Stephens: Four poems
Todd Swift: Four poems
Ruth Taylor: Five poems
Peter Van Toorn: Six poems
Reviews
Language Poetry by the Bay: 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.
Earlier reviews of the project:
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Li Yun Alvarado: «How Long She’ll Last in This World», by María Meléndez
Cristiana Baik: «DICTEE» by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Douglas Barbour: «The Goldfinches of Baghdad» by Robert Adamson
Christopher Barnes: «Lemon Shark» by Luke Beesley
Ben Lyle Bedard: «REAL» by Stephen Ratcliffe
Joel Bettridge: «Mirrors for Gold», by Roberto Tejada
Lisa Bower: «Erosion’s Pull», by Maureen Owen
Lisa Bower: «Letter from the Lawn» by Bobbi Lurie
Joseph Bradshaw: «Inbox: (A Reverse Memoir)», Noah Eli Gordon
Norene Cashen: «Cleavage» by Chris Tysh
Matthew Cooperman: «A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow», by Noah Eli Gordon
Eugenia Demuro: Stet. by José Kozer. Trans. Mark Weiss.
Mark Dickinson: «The Moon Sees the One» by Candice Ward
Alexander Dickow: «I’m The Man Who Loves You», by Amy King
Sarah Dowling: «The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical Poetics», by Gerald Bruns.
Michael Duszat: «An Elemental Thing», by Eliot Weinberger
Curtis Faville: Aram Saroyan: «Complete Minimalist Poems», and Robert Grenier: «100 Sentences / 100 Phrases». Translated from English into French by Martin Richet with the Author.
Forrest Gander: «A Worldly Country» by John Ashbery
Alan Gilbert: «How to Read a Poem» by Terry Eagleton
Daniel Godston: «Blue Lash» by James Armstrong
Daniel Godston: «Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics» Number 5, 2006 (edited by Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich)
Piotr Gwiazda: Professing Poetry: a review of «Poetry and Pedagogy: The challenge of the contemporary», edited by Joan Retallack and Juliana Spahr
Tom Hibbard: «Infinity Subsections» by Mark DuCharme
Julia Istomina: «Rise Up», by Matthew Rohrer
Tim Keane: «The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition», translated with commentary by Peter Green
Astrid Lorange: «The Material Poem» edited by James Stuart
Nicole Mauro: «Cornstarch Figurine» by Elizabeth Treadwell
Carol Middleton: «About Writing, Seven Essays, Four Letters and Five Interviews», by Samuel R Delany
Micaela Morrissette: «The Open Curtain», by Brian Evenson
Micaela Morrissette: «Bornholm Night-Ferry», by Aidan Higgins
Micaela Morrissette: «The Exquisite», by Laird Hunt
Micaela Morrissette: «North & South», by Martha King
Richard Owens: «Black Diamond Golden Boy Takes Bull By Horns» by Geoffrey Gatza
Craig Santos Perez: «Puerta Del Sol» by Francisco Aragón
Peter Robinson: «The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan» edited by Alice Notley with Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan, Introduction and Notes by Alice Notley
Larissa Shmailo: «Letters from Aldenderry», by Philip Nikolayev
James Stuart: «Mediated», by Carol Mirakove, and «The Arts of Islam: Treasures from the Nasser D Khalili Collection»
Shameless self-promotion: John Tranter has a homepage of his own at http://johntranter.com/. Below, some of his recent books. Most of them can be bought à la plastique via the Internet.
2006 — Urban Myths: 210 poems: New and Selected
University of Queensland Press, 2006. 322 pages. ISBN-0-7022-3557-1, paperback. You can buy the book via UQP’s Internet site.
Publisher’s cover blurb: Urban Myths: 210 Poems brings the best work to date from a poet considered one of the most original of his generation in Australia, together with a generous selection of new work. Smart, wry and very stylish, John Tranter’s poems investigate the vagaries of perception and the ability of language to converge life, imagination and art so that we arrive, unexpectedly, at the deepest human mysteries.
“Tranter has produced a body of work remarkable for its intellectual vitality, formal versatility, and powers of renewal over a long and formidable career.” — Peter Pierce, The Melbourne Age, July 15, 2006. Peter Pierce is professor of Australian literature at James Cook University.
“This new and selected poems reminds us, if we needed reminding, just how powerful John Tranter’s cumulated work is. There is a density, an intensity, and a many-sided explorativeness that probably cannot be matched in Australian poetry. Surprisingly, at 210 poems, it is a comparatively small book and has been pretty ruthlessly selected, but there is no doubting the size of its author’s achievement.” — Martin Duwell, Australian Book Review August 2006, page 41
The third edition of the book The Floor of Heaven, a collection of four loosely-linked narrative poems.
‘A rattling good read’ — JOHN ASHBERY
‘The Floor of Heaven is a tour de force, a devious and profoundly subversive conjuring trick by a poet writing at the peak of his powers… the book pulses with a curious resonance… reminded me irresistibly of the best moments in Twin Peaks… a strange lyricism.’
— ANDREW RIEMER, Sydney Morning Herald
You can read all of The Floor of Heaven on John Tranter’s homepage, and you can buy a printed copy from the publisher’s website:
http://www.uqp.uq.edu.au/book_details.php?id=0975698001
or from the University of Queensland Bookshop mail order department: phone (617+) 3346 9434, fax (617+) 3365 1988 and email at
benc[ât]uqp.uq.edu.au
The book can also be purchased on the bookshop internet site.
At The Florida
University of Queensland Press, 1993, first and only edition, 99
pages, paperback, ISBN 0 7022 2553 3
AUD $15, USD $15, £10 — air mail postage paid
From discursive free verse to intricate rhyme, from the classic
Sapphic stanza to the ‘haibun’, a 17th-century Japanese
hybrid form, John Tranter exploits the full range of his
technique.
Late Night Radio — Polygon Press, Edinburgh, 1998. 92 pages, ISBN 0 7486 6238 3
‘John Tranter’s amphetamine-fuelled, demented jeremiads... this work is... a form of pornography.’ — Caitriona O’Reilly, P.N.Review
‘... a startlingly accomplished pragmatist, a poet alert to what works... Tranter gives us... new, unpredictable ways to describe the world — by turns energetic, exuberant,
exasperated; hip, antipathetic, pathetic; attentive, fantastic, fed-up, ridiculous, serious; in his own words “quizzical”, “grateful”, “daft, adolescent and deeply wise”...’ — Stephen Burt, TLS
[ In Ultra ]Tranter has conjured with great verve a babel of voices — plangent, angry, sentimental, melancholy, at times despairing — which carry the reader into vivid evocations of a feverish kind of urban life, despite the poems’ hermetically sealed refusal to yield conventional sense. — Andrew Riemer, Sydney Morning Herald, May 11-12 2002
How ultra is ultra? Is ultra exemplified by its relentless form, the brilliant style or more by its refusal of easy epiphanies and resolutions, bathey glows? — Michael Farrell , CORDITE, May 06, 2003
The poems are masterful because they survive so much thin ice. They do not fall into cliché, sociology or archness. They are highly visual, cinematic poems that Tranter directs like Polanski. They can make us feel like we are in a film; then, just at the right time, we are back on the street, where the poet stands with his merciless phrasebook… Brilliant. — Barry Hill, The Weekend Australian, 13 October 2001
Ultra is available from Brandl & Schlesinger, PO Box 127, Blackheath NSW 2785, Australia. Ph (612) 4787 5848 / Fax (612) 4787 5672 / vsumegi [ât] brandl.com.au, or:
http://www.brandl.com.au/
Heart Print, Salt Publishing (Cambridge England), November 2001, 106 pages, ISBN 1-876857-32-3.
“Tranter may now be Australia’s most important poet... During the 1990s, Tranter emerged as an international figure, first by editing well-received anthologies, then with the Internet journal Jacket...
Of its four sections, the second and best, ‘The Alphabet Murders’, makes a great introduction to his work: its 27 segments (from ‘After’ and ‘Before’ to ‘Zero’ and ‘After’ again) use their meta-detective tales as excuses to talk about reading, writing, associative thought and literary history.
The untitled set of 28 sonnets and delightful prose poem that conclude the book present light-fingered commentary on subjects from ‘Starlight’ to absinthe and middle age: ‘I re-live youth asleep,’ one affecting line admits, ‘and leave it behind at dawn.’ Readers... will see why Tranter has mattered to Australians for so long.” — U.S. Publishers’ Weekly
You can browse a detailed annotated bibliography of John Tranter’s published books on his homepage.
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