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"Poesie", Rockefeller Center, New York City.
Photo: John Tranter.
Sydney, 2007
photo John Tranter
Visit Jacket 35: Early 2008
“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: Selections from «Heard about the fighting cat?» (Poems 1994–1998), translated by Kristin Dykstra
Omar Pérez and Kristin Dykstra: Germanía / Germaniadified (detranslations), a poem in English and Spanish.
Omar Pérez: Bibliography and Links to English-Language Internet Resources
Feature: Sarajevo
Kent Johnson: The Fountain Where One’s Name Is Changed: Notes from the Sarajevo Poetry Days Conference, May 2007 [25 pages]
Articles: 200 pages
Robert Bond: Babylon Afterburn: Adventures in Iain Sinclair’s «The Firewall» [30 pages]
On the Taipei avant-garde: Is This the End of «Poetry Now»? An essay by Steve Bradbury, with seventeen poems and an audio file [17 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]
Lawrence Giffin: Political Topology in Contemporary North American Poetry: Rod Smith’s «Deed» [20 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]
Rebecca A Smith: Barry MacSweeney and the Bunting Influence: ‘A key figure in his literary universe’? [32 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
Tom Clark: Seven poems
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 88: X-Posting
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 89: Interrogation
Liam Ferney: Cl
Angela Gardner: Three poems: Now that I am in Madrid and can think / Fade / when I leave the clouds
Barbara Henning: Five stories
Christopher (Kit) Kelen: Four poems after the Tang poet, Meng Jiao
Amy King: Four poems: The Arm of Eden / Where Bullfinches Go to Defy / Two if by Land, I Do / A Martyrdom Should Behave Us All
John Kinsella: Four poems: Graphology 676 (December 2007) / Graphology 688 / Graphology 698 / Graphology 699: Baudelaire
Ron Koertge: Three ghazals: Around the bush; Drinks; Gizmo
Federico Garcia Lorca: Two poems, translated by Gilbert Wesley Purdy: Gacela del Amor Imprevisto, and Casida de los Ramos
Gregory O’Brien: Wet Jacket Arm
Peter Robinson: Two poems: Graffiti Service / At the Institute
Tracy Ryan: Watching Brel
Lisa Samuels: Three poems: This bus kneels on request; Art’s fire sale; True likeness
Mitch Sisskind: Like A Monkey
William Stobb: Four poems: In a Mountain Pasture; Some Purple; Release; In/and
Matthew Tierney: Two poems: Batt & Roll; Perpetual Motion Machine
Kirsten Tranter: en route
Roger Van Voorhees: The Red Rolodex
Ouyang Yu: Two poems, translated by John Kinsella
Interviews: 175 pages
Paris, 1968: Structuralism and linguistics: Émile Benveniste in conversation with Pierre Daix, 1968, translated by Matt Reeck [18 pages]
‘Come to Think of It, the Imagination’:
British poet Roy Fisher in Conversation with John Kerrigan [30 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]
Inventing Bablyon: Dmitry Kuzmin in conversation with Peter Golub on contemporary movements in Russian poetry [12 pages]
British poet Peter Riley in conversation with Todd Nathan Thorpe [21 pages]
Reviews
Various authors: «The Grand Piano Project : Part 4:» San Francisco, 1975–80, reviewed by James Sherry
Fictitions: reviewed by Micaela Morrissette: Jesse Ball: «Samedi the Deafness»; Jenny Erpenbeck: «The Book of Words»; Daniel Grandbois: «Unlucky Lucky Days»; Joyelle McSweeney: «Flet»; Yannick Murphy: «Signed, Mata Hari»; Cees Nooteboom: «Lost Paradise»; Alice Sebold: «The Almost Moon»; T.H. White: «The Goshawk»; all reviewed by Micaela Morrissette
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
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
George Oppen: «Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers» Edited and with an Introduction by Stephen Cope; reviewed by Michael Heller: “Towards the Incomplete Work: A Note on Oppen’s «Daybooks»”
Ted Pelton: «Malcolm & Jack: and other famous American criminals», reviewed by Matthew Hotham
Claudia Rankine and Lisa Sewell, Eds., «American Poets in the Twenty-first Century: The New Poetics», reviewed by Andrew Browne
Sarah Riggs: «Waterwork», and «chain of minuscule decisions in the form of a feeling», reviewed by Tim Wright
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
Louis Zukofsky
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
The Dusie Kollektiv Chapbook Series
Susana Gardner: Preface: Some of the Spineless
Nicole Mauro: Introduction:
Samar Abulhassan: Farah
Jules Boykoff: from The Slow Motion Underneath
Eli Queen and Jessica Bozek: correspondence
Joseph Cooper: «Memory/Incision»,
or as it is now called, «Touch Me»
Michelle Detorie: Selection from
Dusie chap «Bellum Letters»
Susana Gardner:: «EBB PORT»
Giles Goodland:Page 32 (poem 1931) line 15: insert double line space after the word ‘soup’: delete semi-colon
Jared Hayes: CaGeD
Anne Heide: An Instant of Flight
Jen Hofer: going going
Paul Klinger: Occasion in the Mosaic Distance
Carrie Hunter: Kine(sta)sis
Alana Madison: Two poems
Marci Nelligan: From «Specimen»
Kaia Sand: «tiny arctic ice»
Kathrin U. Schaeppi: «A Frog Jumps In»
Dusie Kollektiv Contributors, 2007
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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