Jacket 25 — February 2004  — Contents page

 

Rakosi — Guest — Fraser — Saenz — Turnbull

 

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Donald Allen, 1912–2004

[»»] 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, 1903–2004

Photo of Carl Rakosi

Carl Rakosi
San Francisco, March 1989, photo John Tranter

[»»] 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 Barbara Guest, 1992

Barbara Guest, 1992

Barbara Guest and Kathleen Fraser

[»»] 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’
Also see: link Meredith Quartermain reviews Discrete Categories Forced into Coupling by Kathleen Fraser in Jacket 26
Off-site: link 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

Bolivia: Jaime Saenz

Saenz image for index page

At a Jaime Saenz seance

[»»] Forrest Gander and Kent Johnson:
Jaime Saenz — An Introduction to The Night

     ...notes from Bolivia, June 20-30, 2004

Gael Turnbull, 1928–2004

[»»] Gael Turnbull - ‘At Least Once...’
[»»] Tony Baker: Near Currie Kirk
[»»] Laurie Duggan on Gael Turnbull: Recollections of the Lakes and the Lake Poets
[»»] John Lucas: ‘Tea and Sympathy’ — i.m. Gael Turnbull
Two nibs

Interviews

[»»] Robert Creeley in Conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 24 November, 2003
[»»] Unprotected Text: Tom Beckett in Conversation with Richard Lopez

Peter Robinson

[»»] 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’

Simon Pettet

[»»] Robert Creeley: Simon Pettet’s Calling
[»»] Simon Pettet in conversation with Anselm Berrigan
[»»] 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’.
[»»] Dawn-Michelle Baude: Thoughts on Simon Pettet’s Selected Poems
[»»] Dale Smith: Words Inside Out: a Note on the Poetry of Simon Pettet

Tony Towle

[»»] 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

Robin Hyde, 1932

Robin Hyde
New Zealand, 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

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Articles and Reviews

[»»] 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
Maria Sabina, detail

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

Poems

[»»] 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
 
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