Jacket 29 — April 2006 — Contents page
Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — Poland — Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
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.
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
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.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
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
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
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
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