Jacket 33 — July 2007 — Contents page

Guest editor: Pam Brown

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Feature

link Gordon Ball: Unknown Collaborators: photos from the world of Allen Ginsberg and his many friends among the Beats, from 1969 to Ginsberg’s death in 1997

Herbert Huncke, Allen Ginsberg, near window of Ginsberg's E. 12th Street apartment, New Year's 1976.

Herbert Huncke, Allen Ginsberg, near window of Ginsberg’s E. 12th Street apartment, New Year’s 1976. Photo copyright © Gordon Ball.

Feature

link Pieces on «Pieces of Air in the Epic», by Brenda Hillman: Barbara Claire Freeman, Editor.

Brenda Hillman, photo by Star Black

Brenda Hillman
photo by Star Black

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.

link Introduction, by Barbara Claire Freeman
link Marjorie Welish
link Graham Foust
link Evie Shockley
link C.D. Wright
link Forrest Gander
link Carol Snow
link Robert Hass
link Michael Davidson
link Claudia Keelan
link Robert Kaufman
link Norma Cole
link Marjorie Perloff
link Geoffrey G. O’Brien
link Juliana Spahr
link Calvin Bedient
link Reginald Shepherd
link Cole Swensen
link Elizabeth Robinson
link Nathaniel Tarn
link Bin Ramke
link Donald Revell
link Patricia Dienstfrey
link Michael Palmer
Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1951. After receiving her B.A. at Pomona College, she attended the University of Iowa, where she received her M.F.A. in 1976.She has published seven collections of poetry: White Dress (1985), Fortress (1989), Death Tractates (1992), Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997) and Cascadia (2001), Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005); all published by Wesleyan University Press. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area; she is married and has a daughter.

Reviews

link Adam Aitken: «The Accidental Cage» by Michelle Cahill

link Stan Apps: «Folly», by Nada Gordon.

link Stan Apps: «My Angie Dickinson», by Michael Magee

link Cynthia Arrieu-King: «The Man Suit» by Zachary Schomburg

link Bridget Brooklyn: «Passion», by Brane Mozetič, translated by Tamara Soban

link Andrew J. Browne: «Don’t Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after the New York School», edited by Daniel Kane.

link Stephen Cope: «City Eclogue» by Ed Roberson

link Penelope Cray: «The Wanton Sublime:A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders» by Anna Rabinowitz

link Mark Dickinson: «Leaves of Field»: with «Open Woods» and «Moving Woods».by Peter Larkin

link Patrick James Dunagan: «Remembering Joel Oppenheimer» by Robert Bertholf

link Martin Duwell: «Sugar Hits» by Philip Hammial

link Michael Farrell: «Phosphorescence» by Graeme Miles

link Cliff Fell: Eliot Weinberger, «What happened here» (second edition) and «Muhammad», both published by Verso, 2006.

link Norbert Francis: Tosa Motokiyu (edited by Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez). «Also, With My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords: Araki Yasusada’s Letters in English»

link Noah Eli Gordon and Erik Anderson: Conversational Noise: Some Talk on «Some Notes on My Programming», by Anselm Berrigan

link Anne Heide: «hidde violeth i dde violet», by Kathleen Fraser

link Cole Heinowitz: «Exchanges of Earth and Sky», by Jack Collom

link Tom Hibbard: «Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems», Amiri Baraka

link Ben Hickman: «Remnants of Hannah» by Dara Wier

link Carlos Hiraldo: «Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems, 1978-2006» by Thomas Beckett

link Craig Johnson: «Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems» by Noelle Kocot

link Paul Kahn: «I Was Blown Back», by Norman Fischer

link Carl Kelleher: «Shake» by Joshua Beckman

link Jake Kennedy: «The Men» by Lisa Robertson

link Marc Kipniss: «The Bird Hoverer», by Aaron Belz

link Louise Landes Levi: «Sunswumthru a Building», by Bob Arnold

link Michelle Mahoney: «The Pajamaist», by Matthew Zapruder

link Jill M. Neziri: «Forth a Raven», by Christina Davis

link Michael Quattrone: «Overnight», by Paul Violi

link Dr Mark Seton: «The Kamikaze Mind», by Richard James Allen

link Rob Stanton: «A panic that can still come upon me» by Peter Gizzi

link Paul Stephens: «The External Combustion Engine» by Michael Ives

link James Stuart: «From Now» by Johanna Drucker

link Ezra Tessler: «The Stamp of Class: Reflections on Poetry and Social Class» by Gary Lenhart

link Dan Thomas-Glass: «Girly Man» and «World on Fire», both by Charles Bernstein

link Marjorie Welish: «The Totality for Kids», by Joshua Clover

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Interviews


link Kathleen Fraser in conversation with Sarah Rosenthal, 2007:

Kathleen Fraser, 1964

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.”

George Bowering, 1970




link George Bowering in conversation with Rachel Loden: Like a Radio in the Dark: An Email Interview, 2007


[Photo: George Bowering, 1970]

 

link Alison Knowles in conversation with Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, September 2006. Alison Knowles is a visual artist known for her soundworks, installations, performances, publications and association with Fluxus, the experimental avant-garde group formally founded in 1962.

link Eleni Sikelianos, author of The California Poem, in conversation with Jesse Morse

link Catherine Wagner in conversation with Nathan Smith, 13 April 2007

Articles

book cover

link James Wallenstein: Ninnies and the Critics: «A Nest of Ninnies» by John Ashbery and James Schuyler

link Geoffrey Cruickshank- Hagenbuckle with Alexander Nouvel: ZAP! (Zukofsky, Apollinaire, and the X Men)

link Vernon Frazer and Kirpal Gordon:
Who We Are Now:
A Retrospective of Michael Rothenberg
(60 pages)

link Aram Saroyan: Contretemps: A Minimalist Parable

Feature: Humor in Poetry

link The Dangerfield Conundrum: A Roundtable on Humor in Poetry — 80 pages of discussion edited from 200 pages of postings to the HumPo List by Rachel Loden and K. Silem Mohammad, and featuring the voices of:

George Bowering
Maxine Chernoff
Katie Degentesh
Gabriel Gudding
Rachel Loden
Ange Mlinko
K. Silem Mohammad
D. A. Powell
Ron Silliman
Gary Sullivan

link The Dangerfield Files, edited by Rachel Loden: poems from the HumPo List:

link Rachel Loden: Introduction
link George Bowering
link Maxine Chernoff
link Gabriel Gudding
link Rachel Loden
link Ange Mlinko
link K. Silem Mohammad
link D. A. Powell
link Ron Silliman
link Gary Sullivan

Feature

link Mark Weiss: José Martí: “José Julián Martí y Pérez (1853–1895) may not be unique as a political poet-martyr (one thinks of Byron and Lorca), but he must have been one of the most politically involved. The very model of the committed artist, he was 42 when he died in one of the first engagements of the second Cuban War of Independence, of which he had been chief propagandist and one of the principal planners. He had spent his entire adult life in exile, chiefly in Mexico City and New York.”

Poems

link Mary Jo Bang: Three poems

link Ken Bolton: Three poems: An Australian Suburban Garden; EUROPE; For various movie directors

link Michelle Cahill: Three poems: The Accidental Cage; Manhattan; Poppies

link Justin Clemens: «The Mundiad», Book IV

link Kelvin Corcoran: Three poems from ‘Ulysses in the Car’

link Alfred Corn: Two poems: Page and Cave; Trunk Show

link Wystan Curnow: poem: Max

link Norman Fischer: Formal Terms

link Robert Gibbons: Two poems: That Internal World; At the End of Writing

link Anna Gibbs: Culpable Blindness

link John Hennessy: Coney Island Pilgrims

link Katia Kapovich: Two poems: To Whom It May Concern; The Seventh String

link Burt Kimmelman: Two poems: House, Normandy; Crumbs upon the Table

link Rachel Loden: Three poems: Props to the Twentieth Century; Dick of the Dead; The Pure of Heart, Those Murderers

link Rupert Loydell: Two poems: The Secret Life of Mist; The Secret Life of Light

link Norman MacAfee: I Am Astro Place

link Mark Mordue: Things That Year

link John Muckle: Three Poems: Elizabeth Bishop; Nothing Wrong; Cyclomotors

link Marc Nasdor: Five poems

link Simon Robb: Excerpt from «Jane Fonda’s Temple of Literature»

link Sam Sampson: Three poems: The Ship Beautiful; Reel; Diagram

link Don Share: On being philosophical

link Jaya Savige: Two poems

link Mark Schafer translates five poems by David Huerta

link Jeffrey Side: Extracts from «Carrier of the Seed»

link Stephen Sturgeon: Two poems: Friday; Fired

link Paul Violi: Finish These Sentences

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