Jacket 33 — July 2007 — Contents page Beat Photos — Brenda Hillman — Kathleen Fraser — Bowering — Humor — José Martí A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
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Feature [»»] 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 Feature [»»] Pieces on «Pieces of Air in the Epic», by Brenda Hillman: Barbara Claire Freeman, Editor. “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.
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Introduction, by Barbara Claire Freeman Reviews [»»] Adam Aitken: «The Accidental Cage» by Michelle Cahill [»»] Stan Apps: «Folly», by Nada Gordon. [»»] Stan Apps: «My Angie Dickinson», by Michael Magee [»»] Cynthia Arrieu-King: «The Man Suit» by Zachary Schomburg [»»] Bridget Brooklyn: «Passion», by Brane Mozetič, translated by Tamara Soban [»»] Andrew J. Browne: «Don’t Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after the New York School», edited by Daniel Kane. [»»] Stephen Cope: «City Eclogue» by Ed Roberson [»»] Penelope Cray: «The Wanton Sublime:A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders» by Anna Rabinowitz [»»] Mark Dickinson: «Leaves of Field»: with «Open Woods» and «Moving Woods».by Peter Larkin [»»] Patrick James Dunagan: «Remembering Joel Oppenheimer» by Robert Bertholf [»»] Martin Duwell: «Sugar Hits» by Philip Hammial [»»] Michael Farrell: «Phosphorescence» by Graeme Miles [»»] Cliff Fell: Eliot Weinberger, «What happened here» (second edition) and «Muhammad», both published by Verso, 2006. [»»] 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» [»»] Noah Eli Gordon and Erik Anderson: Conversational Noise: Some Talk on «Some Notes on My Programming», by Anselm Berrigan [»»] Anne Heide: «hidde violeth i dde violet», by Kathleen Fraser [»»] Cole Heinowitz: «Exchanges of Earth and Sky», by Jack Collom [»»] Tom Hibbard: «Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems», Amiri Baraka [»»] Ben Hickman: «Remnants of Hannah» by Dara Wier [»»] Carlos Hiraldo: «Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems, 1978-2006» by Thomas Beckett [»»] Craig Johnson: «Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems» by Noelle Kocot [»»] Paul Kahn: «I Was Blown Back», by Norman Fischer [»»] Carl Kelleher: «Shake» by Joshua Beckman [»»] Jake Kennedy: «The Men» by Lisa Robertson [»»] Marc Kipniss: «The Bird Hoverer», by Aaron Belz [»»] Louise Landes Levi: «Sunswumthru a Building», by Bob Arnold [»»] Michelle Mahoney: «The Pajamaist», by Matthew Zapruder [»»] Jill M. Neziri: «Forth a Raven», by Christina Davis [»»] Michael Quattrone: «Overnight», by Paul Violi [»»] Dr Mark Seton: «The Kamikaze Mind», by Richard James Allen [»»] Rob Stanton: «A panic that can still come upon me» by Peter Gizzi [»»] Paul Stephens: «The External Combustion Engine» by Michael Ives [»»] James Stuart: «From Now» by Johanna Drucker [»»] Ezra Tessler: «The Stamp of Class: Reflections on Poetry and Social Class» by Gary Lenhart [»»] Dan Thomas-Glass: «Girly Man» and «World on Fire», both by Charles Bernstein [»»] Marjorie Welish: «The Totality for Kids», by Joshua Clover |
Interviews
“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.”
[»»] 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. [»»] Eleni Sikelianos, author of The California Poem, in conversation with Jesse Morse [»»] Catherine Wagner in conversation with Nathan Smith, 13 April 2007 Articles [»»] James Wallenstein: Ninnies and the Critics: «A Nest of Ninnies» by John Ashbery and James Schuyler [»»] Geoffrey Cruickshank- Hagenbuckle with Alexander Nouvel: ZAP! (Zukofsky, Apollinaire, and the X Men)
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Vernon Frazer and Kirpal Gordon: [»»] Aram Saroyan: Contretemps: A Minimalist Parable Feature: Humor in Poetry [»»] 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 [»»] The Dangerfield Files, edited by Rachel Loden: poems from the HumPo List:
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Rachel Loden: Introduction Feature [»»] 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 [»»] Mary Jo Bang: Three poems [»»] Ken Bolton: Three poems: An Australian Suburban Garden; EUROPE; For various movie directors [»»] Michelle Cahill: Three poems: The Accidental Cage; Manhattan; Poppies [»»] Justin Clemens: «The Mundiad», Book IV [»»] Kelvin Corcoran: Three poems from ‘Ulysses in the Car’ [»»] Alfred Corn: Two poems: Page and Cave; Trunk Show [»»] Wystan Curnow: poem: Max [»»] Norman Fischer: Formal Terms [»»] Robert Gibbons: Two poems: That Internal World; At the End of Writing [»»] Anna Gibbs: Culpable Blindness [»»] John Hennessy: Coney Island Pilgrims [»»] Katia Kapovich: Two poems: To Whom It May Concern; The Seventh String [»»] Burt Kimmelman: Two poems: House, Normandy; Crumbs upon the Table [»»] Rachel Loden: Three poems: Props to the Twentieth Century; Dick of the Dead; The Pure of Heart, Those Murderers [»»] Rupert Loydell: Two poems: The Secret Life of Mist; The Secret Life of Light [»»] Norman MacAfee: I Am Astro Place [»»] Mark Mordue: Things That Year [»»] John Muckle: Three Poems: Elizabeth Bishop; Nothing Wrong; Cyclomotors [»»] Marc Nasdor: Five poems [»»] Simon Robb: Excerpt from «Jane Fonda’s Temple of Literature» [»»] Sam Sampson: Three poems: The Ship Beautiful; Reel; Diagram [»»] Don Share: On being philosophical [»»] Jaya Savige: Two poems [»»] Mark Schafer translates five poems by David Huerta [»»] Jeffrey Side: Extracts from «Carrier of the Seed» [»»] Stephen Sturgeon: Two poems: Friday; Fired [»»] Paul Violi: Finish These Sentences |