Jacket 35 — Early 2008 — Contents page
Omar Pérez — Sarajevo — Roy Fisher — Grenier — The Taipei Avant-garde
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“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
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
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Feature: Sarajevo
Kent Johnson:
The Fountain Where One’s Name Is Changed:
Notes from the
Sarajevo Poetry Days Conference,
May 2007 [25 pages]
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
Photo (detail) © Walter Crump, used with permission
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 Zukofsky», 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
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