Jacket 38 — Late 2009 — Contents page

Jonathan Williams — Niedecker — H.D. — Blaser — Dorn — Geoffrey Hill — Bei Dao

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“You were talking of continuing fashions and of course you see these periods come and go. If you lived through the Leavis era, you’d know what it was like for a whole doctrine of literature to be created, defended and lost. There are very few Leavisites now, as you know. There was a time when every grammar school had a Leavisite English master.”  — Frank Kermode, 2009, in conversation with Tom Bailey, in The Literateur

Articles

[»»] Photographer Robert Adams: Frish Brandt in conversation with Noel King, 2008

[»»] Cralan: I Once Met

Jack Spicer

[»»] Graham Foust: Resisting Print: Jack Spicer’s Lecturature

[»»] Gloria Frym: Lorine Niedecker’s Plain (Language)

[»»] Matthew Gagnon: Carmen Perpetuum: Robin Blaser’s Continuous Song

[»»] Genevieve Kaplan: How we read Caroline Bergvall’s “Via” and Why we should care

[»»] Travis Macdonald: A Brief History of Erasure Poetics

[»»] Dîpti Saravanamuttu: Some Aspects of the Tetragrammaton: on Geoffrey Hill

[»»] Kyle Waugh: “You Are Sometimes in the Trance of What Is Beyond You”: Upheaval, Incantation and Ed Dorn in the Summer of 1968

Reviews

[»»] Anselm Berrigan, «To Hell with Sleep», reviewed by Sophie Sills

[»»] Anne Blonstein: «Correspondence with Nobody», reviewed by Maria Damon

[»»] Pat Boran: «New and Selected Poems», reviewed by Sarah Linke

[»»] Michael Boughn: «22 Skidoo/Sub Transactions», reviewed by Patrick James Dunagan

[»»] David Buuck: «The Shunt», reviewed by Stan Apps

[»»] Johan de Wit: «Up To You Munro», reviewed by Will Rowe

[»»] Dolores Dorantes: sexoPURO sexoVELOZ / Septiembre: A Bilingual Edition of Books Two and Three of “Dolores Dorantes;” Translated by Jen Hofer, reviewed by Christopher Winks

[»»] Ulla E. Dydo, with William Rice: «Gertrude Stein: The Language That Rises, 1923-1934», reviewed by Logan Esdale

[»»] Lawrence Giffin: «Get the Fuck Back Into That Burning Plane», reviewed by Stan Apps

[»»] Mary Kasimor: «Silk String Arias», reviewed by Robert Zamsky

[»»] Yusef Komunyakaa: «Warhorses», Reviewed by Brett Strickland

[»»] Heller Levinson: «Smelling Mary», reviewed by Leigh Herrick

[»»] Rachel Loden: «Dick of the Dead», reviewed by Tad Richards

[»»] Joseph Massey: «Areas of Fog», reviewed by Rob Stanton

[»»] Ian Seed: «Anonymous Intruder», reviewed by: Virginia Konchan

[»»] Rodrigo Toscano: «Collapsible Poetics Theater», reviewed by Natalie Knight

[»»] Sara Veglahn, «Another Random Heart», reviewed by Sophie Sills

[»»] Eliot Weinberger: «Oranges and Peanuts for Sale», reviewed by Jeffrey Errington

[»»] Susan Wheeler: Assorted Poems, reviewed by Will Cordeiro

Poems

[»»] Bob Arnold: My Sweetest Friend

[»»] Bei Dao: Four poems; Translated by Clayton Eshleman and Lucas Klein

[»»] James Byrne: Two poems: From the Sky Parlour / Sanchez de Aldama

[»»] Stephen Collis: poems

[»»] Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 99: Intransitive

[»»] Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 98: Canzone

[»»] E.W. Everett: Four poems: Langley’s Body: under the influence of Homer Collyer / Dedicate / 51 Steps: under the influence of Rosalind Franklin / Downing Street

[»»] Liam Ferney: Two poems: Triumph of Will / Push Kick Dreaming

[»»] Jason Harmon: Alette

[»»] Cynthia Hogue: Ars Cora

[»»] Kent Johnson: After Spicer

[»»] Ron Koertge: Three poems: Hades / Persephone / Demeter

[»»] Virginia Konchan: Two poems

[»»] Ben Lerner: Doppler Elegies

[»»] Jamie Lord: A Style for Every Story

[»»] Omar Pérez: Four poems from “Common Nonsense”

[»»] David Shapiro: The Birthday of the World

[»»] Hugh Tolhurst: Unfailingly

[»»] Chris Tysh: Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic

[»»] Mark Young: Four poems from Genji Monogatari

Interviews

[»»] Maxine Chernoff in conversation with Jane Joritz-Nakagawa, 2009

[»»] John Olson in conversation with Noah Eli Gordon, 2007-2008

[»»] The Tortoise And The Hare: Dale Smith and Kenneth Goldsmith Parse Slow and Fast Poetries

Feature: Ángel Escobar

[»»] Ángel Escobar: Three Poems, Translated by Kristin Dykstra

[»»] Pedro Marqués de Armas: The great leap outward: On the life and poetry of Ángel Escobar

Feature:
Jonathan Williams

INTRODUCTION:

[»»] Jeffery Beam and Richard Owens: The Lord of Orchards: Jonathan Williams at 80

REMEMBERING:

[»»] Jonathan Williams: A Life in Pictures

[»»] Basil Bunting: Comment on Jonathan Williams

[»»] Dear JW: Erica Van Horn

[»»] James McGarrell: Mountainside Reader; for JW

[»»] Ann McGarrell: À mon cher Stodge

[»»] Anne Midgette: On With It

[»»] Bob Arnold: Swept in with the Rain

[»»] Charles Lambert: Acts of Kindness

[»»] Diana C. Stoll: Jonathan Williams: More Mouth on that Man

[»»] Gary Carden: The Bard of Scaly Mountain

[»»] Harry Gilonis: from Pliny: Naturalis Historia XXVII. xvi 58

[»»] John Mitzel: Jonathan Williams: An Appreciation

[»»] Michael Rumaker’s Last Letter to Jonathan Williams

[»»] Robert Kelly: Colonel Generosity — Saying Thank You to Jonathan Williams

[»»] Ronald Johnson: A Microscopic/ Telescopic Collage of «The Empire Finals at Verona»

[»»] Simon Cutts: Anglophone Digressions

[»»] Thomas A Clark and Laurie Clark

[»»] Thomas Meyer: Kintsugi — with a Foreword by Robert Kelly

RESPONDING:

[»»] Guy Davenport: Jonathan Williams, Poet

[»»] Charles Olson: For a Man Gone to Stuttgart Who Left an Automobile Behind Him

[»»] Charles Olson: Nota to «Jammin’ the Greek Scene»

[»»] Robert Duncan: Preface to Jonathan Williams’ «Elegies and Celebrations»

[»»] James Maynard: Some notes on Jonathan Williams and Robert Duncan

[»»] Jed Birmingham: William Burroughs and Jonathan Williams

[»»] David Annwn: Mustard & Evening Primrose, the astringent extravagance of Jonathan Williams’ metafours

[»»] Eric Mottram: An Introduction: “Stay In and Use Both Hands”

[»»] Jim Cory: We Were All Beautiful Once (or) Never Bare Your Soul to an Asshole

[»»] Jonathan Greene: Jonathan Williams: Taking Delight In Two Worlds

[»»] Kenneth Irby: “america’s largest openair museum”

[»»] Ronald Johnson: Jonathan (Chamberlain) Williams

[»»] Thomas Meyer: JW Gent & Epicurean

REVIEWING:

[»»] Jonathan Williams: Image Gallery: 24 photographs by Jonathan Williams

[»»] Richard Deming: Portraying the Contemporary: The Photography of Jonathan Williams

[»»] Vic Brand: Burr, Salvage, Yoke

RECOLLECTING:

[»»] James Jaffe: Jonathan Williams, Jargonaut

[»»] Kyle Schlesinger: The Jargon Society

[»»] Tom Patterson: If You Can Kill a Snake with It, It Ain't Art: The Art History of a Maverick Poet-Publisher

[»»] Michael Basinski: Some Facts and Some Memories: The Jargon Society Archive at the Poetry Collection State University of New York at Buffalo

[»»] Dale Smith: Devotion to “The Strange”: Jonathan Williams and the Small Press

[»»] Jonathan Williams in conversation with Richard Owens,1 June 2007

[»»] Robert J. Bertholf: The Jargon Society and Contemporary Literary History

[»»] Jargon Society: A Checklist

[»»] Jonathan Williams: A Checklist

Feature: H.D.

[»»] H.D. Feature: Editor’s Introduction: H.D. and the Image by Kristina Marie Darling

[»»] H.D.’ s Crucible of Fire, by Nancy McGuire Roche

[»»] H.D., Imagiste: Mary Ann Sullivan in Conversation with Lisa Stewart

[»»] Nephie Christodoulides: Beyond Sea Garden: Hermes and the Rose

[»»] Daniele Pantano: Between Stations of the Metro

[»»] Two images by Amy Evans

[»»] Donna J. Gelagotis Lee: Two poems

[»»] Gretchen Steele Pratt: Three poems

[»»] Angela Sorby: The Suburban Mysteries