Jacket 23 — August 2003 — Contents page
Rakosi — O’Hara — Rexroth — David Shapiro
Note from Jacket editor John Tranter: Poet Carl Rakosi died on Friday afternoon June 25 at the age of 100, after a series of strokes, in his home in San Francisco. My wife Lyn and I were passing through California in November 2003, and we stopped by to have a coffee with Carl at his home in Sunset. By a lucky coincidence, it happened to be his 100th birthday. He was, as always, kind, thoughtful, bright and alert, and as sharp as a pin. We felt privileged to know him. You can read a poem by Carl in the very first issue of Jacket, from 1997. Jacket will publish more material in Jacket 25, and you can read some of the contributions already posted in that issue, including a conversation between Carl and Tom Devaney, here.
Olivier Brossard: The film The Last Clean Shirt by Alfred Leslie and Frank O'Hara
Still from the film The Last Clean Shirt by Alfred Leslie and Frank O’Hara
Kenneth Rexroth reading his work to a jazz accompaniment at The Cellar in San Francisco in 1957.
When We With Rexroth:
A Jacket Tribute, edited by Kevin Gallagher
Kevin Gallagher: Introduction: Natural Numbers
Audio: Poetry and Jazz at the Blackhawk
Sam Hamill: The Poetry of Kenneth Rexroth
Lise Haines: Dower House
Homero Aridjis: Los Espacios Azules de la Iluminacion
Anastasios Kozaitis: Rexroth Today
Jerome Rothenberg and David Antin: Unpublished Interview with Kenneth Rexroth: April, 1958:
“...today the social fabric is falling apart so fast, it makes your head swim.”
Jerome Rothenberg: Variations & Visions, from a poem by Rexroth
Eliot Weinberger: At the Death of Kenneth Rexroth
Eliot Weinberger: Rexroth From the Chinese
Steve Bradbury: Reading Rexroth Rewriting Tu Fu in the ‘Permanent War’
Mark Lamoureux: On Kenneth Rexroth’s 100 Poems from the Chinese
Samuel B. Garren, The Influence of Kenneth Rexroth’s Bird in the Bush and Assays on North American Poetry in the 1960s
Beatrice Farwell Duncan: The Paintings of Kenneth Rexroth
Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno: Rexroth Memories
Link to Ken Knabb’s Kenneth Rexroth Archive, a rich trove of connections and resources (Note: This link is off-site): http://www.bopsecrets.org/rexroth/
Interviews
Film and Literature: Michael Wood (in conversation with Noel King)
Leslie Scalapino (in conversation with Sarah Rosenthal)
Nada Gordon (in conversation with Tom Beckett)
Lytle Shaw (in conversation with Gary Sullivan)David Shapiro
Thomas Fink: David Shapiro’s ‘Possibilist’ Poetry
David Shapiro (in conversation with John Tranter, 1984)
David Shapiro: Six poems (from A Burning Interior, 2000)
The Weak Poet
Light Bulb
After Three Chinese Poems
A Poet Named Open
Henry Hudson Looks at the Hudson
After Poetry
Carl Whithaus: Immediate Memories — (Nostalgic) Time and (Immediate) Loss in the Poetry of David Shapiro
Nathan Hauke: Meditations on David Shapiro: Memory and Lateness
Kent Johnson: Poem Upon a Typo Found in an Interview of Kenneth Koch, Conducted by David Shapiro
Articles and Reviews
Douglas Barbour: Fq, Alan Brunton’s final book
Douglas Barbour: Inside Out: an autobiography, and Mulberry Leaves: New & Selected Poems 1970-2001, by Robert Adamson
Thomas Fink: Ugh Ugh Ocean, by Joanna Fuhrman
Skip Fox: Edward Dorn: A World of Difference, by Tom Clark
Brian Henry: Dear Deliria: New and Selected Poems, by Pam Brown
Tom Hibbard: Affordable Poetry, a brief chapbook of poems by Larry Sawyer
Subhash Jaireth: Poetry, Resistance and City-Space: Reclaiming the City through Poetry (poetry in Moscow under the Soviets)
Hank Lazer: Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabès by Rosmarie Waldrop
Geraldine McKenzie: Calques, by Javant Biarujia
Ben Mazer: Monkey Time, by Philip Nikolayev
John Olson: Everwhat, poems by Clayton Eshleman
Marjorie Perloff: The Oulipo Factor — The Procedural Poetics of Christian Bök and Caroline Bergvall
Patrick Pritchett: Apprehend, by Elizabeth Robinson
Patrick Pritchett: The Monster Lives of Boys and Girls, by Eleni Sikelianos
Gilbert Wesley Purdy: Ca Dao Viet Nam transl. by John Balaban
Gilbert Wesley Purdy: Between Zero and a Hard Place
Larry Sawyer: AsEverWas: memoirs of a beat survivor, by Hammond Guthrie
Michael Scharf: Cable Factory 20 and The Lobe by Lytle Shaw
Gerald Schwartz: Engravings Torn From Insomnia by Olga Orozco
Eileen Tabios: Serious Pink by Sharon Dolin
Mark Wallace: Writer and Self in the Work of Nick Piombino
Poems
Christopher Barnes: — After Rabi Paneloux’s Reading of the Torah;— Rue du Coq D’or, Paris
Bruce Covey: — Nurse’s Song; — 10 Pins, 10 Frames
Katia Kapovich: — A Komsomol Act; — They Called Them ‘Blue’; — Christmas
Denis Gallagher: — the habit of irony
Joel Lewis: — Snowstorm looming; — Poem; — Entering Whitehall Terminal
Chris Martin: — G; — Q
Geraldine McKenzie: — Currency
Mark Pallas: — Scopolamine
Eleni Sikelianos: — from The California Poem
Evan Willner: — Fluity
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