Jacket 28 — October 2005 — Contents page
Robert Duncan, Buffalo, New York, 1982, photograph by Patricia Layman Bazelon
Robert Bertholf’s Robert Duncan
Robert J. Bertholf: Introduction
Robert Bertholf: Robert Duncan: A Biographical Sketch
Robert Duncan, Ten Poems, 1940 to 1980
Robert Duncan, Ten Letters, 1939 to 1960
Robert Duncan, Ten Prose Pieces, 1945 to 1978
Robert J. Bertholf: Robert Duncan’s ‘The Venice Poem’ and Symphonic Form
Robert J. Bertholf: The Robert Duncan / Denise Levertov Correspondence: Duncan’s View
Robert J. Bertholf: From Robert Duncan’s Notebooks: On Denise Levertov
“Here at the last minute”: Letters from Robert Duncan to Chris Edwards, 1977–1980 (excerpts)
Robert J. Bertholf: Preliminary Checklist of Robert Duncan’s Reference Library
Robert Bertholf: The Poetry Collection at the State University of New York at Buffalo: A Sketch
Information about the Robert Duncan Conference at Buffalo in April 2006
Kenneth Cox and friends
Kenneth Cox 1916–2005
Edited by Jenny Penberthy
Introduction: Jenny Penberthy: Kenneth Cox 1916–2005
August Kleinzahler: Kenneth Cox
Kenneth Cox: Donald Davie’s History ( a review of Donald Davie, Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain 1960–1988. Manchester: Carcanet, 1989.)
Kenneth Cox: Basil Bunting reading Wordsworth
Kenneth Cox: Laforgue
Kenneth Cox: Lorine Niedecker’s Poetry
Sorley Maclean: Raasay Woods (“Englished by Kenneth Cox”)
Kenneth Cox on Translating
Eliot Weinberger: Kenneth Cox
Michael O’Brien: About Kenneth Cox
Michael Hamburger: Ave Atque Vale
Roger Guedalla
George Bowering
George Bowering Feature
Edited by rob mclennan
rob mclennan: Introduction: George Bowering at 70
George Bowering: Three poems: His Friend Waiting / Q&A / The Figure of outward
George Bowering in conversation with Eric Eggertson, 1979
Jonathan Ball: “Is winter my country”: Bowering’s Kanada
rob mclennan: Changing on the Fly, The Best Lyric Poems of George Bowering
rob mclennan: from variations: plunder verse (book 3 of the other side of the mouth): six variations on George Bowering’s “Do Sink”
Tim Conley: Reading Bowering Fearfully
Rob Budde: Curiouser: George Bowering
Aaron Belz: Five poems: There is Bowering / Bowering / George on a Bike / Mountains are Somebody’s Back Yard / Baseball
Kent Johnson: I Remember Once, Years Ago
Lionel Kearns: Calling
David W. McFadden: Two poems: Chinese / Saskatoon
rob mclennan: George Bowering Bibliography (selected)
Interviews
‘The Wedding Dress: Meditations On Word and Life’: Fanny Howe in conversation with Leonard Schwartz
‘Making Things Difficult’: Douglas Messerli in conversation with Charles Bernstein
‘Bumper-car effect’: Rodrigo Toscano in conversation with Leonard Schwartz
Reviews and Articles
Joel Bettridge: Surfaces by John Tipton
Ken Bolton: The Roads by David Kennedy
Daniel Borzutzky: Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz, translated by Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander
Kerry Brown: A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Works of Richard Yates, by Blake Bailey
Colin Browne: ‘Shadowtime’, Composer: Brian Ferneyhough; Librettist: Charles Bernstein; North American premiere: Lincoln Center Festival 2005, July 21 and 22, 2005; Shadowtime, by Charles Bernstein: Green Integer Books
Sophie Calle and Grégoire Bouillier: Questionnaire, translated by Bill Berkson, answered by Harry Mathews, then by Andrei Codrescu
Cyrus Console: The Lichtenberg Figures, by Ben Lerner
Stuart Cooke: Music — Prose and Poems by Martin Harrison
Jon Curley: Uncertain Poetries — Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics, by Michael Heller
Jim Feast: Poems From the Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh, translated by Steve Bradbury
Adam Fieled: Wordsworth @ McDonald’s
Thomas Fink: Incessant Seeds, by Sheila E. Murphy
Lyman Gilmore: William Bronk and Cid Corman
Barbara Guest, Sermoneta, Italy, 1968
Noah Eli Gordon: Folding Ruler Star, by Aaron Kunin
Noah Eli Gordon reviews 23 recent American chapbooks
Timothy Gray: ‘Fictions Dressed Like Water’: Aqueous Imagery in the Poetry of Barbara Guest (15,000 words)
T.Hibbard: Avenue Noir by Vernon Frazer
Brenda Hillman: Nathaniel Tarn’s Selected Poems 1950–2000
Piers Hugill: Shut Up Shut Down, by Mark Nowak with an afterword by Amiri Baraka
Paul Foster Johnson: Fourier Series, by Joshua Corey
Paul Kahn: three books by James Koller: Snows Gone By — New & Uncollected Poems — 1964-2002 / Looking For His Horses / Crows Talk To Him
Ben Lerner: Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S Merwin
James Maynard: Precipitations — Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice, by Devin Johnston
Kim Minkus: American Standard/Canada Dry, by Stephen Cain
Jim O’Donoghue: Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan, and Dylan’s Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks
Richard Owens: Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz — Eleven Submissions to the War, by Kent Johnson
Liz Parsons: ode ode by Michael Farrell
Lance Phillips: Growing Still by Deborah Meadows
Chris Pusateri: To Tell the Lamp, by Lisa Lubasch
Larry Sawyer: The Vermont Notebook by John Ashbery and Joe Brainard
Laura Sims: Emptied of All Ships by Stacy Szymaszek
Madeline Tiger: Somehow (Poems) by Burt Kimmelman
Jim Wanless: The Compete Love Elegies of Sextus Propertius, translated by Vincent Katz
John Welch: Being There: the literary life in London
Laura Wright: The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History, by Kass Fleisher
Poems
Louis Armand: Croatoan
Aaron Belz: Three poems: Tim Burton Explodes / In Bed with Meryl Streep / Gary Cooper in the Intellectual Graveyard
Stephen Bett: For the Nine Guys
Bill Berkson: Exhibit A
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 66: Scroll
Tom Clark: All: for Robert Creeley (1926-2005)
Joshua Clover: Three poems: Triple Sonnet / Early Style / Whiteread Walk
Clayton Eshleman: Two poems: An Arsenal In Seattle / Monumental
Landis Everson: Woof
Annie Finch: Excerpt from The Encyclopedia of Scotland, Section 4: ‘Feeding the Admiral’s Pussycat’
Vincent Katz: Three poems: Psalm / The Regattas at Sainte-Adresse / Hell
Philip Hammial: Three poems: Grammar / France / Kamikaze
Lawrence Joseph: The Bronze-Green Gold-Green Foreground / On That Side / The Pattern-Parallel Map Or Graph
David Lehman: To You
Joel Lewis: Eight Poems From "Anhedonia"
Steve McOrmond: Happy Hour
Ange Mlinko: Two Poems: Femme Fatale Geography / Everything’s Carousing
Chus Pato: CHARENTON (excerpt), translated from the Galician by Erín Moure
Erín Moure: Extract from ‘The Fall’
Stephen Ratcliffe: Poems from HUMAN / NATURE
Peter Robinson: from Other Trespasses
Linda Russo: ‘I was a doctor...’ / perfecto fiesta / gender mark-down / It’s a boy and It’s a girl / “Photoillustration of Martha’s last laugh” and “post-attack” / ‘Here is love and peace’ / ‘My biggest problem’ / ‘don’t do or say that to that’
Lisa Samuels: Two poems: I’m not waiting for anything / Riddle of the covering cherub
Anamaría Crowe Serrano: Pitter patter
Peter Jay Shippy: Tristan & Isolde
Spencer Selby: Three poems: Patex Ont / Please Wireless / Original Veneer
Pete Spence: Heading...For a fall
Erik Sweet: Two poems: 8 Tender Buttons / Double a World
Rodrigo Toscano: Truax Inimical
César Vallejo: Two poems, translated by Clayton Eshleman: The Book Of Nature / Let the Millionaire Walk Naked
John Wilkinson: Crown of Nettles
Lewis Warsh: Reversible Destiny
Photo of Barbara Guest, Sermoneta, Italy, 1968, photographer unknown,
copyright © Barbara Guest 1968, 2000, 2005

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