Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — New Polish Poetry — Margaret Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
Editor: [»»] John Tranter — Associate Editor: [»»] Pam Brown…
Visit our new [»»] Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc.
You may send [»»] Letters to the Editor: please be concise and courteous.
The Internet address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/29/index.shtml
We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don’t send material out of season.
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino Edited by Ken Bolton
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
[»»]
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
[»»]
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
[»»]
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
[»»]
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
[»»]
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
[»»]
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
[»»]
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Interviews
[»»]Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
[»»]
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
[»»]
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
[»»]
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
Feature: James Schuyler Edited by Pam Brown
[»»]
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
[»»]Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
[»»]On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Mallarmé revisited
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
[»»]
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
[»»]
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
[»»]
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
[»»]
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
[»»]
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
[»»]
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
[»»] Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
On Flarf
[»»]
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
[»»]
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Margaret Avison
[»»]Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning
Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
[»»]
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
Articles
[»»]
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
[»»]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
[»»]
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
[»»]
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
[»»]
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
[»»]
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
Comic Strip
[»»]John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
[»»]
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
[»»]
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
[»»]
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
[»»]
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — New Polish Poetry — Margaret Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
Editor: [»»] John Tranter — Associate Editor: [»»] Pam Brown…
Visit our new [»»] Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc.
You may send [»»] Letters to the Editor: please be concise and courteous.
The Internet address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/29/index.shtml
We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don’t send material out of season.
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino Edited by Ken Bolton
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
[»»]
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
[»»]
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
[»»]
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
[»»]
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
[»»]
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
[»»]
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
[»»]
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Interviews
[»»]Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
[»»]
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
[»»]
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
[»»]
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
Feature: James Schuyler Edited by Pam Brown
[»»]
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
[»»]Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
[»»]On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Mallarmé revisited
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
[»»]
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
[»»]
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
[»»]
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
[»»]
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
[»»]
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
[»»]
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
[»»] Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
On Flarf
[»»]
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
[»»]
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Margaret Avison
[»»]Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning
Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
[»»]
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
Articles
[»»]
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
[»»]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
[»»]
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
[»»]
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
[»»]
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
[»»]
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
Comic Strip
[»»]John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
[»»]
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
[»»]
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
[»»]
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
[»»]
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — New Polish Poetry — Margaret Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
Editor: [»»] John Tranter — Associate Editor: [»»] Pam Brown…
Visit our new [»»] Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc.
You may send [»»] Letters to the Editor: please be concise and courteous.
The Internet address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/29/index.shtml
We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don’t send material out of season.
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino Edited by Ken Bolton
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
[»»]
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
[»»]
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
[»»]
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
[»»]
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
[»»]
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
[»»]
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
[»»]
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Interviews
[»»]Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
[»»]
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
[»»]
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
[»»]
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
Feature: James Schuyler Edited by Pam Brown
[»»]
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
[»»]Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
[»»]On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Mallarmé revisited
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
[»»]
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
[»»]
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
[»»]
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
[»»]
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
[»»]
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
[»»]
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
[»»] Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
On Flarf
[»»]
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
[»»]
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Margaret Avison
[»»]Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning
Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
[»»]
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
Articles
[»»]
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
[»»]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
[»»]
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
[»»]
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
[»»]
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
[»»]
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
Comic Strip
[»»]John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
[»»]
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
[»»]
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
[»»]
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
[»»]
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — New Polish Poetry — Margaret Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
Editor: [»»] John Tranter — Associate Editor: [»»] Pam Brown…
Visit our new [»»] Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc.
You may send [»»] Letters to the Editor: please be concise and courteous.
The Internet address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/29/index.shtml
We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don’t send material out of season.
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino Edited by Ken Bolton
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
[»»]
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
[»»]
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
[»»]
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
[»»]
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
[»»]
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
[»»]
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
[»»]
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Interviews
[»»]Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
[»»]
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
[»»]
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
[»»]
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
Feature: James Schuyler Edited by Pam Brown
[»»]
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
[»»]Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
[»»]On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Mallarmé revisited
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
[»»]
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
[»»]
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
[»»]
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
[»»]
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
[»»]
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
[»»]
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
[»»] Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
On Flarf
[»»]
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
[»»]
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Margaret Avison
[»»]Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning
Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
[»»]
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
Articles
[»»]
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
[»»]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
[»»]
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
[»»]
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
[»»]
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
[»»]
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
Comic Strip
[»»]John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
[»»]
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
[»»]
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
[»»]
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
[»»]
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — New Polish Poetry — Margaret Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
Editor: [»»] John Tranter — Associate Editor: [»»] Pam Brown…
Visit our new [»»] Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc.
You may send [»»] Letters to the Editor: please be concise and courteous.
The Internet address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/29/index.shtml
We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don’t send material out of season.
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino Edited by Ken Bolton
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
[»»]
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
[»»]
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
[»»]
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
[»»]
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
[»»]
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
[»»]
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
[»»]
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Interviews
[»»]Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
[»»]
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
[»»]
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
[»»]
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
Feature: James Schuyler Edited by Pam Brown
[»»]
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
[»»]Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
[»»]On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Mallarmé revisited
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
[»»]
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
[»»]
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
[»»]
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
[»»]
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
[»»]
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
[»»]
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
[»»] Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
On Flarf
[»»]
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
[»»]
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Margaret Avison
[»»]Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning
Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
[»»]
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
Articles
[»»]
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
[»»]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
[»»]
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
[»»]
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
[»»]
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
[»»]
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
Comic Strip
[»»]John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
[»»]
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
[»»]
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
[»»]
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
[»»]
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — New Polish Poetry — Margaret Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
Editor: [»»] John Tranter — Associate Editor: [»»] Pam Brown…
Visit our new [»»] Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc.
You may send [»»] Letters to the Editor: please be concise and courteous.
The Internet address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/29/index.shtml
We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don’t send material out of season.
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino Edited by Ken Bolton
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
[»»]
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
[»»]
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
[»»]
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
[»»]
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
[»»]
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
[»»]
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
[»»]
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Interviews
[»»]Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
[»»]
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
[»»]
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
[»»]
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
Feature: James Schuyler Edited by Pam Brown
[»»]
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
[»»]Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
[»»]On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Mallarmé revisited
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
[»»]
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
[»»]
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
[»»]
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
[»»]
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
[»»]
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
[»»]
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
[»»] Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
On Flarf
[»»]
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
[»»]
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Margaret Avison
[»»]Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning
Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
[»»]
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
Articles
[»»]
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
[»»]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
[»»]
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
[»»]
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
[»»]
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
[»»]
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
Comic Strip
[»»]John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
[»»]
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
[»»]
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
[»»]
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
[»»]
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — New Polish Poetry — Margaret Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
Editor: [»»] John Tranter — Associate Editor: [»»] Pam Brown…
Visit our new [»»] Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc.
You may send [»»] Letters to the Editor: please be concise and courteous.
The Internet address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/29/index.shtml
We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don’t send material out of season.
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino Edited by Ken Bolton
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
[»»]
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
[»»]
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
[»»]
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
[»»]
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
[»»]
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
[»»]
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
[»»]
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Interviews
[»»]Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
[»»]
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
[»»]
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
[»»]
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
Feature: James Schuyler Edited by Pam Brown
[»»]
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
[»»]Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
[»»]On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Mallarmé revisited
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
[»»]
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
[»»]
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
[»»]
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
[»»]
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
[»»]
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
[»»]
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
[»»] Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
On Flarf
[»»]
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
[»»]
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Margaret Avison
[»»]Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning
Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
[»»]
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
Articles
[»»]
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
[»»]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
[»»]
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
[»»]
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
[»»]
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
[»»]
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
Comic Strip
[»»]John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
[»»]
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
[»»]
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
[»»]
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
[»»]
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — New Polish Poetry — Margaret Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
Editor: [»»] John Tranter — Associate Editor: [»»] Pam Brown…
Visit our new [»»] Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc.
You may send [»»] Letters to the Editor: please be concise and courteous.
The Internet address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/29/index.shtml
We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don’t send material out of season.
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino Edited by Ken Bolton
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
[»»]
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
[»»]
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
[»»]
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
[»»]
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
[»»]
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
[»»]
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
[»»]
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Interviews
[»»]Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
[»»]
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
[»»]
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
[»»]
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
Feature: James Schuyler Edited by Pam Brown
[»»]
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
[»»]Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
[»»]On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Mallarmé revisited
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
[»»]
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
[»»]
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
[»»]
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
[»»]
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
[»»]
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
[»»]
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
[»»] Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
On Flarf
[»»]
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
[»»]
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Margaret Avison
[»»]Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning
Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
[»»]
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
Articles
[»»]
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
[»»]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
[»»]
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
[»»]
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
[»»]
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
[»»]
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
Comic Strip
[»»]John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
[»»]
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
[»»]
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
[»»]
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
[»»]
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — New Polish Poetry — Margaret Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
Editor: [»»] John Tranter — Associate Editor: [»»] Pam Brown…
Visit our new [»»] Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc.
You may send [»»] Letters to the Editor: please be concise and courteous.
The Internet address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/29/index.shtml
We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don’t send material out of season.
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino Edited by Ken Bolton
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
[»»]
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
[»»]
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
[»»]
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
[»»]
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
[»»]
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
[»»]
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
[»»]
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Interviews
[»»]Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
[»»]
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
[»»]
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
[»»]
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
Feature: James Schuyler Edited by Pam Brown
[»»]
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
[»»]Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
[»»]On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Mallarmé revisited
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
[»»]
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
[»»]
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
[»»]
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
[»»]
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
[»»]
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
[»»]
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
[»»] Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
On Flarf
[»»]
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
[»»]
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Margaret Avison
[»»]Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning
Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
[»»]
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
Articles
[»»]
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
[»»]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
[»»]
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
[»»]
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
[»»]
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
[»»]
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
Comic Strip
[»»]John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
[»»]
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
[»»]
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
[»»]
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
[»»]
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — New Polish Poetry — Margaret Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
Editor: [»»] John Tranter — Associate Editor: [»»] Pam Brown…
Visit our new [»»] Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc.
You may send [»»] Letters to the Editor: please be concise and courteous.
The Internet address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/29/index.shtml
We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don’t send material out of season.
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino Edited by Ken Bolton
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
[»»]
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
[»»]
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
[»»]
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
[»»]
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
[»»]
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
[»»]
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
[»»]
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Interviews
[»»]Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
[»»]
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
[»»]
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
[»»]
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
Feature: James Schuyler Edited by Pam Brown
[»»]
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
[»»]Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
[»»]On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Mallarmé revisited
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
[»»]
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
[»»]
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
[»»]
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
[»»]
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
[»»]
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
[»»]
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
[»»] Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
On Flarf
[»»]
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
[»»]
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Margaret Avison
[»»]Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning
Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
[»»]
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
Articles
[»»]
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
[»»]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
[»»]
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
[»»]
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
[»»]
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
[»»]
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
Comic Strip
[»»]John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
[»»]
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
[»»]
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
[»»]
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
[»»]
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
Sorrentino — Barbara Guest — Flarf — Schuyler — Mallarmé — New Polish Poetry — Margaret Avison — Dan Dactyl comic
A free internet literary magazine — Interviews — Reviews — Articles — Poems
Editor: [»»] John Tranter — Associate Editor: [»»] Pam Brown…
Visit our new [»»] Jacket Notes pages: readings, new books & magazines, blogs, etc.
You may send [»»] Letters to the Editor: please be concise and courteous.
The Internet address of this page is http://jacketmagazine.com/29/index.shtml
We only have time to read for Jacket in June, July and January: please don’t send material out of season.
Gilbert Sorrentino
photo by Vivian Ortiz
Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino Edited by Ken Bolton
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006.
The Center for Book Culture has a press release.
[»»]
Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
[»»]
John O’Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
[»»]
Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
[»»]
Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974
[»»]
Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
[»»]
Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest Barbara Guest died on February 15, 2006 in Berkeley, California.
Her funeral was held in Oakland on February 24.
[»»]
Charles Bernstein: Composing Herself: Barbara Guest
Interviews
[»»]Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
[»»]
Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 2004
[»»]
On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
[»»]
My Motto Is: ‘Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism’ — Chris Daniels in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry, and the Task of the Translator, 2005
Feature: James Schuyler Edited by Pam Brown
[»»]
James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 1954–55, to Frank O’Hara (a selection, ed. William Corbett)
[»»]Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews
Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp. Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper.
James Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
[»»]On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown
The editors of Jacket thank Darragh Park and The Estate of James Schuyler, William Corbett and Turtle Point Press for their generosity in permitting Jacket to publish a selection from the book The Letters of James Schuyler to Frank O’Hara (edited by William Corbett) forthcoming in the USA from Turtle Point Press in fall 2006. ¶ Photo: James Schuyler, after lunch at Fairfield Porter’s home in Southampton, Summer 1956; photo John Button, courtesy John Ashbery.
Mallarmé revisited
Stéphane Mallarmé, by Nadar
[»»]
Chris Edwards: A Fluke
‘A Fluke’ is a mistranslation into English of Stéphane Mallarmé’s 1897 poem ‘Un coup de dés...’ with parallel French text.
[»»]
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo — a response to Mallarmé’s work.
[»»]
David Brooks: Le Panier Fleuri: The Text and Texture of Les Déliquescences of Adoré Floupette
[»»]
Christine North: Translations of two poems by Mallarmé: ‘Withheld from nude...’ and ‘When darkness threatened...’
[»»]
John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé
A partly homophonic mistranslation into English of ‘Un coup de dés’, using a nice, sensible even left margin.
[»»]
John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of ‘Un coup de dés’ written within a few months of Mallarmé’s poem being published in the May 1897 issue of the Paris journal Cosmopolis.
Polish girl: photo — Poland’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Poland
Poems from Altered State — The New Polish Poetry. Edited by Rod Mengham, Tadeusz Pióro and Piotr Szymor. Todmorden, UK: Arc Publications, 2003. Price: £10.95. This selection was chosen by Rod Mengham and John Tranter. Visit the publisher’s website.
[»»] Adam Zdrodowski: Sestine Mon Amour / Like a Tourist in a Milk Bar / Poem Written During Office Hours / Telling Fortunes
On Flarf
[»»]
Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking Around on the Internet
[»»]
The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the Topic of Flarf
Margaret Avison
[»»]Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401
The Hid, Here / A Small Music on a Spring Morning
Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux
[»»]
Mary di Michele: Stuffing the World in at Your Eyes: Margaret Avison and the Poetics of Seeing and Believing; a review of Always Now, The Collected Poems, Three Volumes, by Margaret Avison
Robert Duncan, San Francisco, 1985, photo John Tranter
Articles
[»»]
David Brooks: “Petit Testament”: A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
[»»]
Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen Ginsberg’s ‘Wichita Vortex Sutra’
[»»]
Thomas Lisk: William Bronk’s Path Among the Forms
[»»]
Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
[»»]
John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
[»»]
Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of Jack Beeching
Comic Strip
[»»]John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
A 95-frame black and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review (London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).
[»»]
Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
[»»]
Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 / Poem 16 / Poem 11
[»»]
Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
[»»]
Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier / Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80 year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver / Listening to the Chinese audience
