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Creeley — The Low Countries — More Flarf — Letters to Poets

 

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People strike sparks off each other; that is what I try to note down. But mark well, they only do this when they are talking together. After all, we don't write letters now, we telephone. And one of these days we are going to have TV sets which lonely people can talk to and get answers back. Then no one will read anymore.
 — British novelist Henry Green (to Terry Southern, Paris Review interview, 1958)

Feature: Robert Creeley (1926–2005)
Robert Creeley

Edited by
Michael Kelleher

[»»] Robert Creeley, ‘Wow. I called it and why not:’ 7 letters, 1950–1961, edited by Rod Smith, Peter Baker and Kaplan Harris.

[»»] Charles Alexander: Robert Creeley: The Speech that Seeks Company (two brief notes)

[»»] Amiri Baraka: CREELEY TRIBUTE, MAY 06 JUST BUFFALO

[»»] A brief interview — composer David Felder in conversation with Michael Kelleher about Felder’s piece “So Quiet Here,” based on four poems by Robert Creeley.

[»»] Benjamin Friedlander: Reading in Pieces

[»»] Susan Howe: Leaf   Flower in the Wind   Falling Blue  The Dark River

[»»] From Words to Pieces: On Robert Creeley, A tape-essay by Tosa Motokiyu, Ojiu Norinaga, and Okura Kyojin, with an introduction by Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez

[»»] Alexander Jorgensen: Emails to a Younger Poet

[»»] Margaret Konkol: Creeley in Age: Negative Poetics in Robert Creeley’s Late Work

[»»] Ruth Lepson: “It Is All a Rhythm”: Robert Creeley and Steve Lacy

[»»] Stan Persky: About Robert Creeley (1926–2005)

[»»] Kyle Schlesinger: GETTING Behind the Word: Creeley’s TyPOGRAPHY

[»»] Dale Smith: Space Suits: the Empirical Tradition in Robert Creeley’s «A Day Book»

[»»] Joel Weishaus: A Poem Addressed to Robert Creeley on His Poem “Histoire De Florida.”

[»»] Don Wellman: Creeley’s Ear

[»»] Off-site: Robert Creeley: A Home Movie. In 2002, Starcherone Books’ Director Ted Pelton interviewed Robert Creeley at his home in Buffalo, NY. In this 45–minute quick-time movie, edited in imovie, Creeley discusses his collaborative work with various artists, Buffalo’s legacy as a poetry city, and the purposes of poetry. This was first presented as a Starcherone Books-sponsored event at Rust Belt Books in Buffalo, NY, on May 12, 2005:
http://www.starcherone.com/creeley2.mov

Robert Creeley
in earlier issues of Jacket:

Creeley book cover UCP

[»»] Jacket 12 - Robert Creeley: Preface to /Against the Silences/, by Paul Blackburn

[»»] Jacket 12 - Robert Creeley: Preface to 'Charles Olson...', by Tom Clark

[»»] Jacket 14 - Robert Creeley: Scholar's Rocks (poem) — art by Jim Dine

[»»] Jacket 15 - Robert Creeley: For Kenneth [Koch]

[»»] Jacket 22 - Robert Creeley: In Memoriam Ric Caddel

[»»] Jacket 25 - Robert Creeley — Simon Pettet’s Calling

[»»] Jacket 25 - Robert Creeley in Conversation with Leonard Schwartz, 24 November, 2003

[»»] Jacket 26 – Robert Adamson: Robert Creeley, 1926–2005

Feature: Letters to Poets

[»»] Introduction: Dana Teen Lomax and Jennifer Firestone: Letters To Poets: Conversations About Poetics, Politics, and Community

[»»] Kathleen Fraser and Patrick Pritchett

[»»] Paul Hoover and Albert Flynn DeSilver

[»»] Leslie Scalapino and Judith Goldman

Articles

[»»] Charles Bernstein: Afterword to «The Holy Forest: Collected Poems of Robin Blaser» (Revised and Expanded Edition) Edited by Miriam Nichols

[»»] Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Manhood and its Poetic Projects: The construction of masculinity in the counter-cultural poetry of the U.S. 1950s

[»»] Jonathan Fedors: Writing Class in Kevin Davies’ «Comp»

[»»] John Felstiner and David Goldstein: The Lure of the God: Robert Duncan on Translating Rilke

[»»] Anthony Stephens: Nietzsche’s Unease: The Ambiguity of Poetic Metaphor

Poems

[»»] Caroline Bergvall: The Summer Tale (Deus Hic, 1)

[»»] Sean Carey: Looking at Peter Porter after many years

[»»] Sharon Dolin: Four poems: Missed Hummer / The Give, Seek, Am / This Scabbard’s Free / Lick-Over

[»»] Landis Everson: Jack, My Vocabulary Said This

[»»] Adam Fieled: Apparition Poems

[»»] Alan Gilbert: from “Pretty Words Made a Fool Out of Me”

[»»] rob mclennan: Four poems

[»»] D.S. Marriott: the levees

[»»] Geoff Page: Ugly Beauty

[»»] Hazel Smith: In camera

[»»] Mark Yakich: New Love Poem

[»»] Jeffrey Yang: Bedsong for A — after Ian Hamilton Finlay (1925–2006)

[»»] Todd Swift: Four poems: Confessions / The Serious Business / I’m In Love With A German Film Star / Hume

[»»] John Tranter: Girl in Water

[»»] Harriet Zinnes: Possibilities

[»»] Grzegorz Wróblewski: Two poems: A Summation Scheme (About the Illness of John T.) / Black Head

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More on Flarf

[»»] Michael Gottlieb: Googling Flarf: “This is a commonplace: it is virtually impossible to look at Van Gogh or Matisse or read Eliot or Williams and grasp how uncompromising — how ugly, brutal, honest — they once seemed. It is our curse, is it not — as artists, to become picturesque? We should live so long.”

[»»] Rick Snyder: The New Pandemonium: A Brief Overview of Flarf: “Such an effort, it is worth noting, doesn’t challenge conventional expectations of what constitutes a poem, but is simply filled with execrable content.”

 
Graphic by John Tranter

Graphic by John Tranter

 
The Low Countries

Edited by
Karlien van den Beukel

Karlien van den Beukel, Rotterdam, 2005, photo by John Tranter

Karlien van den Beukel
Rotterdam, 2005
photo: John Tranter

[»»] Paul Bogaert: ADDRESS, translated by John Irons

[»»] Arjen Duinker: Senses and Desires, translated by Jeltje Fanoy

[»»] Hans Faverey: Poems from Three Cycles: translated by Francis R. Jones

[»»] Astrid Lampe: 4 Poems from «Spuit je Ralkleur» (Spray your RAL Colour)

[»»] Lucebert: Four Poems, translated by Diane Butterman

[»»] Erik Spinoy: Three poems, translated by John Irons

[»»] Dirk van Bastelaere: Wwwhhhooossshh (The Opera Ain’t Over Till The Fat Lady Sings), trans. Willem Groenewegen

[»»] F. van Dixhoorn: Two Poems: ‘All at sea’ and ‘Big batten’, trans. Astrid van Baalen, with a note on the translation

Reviews:

[»»] Andrew Duncan: «The Last to Leave» by Dirk van Bastelaere

[»»] Douglas Messerli: Three reviews: Hugo Claus, Remco Campert, Hans Faverey

[»»] Eliot Weinberger: «Preface Against the Forgetting: Selected Poems» by Hans Faverey, trans. by Francis Jones

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Interviews

[»»] Janet Cardiff in conversation with Anthony Easton

[»»] The Romantic Objectivist: Hugh Seidman in conversation with Molly Nason, 2006

Reviews

[»»] Erik Anderson: Cockerels and Testicles: «Exchanges of Earth & Sky» by Jack Collom

[»»] Martin Anderson: «New and Selected Poems» by Kelvin Corcoran

[»»] Scott Bentley: «Perspective Would Have Us» by Erica Carpenter

[»»] Clive Bush: «Myne. New and Selected Poems and Prose, 1976–2005» by Frances Presley

[»»] John Couth: «Inside to Outside» by Christopher Gutkind

[»»] Ian Davidson: «Collected Poems» by Lee Harwood

[»»] Thomas Fink: «The Secret Lives of Punctuations, Vol. 1» by Eileen R. Tabios

[»»] Kass Fleisher: «Nightbirds» by Garin Cycholl

[»»] Chris Glomski: Leafing The Now: «Depth Theology» by Peter O’Leary, «The Totality for Kids» by Joshua Clover

[»»] Tom Goff: «Must Be Present to Win», poems by Meg Withers

[»»] Henry Gould: «Breeze» by John Latta

[»»] Lisa Guidarini: «Jagged With Love» by Susanna Childress

[»»] Edmund Hardy: «The Places As Preludes» by Gustaf Sobin

[»»] Edmund Hardy: «Ancestors and Species: New & Selected Ethnographic Poetry» by Tom Lowenstein

[»»] Piers Hugill: «Fig» by Caroline Bergvall, and «Via: Poems 1994–2004», by Caroline Bergvall

[»»] Tom Jones: «The Unconditional: A Lyric» by Simon Jarvis

[»»] Tim Kahl: «Mulberry», by Dan Beachy-Quick

[»»] David Kennedy: Ken Bolton, «At The Flash & At The Baci» — Four Coffees with Ken Bolton

[»»] Michael Leddy: Homer: «Iliad» 12 CDs and «Odyssey» 10CDs, translated and read by Stanley Lombardo: ‘…I have been reading and teaching the Iliad and the Odyssey in Lombardo’s translations for several years, and I’m delighted by the ways in which listening to these readings allows nuances of the poems to register.’

[»»] Ben Lerner: «Curves to the Apple», by Rosmarie Waldrop

[»»] Nicole Mauro: «Twin Towers» by Basil King

[»»] Nicole Mauro: «Gogol in Rome» by Katia Kapovich

[»»] Bridie McCarthy: «Strange Attractors», by Louis Armand

[»»] Tim Morris: «Word is Born», by Michael Kindellan and Reitha Pattison

[»»] Robert Mueller: «Ledger» by Susan Wheeler

[»»] Paul Nelson: «Lost in the Chamiso» by Amalio Madueño

[»»] Paul Nelson: «Fulcrum» Number Four 2005

[»»] Craig Perez: «Involuntary Lyrics» by Aaron Shurin

[»»] Gilbert Wesley Purdy: «Concerning The Book That Is The Body Of The Beloved» by Gregory Orr

[»»] Brian Richards: «Epigramititis: 118 Living American Poets» by Kent Johnson

[»»] Peter Riley: «Blue Grass» by Peter Minter

[»»] Poets Behaving Badly: Robert Sheppard: «Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court» by Peter Barry: ‘What the Arts Council’s investigating team had failed to achieve in months I accomplished in seconds,’ boasts Osborne of the fateful meeting when the avalanche of resignations was triggered by chairman Jeff Nuttall. ‘They marched out of the room, and I asked the Secretary to be certain to record their resignations in the minutes, for fear they should come to what senses they possessed and march back in again. But they didn’t return. Was ever a victory so inadvertently achieved?’

[»»] Dale Smith: «Solution Simulacra» by Gloria Frym

[»»] Rob Stanton: «Open Clothes» by Steve Benson

[»»] James Stuart: «The Trees: Selected Poems 1967–2004» by E. Montejo and «Walking to Point Clear» by David Brooks

[»»] Ezra Tessler: «The Collected Fiction of Kenneth Koch», by Kenneth Koch

[»»] Carolyn van Langenberg: «The Hoplite Journals» by Martin Anderson

[»»] Mark Wallace: «Industrial Poetics: Demo Tracks for a Mobile Culture» by Joe Amato:
‘… That such forums continue to exist in a society often so hostile to them gives Amato at least a degree of optimism on which to conclude a book that spends most of its time detailing a vast industry of unfreedom and the anguish it causes.’

[»»] Ivan Weiss: «Gagarin Street» by Piotr Gwiazda

[»»] Marjorie Welish: «Spinoza in Her Youth» by Norma Cole


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Credit: Creeley jacket photo: The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975–2005, University of California Press, 1976.

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