Jacket 32 — April 2007 — Contents page

 

The Poetry of Response — Greeting Cards — Pressure to Experiment

 

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Money is a kind of poetry.  — Wallace Stevens
The Poetry of Response
Edited by Christopher Kelen

[»»] Christopher Kelen: Introduction

[»»] Peter Riley: Quotation: ‘It Don’t Mean a Thing’

[»»] Tony Barnstone: The Cannibal at Work: Five Discourses on Translation, Transformation, Imitation, and Transmutation

[»»] Gary Blankenship: After Wang Wei

[»»] Forrest Gander: The Strange Case of Thomas Traherne

[»»] Kent Johnson: Imitation, Traduction, Fiction, Response

[»»] Oana Avasilichioaei and Erín Moure: C’s Garden

[»»] chus pato, andrés ajens et al.: correspondencias (lalín, galicia – santiago, chile; iowa city/buenos aires, la paz, ciudad juárez/los angeles

[»»] Christopher Kelen: conversation with Tang Poets: some notes on the practice

red lnkbar The Holiday Album: Greeting Card poems for All Occasions Edited by Elaine Equi, with eight collages by Kevin Riordan

[»»] Elaine Equi: Best Wishes (Introduction)

[»»] Elaine Equi: Happy New Year

[»»] David Lehman: Time Frame

[»»] Wayne Koestenbaum: Short Subjects

Holiday Card image

Cover image — detail:
Dirk Rowntree

[»»] Rae Armantrout: Address

[»»] Nick Piombino: Valentine’s Day
 — Valentine’s Day — Feb. 14th

[»»] Kim Lyons: Red Couplets
 — Paper Lantern Festival (Chinese) — the 15th day of the first lunar month

[»»] David Shapiro: Colorful Hands
 — Holi: The Festival of Colors (Indian) — first weekend in March

[»»] Tom Clark: Equinox
 — March 21/22

[»»] Vincent Katz: Back From The Dead
 — The Veneralia (Roman) — April 1st

[»»] Eileen Tabios: Eggs: Pulp Fiction for Easter

[»»] Jeanne Marie Beaumont: Fête of the Little Boats
 — (French) — April 6th

[»»] Martine Bellen: On John Ashbery Day — A Cento
 — April 7th

[»»] Cathy McArthur: At the Wildlife Center
 — Bird Day — May 4th

[»»] Jerome Sala: Mother’s Day

[»»] Jeanne Marie Beaumont: Flower & Camera
 — Flower & Camera Day — June 29th

[»»] Patricia Spears Jones: The Perfect Lipstick
 — July 4th

[»»] Chris Martin: Independence Day

[»»] Mark Lamoureux: Bride of Frankenstein’s Birthday
 — July 9th

[»»] Stacy Szymaszek: Hammock Day
 — July 22nd

[»»] Erica Kaufman: admit you’re happy day
 — Aug. 8th

[»»] Erica Kaufman: elvis week
 — Aug. 8-16th

[»»] Fanny Howe: Our Lady of Knock, August 21, 1879

[»»] Joanna Fuhrman: At the Evil Boss Convention  — Labor Day

[»»] Jerome Sala: Anniversary

[»»] Gregory Crosby: Columbo Day
 — Oct. 12th

[»»] Connie Deanovich: Happy Hamlet Day
 — Oct 15th

[»»] Bruce Covey: Definitions
 — Dictionary Day–Oct. 16th

[»»] Amy Gerstler: All Saints’ Day
 — Nov. 1st

[»»] Joe Brainard: Thanksgiving

[»»] David Trinidad: Doll Memorial Service
 — Doll Memorial Day — second Saturday in December

[»»] David Shapiro: After Ryokan
 — Winter Solstice — Dec. 21st

[»»] Ron Padgett: Season’s Greetings

[»»] Ryan Stechler: Pirate’s Christmas Carol
 — Christmas — Dec. 25th

John Tranter: East Village, NYC, 2005

John Tranter: East Village, NYC, 2005

 

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Articles

[»»] Anthony Stephens: Cutting Poets to Size — Heidegger, Hölderlin, Rilke

Heidegger (front right), 1933

Martin Heidegger (front right),
November 1933

 

[»»] Gilbert Adair: “Child-Emporererer (vacncy)”: Apprehending U.S. Empire through Robert Fitterman’s «Metropolis»

[»»] Andrea Brady: The Other Poet: John Wieners, Frank O’Hara, Charles Olson

[»»] Stephen Fredman: Edward Dorn

[»»] Steve Halle: Against Lightning Flashes: Inspiration in Kristin Prevallet’s «Scratch Sides: Poetry, Documentation, and Image-Text Projects», by Kristin Prevallet

[»»] Douglas Messerli: What is to be Done?

[»»] Clément Oudart: Genreading and Underwriting: A Few Soundings and Probes into Duncan’s «Ground Work»

[»»] David Rosenberg: The Lost Poets of the Wild: The Influence of the First Writing Poets in Sumer

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Interviews

[»»] Nicomedes Suárez-Araúz: In Search of the Night: on translating Jaime Saenz: an Interview with his translators, Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander

[»»] Wayne Koestenbaum in conversation with Tony Leuzzi, 22 October 2004, Le Gamin Coffee Shop, Chelsea, New York

[»»] Deborah Meadows in conversation with Romina Freschi, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 2006

Feature:
Pressure to Experiment

[»»] Introduction (Bloomfield et al.)

[»»] Joan Retallack: What is Experimental Poetry & Why Do We Need It?

[»»] Jena Osman: Is Poetry the News?: The Poethics of the Found Text

[»»] Harriet Tarlo: Radical Landscapes: experiment and environment in contemporary poetry

[»»] Caroline Bergvall: The Franker Tale (Deus Hic, 2)

[»»] Caroline Bergvall: Short aside to ‘The Franker Tale’.

[»»] Vincent Broqua: Pressures of Never-at-home

[»»] Nikolai Duffy: The Poetics of Emergency

[»»] Josh Robinson: ‘Innocence and incapability impose’: Towards an Ethic of Experimentation

[»»] Luke Harley: Music as prod and precedent: Nathaniel Mackey’s niggling at the limits of language

Reviews

Alice Notley, 2006

Alice Notley, 2006

[»»] Raewyn Alexander: «Red the Fiend» by Gilbert Sorrentino

[»»] Raewyn Alexander: «Sundays on the Phone», by Mark Rudman

[»»] Raewyn Alexander: «Rain» by Jon Woodward

[»»] James Belflower: «Harrow», by Elizabeth Robinson

[»»] Marcelo Coelho: «Rapid Departures» by Vincent Katz, illustrations by Mario Cafiero

[»»] Ian Davidson: «Grave of Light: New and Selected Poems 1970–2005», by Alice Notley

[»»] Marcella Durand: «secure portable space», by Redell Olsen

[»»] Clive Faust: «Language Is» by John Phillips

[»»] Tom Goff: «Tap-Root: Poems» by Indigo Moor

[»»] Michael Gottlieb: «The Anger Scale» by Katie Degentesh

[»»] David Hart: Peter Redgrove: eight books

[»»] Andrew Mossin: «Blue Studios: Poetry and Its Cultural Work», by Rachel Blau DuPlessis

[»»] Linda Russo: «Terminal Humming» by K. Lorraine Graham

[»»] Linda Russo: «Crop» by Yedda Morrison

[»»] Linda Russo: «Chantry»  by Elizabeth Treadwell

[»»] Standard Schaefer: «Broken World», by Joseph Lease

James Sherry: «The Grand Piano» Project:
…an ongoing experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers identified with Language poetry in San Francisco. It takes its name from a coffeehouse at 1607 Haight Street, where from 1976–79 the authors took part in a reading and performance series. The writing project, begun in 1998, was undertaken as an online collaboration, first via an interactive web site and later through a listserv.
[»»] «The Grand Piano» Part 1 reviewed
[»»] «The Grand Piano» Part 2 reviewed
[»»] «The Grand Piano» Part 3 reviewed in Jacket 34

[»»] Alan Sondheim: «The Flowers of Evil», by Charles Baudelaire, translated by Keith Waldrop, Wesleyan University Press, 2006

[»»] Jason Stumpf: «Necessary Stranger» by Graham Foust

[»»] Donald Wellman: «Figured Image» by Anne-Marie Albiach, trans. Keith Waldrop

Poems

[»»] Iain Britton: Lemurs and Missing Links in Loops

[»»] Bruce Covey: Two poems: ‘Still’; ‘Good & Plenty’

[»»] Romina Freschi: Initials (2004/05)

[»»] Michael Kelleher: Number Crunch

[»»] Ronald Koertge: Three Haibun

[»»] Kristin Prevallet: Tales of Caw

[»»] Robert Sheppard: Sonnets from «September 12»

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