Issue #45 -- 2017

Ngorogoro Crater, Tanzania

Special Section on George Quasha
edited by Burt Kimmelman
​George Quasha, "Not Even Rabbits Go Down This Hole / preverbs"
​George Quasha, drawings from the Dakini-Duende Series
Vyt Bakaitis, "A Few Words for George Quasha and poetry is (Speaking Portraits)"
William Benton, "Two Handed Transcendence"
Edward S. Casey, "Quasha at the Edge"
Andrew Joron, "On Quasha's Axial Stones"
Robert Kelly, "Imaginary Interview With George Quasha Starting With Preverbs"
Burt Kimmelman, "George Quasha’s Linear Music"
Kim Lyons, "a penchant for reporting the liminal"
Murat Nemet-Nejat, "What Is the Future George Quasha's Poetry Lives? -- Thoughts around verbal paradise / preverbs"
Carter Ratcliff, "Intention, Truth, and Meaning: George Quasha’s Preverbs"
Gary Shapiro, "George Quasha: Words of Wonder"
Charles Stein, "George Quasha’s Preverbs"

Basil King
Playing Cards - A Tulip and Fish and Chips

Poetry
new work from
​Charles Borkhuis with collage paintings by John McCluskey
Donna de la Perriére
W. Scott Howard
George Kalamaras
Richard Kostelanetz
Pierre Lepori, translated by Peter Valente
Heller Levinson
Laurie Price
Patricia Pruitt
Elizabeth Robinson
Dennis Ryan
Dimitri Prigov, translated by Simon Schuchat
Susan M. Schultz
​Donald Wellman

John Olson
new prose poems
​Michael Leong reviews John Olson's In Advance of the Broken Justy

Interview
Norman Fischer interviews Alice Notley

Fiction
​Rob Couteau, from Wonder
​​Sibel  Torunoğlu, from Transvestite Pinocchio, translated by Erik Mortenson and Burçak Bilgin

Essays
​Carmen Firan, "The Word and Us"
​Mel Kenne, "Translation as the Sine Qua Non in Modernist and Postmodernist American Poetics vis-à-vis
Walter Benjamin’s 'The Task of the Translator'"
​Joel Lewis, from "Speak No Evil": "Amiri Baraka and Others in Hoboken"

Reviews
Kathleen Eamon reviews Leonard Schwartz's The New Babel: Toward a Poetics of the Mid-East Crisis
​Norman Fischer reviews Alice Notley's Reason and Other Women
​Laurie Price reviews Joel Lewis's My Shaolin: A Poem of Staten Island

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from the archives:

Nancy Hale, William Sloane, and Robert Frost, 1960

Philip Whalen, 1983

Karen Nemet-Nejat, Lisa Bourbeau, Patricia Pruitt, Rob Couteau, Christopher Sawyer-Lauҫanno, Murat Nemet-Nejat, 2016

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