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-Laủ«anno, Murat Nemet-Nejat, 2016
Samuel Retsov: How Do We Know: A Few Notes on Talisman
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Introduction: Time in Search of Language
Burt Kimmelman:Virginia Woolf et la recherche du modernisme proustienne:
Marcel Proust in La Belle Époque, the Great War, and After
The Aesthetic Era and Finding a Language for Homosexuality:
Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, Oscar Wilde, George Sylvester Viereck
Gian Lombardo: Harry Crosby, Unblotting the Sun
William Jay Barker: from Junior Birdman
Carmen Firan:New York, where are you?
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Brane Mozetič: interview
Joel Lewis: from: Frownland: A Memoir with Music
John High: Angel in the Pocket
Daniel Morris: Calling, Being Called, and Calling Back in Tyrone Williams' c.c.
W. Scott Howard: “oblique act”: Susan Howe’s Liberties
Mark Jacobs: Mr. Tidy
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Celebrating Martha King
Martha King: excerpts from Max Turns Yellow
Don Yorty: On Reading the First Chapter of Max Turns Yellow: A Review
Cheryl J. Fish, "Unabashed," (for Martha King) and "Median"
Peter Valente: Am I Saved Yet Sister? Is It Morning?: On the work of Martha King
Kim Lyons: Inside Outside/Inside
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Reviews
Peter Valente: “Poesis of sweet disorder”: A review of Adeena Karasick’s Salomé: A Woman of Valor
W. Scott Howard:A review of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry. Ed. Jeanne Heuving and Tyrone Williams.
Rachel Cualedare: Profane Conversions: A Review of supermoon by Gillian Parrish (Singing Horse Press, 2020)
Peter Valente: “Sooner than later the end will arrive”: A Review of Andrew Zawacki’s Unsun: f/11
Peter Valente: New Aesthetics of Dissident Sexualities: A Review of An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing
by Paul B. Preciado
Peter Valente: My Daemon Brother: A Review of Evan Kennedy’s I am, am I, to trust the joy that joy is no more or less
there now than before
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Poetry
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A Festschrift for Donna de la Perrière
May-lee Chai: Interview with Donna de la Perrière
Norman Fischer: Notes on the Poetry of Donna de la Perrière
Megan Breiseth: Under the Black and Purple Skies
Joseph Donahue: The Rift Makes The Ritual: On the Poetry of Donna de la Perrière
Charles Alexander: To Dream, To Wake, To Gather, To Disperse
Tiff Dressen and Alexandra Mattraw: A string-and-cup phone to the night sky: a conversation on
Donna de la Perrière’s Works of Love & Terror
Owen Hill and Noah Ross: (Donna)&(de la Perrière)
Maxine Chernoff: Token (1)
Kevin Hatch: The Tongue is a Brush
Sheila Murphy: Implicity
Elizabeth Robinson: "First Love" and the Remodelling of Trauma
Sharon Coleman: "Who Has the Body?" Two Poetic Series by Donna de la Perrière
Joseph Lease: Real-life Poetry Top Ten, February 5, 2021: Donna de la Perrière edition
Gillian Conoly: Works of Love & Terror (and space and time and art)
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Introduction: Time in Search of Language
Burt Kimmelman:Virginia Woolf et la recherche du modernisme proustienne:
Marcel Proust in La Belle Époque, the Great War, and After
The Aesthetic Era and Finding a Language for Homosexuality:
Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, Oscar Wilde, George Sylvester Viereck
Gian Lombardo: Harry Crosby, Unblotting the Sun
William Jay Barker: from Junior Birdman
Carmen Firan:New York, where are you?
***
Brane Mozetič: interview
Joel Lewis: from: Frownland: A Memoir with Music
John High: Angel in the Pocket
Daniel Morris: Calling, Being Called, and Calling Back in Tyrone Williams' c.c.
W. Scott Howard: “oblique act”: Susan Howe’s Liberties
Mark Jacobs: Mr. Tidy
***
Celebrating Martha King
Martha King: excerpts from Max Turns Yellow
Don Yorty: On Reading the First Chapter of Max Turns Yellow: A Review
Cheryl J. Fish, "Unabashed," (for Martha King) and "Median"
Peter Valente: Am I Saved Yet Sister? Is It Morning?: On the work of Martha King
Kim Lyons: Inside Outside/Inside
***
Reviews
Peter Valente: “Poesis of sweet disorder”: A review of Adeena Karasick’s Salomé: A Woman of Valor
W. Scott Howard:A review of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry. Ed. Jeanne Heuving and Tyrone Williams.
Rachel Cualedare: Profane Conversions: A Review of supermoon by Gillian Parrish (Singing Horse Press, 2020)
Peter Valente: “Sooner than later the end will arrive”: A Review of Andrew Zawacki’s Unsun: f/11
Peter Valente: New Aesthetics of Dissident Sexualities: A Review of An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing
by Paul B. Preciado
Peter Valente: My Daemon Brother: A Review of Evan Kennedy’s I am, am I, to trust the joy that joy is no more or less
there now than before
***
Poetry
***
A Festschrift for Donna de la Perrière
May-lee Chai: Interview with Donna de la Perrière
Norman Fischer: Notes on the Poetry of Donna de la Perrière
Megan Breiseth: Under the Black and Purple Skies
Joseph Donahue: The Rift Makes The Ritual: On the Poetry of Donna de la Perrière
Charles Alexander: To Dream, To Wake, To Gather, To Disperse
Tiff Dressen and Alexandra Mattraw: A string-and-cup phone to the night sky: a conversation on
Donna de la Perrière’s Works of Love & Terror
Owen Hill and Noah Ross: (Donna)&(de la Perrière)
Maxine Chernoff: Token (1)
Kevin Hatch: The Tongue is a Brush
Sheila Murphy: Implicity
Elizabeth Robinson: "First Love" and the Remodelling of Trauma
Sharon Coleman: "Who Has the Body?" Two Poetic Series by Donna de la Perrière
Joseph Lease: Real-life Poetry Top Ten, February 5, 2021: Donna de la Perrière edition
Gillian Conoly: Works of Love & Terror (and space and time and art)
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