Jacket 29 — April 2006 — Contents page 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…
Sad news: Gilbert Sorrentino died in May 2006. [»»] 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 [»»] Donald Phelps: Extra Space [»»] Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974 [»»] Daniel Green: A Strange Commonplace, by Gilbert Sorrentino
Barbara Guest
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Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest [»»] 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 [»»] 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 Mallarmé revisited
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Chris Edwards: A Fluke [»»] 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...’
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John Tranter: Desmond’s Coupé [»»] 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. 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. [»»] Marcin Baran: Hot embitterments [»»] Julia Fiedorczuk: November on the Narew [»»] Darek Foks: Farewell, Haiku [»»] Mariusz Grzebalski: Slaughterhouse / Then [»»] Krzysztof Jaworski: I used to be a slender guy [»»] Bartłomiej Majzel: Scrumping [»»] Maciej Melecki: Summer, getting away from yourself [»»] Andrzej Niewiadomski: Retineo [»»] Edward Pasewicz: Bird bones [»»] Tadeusz Pióro: Bug hour [»»] Marta Podgórnik: Final destination [»»] Krzysztof Siwczyk: Metaphors and comparisons [»»] Krzysztof Śliwka: Sestina [»»] Dariusz Sośnicki: Washroom / Leaves / How to walk downstairs [»»] Andrzej Sosnowski: A song for Europe / For children [»»] Marcin Świetlicki: Battlefield / So long ago, so distinctly / McDonald’s [»»] Eugeniusz Tkaczyszyn-Dycki: XII Moon rises over the Vistula / Dernier cri / LII (‘We drink…’) / LXXX Heat / XC (‘We’d just wept… ’) [»»] Adam Wiedemann: Aesthetics of the word [»»] Grzegorz Wróblewski: Tangerines / Argument from Enghave Station / I put off the knife from my hand till tomorrow
Supplement, 2006:
[»»] Maciej Melecki: Cases and Variants / Three Colours [»»] Tadeusz Pióro: Some Methods of Crowd Control [»»] Andrzej Sosnowski: Closer / On the Hoof / Founding a Colony [»»] Agnieszka Wolny-Hamkalo: Event [»»] Grzegorz Wróblewski: Eight Poems [»»] 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
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Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry [»»] 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 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
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John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor
Reviews
[»»] Erik Anderson: Join the Planets, by Reed Bye [»»] Jasper Bernes: The Hounds of No by Lara Glenum and A Defense of Poetry by Gabriel Gudding [»»] Michael Cross: Rumored Place by Rob Halpern [»»] Elaine Equi Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems, by Tom Clark [»»] Michael Farrell reviews "Hyper Taiwan: Art Design Culture", by Kurt Brereton [»»] Thomas Fink: 60 lv bo(e)mbs, by Paolo Javier [»»] John Hall: Whisper ‘Louise’, A double historical memoir and meditation, by Douglas Oliver [»»] David Koehn reviews: Profane Halo by Gillian Conoley [»»] Michael Leddy: More Winnowed Fragments by Simon Pettet [»»] David McCooey: Compared to What: Selected Poems 1971-2003 and The Ash Range by Laurie Duggan [»»] Jill Magi reviews Fantasies in Permeable Structures by Laura Elrick [»»] Nicole Mauro: The Kindly Ones, by Susan Hampton [»»] Marianne Morris: Embrace, by Andrea Brady [»»] Chris Murray: Small Works by Pam Rehm [»»] John Olson: What He Ought To Know, New and Selected Poems by Edward Foster [»»] Gerald Schwartz: Drunken Sailor by John Montague [»»] Erik Sweet: American Music by Chris Martin [»»] Erik Sweet: Father of Noise by Anthony McCann [»»] Eileen Tabios: The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems by Jesse Glass [»»] Nathaniel Tarn: Red Sky Café by Geoffrey O’Brien [»»] Ed Taylor: The Beautifully Worthless, by Ali Liebegott Poems
[»»] Andrés Ajens: Translucinating Forrest Johnson [to American-Spanish] [»»] Dustin Collis: Two poems: Title Poem / Light Plucked [»»] Alfred Corn: Rip at the Half Moon [»»] Wystan Curnow: Three poems from Modern Colours [»»] Denise Duhamel and Stephen Paul Miller: from ‘Hurricanes’: 2. B-Boy / 4. Desperate Young Americans / 6. If RFK had become President [»»] Luciano Erba: Twelve poems from Remi in barca [Shipping the Oars] translated by Peter Robinson [»»] Jon Fosse: The train in one's heart: English version by May-Brit Akerholt [»»] Bill Freind: Four poems: Serenade for Intercom and Tardy Chorister / Dispensationalist Foxtrot / Deportation Celebrant / Chillun of the Hods [»»] John Hall: An essay on lyric ethics [»»] Anthony Hawley: Six poems: ‘Awhile’ — Field Guide for Voices / Five poems from P(r)etty Sonnets [»»] Brian Henry: Three poems: Poem for the Man / Dead Aesthetic / Jesus/Stick [»»] Kent Johnson: Prosodic Structure (A bit after Barbara Guest) [»»] Kent Johnson: Julian in Nicomedeia — after Cavafy [»»] Andrew Johnston: Mauve [»»] Peter Larkin: Urban Woods (Section 1 of Open Woods) [»»] Norman MacAfee: The Coming of Fascism to America [»»] Nicholas Messenger: The Pleasures of Reading [»»] John Muckle: Speed Dating [»»] 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 [»»] Maged Zaher: my software mission |
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