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Jacket # 12, late again! Giant Bumper "Hiatus" Issue . . . via the Jacket
homepage at
http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/
Reviews and Articles -
> Poetry Criticism: What Is It For? (March 15th, 2000, New York City) -
moderated by poet Susan Wheeler, the panel engaged critics Stephen Burt,
Marjorie Perloff, Michael Scharf and Helen Vendler in a provocative
discussion of poetry criticism today. Burt's and Scharf's papers were
published in Jacket # 11; the others are published here, with some audience
discussion.
> Paul Quinn on Language poetry
> Robert Creeley on Charles Olson
> John Miles - Lost Angry Penguins: D.B. Kerr, P.G. Pfeiffer and the real
founding of the Angry Penguins
> Kristin Prevallet on Watten and Baraka on the Brink
> David Hess - No Surprises: On Barrett Watten (50 pages)
> Cassandra Pybus - on The CIA as Culture Vultures
> Nate Dorward on three books about Roy Fisher
> Sister Sites - Rebecca Wolff - The Story of Fence
> Tony Baker on Basil Bunting
> Stephen Cope on Rae Armantrout / Rae Armantrout - four poems
> Tom Clark reviews Rachel Loden's «Hotel Imperium»
> Rachel Loden - eight poems from «Hotel Imperium»
> Ramez Qureshi reviews «A Paradise of Poets», by Jerome Rothenberg
> Dale Smith reviews Tom Clark's «The Spell»
> David Kennedy reviews Martin Corless-Smith's «Complete Travels»
> Jack Kimball - Mad in Craft: Hannah Weiner and Alan Sondheim
> Charles Bernstein on Hannah Weiner
> Drew Milne on Caroline Bergvall
Paul Blackburn feature:
> Paul Blackburn - poem - "Statement" (1954)
> Robert Creeley - Preface to «Against the Silences»
> Mark Weiss - "Zefiro Torna" - for Paul Blackburn - and an afterword
> Laurie Duggan - "Mister P.B." - on Paul Blackburn
> Allen Brafman - Paul Blackburn - A Few Words
> Michael Heller - For Paul Blackburn
> Martha King - Reading Paul Blackburn
> Basil King - painting of Joan and Paul Blackburn
> Jackson Mac Low . . . In Memoriam Paul Blackburn
> Jerome Rothenberg - a note on Paul Blackburn
> Jerome Rothenberg - four poems
> Armand Schwerner - poem - letter to Paul Blackburn...
> Carl Thayler - Remembering Paul Blackburn
Feature - Jorge Carerra Andrade - edited by Steven Ford Brown
> Introduction, by Steven Ford Brown
> Twelve Poems - translated by Steven Ford Brown
> H.R.Hays, - Jorge Carrera Andrade: Magician of Metaphors (1943)
> John Peale Bishop on Andrade (1946)
> Other voices on Andrade - Julian Palley, J. Enrique Qjeda
> Jorge Carrera Andrade - "The New American and His Point of View toward
Poetry"
> Jorge Carrera Andrade - a lecture, Vassar College, 1970
> Biographical Sketch and Chronology
> Steven Ford Brown - A Partial Bibliography
AND there's more!
> Larry Smith - Kenneth Patchen - Poetry and Jazz days, 1957-1959
> Pacific Time - Rob Wilson: Writing the Experimental/ Local Pacific
> Joe Amato - a response to Rob Wilson
And Poems et cetera from: Rae Armantrout, Mary Jo Bang, Aaron Belz, Joanne
Burns, Gary Catalano, Tom Clark, Timothy Donnelly, Michael Farrell, Dorothy
Hewett, Brian Henry, John Latta, Cassie Lewis, Duane Locke, Rachel Loden,
Anthony Macris, Rod Mengham, Ethan Paquin, Gary Sullivan, Carl Thayler,
Hugh Tolhurst, George Wallace, Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Mark Weiss and Max Winter
«Jacket» has been a free quarterly since its first issue in October 1997.
With this issue, «Jacket» bows to the inevitable and shrinks itself to
THREE fun-packed issues per year - at the same low price! Jacket # 12 - is
the third and last for the year 2000. The first issue for 2001 - Jacket #
13 - will be a coproduction with «New American Writing»; Jacket # 14, the
second issue for 2001, will be a collaboration with «Salt» magazine,
published from Western Australia and Cambridge, England. Meanwhile, free as
the breeze, Jacket # 12 . . . read on!
All past and current issues of Jacket are always available. In fact,
*future* issues are also available, believe it or not: you can call by
Jacket # 13 and #14 as they are being built.
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from John Tranter
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