AUSTRALIA'S FOREMOST ENGLISH-CHINESE LITERARY
JOURNAL OUT NOW!
Our catchword: the Centre is everywhere and it is here!
Otherland: Motherland without M.
Otherland, Vol., 6, No. 1, 2000, Australia's foremost bilingual Chinese and
English literary magazine, edited by Ouyang Yu, is out now in Melbourne,
Australia.
This issue features in its Chinese pages the mainland Chinese poets Yang
Xie, Ah Jian, Yang Ke, Jiang Tian, Tie Mei, Yang Chunguang, Lin Zhongcheng,
Ma Fei, Xu Jiang and Zhao Xia, the New York based poet Yan Li and
Melbourne-based Ouyang Yu, fiction writers Chen Dachao and Yu Shuping, as
well as prose writers like Ya Mo, Wan Fujian, and Xu Xiaoying, and
criticisms by Lu Wei, Chen Zhengfa and Zhang Ming, from the mainland China,
Malaysia, USA, and Australia.
In its English pages, poets from China, Taiwan, UK, USA, New Zealand and
Australia are featured such as Hong Ying, Jill Chan, Chen Kehua, Hai Zi, Ji
Xian, Liat Kirby, Ma Shiju, Ouyang Yu, Shi Xiaojun, Xi Chuan, Yi Sha, Yu
Jian, Yu Nu and Zhang Yougong. There is also a long interview with Zhong Dao
the editor of an underground Chinese literary magazine Shi Can Kao.
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Since its first publication in 1996, Otherland has been widely known as a
magazine devoted to the publication of quality poetry and fiction throughout
the Chinese speaking and writing world. In 2000, the magazine has
experienced a major shift from a mono-language one to a bilingual one,
bringing it closer to an English-speaking and writing world. It has been
reviewed in the Age (15/7/00) and Australian Book Review (September, 2000)
and has merited a mention in Cambridge Companion to Australian Literature
published in 2000 by Cambridge University Press.
Please note: Editor Dr Ouyang Yu's two English poetry books are still
available by mail order: Moon over Melbourne and Other Poems (1995) and
Songs of the Last Chinese Poet (1997), which was shortlisted for NSW Premier
's Prize in 1998, both priced at A$18.00 plus GST and the postage ($1.50).
His book "Representing the Other: Chinese in Australian Fiction: 1888-1988"
has just been published in Chinese in China, available at $25.00/copy by
mail order. His first Chinese novel, The Angry Wu Zili, published in Beijing
by an underground press at the end of the 20th century, is also available at
$24.95/copy.
Please see below for feedback on Otherland.
Otherland 6, Ed., Ouyang Yu, Otherland Literary Journal $10.60
By Fiona Capp, The Age, 15/07/00
THIS is the first bilingual edition of an Australian-based journal of
Chinese poetry. It offers an intriguing glimpse of the work of contemporary
Chinese poets living in Australia, Taiwan, New Zealand, Britain and China. A
context for some of this work is provided by an interview with Zhong Dao,
the editor of an underground Chinese poetry magazine, Shi Can Kao, who talks
of trends in recent Chinese poetry, his opposition to the increasing use of
foreign words and references, and his views on official literary magazines
in China. Poems featured include an extract from A Record of Nine Cities by
Hong Ying, a London-based writer who was in Australia last year for the
Sydney Writers' Festival, translations by Ouyang Yu and an unorthodox take
on ancestor worship by Yi Sha. ``Those stupid bastards who were driven onto
the streets/eating drinking whoring and gambling all day, killing over
trifles/ and viewing life as shit ... they were my ancestors/the origins of
my impulsive blood and bone.''
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Sent: Monday, October 02, 2000 6:39 PM
Subject: Announcing Jacket # 12
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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!
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