Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, No 2.

Issue theme: “Philosophies of Poetry”

ISSN 1534-7877. Large octavo.  400 pages.  Perfectbound 

paperback.  Illustrated.



EDITORS: Philip Nikolayev, Katia Kapovich



CONTRIBUTING EDITORS: Pam Brown (Australia), Billy Collins 

(US), Fred D’Aguiar (Caribbean), Brian Henry (US), W. N. 

Herbert (UK), Michael Hulse (UK), Robert Kelly (US), David 

Kennedy (UK), John Kinsella (Australia), August Kleinzahler 

(US), Ben Mazer (US), Paul Muldoon (US), Greg O’Brien (New 

Zealand), Michael Palmer (US), Marjorie Perloff (US), John 

Tranter (Australia)



POETRY by: Charles Bernstein, Billy Collins, William Corbett, 

W.N.Herbert, Yunte Huang, Michael Hulse, Louis Simpson, 

Michael Palmer, John Kinsella, Ben Mazer, John Tranter, David 

Baratier, Jennifer Barber, Martin Bennett, George Bilgere, 

David Bircumshaw, Melanie Challenger, James Cherry, Douglas 

Clark, Lisa Cooper, Christina Daub, Mark DuCharme, George 

Ellenbogen, Michael Farrell, Henry Gould, Joe Green, Paul 

Hardacre, John Hennessy, Patrick Herron, Ranjit Hoskote, Jill 

Jones, W.B.Keckler, S.K.Kelen, Russell Keziere, John Koethe, 

Mark Lamoureux, John Latta, Alan Loney, Andrew McCord, 

Christopher McDermott, Elisabeth Murawski, Rich Murphy, Vivek 

Narayanan, Gregory O’Brien, Fan Ogilvie, Ethan Paquin, 

Michael Radich, Steve Shoemaker, Jeet Thayil



LEADING RUSSIAN POETS in translation: Alexei Tsvetkov, Sergey 

Gandlevsky, Lev Rubinstein. (Translators: Philip Metres, 

Tatiana Tulchinsky, Philip Nikolayev)



FULCRUM DEBATE: Charles Bernstein and Marjorie Perloff, A 

Conversation



INTERVIEWS with Billy Collins and Joseph Brodsky



ESSAYS BY POETS: John Kinsella, Michael Palmer, Ben Mazer 

(revealing a previously undiscovered source for T. S. Eliot’s 

The Waste Land), E. Cavazza (the previously undiscovered 

source for T. S. Eliot’s The Waste Land, in its first 

republication!), Joe Green, Mark Weiss, Sergey Gandlevsky, 

Alexei Tsvetkov



ESSAYS BY PHILOSOPHERS: Hugh Bredin, Mikhail Iampolski, John 

Koethe, Michael Prince, Michael Radich, Francis Raven



EDITORIAL: Poetic Anarchy (Fulcrum’s own philosophy of poetry)



VISUAL ART: (1) Mstislav Dobuzhinsky: 20+ exquisite, little-

known black and white drawings from Michael Kovner’s private 

collection (by the leading Russian Mir Iskusstva (‘World of 

Art’) artist) + a brief biography of the artist by M. Kovner; 

(2) Mikhail Iampolski’s essay on V. Komar and A. Melamid 

(Russian avant garde artists, founders of the Sots Art 

movement) discussing their latest work, with small black and 

white reproductions.



FULCRUM recently received a citation from National Public 

Radio’s “The Poem and the Poet” for Excellence in Print 2003



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