Jacket's Unnoticed Noticeboard
Not all visitors to Jacket, rummaging around in the labyrinth among the glittering trash and treasure of poetry, review, interviews, notes, photographs and divers literary material, happen to stumble over the Noticeboard, at http://jacketmagazine.com/noticeboard.shtml
...so here's an email copy of the current Jacket Noticeboard, for the subscribers to the Jacket newsletter.
Have a happy and productive 2007!
- John Tranter, editor
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The COMPLETE RECORDINGS
of WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Williams-WC.html
The recordings were originally compiled and published from Keele University, England, by Dr. Richard Swigg in 1992 and 1993. PennSound gratefully acknowledges the scholarship and editing of Dr. Swigg in making this Williams sound archive available.
PENNsound has had 10 million downloads since we opened two years ago!
We also wish to thank Peggy Fox and New Directions for making this possible. Al Filreis and Charles Bernstein, Directors: PENNsound is a project of the Center for Programs in Contemporary Writing at the University of Pennsylvania.
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Abigail Child
A note about recent publications for all of those curious and who do not know of the following:
AN EXPERIMENT IN AUTOBIOGRAPHY, poetry in markszine.com
Editor-in-chief and webmaster Deb King; special issue (2006) curated by Carla Harryman
web address: http://markszine.com/703/ac/ind.htm
NOTES ON SINCERITY AND IRONY, chapter essay in Stan Brakhage Filmmaker, edited by David James (Temple University Press 2005)
THIS IS CALLED MOVING: A Poetics of Film, full-length book divided into three sections: Sex Talk -on women and film and theory;
Matrix -on work by colleagues, contemporary and historical;
Interrogations -on my work: interviews, articles and transcripts.(University of Alabama Press, 2005).
About this book:
"This is a splendidly original collection of essays, comments, and interviews. Child has published books of poetry (Mob, 1994; Scatter Matrix, 1996) in the same venues as the so-called L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poets, and her writing style sometimes resembles the fragmented but idea-filled paragraphs one finds in the prose of Charles Bernstein (A Poetics, 1992) or Ronald Silliman (The New Sentence, 1987). Here she complicates and expands their work substantially, as she transposes the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poet emphasis on writing onto the medium of film. Whereas the L-A-N-G-U-A-G-E poets seem always to be rewriting Gertrude Stein, Child's work seems much more expansive, with a richer range of reference.... Including especially moving forays into issues of sexuality, the totality of the book gives a fine description of the potential of experimental filmmaking. Tom Gunning provides a concise, instructive foreword. Summing Up: Highly recommended."-S.C. Dillon, Bates College.
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Bruce Andrews
... in the news...
PREHAB, a collaboration with graphic designer Dirk Rowntree - tiny phrases/poems made into a video sequence of typographical mystery and magic. (This premiered last year as part of a sound installation at Diapason). Now up on the invaluable Ubu.com site:
http://www.ubu.com/contemp/andrews/PrehabUbu.mov
ALSO: from a few weeks ago on the Bill O'Reilly Report on Fox News (Bruce Andrews' 'debut' on national television), the video clip now up on Youtube.com. Five minutes of notoriety, as O'Reilly's 'Outrage of the Week!', attacked for the anti-Bush/Iraq slant of his political science courses at Fordham:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uTKp-XYWaOc
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Sidebrow
At http://www.sidebrow.net/
- an online & print journal dedicated to innovation & collaboration - seeks fiction, poetry, art, essay, ephemera, found text, & academia, as well as creative response to current posts and ongoing projects.
Submissions to Sidebrow are evaluated both as stand-alone set pieces & as points of departure for establishing multi-authored/multi-genre works. Submissions that re-imagine, depart from, or explore the interstices between posted pieces are highly encouraged.
Sidebrow's inaugural print anthology is slated for Summer 2007. Although all projects will remain open beyond the publication of this anthology, the deadline for inclusion in this first print edition is January 15, 2007. Submission details may be found at http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/submit.php
Current and forthcoming contributors to date:
Jenny Allan, Julia Bloch, Lawrence Braithwaite, Nick Bredie, Mez Breeze, Amina Cain, Nona Caspers, Jimmy Chen, Kim Chinquee, John Cleary, Catherine Daly, Brett Evans, Brian Evenson, Raymond Farr, Anne Germanacos, Paul Hardacre, HL Hazuka, Malia Jackson, Carrie Katz, Susanna Kittredge, Richard Kostelanetz, Kristine Leja, Norman Lock, Doug Macpherson, Scott Malby, Bob Marcacci, Bill Marsh, Rob McLennan, L.J. Moore, Greg Mulcahy, Cathi Murphy, Eireene Nealand, Daniel Pendergrass, Kristin Prevallet, Kathryn Pringle, Daniel C. Remein, Elizabeth Robinson, Len Shneyder, Nina Shope, Kyle Simonsen, Ed Skoog, Anna Joy Springer, Chris Stroffolino, Joanne Tracy, Chris Tysh, Nico Vassilakis, James Wagner, & Derek White
Projects to date:
Build: Mother, I: A multi-author, multi-genre exploration of seeds sown by Bataille. http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/motheri.php
Build: Post-Hole: A multi-author, multi-genre menagerie of grotesques. http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/posthole.php
The Letters Project: Reviving the epistolary novella. http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/epistolary.php
Page 24 Project: A chapbook concerning and consisting exclusively of page 24s. http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/page24.php
Litopolis San Francisco: Staking a literary claim to the city. http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/litopolissf.php
Work Seeking Work: Possible emerging projects. http://www.sidebrow.net/2006/workseekwork.php
Other projects to be defined by future submissions and response.
For more information, and to peruse currently posted works, visit http://www.sidebrow.net/
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Poets In Need
Poets In Need is a non-profit organization providing emergency assistance to poets who have an established presence in the literary community as innovators in the field and a substantive body of published work. Assistance is give only in cases of current financial need that is in excess of and unrelated to the recipient's normal economic situation and that is the result of recent emergency (due, for example, to fire, flood, eviction, or a medical crisis). Assistance is given world-wide, not just in the USA.
Their Internet site: http://www.poetsinneed.org/
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augustus young
all new NOVEMBER issue of the augustus young webzine
everything you could possibly want - within reason
http://augustus-young-no-4.monsite.orange.fr/
please send your corrections and comments
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Ygdrasil
The November 2006 issue of Ygdrasil, A Journal of the Poetic Arts, featuring selected poems from The Complete Poetry of Cesar Vallejo, translated by Clayton Eshleman, and accompanied by a 'Translation Memoir' by the translator, is now available at
http://www.synapse.net/kgerken/
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Rain Taxi
is pleased to announce the posting of its Fall 2006 Online Edition, featuring an interview with Raymond Federman and selections from the Letters to Poets project featuring Anselm Berrigan, John Yau, Truong Tran, and Wanda Coleman - plus reviews of books by Greil Marcus, John Muir, John Kinsella, and Cole Porter, two reviews of some steamy, definitely not-for-kids graphic novels, and much more... it's all for you at www.raintaxi.com!
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Coconut 6
containing new poems by Cole Swensen, Eleni Sikelianos, Josh May, CS Carrier, Eric Baus, Gloria Frym, CJ Martin, Natalie Lyalin, Ada Limon, Jonathan Minton, Laurel DeCou, Rusty Morrison, Megan Johnson, James Grinwis, Marty Hebrank, James Sanders, Michelle Greenblatt and Sheila E. Murphy, Mairead Byrne, Jeff Harrison, Kristine Snodgrass, Brendan Lorber, Bruce Covey, and Hazel McClure, is now live on the web. Hope to see you there!
http://www.coconutpoetry.org/
- Bruce Covey
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FULCRUM
is proud to announce the publication of its fifth annual issue and the launch of its brand-new website: Find more information, view samples or subscribe at http://fulcrumpoetry.com
FULCRUM: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, Number Five, 2006, edited by Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich * 544 pp., perfectbound, exquisitely designed, cheaply priced * SPECIAL FEATURES: "Poets and Philosophers"; "Poetry and Harvard in the 1920s" * POETRY BY Stephen Sturgeon, Ben Mazer, Jeet Thayil, Vivek Narayanan, Glyn Maxwell, Joe Green, Landis Everson, Dan Sofaer, Billy Collins, John Tranter, Andrea Zanzotto, Don Share, Sean O Riordain, Greg Delanty, Michael Palmer, Kit Robinson, Brian Henry, Pam Brown, David Lehman, John Hennessy, Charles Bernstein, Charles Baudelaire, Guillaume Apollinaire, Carlos Drummond de Andrade, Arthur Rimbaud, X.J. Kennedy, John Crowe Ransom, Alex To, Fiona Sampson, Fan Ogilvie, Richard Fein, Joyelle McSweeney, Justin Marks, Gerard Malanga, Alexei Tsvetkov, George Bilgere, John Wheelwright, Malcolm Cowley, R.P. Blackmur, Dudley Fitts... * ESSAYS BY Eliot Weinberger, Peter H. Hare, Simon Critchley, Marjorie Perloff, Lisa Goldfarb, Pierre Joris, Raymond Barfield... * ART BY Esther Pullman, e.e. cummings * INTERVIEW: Andrea Zanzotto * ... AND MUCH MORE!
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ANNOUNCEMENT: 2 NEW TITLES BY THE POST-APOLLO PRESS
(If anyone would like to review either of these books for Jacket,
please see this page.)
Einar
By Elriede Jelinek, Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, 2004
Translated from the German by P.J. Blumenthal
Nonfiction 66 pages $13.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-942996-58-6
ISBN-10: 0-942996-58-5
and
Figured Image
By Anne-Marie Albiach
Translated from the French by Keith Waldrop
Poetry 94 pages $18.00 ISBN-13: 978-0-942996-59-3
ISBN-10: 0-942996-59-3
On Einar :
Elfriede Jelinek , who was born in 1946 in Mürzzuschlag, Austria, is the most verbally powerful writer in present-day German-language literature. Her works and public statements continue to provoke disparate reactions. In 2004 Jelinek received the Nobel Prize for literature, and this decision also caused considerable controversy within the German-speaking sphere as well as internationally.
In 1998, the German writer and director Einar Schleef staged Jelinek's most important drama Sportstück for the Vienna City Theater, and so immediately became Jelinek's favorite director. The production of an additional Jelinek piece was interrupted by Schleef's illness. To everyone's surprise, he died shortly thereafter.
Subsequently Jelinek ventured to compose three portraits of Schleef, which P. J. Blumenthal has translated for this little volume. They show Jelinek at the height of her powers, with her inimitable, musically overflowing, irony-infected style of exaggeration, and will awaken curiosity about her work, as well as about the figure of Einar Schleef, who still remains completely unknown in the English-speaking world.
As Jelinek has written, "There were only two geniuses in postwar Germany: Fassbinder in the West, and Schleef in the East. They were both insatiable, but only in order to be able to give more. In the end, they gave themselves. They stumbled over themselves and spit out their hearts."
-Hans-Ulrich Müller-Schwefe
Works by Elfriede Jelinek include The Piano Teacher (2002) , Women as Lovers ( 1995), Lust (1993) , and Wonderful, Wonderful Times (1990), all translated by P.J. Blumenthal and published by Serpent's Tail Press. She has received over twenty literary prizes and awards in addition to winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2004.
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On Figured Image:
Anne-Marie Albiach's words are never alone on the page, having each other for company, just as they find here ideal companionship in Keith Waldrop's translation. In Figurations de l'image , Albiach pursues her rigorous investigation into the possibilities of measure, the perceptible, luminescence, vulnerability, memory, contour, ardor, breath, oscillation, remonstration, trajectory, disparity, abstraction, antecedence, disparity, refraction, trace, tapestry, rehearsal, reverberation, and the irreparable. In these poems, the figures refute image as they bank, relapse, surge, palsy, recollect. Albiach scores space to twine time, abjures rhyme to make blank shimmer in the mark.
-Charles Bernstein
The Post-Apollo Press is honored to release Figured Image , a new collection of poetry by Anne-Marie Albiach. Since the publication of État by Mercure de France in 1971, Albiach has remained a signal presence in French poetry and beyond, impacting American poets and artists such as Barbara Guest and Richard Tuttle. Bound by a geometry where language and body converge, Figured Image offers a lyricism that "breathes differently," luring the reader down darkening roads of memory, desire, and chance.
Translated works by Anne-Marie Albiach include Mezza Voce (The Post-Apollo Press, 1988), État (Awede, 1989), "Vocative Figure"( Allardyce Books, 1992), A Geometry (Burning Deck, 1998), A Discursive Space : I nterviews with Jean Daive (Duration Press, 1999), and Two Poems: Flammigere & the Line ¦ the Loss (Shearsman Books, 2004). EXCÈS: cette mesure first appeared as a collaboration with Richard Tuttle. It was published by Yvon Lambert, Paris, 2002.
Keith Waldrop is the author of eighteen books of poetry including The Real Subject: Queries and Conjectures of Jacob Delafon¦ with Sample Poems (Omnidawn, 2004) and The House Seen from Nowhere (Litmus Press, 2003). He co-edits Burning Deck press with Rosmarie Waldrop. His translations of contemporary French poetry have been supported by two NEA fellowships and the government of France has awarded him the rank of Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.
* Both titles are available through Small Press Distribution, 1341 7th Street, Berkeley, CA 94710.
** To order, please visit www.spdbooks.org or call 1 (800) 869-7553
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Shearsman 69/70 is now available.
£8.50 single copies / £12 for a 2 double-issue subscription. Further
details at:
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2006/sh69_70.html
About half of the previous issue is now online at
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/magazine/current_issue/contents.html
New books published this month:
Ken Edwards: No Public Language: Selected Poems 1975-1995
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2006/edwards.html
R.F. Langley: Journals
http://www.shearsman.com/pages/books/catalog/2006/langley.html
Both are available direct from the press, from Salt's website, from
Amazon, or indeed from your local bookshop (if you're in the UK or
the USA).
Other recent publications:
César Vallejo: Selected Poems
Fred Beake: New and Selected Poems
Mary Coghill: Designed to Fade
Peter Larkin: Leaves of Field
Tony Frazer
Shearsman Books Ltd,
58 Velwell Road, Exeter EX4 4LD
England
Tel / Fax: (+44) (0) 1392-434511
http://www.shearsman.com/
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Covering photography website is online:
Covering Photography is a web-based archive and resource for the study of the relationship between the history of photography and book cover design. Our database contains images of and information on approximately 1200 books so far, which may be accessed via Photographer, Author, Publisher, Publication Date and Designer.
The site is absolutely free, and interactive. We welcome your online comments and opinions.
Please visit and browse at CoveringPhotography.com. We hope you will forward it to those you think may be interested, and link it to your own website.
Url: http://CoveringPhotography.com
email: coveringphotography [ât] bc.edu
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Richard Burns
Richard Burns wins 2007 Serbian "Great Lesson" Literary Prize
CAMBRIDGE, UK Tues, Oct 10, 2006 (Salt Publishing) - Richard Burns has won the 2007 Veliki ¨kolski cas Prize.
Following the publication of The Blue Butterfly in September, Burns's book has been awarded the Serbian literary prize by the City of Kragujevac, the location and impetus behind many of the poems. The prize involves a televised performance of an oratorio based on the book before an international audience and its publication in Serbian.
The twin points of departure for the book are a Nazi massacre that took place in Kragujevac, central Serbia, in October 1941, and the poet's encounter with a blue butterfly at the same location in May 1985. The launch in London on 19th October this year takes place exactly 65 years after the massacre. In November Richard Burns will appear on the BBC Radio 3 programme The Verb.
The Blue Butterfly (Salt Publishing 2006) £10.99 ISBN 1-84471-258-3
"This is real poetry. The whole book is an extremely impressive achievement." -Frank Kermode
"Epic poems are rare. This is one. Richard Burns is one of the major half-hidden poets of England. The book is a monument: vivid, grave, sorrowful, angry and powerfully constructed, a human act of commemoration." -George Szirtes
About Salt Publishing:
Salt publishes ground-breaking poetry, short fiction, literary criticism, essays and biography for an international market. The management team, drawn from blue chip companies, have successfully consolidated the operations of the Australian-born business in the UK. Salt is a class leader in the implementation of new publishing technologies and standards. Sales revenues from the rapidly-expanding catalogue are growing at 40 per year. Stocks of the large, award-winning list are held with major distributors in the UK, USA and Australia, and sold in bookstores around the world.
For further information please contact:
Jen Hamilton-Emery on +44 (0)1223 882220 or email [log in to unmask]
Salt Publishing - The world's most innovative poetry publisher.
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Greek vase showing Muse with Kithera, courtesy Wikipedia
Greek vase showing Muse with Kithera, courtesy Wikipedia
OLD SONGS (archaic Greek poems put to music) is now on the web at Penn Sound: http://writing.upenn.edu/pennsound/x/Mason.html!
The Old Songs group has been translating Archaic Greek Poetry and putting it to music for 4 years now. Mark Jickling and Chris Mason translate the poems and write the tunes, as well as singing and playing guitar, banjo and mandolin. Liz Downing sings and Rebby Sharp plays fiddle.
Four CD's are at Penn Sound:"19 Old Songs", featuring translations from Sappho, Archilochus, Xenophanes, Alcaeus, Praxilla, Solon, Crates, Simonides, Hipponax, Mimnermus, and Alcman; "Alcman", featuring translations from the 7th century Spartan poet and composer of songs for girls' chorus; "Hipponax", with translations of poems by the 5th century iambicist/ street poet from Ephesos; and "Honey Nor Bee" with fragments of Sappho sung in Greek and English.
"This meld of words from the 7th to the 4th centuries B.C. with music of the turn of the American 20th century works near flawlessly. A simple string-band strum backs Downing's beautifully country reading of Sappho 31, part of which Jickling and Mason translate to, "Silently my tongue lies broken / Beneath my skin a fire is smoking". It's a lyric in imagery and tone that sounds as backwoods, old, weird American as anything from Harry Smith's Anthology of American Folk Music." -Bret McCabe, Baltimore City Paper
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A note from Anthony Barnett in England:
Dear Correspondents and Friends
Kindly excuse this multi-sent message about two remarkable 2007 projects.
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HENRY CROWDER
I am pleased to tell you that the long-ago announced Allardyce Book
monograph + CD Listening for Henry Crowder is at last on track for
firm publication in 2007, scheduled for the fall.
There have been exiciting developments:
Firstly, the wonderful New York-based vocalist Allan Harris has kindly
accepted to record the six settings by Crowder to poems by Nancy Cunard,
Samuel Beckett and others, which Cunard published as Henry-Music in Paris in
1930. As most of you know, all these compositions were supposed to have been
recorded at the time by Crowder, but only one disc, with one of the
compositions, has ever been discovered and it is now thought likely that the
remaining songs were never released. Crowder's recording will be included on
the CD along with Allan Harris's new recordings of all six songs, which will
be the debut recording of five of them, including the poem Beckett specially
wrote for Crowder. Allan Harris's work can be heard and seen at
http://www.allanharris.com
In 1926, the year before Crowder became violinist Eddie South's pianist, he
recorded six player piano rolls. All the rolls will be included on the CD in
performances by Julian Dyer from transcriptions and restorations by Robbie
Rhodes from the originals (one of which is known only in one damaged copy)
kindly loaned from the collections of Michael Montgomery and Frank Himpsl.
This team of four is truly the best in the world of player piano rolls and
their contribution to this project is enormous.
Attached for information is a pdf file of a draft (please note, draft only)
of the front and back covers of the forthcoming monograph.
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SWING STRINGS
I am also pleased to announce that in 2007 AB Fable has scheduled for
release a 2CD set examining part of the history of Swing Strings entitled
Swinging Till the Girls Come Home (the title of an Oscar Pettiford tune
recorded by Pettiford with Harry Lookofsky.)
The first CD will be an anthology of mainly small Swing String groups (i.e.
more than one violin) 1930s-1950s. It will include some unreleased and
broadcast items.
With the kind assistance of violinist Gayle Dixon and cellist Akua Dixon,
both founding members of the very first Max Roach Double Quartet, the second
CD will document previously unreleased recordings with them from the 1970s
and 1980s, including the most extraordinary rehearsals with Max Roach, and
larger ensembles. Gayle Dixon's work in documenting the violin in jazz is at
http://jazzbows.com and Akua Dixon's website is http://www.akuadixon.com
More information about this release will be mailed in some months.
Please write if you have any questions.
Many thanks
With warmest regards
Anthony Barnett
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Anthony Barnett
14 Mount Street, Lewes, East Sussex BN7 1HL England
Tel/Fax: 01273 479393 / International: +44 1273 479393
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Allardyce, Barnett, Publishers / AB Fable
http://www.abar.net
PERIODICALLY UPDATED NEW LINK
Corrections to AB Fable CD liner notes
http://www.abar.net/cdd.html
Fable Recording and Bulletin: Violin Improvisation Studies
Bio-Discographical Studies / CDs / Literature
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Issue 24 (2006) of New American Writing was published in July 2006 and is now available at bookstores and newstands for $15 or $36 for a three-issue subscription. You can also order from NAW, 369 Molino Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941. Online orders using a credit card: http://www.ccnow.com/
It contains a Nathaniel Mackey feature including a lengthy interview by Sarah Rosenthal; translations of poems by Pablo Neruda (Clayton Eshleman), Vladimir Holan (Josef Horacek and Lara Glenum), Pura Lopez-Colome (Jason Stumpf), Aase Berg (Johannes Gorannson), and Eugenio Montejo (Kirk Nesset), Yang Lian (Wang Ping and Alex Lemon), the ancient Vietnamese poet Nguyen Trai (Nguyen Do and Paul Hoover), and Yao Feng (Christopher Kelen); and poems by Pierre Joris, Rosmarie Waldrop, Nathaniel Mackey, Mac Wellman, Karen Garthe, Martine Bellen, Rusty Morrison, Joanna Klink, Edward Smallfield, Joseph Lease, Brian Teare, Denise Newman, G.C. Waldrep, John Olson, Campbell McGrath, Devin Johnston, Lisa Isaacson, Ethan Paquin, Caroline Knox, Douglas Messerli, Rachel Loden, Terence Winch, Todd Swift, Patrick Pritchett, Craig Watson, Stephen Vincent, Wang Ping, Barbara Jane Reyes, Maged Zaher, Noelle Kocot, Nathan Hauke, James Meetze, John Sakkis, and flarfists Michael Magee, Katie Degentesh, and Sharon Mesmer, among others.
Cover art: Bill Viola, The Messenger , 1996. Sing-channel color video and stereo-sound installation. Photograph by Sally Ritts. By permission of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NYC. Cover design by Philip Krayna and Jason Snyder.
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The University of California Press is pleased to announce the publication of:
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005
Robert Creeley
Robert Creeley feature
Jacket 31: link
Robert Creeley (1926-2005) published more than sixty books of poetry, prose, essays, and interviews in the United States and abroad. His many honors included the Lannan Lifetime Achievement Award, the Frost Medal, the Shelley Memorial Award, and the Bollingen Prize in Poetry. He was a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Distinguished Professor in the Graduate Program in Literary Arts at Brown University.
"Robert Creeley has created a noble body of poetry that extends the work of his predecessors Pound, Williams, Zukofsky, and Olson, and provides like them a method for his successors in exploring our new American poetic consciousness." - Allen Ginsberg
This definitive collection showcases thirty years of work by one of the most significant American poets of the twentieth century, bringing together verse that originally appeared in eight acclaimed books of poetry ranging from Hello: A Journal (1978) to Life & Death (1998) and If I were writing this (2003). Robert Creeley, who was involved with the publication of this volume before his death in 2005, helped define an emerging counter-tradition to the prevailing literary establishment-the new postwar poetry originating with Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, and Louis Zukofsky and expanding through the lives and works of Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Allen Ginsberg, Denise Levertov, and others.
The Collected Poems of Robert Creeley, 1975-2005 will be essential reading for anyone interested in twentieth-century American poetry. Full information about the book, including the table of contents, is available online: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/10161.html
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Coconut Five, now live on the web, features exciting new poetry by Lyn Hejinian, Mong-Lan, Ashley VanDoorn, Ada Limon, Scott Glassman, John Cotter, Joshua Marie Wilkinson, Katie Degentesh, Gina Myers and Dustin Williamson, Johannes Goransson, Noah Eli Gordon, Kristen Hanlon, Matt Hart, Kirsten Kaschock, Jennifer Moxley, Sarah Mangold, Carly Sachs, Joshua Edwards, Michael Rerick, Jen Tynes, Albert Flynn DeSilver, Maureen Seaton and Neil de la Flor, Hal Sirowitz, and Robyn Art. http://www.coconutpoetry.org/ - Bruce Covey, Coconut Editor
The Summer 2006 Online Edition of Rain Taxi Review of Books!
At : http://www.raintaxi.com/
Featuring the complete Daniel Handler interview, plus reviews of books by Colin MacInnes, William Burroughs, Nathaniel Mackey, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Alison Bechdel, Rick Veitch, and much, much more!
and don't forget the Summer 2006 Print Issue of Rain Taxi... featuring interviews with Will Alexander and Daniel Handler and reviews of books by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Tess Gallagher, Louis Zukofsky, Thomas Bernhard, Fred Vargas, William H. Gass, Lawrence Weschler, Michel Houellebecq and much, much more!
See complete print contents, here! To purchase this issue now click here, or start a four-issue subscription with the Summer 2006 issue.
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"UbuWeb Ethnopoetics editor Jerome Rothenberg has supplied us with a fresh batch of poems and essays including: Yunte Huang's essay with visuals of poems inscribed on walls by Chinese immigrants at Angel Island, San Francisco; Dennis Tedlock's "A Conversation with Madness" (translation) from The Human Work, the Human Design: 2,000 Years of Mayan Literature; an essay by Greek artist Demosthenes Agrafiotis on traditional writing systems & art making (French); Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's concrete poetry translation of an Ojibwa poem "Song of the Owl"; Dinita Smith on "Incantations," a handmade book of original writings in Tsotzil by a workshop/ collective of Mayan women; Ambar Past's Introduction to the Tzotzil Mayan "Incantations" book; and The People's Poetry Language Initiative - A Declaration Of Poetic Rights And Values. Stay tuned for Ethnopoetic Sound updates including Ethel Waters' 'That Dada Strain' (1922) and 'The Signifying Monkey: Two Versions of a Toast.'"
Here's the link: http://www.ubu.com/ethno/index.html
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Fascicle
You are invited to check out the second issue of Fascicle at http://www.fascicle.com/, an online journal that focuses on a global and historical view of innovative poetry. Included in its 400+ pages:
* A portfolio of new poems from China edited by Zhang Er, from the forthcoming Talisman Anthology of Chinese poetry.
* A supplement to Jed Rasula and Steve McCaffery's Imagining Language (MIT Press 1998), one of the most fascinating and distinctive anthologies of recent memory.
* A selection of new collaborative work by Lyn Hejinian & Anne Tardos, Aaron McCollough & Kent Johnson, Geraldine Monk & John Donne, Hank Lazer & Pak, Brian Howe & Marcus Slease, among others.
* Critical essays and prose, including Lisa Jarnot on Robert Duncan; Tom Orange on Clark Coolidge; Dodie Bellamy on Narrative & Body Language; Laura Moriarty on A Tonalist Thinking; Clayton Eshleman on Hart Crane, Andrew Joron & Jeff Clark; and more.
* Peter Cole interviewed by Leonard Schwartz.
* Visual work by Anne Tardos, Buck Downs, Cathy Eisenhower, and Michael Winkler.
Plus plays, poems, and translations.
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Bruce Covey is thrilled to announce that Coconut 2, with new poems by Ron Padgett, Leslie Scalapino, Shin Yu Pai, Arielle Greenberg, Jenna Cardinale, Reb Livingston, Elaine Equi, Edmund Berrigan, Nate Pritts, Larry Sawyer, Laura Carter, Anselm Berrigan, Jessy Randall, Jenny Boully, Shane Allison, Laura Solomon, Sueyeun Juliette Lee, Tony Tost, Peter Jay Shippy, and Christine Scanlon, is now live on the web. Also, please check out Verse's review of Issue one:
http://versemag.blogspot.com
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The Argotist Online at http://www.argotistonline.co.uk/ now has interviews with Charles Bernstein, Marjorie Perloff, Ron Silliman, Michael Rothenberg, Iain Sinclair, Rupert Loydell, Robert Hampson, Todd Swift, Philip Nikolayev, and Jack Foley.
Also poems by, among others, Ron Silliman, Hank Lazer, Michael Rothenberg, Rupert Loydell, Todd Swift, Anne Blonstein, Robert Hampson, Randy Roark, Allen Fisher, Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino, Annabelle Clippinger, John M. Bennett, Adam Fieled, Philip Nikolayev, Lidia Vianu, Peter Riley, rob mclennan, John Seed, and Medbh McGuckian.
Among the essays are those on Peter Redgrove, William Burroughs, William Bronk, Jeremy Reed and Bob Dylan.
Interviews with Randy Roark, Medbh McGuckian and Anne Blonstein are forthcoming.
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