"Announcing Jacket 33 - July 2007"
Guest editor: Pam Brown
http://jacketmagazine.com/
========== Feature ==========
Gordon Ball: Unknown Collaborators: photos from the world of Allen Ginsberg and his many friends among the Beats, from 1969 to Ginsberg's death in 1997
========== Feature ==========
Pieces on "Pieces of Air in the Epic", by Brenda Hillman: Barbara Claire Freeman, Editor.
"The generic convention of the book review is monologic; however nuanced and subtle, the constraints of the form typically allow the inclusion of only one perspective. This collection of short texts on the poems in Brenda Hillman's Pieces of Air in the Epic intends first, to present a kind of collective 'book review,' that is, a form of writing about poems that demands a plurality of individual voices; and second, to provide a forum in which poets respond to and explore a particular poem." - B.C.F.
Introduction, by Barbara Claire Freeman
Marjorie Welish
Graham Foust
Evie Shockley
C.D. Wright
Forrest Gander
Carol Snow
Robert Hass
Michael Davidson
Claudia Keelan
Robert Kaufman
Norma Cole
Marjorie Perloff
Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Juliana Spahr
Calvin Bedient
Reginald Shepherd
Cole Swensen
Elizabeth Robinson
Nathaniel Tarn
Bin Ramke
Donald Revell
Patricia Dienstfrey
Michael Palmer
Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1951. After receiving her B.A. at Pomona College, she attended the University of Iowa, where she received her M.F.A. in 1976.She has published seven collections of poetry: White Dress (1985), Fortress (1989), Death Tractates (1992), Bright Existence (1993), Loose Sugar (1997) and Cascadia (2001), Pieces of Air in the Epic (2005); all published by Wesleyan University Press. She resides in the San Francisco Bay Area; she is married and has a daughter.
========== Reviews ==========
Adam Aitken: "The Accidental Cage" by Michelle Cahill
Stan Apps: "Folly", by Nada Gordon.
Stan Apps: "My Angie Dickinson", by Michael Magee
Cynthia Arrieu-King: "The Man Suit" by Zachary Schomburg
Bridget Brooklyn: "Passion", by Brane Mozetic, translated by Tamara Soban
Andrew J. Browne: "Don't Ever Get Famous: Essays on New York Writing after the New York School", edited by Daniel Kane.
Stephen Cope: "City Eclogue" by Ed Roberson
Penelope Cray: "The Wanton Sublime:A Florilegium of Whethers and Wonders" by Anna Rabinowitz
Mark Dickinson: "Leaves of Field": with "Open Woods" and "Moving Woods".by Peter Larkin
Patrick James Dunagan: "Remembering Joel Oppenheimer" by Robert Bertholf
Martin Duwell: "Sugar Hits" by Philip Hammial
Michael Farrell: "Phosphorescence" by Graeme Miles
Cliff Fell: Eliot Weinberger, "What happened here" (second edition) and "Muhammad", both published by Verso, 2006.
Norbert Francis: Tosa Motokiyu (edited by Kent Johnson and Javier Alvarez). "Also, With My Throat, I Shall Swallow Ten Thousand Swords: Araki Yasusada's Letters in English"
Noah Eli Gordon and Erik Anderson: Conversational Noise: Some Talk on "Some Notes on My Programming", by Anselm Berrigan
Anne Heide: "hidde violeth i dde violet", by Kathleen Fraser
Cole Heinowitz: "Exchanges of Earth and Sky", by Jack Collom
Tom Hibbard: "Somebody Blew Up America and Other Poems", Amiri Baraka
Ben Hickman: "Remnants of Hannah" by Dara Wier
Carlos Hiraldo: "Unprotected Texts: Selected Poems, 1978-2006" by Thomas Beckett
Craig Johnson: "Poem for the End of Time and Other Poems" by Noelle Kocot
Paul Kahn: "I Was Blown Back", by Norman Fischer
Carl Kelleher: "Shake" by Joshua Beckman
Jake Kennedy: "The Men" by Lisa Robertson
Marc Kipniss: "The Bird Hoverer", by Aaron Belz
Louise Landes Levi: "Sunswumthru a Building", by Bob Arnold
Michelle Mahoney: "The Pajamaist", by Matthew Zapruder
Jill M. Neziri: "Forth a Raven", by Christina Davis
Michael Quattrone: "Overnight", by Paul Violi
Dr Mark Seton: "The Kamikaze Mind", by Richard James Allen
Rob Stanton: "A panic that can still come upon me" by Peter Gizzi
Paul Stephens: "The External Combustion Engine" by Michael Ives
James Stuart: "From Now" by Johanna Drucker
Ezra Tessler: "The Stamp of Class: Reflections on Poetry and Social Class" by Gary Lenhart
Dan Thomas-Glass: "Girly Man" and "World on Fire", both by Charles Bernstein
Marjorie Welish: "The Totality for Kids", by Joshua Clover
Interviews
========== Interviews ==========
Kathleen Fraser in conversation with Sarah Rosenthal, 2007:
"SR: Silence has been a central trope in your writing since early on. It carries a range of meanings, from erasure to grief and loss to the spaciousness of an open field. Perhaps we could trace some of the ways in which silence has come up in your work over time."
George Bowering in conversation with Rachel Loden: Like a Radio in the Dark: An Email Interview, 2007
Alison Knowles in conversation with Elizabeth-Jane Burnett, September 2006. Alison Knowles is a visual artist known for her soundworks, installations, performances, publications and association with Fluxus, the experimental avant-garde group formally founded in 1962.
Eleni Sikelianos, author of The California Poem, in conversation with Jesse Morse
Catherine Wagner in conversation with Nathan Smith, 13 April 2007
========== Articles ==========
James Wallenstein: Ninnies and the Critics: "A Nest of Ninnies" by John Ashbery and James Schuyler
Geoffrey Cruickshank- Hagenbuckle with Alexander Nouvel: ZAP! (Zukofsky, Apollinaire, and the X Men)
Vernon Frazer and Kirpal Gordon:
Who We Are Now:
A Retrospective of Michael Rothenberg
(60 pages)
Aram Saroyan: Contretemps: A Minimalist Parable
========== Feature: Humor in Poetry ==========
The Dangerfield Conundrum: A Roundtable on Humor in Poetry - 80 pages of discussion edited from 200 pages of postings to the HumPo List by Rachel Loden and K. Silem Mohammad, and featuring the voices of:
George Bowering
Maxine Chernoff
Katie Degentesh
Gabriel Gudding
Rachel Loden
Ange Mlinko
K. Silem Mohammad
D. A. Powell
Ron Silliman
Gary Sullivan
The Dangerfield Files, edited by Rachel Loden: poems from the HumPo List:
Rachel Loden: Introduction
George Bowering
Maxine Chernoff
Gabriel Gudding
Rachel Loden
Ange Mlinko
K. Silem Mohammad
D. A. Powell
Ron Silliman
Gary Sullivan
========== Feature ==========
Mark Weiss: José Martí: "José Julián Martí y Pérez (1853-1895) may not be unique as a political poet-martyr (one thinks of Byron and Lorca), but he must have been one of the most politically involved. The very model of the committed artist, he was 42 when he died in one of the first engagements of the second Cuban War of Independence, of which he had been chief propagandist and one of the principal planners. He had spent his entire adult life in exile, chiefly in Mexico City and New York."
========== Poems ==========
Mary Jo Bang: Three poems
Ken Bolton: Three poems: An Australian Suburban Garden; EUROPE; For various movie directors
Michelle Cahill: Three poems: The Accidental Cage; Manhattan; Poppies
Justin Clemens: "The Mundiad", Book IV
Kelvin Corcoran: Three poems from 'Ulysses in the Car'
Alfred Corn: Two poems: Page and Cave; Trunk Show
Wystan Curnow: poem: Max
Norman Fischer: Formal Terms
Robert Gibbons: Two poems: That Internal World; At the End of Writing
Anna Gibbs: Culpable Blindness
John Hennessy: Coney Island Pilgrims
Katia Kapovich: Two poems: To Whom It May Concern; The Seventh String
Burt Kimmelman: Two poems: House, Normandy; Crumbs upon the Table
Rachel Loden: Three poems: Props to the Twentieth Century; Dick of the Dead; The Pure of Heart, Those Murderers
Rupert Loydell: Two poems: The Secret Life of Mist; The Secret Life of Light
Norman MacAfee: I Am Astro Place
Mark Mordue: Things That Year
John Muckle: Three Poems: Elizabeth Bishop; Nothing Wrong; Cyclomotors
Marc Nasdor: Five poems
Simon Robb: Excerpt from "Jane Fonda's Temple of Literature"
Sam Sampson: Three poems: The Ship Beautiful; Reel; Diagram
Don Share: On being philosophical
Jaya Savige: Two poems
Mark Schafer translates five poems by David Huerta
Jeffrey Side: Extracts from "Carrier of the Seed"
Stephen Sturgeon: Two poems: Friday; Fired
Paul Violi: Finish These Sentences
========== The next issue of Jacket
========== is due in October.
From now until the Northern Harvest Moon on 26 September the Jacket editors preserve their creative energies by entering a profound state of marsupial hibernation. Please do not disturb them!
========== Jacket magazine:
========== Editor: John Tranter
========== Associate Editor: Pam Brown
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