I cannot remember how many pages Jacket has, John Tranter once told me. I
think that if you read them all, as JT probably did, you have earned a PhD
MFA MA and what else there is on earth nowadays, :-)
On Dec 3, 2007 7:14 PM, Patrick McManus <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> John thanks Gosh Jule Yule arrived thanks lovely -feel very rich
> -overcome with pages and all how many are there actually in this issue ???
>
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> Subject: "Announcing Jacket 34 -- Late 2007 -- special stocking-stuffer
> issue!"
>
> ========================================
>
> Announcing Jacket 34 -- Late 2007 -- special stocking-stuffer issue!
>
> http://jacketmagazine.com/34/index.shtml
>
> Editor: John Tranter - Associate Editor: Pam Brown
>
> ========================================
>
> F E A T U R E : Contemporary Turkish Poetry
> A selection of poems and essays drawn from «Eda: An Anthology of
> Contemporary Turkish Poetry» edited by Murat Nemet-Nejat, published by
> Talisman House, New Jersey, and available through Small Press Distribution.
> With thanks to Talisman House.
>
> F E A T U R E : Post-Marginal Positions: Women and the UK Experimental/
> Avant-Garde Poetry Community, moderated by Catherine Wagner
>
> F E A T U R E : 'Between revelation and persuasion': Eric Mottram and
> Robert Duncan: A Compilation by Amy Evans and Shamoon Zamir
>
> F E A T U R E : Lucas Klein: «Stèles» Volumes 1 and 2, by Victor Segalen
>
> F E A T U R E : «About Now», by Joanne Kyger, Introduction by Linda Russo
> For decades, Joanne Kyger has played a crucial role in California's poetry
> scene. Her poetry has been influenced by her studies in Zen Buddhism and her
> connection to the poets of Black Mountain, the San Francisco Renaissance,
> and the Beat Generation. In this issue of Jacket:
> === Linda Russo's Introduction to the book,
> === Jane Falk provides a reader's response, and
> === Dale Smith looks at Kyger's developing poetics through her long
> career, and
> === Robert Adamson presents two poems written for Joanne Kyger.
> === Note: Jacket 11 contains a multi-voiced feature on Joanne Kyger edited
> by Linda Russo:
> http://jacketmagazine.com/11/index.shtml
>
> F E A T U R E : Canadian Poetry: Language Acts: Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976
> to the 21st Century -- Editors: Jason Camlot & Todd Swift
> === Jason Camlot and Todd Swift: Introduction to «Language Acts:
> Anglo-Québec Poetry, 1976 to the 21st Century»
> === Robert Allen: Seven poems
> === Oana Avasilichioaei: from «Gossip in the Valley»
> === Stephanie Bolster: Six poems
> === Asa Boxer: Four poems
> === Jason Camlot: The Debaucher
> === Angela Carr: Six Poems from the Rose Concordance
> === Leonard Cohen: Three poems
> === Mary di Michele: Four poems
> === Endre Farkas: Four poems
> === Raymond Filip: Three poems
> === Jon Paul Fiorentino: Five poems
> === artie gold: Five Jockey Poems
> === Michael Harris: Five poems
> === D.G. Jones: Six poems
> === Steve Luxton: Four poems
> === David McGimpsey: Four poems
> === Donald McGrath: Five poems
> === Stephen Morrissey: Three poems
> === Erín Moure: Map of Calgary
> === Robyn Sarah: Six poems
> === David Solway: Five poems
> === Carmine Starnino: Five poems
> === Andrew Steinmetz: Five poems
> === Nathalie Stephens: Four poems
> === Todd Swift: Four poems
> === Ruth Taylor: Five poems
> === Peter Van Toorn: Six poems
>
> ========================================
>
> I N T E R V I E W : From the Hither Side: Innovative Women Poets - Cynthia
> Hogue and Elisabeth Frost in conversation with Jane Joritz-Nakagawa
>
> I N T E R V I E W : Jackson Mac Low in conversation: Making Poetry
> «Otherwise», 28 January 2001
>
> I N T E R V I E W : Thirteen Ways of Looking At A Vermont Poet: Bob Arnold
> in conversation with Gerald Hausman
>
> I N T E R V I E W : Shanxing Wang in conversation with Nathan Brown
>
> ========================================
>
> A R T I C L E : What's Really Going on in "Persicos Odi"? Art Beck on
> Horace.
>
> A R T I C L E : Jeff Derksen: «These Things Form Poems When I Allow It»:
> after John Newlove
>
> A R T I C L E : Laurie Duggan: On Gael Turnbull's «Collected Poems», with
> a digression on his aleatory, kinetic and other off-the-page practices
>
> A R T I C L E : John Felstiner: «It looks just like the Cascades» - Gary
> Snyder's Eye for the Real World
>
> A R T I C L E : Thomas Fink: The Poetry of Questions
>
> A R T I C L E : Noah Eli Gordon: Considering Chapbooks: A Brief History of
> the Little Book
>
> A R T I C L E : Noah Eli Gordon: Considering Chapbooks: Belladonna* books
>
> A R T I C L E : Philip Metres «d.a.levy & the mimeograph revolution»,
> edited by Larry Smith and Ingrid Swanberg
>
> A R T I C L E : Jonathan Morse: The Startle Reflex: Some Episodes from the
> Lives of Ezra Pound's Language
>
> A R T I C L E : Jennifer Moxley: Rimbaud's Foolish Virgin, Wieners's
> «Feminine Soliloquy,» and the Metaphorical Resistance of the Lyric Body
>
> A R T I C L E : Sandeep Parmar: Mina Loy's 'Colossus' and the Myth of
> Arthur Cravan
>
> A R T I C L E : Brian M. Reed: 'Lost Already Walking': Caroline Bergvall's
> «Via»
>
> A R T I C L E : Anthony Stephens: Reflecting tragedy: Nietzsche, Lacan,
> Narcissus
>
> A R T I C L E : John Temple: Haven of the Heart: The Poetry of John
> Wieners
>
> A R T I C L E : John Emil Vincent: Escaping the future: John Ashbery's
> «Girls on the run»
>
> ========================================
>
> R E V I E W S :
>
> Language Poetry by the Bay: James Sherry: «The Grand Piano» Project:
> ...an ongoing experiment in collective autobiography by ten writers
> identified with Language poetry in San Francisco. It takes its name from a
> coffeehouse at 1607 Haight Street, where from 1976-79 the authors took part
> in a reading and performance series. The writing project, begun in 1998, was
> undertaken as an online collaboration, first via an interactive web site and
> later through a listserv.
> === «The Grand Piano» Part 3 reviewed
> Earlier reviews of the project:
> === «The Grand Piano» Part 1 - in Jacket 32
> === «The Grand Piano» Part 2 - in Jacket 32
>
> === Li Yun Alvarado: «How Long She'll Last in This World», by María
> Meléndez
> === Cristiana Baik: «DICTEE» by Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
> === Douglas Barbour: «The Goldfinches of Baghdad» by Robert Adamson
> === Christopher Barnes: «Lemon Shark» by Luke Beesley
> === Ben Lyle Bedard: «REAL» by Stephen Ratcliffe
> === Joel Bettridge: «Mirrors for Gold», by Roberto Tejada
> === Lisa Bower: «Erosion's Pull», by Maureen Owen
> === Lisa Bower: «Letter from the Lawn» by Bobbi Lurie
> === Joseph Bradshaw: «Inbox: (A Reverse Memoir) », Noah Eli Gordon
> === Norene Cashen: «Cleavage» by Chris Tysh
> === Matthew Cooperman: «A Fiddle Pulled from the Throat of a Sparrow», by
> Noah Eli Gordon
> === Eugenia Demuro: «Stet.» by José Kozer. Trans. Mark Weiss.
> === Mark Dickinson: «The Moon Sees the One» by Candice Ward
> === Alexander Dickow: «I'm The Man Who Loves You», by Amy King
> === Sarah Dowling: «The Material of Poetry: Sketches for a Philosophical
> Poetics», by Gerald Bruns.
> === Michael Duszat: «An Elemental Thing», by Eliot Weinberger
> === Curtis Faville: Aram Saroyan: «Complete Minimalist Poems», and Robert
> Grenier: «100 Sentences / 100 Phrases». Translated from English into French
> by Martin Richet with the Author.
> === Forrest Gander: «A Worldly Country» by John Ashbery
> === Alan Gilbert: «How to Read a Poem» by Terry Eagleton
> === Daniel Godston: «Blue Lash» by James Armstrong
> === Daniel Godston: «Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics» Number
> 5, 2006 (edited by Philip Nikolayev and Katia Kapovich)
> === Piotr Gwiazda: Professing Poetry: a review of «Poetry and Pedagogy:
> The challenge of the contemporary», edited by Joan Retallack and Juliana
> Spahr
> === Tom Hibbard: «Infinity Subsections» by Mark DuCharme
> === Julia Istomina: «Rise Up», by Matthew Rohrer
> === Tim Keane: «The Poems of Catullus: A Bilingual Edition», translated
> with commentary by Peter Green
> === Astrid Lorange: «The Material Poem» edited by James Stuart
> === Nicole Mauro: «Cornstarch Figurine» by Elizabeth Treadwell
> === Carol Middleton: «About Writing, Seven Essays, Four Letters and Five
> Interviews», by Samuel R Delany
> === Micaela Morrissette: «The Open Curtain», by Brian Evenson
> === Micaela Morrissette: «Bornholm Night-Ferry», by Aidan Higgins
> === Micaela Morrissette: «The Exquisite», by Laird Hunt
> === Micaela Morrissette: «North & South», by Martha King
> === Richard Owens: «Black Diamond Golden Boy Takes Bull By Horns» by
> Geoffrey Gatza
> === Craig Santos Perez: «Puerta Del Sol» by Francisco Aragón
> === Peter Robinson: «The Collected Poems of Ted Berrigan» edited by Alice
> Notley with Anselm Berrigan and Edmund Berrigan, Introduction and Notes by
> Alice Notley
> === Larissa Shmailo: «Letters from Aldenderry», by Philip Nikolayev
> === James Stuart: «Mediated», by Carol Mirakove, and «The Arts of Islam:
> Treasures from the Nasser D Khalili Collection»
>
> P O E M S:
> === Robert Adamson: Two poems (for Joanne Kyger)
> === Louis Armand: Six Parts for a Requiem
> === Jen Crawford: sixteen
> === Laurie Duggan: Two poems from 'The skies over Thanet'
> === Joel Deane: Tuk-tuk
> === Jesse Glass: Two poems
> === Scott Glassman and Sheila E. Murphy: from «Section 2»
> === Philip Hammial: Two poems
> === Ella Holcombe : The magazine
> === Vincent Katz: Three poems
> === Poems by Ko Un, translated from Korean by Brother Anthony of Taizé,
> Young-moo Kim, and Gary Gach
> === Katy Lederer: In the Hole
> === Philip Metres: The Old Haunts: A Guided Tour
> === Carol Mirakove: Five poems
> === Aryanil Mukherjee: Two Poems
> === John Newlove: Three poems
> === Benjamin Paloff: Four poems
> === Tomaž Šalamun: Two poems, trans. Brian Henry
> === Peter Dale Scott: Five poems
> === Spencer Selby: Text From My Visual Book
> === Elizabeth Smither: Practising scales
> === Grzegorz Wróblewski: Two poems: Migraine; Jesse Owens and Luz Long
>
> A N A S I D E : The Preservative Qualities of the Martini Diet
>
> When Schlesinger turned 60, he became more aware of his age. After a trip
> to the cathedral in Florence, he wrote:
> "As I went into the Duomo, it occurred to me that I have been visiting
> churches in Europe for 45 years, and that they have really done very little
> for me - my fault, not theirs, of course; but there it is. Why should I
> waste my declining years going into churches?... I will simplify life by
> abandoning the inspection of churches, as in earlier years I have abandoned
> ballet, metaphysics, linguistics and other subjects that, however estimable,
> are, alas, not for me." A decade later, lunching with two younger men in
> 1987, Schlesinger observed, "I could not help noting the generational
> differences in diet. I had a martini and grilled double lamb chops. They had
> Perrier and chef's salad. I suppose that their diet is better for them. But
> mine is more fun. I understand the disappearance of cigarettes these days;
> they are poison. But why has hard liquor, the staff of life, yielded to
> white wine and, heaven help us, Perrier?" In early 2007, Schlesinger died as
> he had lived: at work on a book... and out on the town (he was at a
> Manhattan restaurant on the night he was fatally stricken). [from the
> «Washington Post», Sunday, October 7, 2007; Page BW03] [Note: Arthur
> Schlesinger Jr. lived to the age of 89. I should be so lucky. - J.T.]
>
> Best,
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