As Hal said, have an enjoyable Sunday reading (or similar):
BIG BRIDGE <http://www.bigbridge.org/>
is pleased to announce its 2008 issue.
It includes:
CHAPBOOK <http://www.bigbridge.org/n-chapbook.htm>
*Up By The Maritime Museum* <http://www.bigbridge.org/n-chapbook.htm>
Poem by Nathaniel Tarn; Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis
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FEATURES <http://www.bigbridge.org/n-features.htm>
*BERKELEY DAZE* <http://www.bigbridge.org/BD.HTM>
Exhaustive anthology and commentary on the Berkeley Poetry Scene of the
1960s; some writers went on to become major figures; others set up a unique
dispensarion of their own
Edited with Commentery by Rychard Denner
*BOLINAS DREAMING* <http://www.bigbridge.org/bolinas.htm>
Book-length study of community of poets just north of San Francisco from the
mid 60s to mid 80s, many of whom went on to play major roles in the literary
modes that followed throughout the century
by Kevin Opstedal
*AN ANTHOLOGY OF BAY AREA WOMEN WRITERS*<http://www.bigbridge.org/BAYWOMEN.HTM>
Spritely and diverse anthology of women living in the San Francisco Bay area
today
edited by Katherine Hastings
*On The Publication of Philip Whalen's COLLECTED
POEMS*<http://www.bigbridge.org/WHALEN.HTM>
Celebration of the Collected poems of one of the most important American
poets to emerge at mid century. One of the original Beats, his poems do not
age or become dated, as this ample selection of commentary, poems, and
appreciations makes clear.
Commentary and poems by: Dale Smith, David Schneider, Karl Young, Neeli
Cherkovski, Brian Howlett, Ron Silliman, John Tarrant, Tom Clark, Anne
Waldman, and David Meltzer.
Edited by Dale Smith
*THE CHILDREN* <http://www.bigbridge.org/AS-CH.HTM>
Poems by Philip Whalen; Photographs by Aram Saroyan:
Saroyan took photos of children more or less his own age while travelling in
Europe with his father. He sent them to Whalen who wrote poems based on
them.
*WAR PAPERS (2)* <http://www.bigbridge.org/WAR08-A.HTM>
Poems, essays, comments, and hyper-text art against war.
*First Impressions of
OCEANS BEYOND MONOTONOUS SPACE:* <http://www.bigbridge.org/KIT-1ST.HTM>*
Selected Poems of Kitasono Katue*
For most readers in the west, Japanese poetry of the 20th Century remains
almost if not completely unknown. Yet it had its Avant Gardists comparable
to Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, and Kenneth Patchen (to mention three who
saw Kitasono as a peer. Kitasono foreshadowed most concerns and methods of
western poets, from Concrete to Language Poetry to the PhotoPoetry emerging
today decades before his western counterparts. This gathering respresents
initial responses to the first large and easily available selection of his
work.
Comments by: Aysegül Tözeren, Anny Ballardini, Susan Smith Nash, Carlos M.
Luis, and Dan Waber
*NOW, AS YOU AWAKEN* <http://www.bigbridge.org/DARWISH.HTM>
Poems of Mahmoud Darwish; Translated by Omnia Amin and Rick London
Generally considered the most important contemporary Palestinian Poet, this
selection of poems shows a poet steeped in a great tradition dealing with
contemporary issues, and doing so outside of stereotypes and predictable
misconceptions
*a d.a.levy satellite* <http://www.bigbridge.org/levy.htm>
Still controversial 39 years after his death, levy is finally emerging as a
major American poet, inovator, publisher, and influence. This widly diverse
collection of responses gives a sense of his range and his appeal to
audiences of all sorts.
Comments by T.L.Kryss, Joel Lipman, Ingrid Swanberg, Karl Young, Dan Waber,
Stephen Nelson, Joshua Gage, jon beacham, John Oliver Simon, Richard Krech,
Geoffrey Cook, and Charles Potts.
Edited by Ingrid Swanberg and Karl Young
*Nathaniel Tarn: quatre poèmes; traduction :
Auxéméry*<http://www.bigbridge.org/TARNT.HTM>
French translations of some of Tarn's best-known poems
*A California Trip: Salutations from Ira Cohen
—*<http://www.bigbridge.org/IC-TRIP.HTM>
Two Spontaneous Odes and a Photo of Terri Carrion
*CORNUCOPION BOSEGSZARU* <http://www.bigbridge.org/ICOHEN-M.HTM>
Ira Cohen in Hungarian
*A Retrospective of the Publication Work of Karl Young, Part
3*<http://www.bigbridge.org/young/ky-intro.htm>
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ART <http://www.bigbridge.org/n-art.htm>
*The Convergence of Then and When: A Game Without
Rules*<http://bigbridge.org/jane/index.html>
by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo
*Spitzer Breakdown* <http://www.bigbridge.org/SPITZER.HTM>
A Reading of a Poster by Jim Spitzer
*La Femme Mecanique*<http://www.bigbridge.org/http://www.bigbridge.org/kane/KANE.HTM>
Photo Art by Johnathan Kane
*Family Photos: Beats In Winter* <http://www.bigbridge.org/KEENAN01.HTM>
by Larry Keenan
*The Fine Art of Conversation* <http://www.bigbridge.org/HOW-INT.HTM>
Collaborative art by Brian Howlett and Associates
*Memories of Vali Myers* <http://www.bigbridge.org/VALI-G.HTM>
*Waning Moon – March 20, 2003* <http://www.bigbridge.org/KY-4CJY.HTM>
In Memoriam Carl J. Young
by Karl Young, Jr.
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FICTION <http://www.bigbridge.org/n-fiction.htm>
*Fiction by* Chris Wells, Paul A. Toth, Roberta Allen, Ann Bogle,
Stephen-Paul Martin, Tsipi Keller, Tsipi Keller, Marc Lowe, Richard Martin,
Mel Freilicher, Fisher Thompson, Nickolay Todorov, Paul Kahn Lou Rowan, and
Jordan Zinovich.
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REVIEWS and INTERVIEWS <n-fiction.htm#Reviews>
*Reviews of: *
Vali Myers, Joanne Kyger, Alice Notley, Judith Roche, Allan Weisbecker, Lou
Rowan,
James Broughton, Jack Foley, Jeffrey Side, William Allegrezza, and Raymond
Bianchi
*Reviewed by:* Allan Graubard, Kirpal Gordon, Stephen Vincent, Allan Davies,
Lynn Coffin, Mary Sands Woodbury, James Tierney, Katherine Hastings, Jake
Berry, Michael Schumacher, T. Hibbard
*Interviews:*
*Malcolm McNeil* <http://www.bigbridge.org/MCN-INT.HTM>
Interviewed by Larry Sawyer
with some of McNeill's graphic collaborations with
William S. Burroughs
*Vernon Frazer* <http://www.bigbridge.org/INV-VF.HTM>
Interviewed by Ric Cafagna
*Lou Rowan* <http://www.bigbridge.org/INT-ROW.HTM>
Interviewed by Dominic Aulisio
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POETRY <http://www.bigbridge.org/n-poetry.htm>
Index of poems by more than 138 writers, including
War Papers Poetry (2) includes poems by:
Keith Wilson, Robert Sward, Rebecca Kavaler, Harriet Green, Tad Richards,
Jennifer Compton, Joel Solonche, Chris Mansel, Steve Dalachinsky, Jéanpaul
Ferro, Hugh Fox, H. Palmer Hall, Louis Armand, Gay Partington Terry, John M.
Bennett, Paul C. Howell, Eileen Tabios, Harriet Zinnes, Philip Metres, Ruth
Lepson, Edward Field, Susan Donnelly, Neil Nelson, Larissa Shmailo, Hal
Sirowitz, Laura Lentz, Jeffrey Beam, Frank Parker, Alan Sondheim, Murat
Nemet-Nijat, Sheila Black, Barbara Crooker, Richard Kostelanetz, Rodney
Nelson, Karen Alkalay-Gut, Patricia Valdata, Sybil Kollar, Mark Pawlak,
David Howard, Marcus Bales, Jose Padua, Patrick John Green, John Bradley,
Kent Johnson, CL Bledsoe, Joseph Somoza, Martha Deed, Lisa Sewell, Hugh
Seidman, Sheila E. Murphy, e k rzepka, Harris Schiff, Bobby Byrd, Clarinda
Harriss, mIEKAL aND, Jayne Lyn Stahl, Rachel Loden, Jorn Ake, Paul E.
Nelson, Alexander Jorgensen, Helen Duberstein, Michael Heller, Georgios
Tsangaris, Stephen Vincent, Michael Maggiotto, Marthe Reed, Gregory Vincent
St. Thomasino, Ana Doina, James Scully, Glenn R. McLaughlin, and Ray Craig
Berkeley Daze includes poems by:
Luis Garcia, Belle Randall, Helen Breger, Ron Loewinsohn, David Bromige,
Gail Dusenbery, Gene Fowler, Jim Thurber, David Meltzer, Doug Palmer *Facino
*, John Bennett, John *the Poet* Thomson, Rychard Denner, Julia Vinograd *the
Bubble Lady*, Larry Kerschner, Charles Potts, Joel Walderman, Harold Adler,
Richard Krech, Michael Upton, Ron Silliman, Doug Palmer, Patricia Parker,
Martin P. Abramson, Richard Denner, Gene Fowler, Norm Moser, Charles Potts,
De Leon Harrison, John Thomson, John Oliver Simon, Andy Clausen, Jefferson
D. Hils, Richard Krech, Jack Foley, Al Masarik, Kay Okrand, James Koller,
David Cole, Thanasis Maskaleris, Sister Mary Norbert, Lennart Bruce,
Marianne Baskin, Hillary Ayer Fowler, Sam Thomas, D.R. Hazelton, and Jim
Wehalage
An Anthology of Bay Area Women Writers includes poems by:
Mary-Marcia Casoley, Sharon Doubiago, Adelle Foley, Judy Grahn, Susan
Griffin, Katherine Hastings, Beatriz Lagos, devorah major, Tennessee Reed,
Nellie Wong, Leslie Scalapino, and Maw Shien Win
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LITTLE MAGS <http://www.bigbridge.org/n-littlemag.htm>
Humonomous
Versal
Heaven Bone
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Anny Ballardini
http://annyballardini.blogspot.com/
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http://www.moriapoetry.com/ebooks.html
I Tell You: One must still have chaos in one to give birth to a dancing
star!
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