--------------------------------------------------------------- "Announcing Jacket 28, October 2005" Hundreds of pages of dazzling literature: http://jacketmagazine.com/index.html Editor: John Tranter, Associate Editor: Pam Brown --------------------------------------------------------------- Robert Bertholf's Robert Duncan === Robert J. Bertholf: Introduction === Robert Bertholf: Robert Duncan: A Biographical Sketch === Robert Duncan, Ten Poems, 1940 to 1980 === Robert Duncan, Ten Letters, 1939 to 1960 === Robert Duncan, Ten Prose Pieces, 1945 to 1978 === Robert J. Bertholf: Robert Duncan's 'The Venice Poem' and Symphonic Form === Robert J. Bertholf: The Robert Duncan / Denise Levertov Correspondence: Duncan's View === Robert J. Bertholf: From Robert Duncan's Notebooks: On Denise Levertov === "Here at the last minute": Letters from Robert Duncan to Chris Edwards, 1977-1980 (excerpts) === Robert J. Bertholf: Preliminary Checklist of Robert Duncan's Reference Library === Robert Bertholf: The Poetry Collection at the State University of New York at Buffalo: A Sketch Kenneth Cox 1916-2005 === Edited by Jenny Penberthy === Introduction: Jenny Penberthy: Kenneth Cox 1916-2005 === August Kleinzahler: Kenneth Cox === Kenneth Cox: Donald Davie's History ( a review of Donald Davie, Under Briggflatts: A History of Poetry in Great Britain 1960-1988. Manchester: Carcanet, 1989.) === Kenneth Cox: Basil Bunting reading Wordsworth === Kenneth Cox: Laforgue === Kenneth Cox: Lorine Niedecker's Poetry === Sorley Maclean: Raasay Woods ("Englished by Kenneth Cox") === Kenneth Cox on Translating === Eliot Weinberger: Kenneth Cox === Michael O'Brien: About Kenneth Cox === Michael Hamburger: Ave Atque Vale === Roger Guedalla George Bowering Feature === Edited by rob mclennan === rob mclennan: Introduction: George Bowering at 70 === George Bowering: Three poems: His Friend Waiting / Q&A / The Figure of outward === George Bowering in conversation with Eric Eggertson, 1979 === Jonathan Ball: "Is winter my country": Bowering's Kanada === rob mclennan: Changing on the Fly, The Best Lyric Poems of George Bowering === rob mclennan: from variations: plunder verse (book 3 of the other side of the mouth): six variations on George Bowering's "Do Sink" === Tim Conley: Reading Bowering Fearfully === Rob Budde: Curiouser: George Bowering === Aaron Belz: Five poems: There is Bowering / Bowering / George on a Bike / Mountains are Somebody's Back Yard / Baseball === Kent Johnson: I Remember Once, Years Ago === Lionel Kearns: Calling === David W. McFadden: Two poems: Chinese / Saskatoon === rob mclennan: George Bowering Bibliography (selected) Interviews === 'The Wedding Dress: Meditations On Word and Life': Fanny Howe in conversation with Leonard Schwartz === 'Making Things Difficult': Douglas Messerli in conversation with Charles Bernstein === 'Bumper-car effect': Rodrigo Toscano in conversation with Leonard Schwartz Reviews and Articles === Joel Bettridge: Surfaces by John Tipton === Ken Bolton: The Roads by David Kennedy === Daniel Borzutzky: Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems of Jaime Saenz, translated by Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander === Kerry Brown: A Tragic Honesty: The Life and Works of Richard Yates, by Blake Bailey === Colin Browne: 'Shadowtime', Composer: Brian Ferneyhough; Librettist: Charles Bernstein; North American premiere: Lincoln Center Festival 2005, July 21 and 22, 2005; Shadowtime, by Charles Bernstein: Green Integer Books === Sophie Calle and Grégoire Bouillier: Questionnaire, translated by Bill Berkson, answered by Harry Mathews, then by Andrei Codrescu === Cyrus Console: The Lichtenberg Figures, by Ben Lerner === Stuart Cooke: Music Prose and Poems by Martin Harrison === Jon Curley: Uncertain Poetries Selected Essays on Poets, Poetry and Poetics, by Michael Heller === Jim Feast: Poems From the Prison Diary of Ho Chi Minh, translated by Steve Bradbury === Adam Fieled: Wordsworth @ McDonald's === Thomas Fink: Incessant Seeds, by Sheila E. Murphy === Lyman Gilmore: William Bronk and Cid Corman === Noah Eli Gordon: Folding Ruler Star, by Aaron Kunin === Noah Eli Gordon reviews 23 recent American chapbooks === Timothy Gray: 'Fictions Dressed Like Water': Aqueous Imagery in the Poetry of Barbara Guest (15,000 words) === T.Hibbard: Avenue Noir by Vernon Frazer === Brenda Hillman: Nathaniel Tarn's Selected Poems 1950-2000 === Piers Hugill: Shut Up Shut Down, by Mark Nowak with an afterword by Amiri Baraka === Paul Foster Johnson: Fourier Series, by Joshua Corey === Paul Kahn: three books by James Koller: Snows Gone By New & Uncollected Poems 1964-2002 / Looking For His Horses / Crows Talk To Him === Ben Lerner: Migration: New and Selected Poems by W.S Merwin === James Maynard: Precipitations Contemporary American Poetry as Occult Practice, by Devin Johnston === Kim Minkus: American Standard/ Canada Dry, by Stephen Cain === Jim O'Donoghue: Chronicles, Volume One by Bob Dylan, and Dylan's Visions of Sin by Christopher Ricks === Richard Owens reviews Lyric Poetry After Auschwitz Eleven Submissions to the War, by Kent Johnson === Liz Parsons: ode ode by Michael Farrell === Lance Phillips: Growing Still by Deborah Meadows === Chris Pusateri: To Tell the Lamp, by Lisa Lubasch === Larry Sawyer: The Vermont Notebook by John Ashbery and Joe Brainard === Laura Sims: Emptied of All Ships by Stacy Szymaszek === Madeline Tiger: Somehow (Poems) by Burt Kimmelman === Jim Wanless: The Compete Love Elegies of Sextus Propertius, translated by Vincent Katz === John Welch: Being There: the literary life in London === Laura Wright: The Bear River Massacre and the Making of History, by Kass Fleisher Poems === Louis Armand: Croatoan === Aaron Belz: Three poems: Tim Burton Explodes / In Bed with Meryl Streep / Gary Cooper in the Intellectual Graveyard === Stephen Bett: For the Nine Guys === Bill Berkson: Exhibit A === Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 66: Scroll === Tom Clark: All: for Robert Creeley (1926-2005) === Joshua Clover: Three poems: Triple Sonnet / Early Style / Whiteread Walk === Clayton Eshleman: Two poems: An Arsenal In Seattle / Monumental === Landis Everson: Woof === Annie Finch: Excerpt from The Encyclopedia of Scotland, Section 4: 'Feeding the Admiral's Pussycat' === Vincent Katz: Three poems: Psalm / The Regattas at Sainte-Adresse / Hell === Philip Hammial: Three poems: Grammar / France / Kamikaze === Lawrence Joseph: The Bronze-Green Gold-Green Foreground / On That Side / The Pattern-Parallel Map Or Graph === David Lehman: To You === Joel Lewis: Eight Poems From "Anhedonia" === Steve McOrmond: Happy Hour === Ange Mlinko: Two Poems: Femme Fatale Geography / Everything's Carousing === Chus Pato: CHARENTON (excerpt), translated from the Galician by Erín Moure === Erín Moure: Extract from 'The Fall' === Stephen Ratcliffe: Poems from HUMAN / NATURE === Peter Robinson: from Other Trespasses === Linda Russo: 'I was a doctor...' / perfecto fiesta / gender mark-down / It's a boy and It's a girl / "Photoillustration of Martha's last laugh" and "post-attack" / 'Here is love and peace' / 'My biggest problem' / 'don't do or say that to that' === Lisa Samuels: Two poems: I'm not waiting for anything / Riddle of the covering cherub === Anamaría Crowe Serrano: Pitter patter === Peter Jay Shippy: Tristan & Isolde === Spencer Selby: Three poems: Patex Ont / Please Wireless / Original Veneer === Pete Spence: Heading...For a fall === Erik Sweet: Two poems: 8 Tender Buttons / Double a World === Rodrigo Toscano: Truax Inimical === César Vallejo: Two poems, translated by Clayton Eshleman: The Book Of Nature / Let the Millionaire Walk Naked === John Wilkinson: Crown of Nettles === Lewis Warsh: Reversible Destiny <<< If you would like to be taken off this mailing list, please just ask. >>> _________________________________________________________________ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! 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