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More stimulating than a double espresso with Strega chaser (or vice
versa),
more svelte than Hugh Hefner's red velvet smoking jacket -
Jacket # 10 - http://www.jacket.zip.com.au/welcome.html
is now ready for fitting!
featuring:
Barbara Guest Feature -
Charles Bernstein - Introducing Barbara Guest
Susan Gevirtz - on Barbara Guest
Barbara Guest - five short prose pieces from «The Confetti Trees»
Sara Lundquist on Barbara Guest's «The Countess From Minneapolis»
Wendy Mulford on Barbara Guest's «The Blue Stairs»
Ramez Qureshi on Barbara Guest's «Rocks on a Platter»
John Tranter - poem - The Twilight Guest
Geoff Ward reviews Barbara Guest's «If So, Tell Me»
Marjorie Welish: "The Lyric Lately" (a work-in-progress)
Frank O'Hara Feature -
Ron Koertge - prose poem - Homage
John Latta - poem - "Elogio di Frank O'Hara"
Russell Ferguson - Frank O'Hara and American Art
Lytle Shaw - On Coterie: Frank O'Hara ". . . Perhaps, despite the
pejorative flavor of the word, it might be more accurate to call them
a
'coterie' - if we define as coterie a group of writers rejected by the
literary establishment who found strength to continue with their work
by
what the anarchists used to call 'mutual aid'." - John Bernard
Myers
Reviews, Interviews, et cetera -
Richard Caddel - Introduction to Basil Bunting's «Complete Poems» -
and you
can listen to Basil Bunting reading "At Briggflats meetinghouse" in
RealAudio format and visit the Basil Bunting Poetry Centre in Durham
(metaphorically speaking).
Thomas Bell on McCaffery and Rasula's "Imagining Language"
Kent Johnson interviews Henry Gould
Norman Finkelstein reviews Armand Schwerner
Poems by Joe Amato ¶ Stephen Burt ¶ Denise Duhamel ¶ Chris
Emery ¶ Ulli Freer ¶ John Kinsella ¶ Kate Lilley ¶ Peter
Minter ¶ Lytle Shaw ¶ Dale Smith ¶ Pete Spence ¶ Nathaniel
Tarn ¶ Tony Towle ¶ Geoff Ward ¶ Charles Harper Webb ¶
Marjorie Welish
AND Jacket's Great Moments in Literature number Ten - Belgrade
researchers
pinpoint location of "Poetry Gland" - amazing photos of human brains!
AND - Letters to the Editor - Michael Rothenberg, Red Slider (New!)
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Polishing the Gongs Section:
In case you'd forgotten, Jacket was given a Best of the Net award from
the
(Poetry) Mining Company in New York in December 1997.
Jacket was also Site of the Month at the Electronic Poetry Center site
in
Buffalo, New York, in November 1997, and again in December 1999,
Recommended Site on the Web Del Sol Literary Ring site for Poetry in
December 1997,
Featured Site on the Booksmith Bookstore's "Literary Links" site in
San
Francisco at http://www.booksmith.com/links.html in April 1998,
"Page One Award" site on the Fiction Webring in 1999, and
Encyclopædia Britannica Internet Guide Award site in January 2000,
which
comes with a free search engine for the online Britannica, available
to all
our readers from our homepage.
All past and current issues of Jacket are always available.
Quick and quirky - no ad banners, no frames, no Java, no frauds, no
Nobel
Prize-winners!
If you like Jacket, please tell your friends.
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from
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tel (+612) 9555 8502 fax (+612) 9818 8569
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