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                  Jacket 33
     Guest editor (myself) Pam Brown

:   :   :   :   :   Features   :   :   :   :   :

*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 

*Humor in Poetry: The Dangerfield Conundrum: 
A Roundtable on Humor in Poetry - 
80 pages of discussion  from 200 pages of postings 
to the HumPo List edited by 
Rachel Loden and K. Silem Mohammad, 
and featuring:

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

*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." 

 *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."
 - Barbara Claire Freeman

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

:   :   :   :   :   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"
  by 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   :   :   :   :   :

*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 

*Aram Saroyan: Contretemps: A Minimalist Parable 

:   :   :   :   :   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

          
Jacket 33

Jacket magazine:
Editor: John Tranter
Associate Editor: Pam Brown

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