[New-Poetry] "Announcing Jacket 33 - July 2007"

[Rachel Loden]

"Announcing Jacket 33 - July 2007"

Guest editor: Pam Brown 

http://jacketmagazine.com/


========== Feature ==========

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 


========== Feature ==========

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." - B.C.F.

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

Brenda Hillman was born in Tucson, Arizona in 1951. After receiving her B.A.
at Pomona College, she attended the University of Iowa, where she received
her M.F.A. in 1976.She has published seven collections of poetry: White
Dress (1985), Fortress (1989), Death Tractates (1992), Bright Existence
(1993), Loose Sugar (1997) and Cascadia (2001), Pieces of Air in the Epic
(2005); all published by Wesleyan University Press. She resides in the San
Francisco Bay Area; she is married and has a daughter.


========== 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", 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 


========== 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
(60 pages) 

Aram Saroyan: Contretemps: A Minimalist Parable 


========== Feature: Humor in Poetry ==========

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

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


========== Feature ==========

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." 


========== 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 


========== The next issue of Jacket 
========== is due in October. 

>From now until the Northern Harvest Moon on 26 September the Jacket editors
preserve their creative energies by entering a profound state of marsupial
hibernation. Please do not disturb them! 

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