Saturday, March 15, 2008

BABIES--HASTA LA VISTA!

So I'm flying south for the, uh, spring! Should be back in blogland in mid-April or so, when this blog will present a new face. Until then, the grinning mugs of your Chatelaine Plus Dawg from their early days in blogland:



Love,
Eileen and Achilles

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Friday, March 14, 2008

GREAT POETRY BY GREAT WOMEN!

If only because it's an honor to serve on the Board of Kelsey Street Press, Moi should note that said Kelsey Street Press now has a BLOG!

Needless to say, if you don't know who Kelsey Street Press is, you should and it's time to learn!

AWESOME...AND AWED!

People who think artists shouldn't reveal that much of their personal lives confuse the process for result. There is no single right process. Some attempts at art succeed, and some don't, but the former doesn't validate a particular path for should-rule-making, just as the latter doesn't mean one should never go down a certain path.

And so, with the BRILLIANT Geof Huth, we have here Art crafted from one of the most personal experiences a person can bear.

That top photo in his March 13, 2008 post "Wounded, the Illustrated Man"), while certainly hearkening da Vinci's famous Vitruvian Man, for me generally evokes powerful Renaissance drawings -- Michelangelo, Raphael...that shivery resonance emanating from the drawings' life forces. I wish Geof continued best recovery, and BOW.

This is not just

                  I am, therefore I blog

but most emphatically

                  I blog, therefore I am.

The artist, not the egotist, makes it work.

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Wednesday, March 12, 2008

WHAT IS A MIRACLE

is that for part of my South American trip, Moi own Gura Michelle will accompany me....I couldn't have anticipated that! There are certain people in this life whose presence just makes the living flow easier. For Moi, that'd be Michelle. I can't think of a better bodyguard. She may be lovely but she wields a BIG STICK.

Plus she can take down three men with one hand (what do you do with the other hand as you take down three baddies, Michelle? Sip tea? With pinkie delicately pointing to the sky?)

Do I need a bodyguard where I'm going? Probably. I anticipate pissing off a lot of people when I call each and every one of them "Goat." Never will mistranslations be so dangerous...

*****

UPDATE: So, I'd wondered what Michelle does with the other hand as one hand takes down three baddies with the other hand. She answer my question HERE; but check out this excerpt:

It's always that hand that you're not paying attention to, that makes everything happen. In this school we concern ourselves with the masculine and feminine sides. In this case my dominant hand the right one, is the masculine energy, where I hold the weapon, my power hand as it were. The left hand is the feminine hand, the ones that guides, directs, manipulates and counter balances the right hand.

But in this particular instance, the knife, what we consider a feminine weapon at least in the way we use it, is in my right hand. The Female Knife, what we call what I'm doing, isn't the Psycho-movie slashing or jabbing that you see in movies which is more masculine. The Female Knife is hidden. And in this case, it is hidden and protected by the left hand.

And here's the part that I think will be the most fascinating aspect...Tuhan described these hands once not has male and female, but as mother and son. The Son being the knife hand is being fed and protected by the Mother, the empty hand. If you watch closely, it's this open hand that makes contact and feeds the baddie to the knife hand. You see this when my hands are relatively close together when engaging the baddie. The Mother feeds her Son. While not engaged with the baddie, the Mother protects the Son by hiding him. So you see the knife disappear behind my left arm often. Then at times, the Mother allows the Son to venture off on his own but always nearby. You can see this when my knife hand shoots to the baddie's throat and my other hand is left behind clearing the baddie's punching hand. The Mother still tries to ensure the Son's safety even when she allows him to venture off. After all, can't have a cloistered Son, especially when baddies are around. The Knife must do what the Knife was meant to do and the open hand must encourage and allow that for it to be effective.

The Knife Must Do What The Knife Was Meant To Do ... Uh hunh. Boy do I feel safe...

*****

Relatedly, I've just cancelled my May 1 reading in Sacramento. Sorry to those who've backchanneled Moi about it...but though I should be back in the U.S. by then, a transition period covering that time will prevent me then from traveling much beyond Galatea's mountain as a result of Moi Latin Passion...

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Tuesday, March 11, 2008

LAST HEAD'S UP

I leave for South America this Saturday morning (yes dear goats and peeps, there's a reason why I can't identify which country). I'll probably be out of the country for a month. Perhaps some sporadic email access, but no guarantee.

So those of you with business with me while I'm on U.S. terroir -- including perhaps requesting review copies for the next issue of Galatea Resurrects -- email me while I can still do a mailing through Friday!

This is the last head's up.....when I return, this blog will have a NEW FACE -- even more shiny than it is now! -- to reflect The Most Important Thing I'll Ever Do ....and which required Moi hightailing it across oceans into and across three countries for nearly a year. I'm such a tease...but for now, a list poem:

Conjuration List Poem

St. Helena
San Francisco
Stanford
Los Angeles
Atlanta
San Francisco
St. Helena
San Francisco
Manila
Santo Tomas
Vigan
Galimuyod
Vigan
Santo Tomas
Manila
San Francisco
St. Helena
Calistoga
St. Helena
San Francisco
St. Helena
Napa City
St. Helena
New York
San Francisco
Internet for "20 Hour Course"
St. Helena
Manila
St. Helena
Santa Rosa
St. Helena
Santa Rosa
St. Helena
San Francisco
St. Helena
San Francisco
St. Helena
San Francisco
St. Helena
San Francisco
Napa City
St. Helena
Sacramento
St. Helena
Sacramento
St. Helena
San Francisco
St. Helena
San Francisco
Los Angeles
SOUTH AMERICA
Los Angeles
San Francisco
St. Helena
San Francisco
St. Helena
San Francisco
New York
San Francisco
St. Helena
San Francisco
New York
San Francisco
St. Helena
San Francisco
Los Angeles
===> March 15 departure to SOUTH AMERICA

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Monday, March 10, 2008

GALATEA RESURRECTS FOR THE NINTH TIME!!!!

Woot! For obvious reasons! Galatea Resurrects' Ninth Issue is HERE! And a record number of new reviews it is at 65 poetry publications covered!

For your convenience which is a large concern of mine, I replicate the Table of Contents below:

March 31, 2008

[N.B. You can scroll down for all articles or click on highlighted names or titles to go directly to the referenced article. Since this is a large issue, if it takes too long to upload the entire issue, you can click on the individual links below to more quickly get to a review that interests you.]


EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION
By Eileen Tabios


NEW REVIEWS
Brian Clements engages nine books by John Yau: PARADISO DIASPORA; THE PASSIONATE SPECTATOR: ESSAYS ON ART AND POETRY; ING GRISH (with illustrations by Thomas Nozkowski); BORROWED LOVE POEMS; THE UNITED STATES OF JASPER JOHNS; RADIANT SILHOUETTE; CORPSE AND MIRROR; SOMETIMES; and 100 MORE JOKES FROM THE BOOK OF THE DEAD (with etchings by Archie Rand)

David Goldstein reviews TWENTY-ONE AFTER DAYS by Lisa Lubasch

Patrick James Dunagan reviews CADENZA by Charles North and DOING 70 by Hettie Jones

Séamas Cain reviews SKINNY BUDDHA by Sheila E. Murphy

Raymond John A. de Borja reviews NOISE PICTORIAL NOISE by Eli Noah Gordon

Shanna Compton reviews DANCE DANCE REVOLUTION by Cathy Park Hong

Eileen Tabios engages MAUVE SEA-ORCHIDS by Lila Zemborain, Trans. by Rosa Alcala and Monica de la Torre

John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews RAPID DEPARTURES by Vincent Katz

Eileen Tabios engages IMAGINING A BABY by Bob Marcacci

John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews PRAU by Jean Vengua

Thomas Fink reviews WHEN A WOMAN LOVES A MAN by David Lehman

Kristi Castro reviews SOMETHING BRIGHT, THEN HOLES by Maggie Nelson and [GROWLING SOFTLY] Edited by Juliet Cook and "drilled" by David Foster

Nicholas Manning reviews TEXT LOSES TIME by Nico Vassilakis

Stephen Vincent reviews WHAT’S IN STORE by Trevor Joyce

Eileen Tabios engages ZAMBOANGUENA by Corrine Fitzpatrick

Burt Kimmelman engages eight publications by Basil King: 77 BEASTS; BASIL KING'S BESTIARY; LEARNING TO DRAW / A HISTORY: TWIN TOWERS; MIRAGE: A POEM IN 22 SECTIONS; WARP SPASM; THE POET; IDENTITY; THE COMPLETE MINIATURES; and DEVOTIONS, WITH SELECTIONS FROM A PAINTERS BESTIARY AND 14 DRAWINGS FROM INTENTIONS

Tom Beckett reviews HARLOT by Jill Alexander Essbaum

Patrick James Dunagan reviews HOME AMONG THE SWINGING STARS: COLLECTED POEMS OF JAIME DE ANGULO, Edited by Stefan Hyner with an essay by Andrew Schelling

Juliet Cook engages FEIGN by Kristy Bowen

Anny Ballardini reviews DAYS POEM, VOLS. I and II by Allen Bramhall

Patrick James Dunagan reviews THE FINAL NITE & OTHER POEMS: COMPLETE NOTES FROM A CHARLES GAYLE NOTEBOOK 1987-2006 by Steve Dalachinsky

Karen Rigby reviews THE BEDSIDE GUIDE TO NO TELL MOTEL: SECOND FLOOR, Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden

Nathan Logan reviews THE BEDSIDE GUIDE TO NO TELL MOTEL, Edited by Reb Livingston and Molly Arden

Eileen Tabios engages MY NAME IS ESTHER CLARA by Laurel Johnson; a FOURSQUARE SPECIAL EDITION OF FIVE POEMS by Maureen Thorson; and HERE, LOVE by Jess Rowan

Jeffrey Side reviews BEAMS by Adam Fieled

Jon Cone reviews LITTLE BOAT by Jean Valentine

John Bloomberg-Rissman reviews OVERNIGHT by Paul Violi

Jeff Harrison reviews OPENING AND CLOSING NUMBERS by Anny Ballardini

Eileen Tabios engages AN ARCHITECTURE by Chad Sweeney

Jessica Bozek engages DUMMY FIRE by Sarah Vap

Ryan Daley reviews THE FRANK POEMS by CAConrad

Eileen Tabios engages CLEAVING by Dion Farquhar

Abigail Licad reviews THE ANCHORED ANGEL, SELECTED WRITINGS BY JOSE GARCIA, Edited by Eileen Tabios

Christopher Mulrooney reviews SELECTED POEMS OF GABRIELA MISTRAL, Trans. by Ursula K. Le Guin

Christopher Mulrooney reviews THE BEGINNING AND END OF THE SNOW by Yves Bonnefoy, Trans. by Alan Baker

Lisa Bower reviews TERRAIN TRACKS by Purvi Shah

Laurel Johnson reviews THERE ARE WORDS by Burt Kimmelman

Ivy Alvarez reviews A F I E L D by Anthony Hawley

Nathan Logan reviews WORDS IN YOUR FACE: A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH 20 YEARS OF THE NEW YORK POETRY SLAM by Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz

Eileen Tabios engages 2 POEMS FROM THE BOTTOM OF THE BARREL by Logan Ryan Smith

Kristin Berkey-Abbott reviews BLUE COLONIAL by David Roderick

Eileen Tabios engages LIST'N by Karri Kokko

Laurel Johnson reviews INDIAN TRAINS by Erika T. Wurth

Eileen Tabios engages THE HEART THAT LIES OUTSIDE THE BODY by Stephanie Lenox

Patrick James Dunagan reviews DON'T SAY A WORD by F.A. Nettelbeck

Eileen Tabios engages BEHIND THE WHEEL: POEMS ABOUT DRIVING by Janet S. Wong


THE CRITIC WRITES POEMS
Four Poems by Ivy Alvarez: "Pear", "dumb", "The Tree" and "Parsonage Parlor"


FEATURE ARTICLES
"NOMADIC WAR" by Amy Levine

"MODERN IRONISTS: JOHN BERRYMAN, TED HUGHES, ROCHELLE OWENS, EDWARD DORN" by Rochelle Ratner


FROM OFFLINE TO ONLINE: REPRINTED REVIEWS
Susana Gardner reviews ONCE UPON A NEOLIBERAL ROCKET BADGE by Jules Boykoff

Gina Myers engages LEARNING THE LANGUAGE and CASE SENSITIVE by Kate Greenstreet

Andrew Joron reviews BROKEN WORLD by Joseph Lease

Alfred A. Yuson reviews AT THE DRIVE-IN VOLCANO by Aimee Nezhukumatathil and PASSAGES: POEMS 1983-2006 by Edgar B. Maranan

Alfred A. Yuson reviews SORROWS OF THE CHAMELEON by Ella Wagemakers


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BACK COVER
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KOOTCHEE KOO, YOU HAY(NA)KOOOOO!

Just trying to get in some work in the future THE CHAINED HAY(NA)KU PROJECT anthology before I leave U.S. terroir for a month or so....hoping to send out responses soon to those who submitted works. And I just realized that it looks like participants will number 72 poets and visual artists from around the world.

As the hay(na)ku Mama, Moi am honored by all y'all interests. Thank you. Sniffle.

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Sunday, March 09, 2008

ANOTHER TAKE ON THAT MORONIC OXYMORON OF POETRY ECONOMICS

Interesting to see Poetry discussed in the context of "market forces", to wit:

Timothy Yu presented a paper on poetry blogs at the "Markets: From the Bazaar to eBay" conference held by the University of Toronto's Centre for Diaspora and Transnational Studies. You can see his paper on his blog HERE, which, among other (and more important) things dates me. As one of those who started during the poetry blog blossoming in 2003, I'm suddenly an old-timer! Only in the internet would five years be so L O O O O N G! And make me so bloody O O O O O L D!

Anyway, Tim's got a beautiful mind. He articulates the same thing I suspect about that old List vs Blog debate, which, in the matter he references brought market-based metaphors to the fore. Tim rightly notes, "I think that the metaphor of the market was being used in a political fashion, to register anxiety about an apparent shift in the medium of poetic discourse." But do go read it for Toiself!

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Friday, March 07, 2008

LUSH POETICS

Today, I worked on ensuring that a bookstore an ocean away will come through on paying the amount owed on 60 books it had ordered direct from moi Meritage Press. (So much for avoiding a distributor's cut by avoiding a ... distributor.) I think the financial situation stabilized -- which is good because if the bookstore had reneged, that would have eliminated one book from Meritage Press' publishing schedule this year.

Such is the frailty of poetry (publishing) economics. 'Twas enough to drive me to drink, and I did. First, I polished off some left-over 1998 Finca Dofi Priorat. Then I popped the 1996 Clos Clare shiraz...which I am currently enjoying. Sip.

Poetry -- it ain't just lush but it turns one into a lush.

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Thursday, March 06, 2008

THAT AMAZING GALATEA

As I was just telling one of Galatea Resurrects' reviewers this morning, I just sit moi fat (but enchanting) ass here on a mountain and all these lovely Mohammads keep arriving...

Which is to say, I'm amazed. I'm preparing the next issue and I can't believe it looks like I'll top the record-number of reviews I already got in the current issue, to witty wit:

Issue 1: 27 new reviews
Issue 2: 39 new reviews
Issue 3: 49 new reviews
Issue 4: 61 new reviews
Issue 5: 56 new reviews
Issue 6: 56 new reviews
Issue 8: 64 new reviews

And now for the next Issue 9, I have 63 reviews in the house but at least a handful or more are still coming!

(One reviewer held on to his review copy for about two years but finally came through...and it was worth waiting for! Take your time but come on home to Mama!)

Now, just two days ago, I was at 39 reviews and while that already is an accomplishment, I certainly wasn't looking forward to whining over how the stats dropped. But...over here, oh how we love to ascend!

THANK YOU to all reviewers. You are all volunteers and I'm honored you choose to stop by the mountain.

And as for you late ones, I will keep taking reviews all through the rest of this week (end of Friday) as I'm traveling anyway at the moment and won't return back home until Friday.

And all ye poets and publishers, yes, keep sending review copies over. The internet is just full of reviewers waiting to love (or, um, discourse with) your poems! Information on that over HERE!

Smooches!

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Wednesday, March 05, 2008

AN ENGINEERING GUIDE TO POETRY

A poet-engineer wrote a review for the next issue of Galatea Resurrects. Consequently, said engineer invokes Gaussian white noise as well as the Shannon-Weaver communications model. I love it. Poetry can be about ... everything.

Huh? What do you mean you don't know the referrences? Let this poet, who believes poetry can be about everything, help you out. Here's the Shannon-Weaver



and here, but of course, is the Gaussian white noise



Ain't it amazing what poetry teaches you goats?!

And also to say -- the next issue of Galatea Resurrects is shaping up quite interestingly!

Join the party, goats or peeps! I'm looking for reviewers for the subsequent issue; info -- and party invitation -- HERE!

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Tuesday, March 04, 2008

CLARITY

Thomas Fink just sent me a copy of his newest, clarity and other poems (Marsh Hawk Press, 2008). And as a preventative to having the book bent during snailmail, Tom had inserted his book between two pieces of cardboard. Thing is, Tom is a painter as well as a poet and one of the cardboard pieces must have come from his painting studio as it bore the stray debris from various brushstrokes.

But as I took out that cardboard piece and looked at the resulting abstract image, it's actually a heck of a small painting! It reminded me of much of the pattern-based imagery that came out of contemporary art in the last two decades of the 20th century. But Tom's is a work of art produced during an incidental part of a process of creating something else.

How marvelous.

I'm reminded of a watercolor by Pat Steir I once saw -- it looked like the piece had been tacked up against a wall or left vertically hanging...and then she'd just flung watercolor from a brush at it ... so that the placement of the watercolor marks are not under the artist's control, being partly a function of gravity.

I'm also reminded of one of the painting processes of Richard Tsao who apparently hangs several canvases against a wall and then all gets sprayed simultaneously as he flungs paint about. When I first heard of Richard's process, I always thought I'd love to see the resulting "debris" on the floor (maybe he should put a canvas there, too, that doesn't receive his attention during the painting process...and then we'll see the result of what happens randomly on the floor-ed canvas).

This is creating decentered art. It's not the same thing as art created in the margins. It's art that gets produced coincidentally in terms of attention (but synchronistically in terms of aesthetic results).

That could be the projectile to my next body of work. But since I just identified it consciously as what I'm calling a projectile or underpinning or poetics for a project, then said project just collapsed. I'ma just left here fluttering in mid-air! Poetry paradoxes -- no wonder they whiten the hair ... even as they uplift the wings.

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Monday, March 03, 2008

MOI POWER OVER TENURE COMMITTEES

Within the past five days, two of my Meritage Press authors have shared that they've received tenure at their respective universities. These are authors whose first and second books, respectively, Meritage Press recently released. Connect the dots, ye goats. Preen.

But of course Moi am all about Toi.

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Sunday, March 02, 2008

HUJAMBO BWANA. COMO ESTA, GOAT?

I studied Spanish for eight years. But I'm not one of those to whom second languages come easy. Though I kept studying Spanish, I never practiced it beyond the classroom entonces mi vocabulario es basically nada. In fact, as an undergrad at Barnard College, I felt myself hit the learning-ceiling on Spanish after one year of studying it there. That was a problem because one had to have two years of a foreign language to graduate. So, I switched to Swahili.

Yep, I fulfilled my foreign language requirement with two years of Swahili, taught by a guy who, as a student at Columbia University, had been one of the original members of Sha Na Na (y'all know that that band started as a Columbia men's glee club...?). I couldn't remember the prof's name (though recall he was a lovely gentleman) so I Googled and this link identifies him as Rob Leonard, "professor of linguistics and Swahili". I vaguely recall learning though don't hold me to it that the prof had parlayed some Sha Na Na earnings into a stint in Africa, where he learned Kiswahili. Anyway, I found Swahili easier than Spanish and so I stuck with it ... Prof. Leonard had given me the Swahili name of "Sharifa"...

Anyway, the gods have a perverse sense of humor and now Sharifa must face the necessity of knowing Spanish. SPANISH FOR DUMMIES is in the house! Mostly, I fear I'm going around calling everyone and everything a goat. Relatedly, at the moment I am looking at a poem by Venezuelan poet Hanni Ossot which I hope to translate. I hope my translation doesn't end up being

Goat goat goat
goat goat
goat


along those lines. Ah well. And as I whine, here's my latest list of Relished W(h)ines below.

As for that 1970 Leoville Las Cases below, it was interesting but I wouldn't call it delicious. But because it was interesting, it offered a certain pleasure. Similar to how I respond to poetry. Got that, goats...I mean, Peeps?

PUBLICATIONS:
CHINESE, JAPANESE, WHAT ARE THESE?, an absolutely brilliant poetry manuscript by Nick Carbo

MAUVE SEA-ORCHIDS, poems by Lila Zemborain, Trans. by Rosa Alcala & Monica de la Torre

BEHIND MY EYES, poems by Li-Young Lee

BEHIND THE WHEEL: POEMS ABOUT DRIVING by Janet S. Wong

THE BOYS I BORROW, poems by Heather Sellers

THE HEART THAT LIES OUTSIDE THE BODY, poems by Stephanie Lenox

THAUMATROPE, poems by Joanna Sondheim

IMAGINING A BABY, poems by Bob Marcacci

MIDNIGHTS, poems by Jane Miller and drawings by Beverly Pepper

TODAY I WROTE NOTHING: THE SELECTED WRITING OF DANIIL KHARMS, Ed. and Trans. by Matvei Yankelevich

CLEAVING, poems by Dion Farquhar

DEATH IS, poem by Lars Palm

SHRUG, poems by Nate Pritts

THE CANCER JOURNALS by Audre Lorde

FOURSQUARE, Nov. 2007 featuring Michaela A. Gabriel, Bonnie Roy, Jenn McCreary and Megan Kaminski, Edited by Jessica Smith

FOURSQUARE, Dec. 2007 featuring Pattie McCarthy, Ivy Alvarez, Jo Cook, Wanda Phipps, Edited by Jessica Smith

HIDDEN PATH, art monograph by Sven Kroner

OUR HIDDEN LIVES: THE EVERYDAY DIARIES OF A FORGOTTEN BRITAIN 1945-1948, Ed. Simon Garfield

THE FAMILY ON BEARTOWN ROAD: A MEMOIR OF LOVE AND COURAGE by Elizabeth Cohen

BLOODLINE, novel by Gerry Boyle

ZERO COUPON, novel by Paul Erdman

THE ROMANCE READER, novel by Pearl Abraham

DANCING SKY, novel by Bethany Campbell

CLAIMING HIS WIFE, novel by Diane Hamilton (both this novel and the previous one by Campbell are "Harlequin Romances" which I read because I thought to do a subversion of said Harlequin Romances for a poetry project...said poetry project didn't work out, sadly, for the slogging my mind had to go through...fortunately, to ease pain there's wine:)


WINES:
1970 Leoville Las Cases
1990 Prunotto Cannubi Barolo 
1994 Remelluri Rioja
1990 Terrabianco Campaccio
1990 Domaine Trevallon
2002 Marques de Riscal Rioja Reserva
1990 Clerico Barolo Bricotti Bussia
1990 Clerico Pajana Barolo
1987 Mondavi Reserve Cabernet
2005 Fratelli Cigliuti Serraboella Neive Barbera
2006 Hoenig sauvignon blanc
1989 Ch. Pichon Baron
1994 Henschke Mount Edelstone shiraz
1995 Ravenswood Monte Rosso zinfandel Sonoma Valley

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Saturday, March 01, 2008

THIS BIG BRIDGE IS ... BIG!!!

Pleased to be in the Anti-War Papers section of the new BIG BRIDGE! Here are the deets:

BIG BRIDGE
is pleased to announce its 2008 issue.
It includes:

CHAPBOOK
Up By The Maritime Museum
Poem by Nathaniel Tarn; Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis

FEATURES

BERKELEY DAZE

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
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
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
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
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)
Poems, essays, comments, and hyper-text art against war.

First Impressions ofOCEANS BEYOND MONOTONOUS SPACE:
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
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
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
French translations of some of Tarn's best-known poems

A California Trip: Salutations from Ira Cohen —
Two Spontaneous Odes and a Photo of Terri Carrion

CORNUCOPION BOSEGSZARU
Ira Cohen in Hungarian

A Retrospective of the Publication Work of Karl Young, Part 3

 
ART

The Convergence of Then and When: A Game Without Rules

by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo

Spitzer Breakdown
A Reading of a Poster by Jim Spitzer

La Femme Mecanique
Photo Art by Johnathan Kane

Family Photos: Beats In Winter
by Larry Keenan

The Fine Art of Conversation
Collaborative art by Brian Howlett and Associates

Memories of Vali Myers

Waning Moon – March 20, 2003
In Memoriam Carl J. Young
by Karl Young, Jr.


FICTION

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.


REVIEWS and INTERVIEWS
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
Interviewed by Larry Sawyer
with some of McNeill's graphic collaborations with
William S. Burroughs

Vernon Frazer
Interviewed by Ric Cafagna

Lou Rowan
Interviewed by Dominic Aulisio


POETRY

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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