The vast bulk of the Journal of Poetics Research number FIVE, editerd by the incomparable John Tranter, is now available free on the internet at poeticsresearch.com featuring: Dozens of articles and essays and book reviews, such as [partial list]
Robert Wood: an autobiography
I was not exposed to a wide range of poetry. §
Chris Stroffolino: Crisis? What Crisis?
Hollywood and TV gained in influence §
Susan M.Schultz: Poetry as Attention
he is seeing the world as it is §
Larissa Shmailo: Bob Holman and metre
an additional analytic tool is required §
Murray Edmond: The Backpacker Compromise (New Zealand Poetry’s Contribution to the
Tourist Industry (with apologies to John Dryden)
You have a poem too? §
David Lehman in New York on Walter Lehmann (a pseudonym of Gwen Harwood in Tasmania)
There was egg on the face of the venerable editor §
Brentley Frazer: Creative writing with English Prime (Writing/speaking in the English language without the copula, i.e. excluding tenses of the verb to be) This failed; the process felt restrictive and laborious §
A.J. Carruthers: The Long Poems of (US poet) Rochelle Owens (Rochelle Owens has a website at http://rochelleowens.org) broaden the scope for future criticism on long poems §
Art Beck (the pen-name of Dennis Dybeck): Doctor Fell (and Latin poetry)
Scowling in his office, Dr. Fell gave poor Tom one last chance §
Graham Foust: On Ashbery’s poem ‘Myrtle’
For Ruskin, the ‘source’ is ‘real’ §
Patrick Pritchett reviews Fugue Meadow, by Keith Jones (“Fugue Meadow”, his latest book, is similarly keyed around another path-breaking postmodern artist, jazz trumpeter Don Cherry who in 1969, with drummer Ed Blackwell, recorded Mu, a double-album that many consider to have sounded the first notes of world music.”)
And poems! more poems that you can believe, from all over the world:
Zhang Er: 3 poems (selected work from First Mountain (forthcoming from Zephyr Press)
English version by Joseph Donahue) Is there any pattern to this labyrinth? §
Roberto Echavarren (trans. Donald Wellman): Animalaccio (A native of Uruguay and professor of world literature, long associated with New York University, Echavarren is the co-editor, along with José Kozer and Jacobo Sefamí, of Medusario: muestra de poesía Latinoamericana (Medusario: A Survey of Latin-American Poetry), the leading anthology of poetry in the Neo-Baroque style.) They hunted in the sierra, / ate in canvas chairs. §
Donald Wellman: God is love (Donald Wellman is a North American poet and translator. As editor of O.ARS, he produced a series of annual anthologies of experimental work, including Coherence (1981) and Translations: Experiments in Reading (1984). His poetry works with sources from several languages.) God resides in the heat / generated by the sense organs §
Marc Vincenz: 5 poems (Marc Vincenz is Swiss-British, was born in Hong Kong, and has published eight collections of poetry.) roped together / by words in a thicket of senses. §
Chris Tysh: 3 poems (Chris Tish is a poet and playwright and the author of several collections of poetry and drama. Her latest publications are Our Lady of the Flowers, Echoic (Les Figues, 2013); Molloy: The Flip Side (BlazeVox, 2012) and Night Scales: A Fable for Klara K (United Artists, 2010). She is on the creative writing faculty at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, USA.) pulls the plug on the lyric §
Eli Spivakovsky: 2 pieces (Eli Spivakovsky is a poet, prose and short-story writer from Melbourne, Australia.) and thought he was an angel so I followed him §
Larry Sawyer: 3 poems (Look, mother freaker, you / better have my mutual funding money. / If you weren’t such a Shirley head I’d / stick this foolin’ gun up your / mother funkin’ lass.) as if the quarters… we spent… were / apostrophes signifying possessives §
Joe Safdie: on Charles Olson (Charles Olson and Finding One’s Place: A lecture given at the Gloucester Writers’ Center, June 1, 2016) [slightly modified for print] 1:‘I’m a cosmopolitan,’ said my friend Jerry Rothenberg, when I told him the title of this lecture: ‘I’m not sure I want to find my place.’ He wanted things to happen in them spiritually §
British poet Peter Robinson: poems: 14 Postcards (‘Traversant les années … Le mémoire de la mer.’ — Michel Houellebecq) Charles Trenet’s “La Mer” §
American poet Dana Prescott, who lives for part of the year in Italy: 2 poems (And as she speaks, I feel seasick, / Strange brine and bile rising in my mouth.) It’s the wrong hour for a chat. §
New York poet Ron Padgett: poem: Mosquito Ron (“If only Buffalo Bill had read Whitman’s poetry, he might not have fought with Yellow Hand.”) But if I take a step back, I do feel sorry for myself §
New York poet Geoffrey O’Brien: 3 poems (“and shadowing at noon / the bare stone path / to a house / where strangers dwell.”) pleasure / is the appetizer and suffering / the main course §
Australian Professor and poet Philip Mead: poem: Ithaca Road (“You’ll be lost in the headlong city, turning older / The house can stay open for another October“) You’re always setting out §
From Boston USA: Ben Mazer: 2 Poems (“Ben Mazer was born in New York City in 1964, and educated at Harvard University, where he studied with Seamus Heaney, and at Boston University, where he studied under Christopher Ricks and the English poet Geoffrey Hill.”) Do not consume, like the flowers, time and air §
From Auckland: Michele Leggott: 2 poems (Forty pages of prose poetry from New Zealand) so you will need to keep on moving §
From Canberra in Australia: S.K. Kelen: poems (“Mohammed Hatim a wayward son of the Mujahideen, / Doan Huan sporting a Da Nang pedigree, or Mario / Lanza living out a serious fetish for muscle cars, Jim Giakos / Many moons from the post office in Kiama”) Juan got a bicentennial medal §
In Brooklyn: Pierre Joris: On Literary Dedications (“The first of these is the dedication of T.S. Eliot’s The Waste Land.”) Lucretius gently imbeds the dedication… to his friend Gaius Memmius §
From Illinois: Kent Johnson: 4 poems (four acerbic verses on the 2016 US election) I talked to the Language Poets and they said no. §
American poet and editor Paul Hoover: 5 poems (“What shirt to wear to eternity / and tomorrow to dinner? / And what size will it be?”) crucifixion or / a game of tennis §
London poet and dance master Anthony Howell: 3 poems (“I have worked with limited vocabularies for many years, sometimes in texts where each and every word in a paragraph has to be employed in another paragraph.”) Always the same back window climbed. §
US poet Fanny Howe: poems from Love and I (“My son the tailor / Likes his shop shut but must / Open it for business / On the dot of the satellite.”) I would do anything for this infant §
From Melbourne, Australia: John Hawke: sonnet: Sea Priestess (“A fillet of cloud / flares to vermilion in the kindling light, / before the cycle of monstrous excavators resume / a droning cantillation.“) Emily is throwing knives to the receding waves §
Barry Gifford: Ode to Jerry (“I think about him every time / I hear “Ruby My Dear” / It’s a gift, recognizing beauty / in any form — Monk and Trane / were lucky to have had Jerry / listening to them”) Trane learned about beauty / from Monk §
Michael Farrell: When Arse is Class (“Well no one can sum up Australia / or its poetry, so we’ll just keep riding along till one / of us conks out.”) Bending over in forever shorts, Australian poetry §
Elaine Equi: 3 poems (”The paranoid dictator / will not notice us replacing / all the books in his library / if we do it one at time.”) not the Big Bang / this morning, §
From Kent in the UK: Laurie (Laurence) Duggan: 6 poems (“across the aisle / Josephine Baker / dances, her shadow / lifeless on the wall”) so the testes become a leg / an elbow becomes a signature §
In Canberra: Jen Crawford: 3 poems (“we haven’t bought scissors for the water in their faces tipping away like a ball if we’re sore in a little circle around a credit card account…”) dale and nina stack up horizontally in the bed §
joanne burns: 3 poems (“i’m sorry / i can’t remember the / director’s name was it / fellini, bergman, or tarantino“) everyone seems to rush / out before the credits §
In Geneva: Emily Bilman: poem: Greenness (“like bridemaids in a wedding, / cows congregate on the wetlands”) the hues of the evening / that soothe my breathing. §
Charles Bernstein: poem: Concentration (”Polish death camps / Death camps in Poland / Polish extermination camps / Nazi death camps in Poland / German extermination camps in occupied Poland”) Tears in Nazi-occupied Poland §
Michael Basinski: 6 poems (“sure as shit he saw them / Buffalo ghosts in bathing suits / about July 10th, 1964 / ghosts most often appeared as sperm”) he came to life to lord it over me §
Rae Armantrout: 4 poems (“If any liquid / in a paper cup / were known as / ‘Love Your Beverage’ / a disturbing commandment / would be lifted / and we wouldn’t face / the hard problem / of deciding who / is addressing whom”) even as I see / … / that I am / not myself §
Elizabeth Allen: 2 poems (”I move frequently; I’m sort of on the run but I am not sure what from.“) to become angry §
New Zealander Raewyn Alexander: 2 poems (“predators live in sad places / draped with happy reputations.”) a bus stop relic breathing §
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Tapa-02 (…Tapa-03, …Tapa-04, etc) The 2008-2009 notebook of a US poet thinking of Auckland in New Zealand (some 70 pages)
And so it goes. . .
From the archive; first posted October 23, 2016.
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