Coolidge & Fagin on the Pumice of Morons (The Unaugural Poem)
Chantal Chen-Andro & Claude Mouchard: Interview
with Bei Dao (Tr. from the French by
Esther Allen)
Bei Dao: The Purposes of the Magazine Today (Tr. from the Chinese by Chantal Chen-Andro & from the French by Esther Allen)
Bei Dao: Six Poems (Tr. from the Chinese by David Hinton)
Peter Redgrove: from The Guest Father, Chapter Seven: I am Called into the Cellar
John Olson: Two Poems
Lisa Issacson: Three Poems
Mary Caponegro: The Priet's Tale
George Economou: from Century Dead Center
Gael Turnbull: from Estuaries
George Angel: Five Prose Poems
Pierre Joris: The Case of the Missing "M"
Nathaniel Mackey: from Song of the Andoumboulou
Fernando Castro: The Vanishing Navel of the World
PERUVIAN PHOTOGRAPHERS FROM THE CUZCO REGION: Martin Chambi, Juan Manuel, Figueroa-Aznar, Cristano Cabrera, Sebastian Rodriguez, Vargas Hnos, Avelino Ochoa, Miguel Chani
Henri Michaux: Beginnings (Tr. from the French by James Wanless)
Charles Berstein: Echo Off (Use Other Entrance)
Keith Tuma: Bunting, Objectivism, and National Identity (Or, Why Nobody Knows Joseph Gordon Macleod)
Joseph Gordon Macleod: Cancer, or, The Crab
Andrew Schelling: Three Poems
Horacio Costa: from The Book of Fracta (Tr. from the Portuguese by Charles A. Perrone)
Amiri Baraka: from The City of New Ark/ A Poem of Destiny
Reviews and Noticings: Schelling on the Duncan Selected; Joris on Algerian Poets, Vicuņa on Chile and Bolivia; Weiss on Vallejo in Europe; Blau DuPlessis Noticings; Cole on Christa Wolf; Perloff on Schwitters; Riggins on Rehm, Nelson, and Bellamy; Berstein Noticings; Marshall on Revell; Paul on American Poetry Since 1950; Eshleman Noticings; Guest on Balakian; Weiss on the Demon of Analogy; Armantrout on Fanny Howe; Tuma on Quartermain; Irby on Leggott's Zukofsky
Contributor Notes
Cover Photograph: Martin Chambi, Gigante De Paruro Y Mendivil (Mendivil was Chambi's assistant), Cuzco, circa 1925