Phillip Foss: A History of Trees
André Breton: A Great Black Poet (Tr. from the French by Annette Smith and Clayton Eshleman)
Vitezslav Nezval: Shirt (Tr. from the Czech by Jerome Rothenberg and Milos Sovak)
Michael Palmer: A Language of the Unsayable: Some Notes on Irving Petlin and the Seine Series
Michael Palmer: The White Notebook
Richard Foreman: Three Poems
Camille Guthrie: Cells (I-VI)/Poems for Louise Bourgeois
Carla Harryman: Somatic Mediations
Mary Ann Unger: Six Sculptures
Clayton Eshleman: Yachats, The Shore
Harald Mesch: The Richness of Interface/ Interview With Gary Snyder
Andrew Schelling: from The Road to Ocosingo
Will Alexander: Within the Opaque Termites' Morass
Ken Cormier: Two Poems
Wang Ping: Flash of Selfish Consciousness
Pamela Wye: Desiring Machines and Exquisite Corpulence: Lisa Yuskavage's Girlies
Lisa Yuskavage: Five Paintings
Peter Quartermain: Duncan's Texts
Rae Armantrout: Sets
Sean Killian: As If It Isn't
Spencer Selby: Review
Loss Pequeno Glazier: What Sound A Wall
Kenro Izu: Six Photographs From "Light Over Ancient Angkor"
Commentary: Drake Moraga on Paternosto; Weinberger on the Tapscott Twentieth-Century Latin American Poetry; Weiss on RevisAtlántica de Poesía; Rasula on Johnson; Eshleman on Snyder; Gordon on Hinton's Li Po; Tejada on Roussel, the Oulipo Laboratory, Spoerri, Coolidge, Howe, and Palmer; Joris on Mac Cormack; Olson on Kaufman, Deanovich, Young, and Jarnot; Guest on Gevirtz's Richardson; Featherston on Amichai, Codrescu, and Sanders; Weinberger solves a mystery; Notley on Hollo.
Contributor Notes
Cover Art: Irving
Petlin, Paris Is White (for Edmond Jabès),
oil and pastel on linen, 31½" x 78¾",
1995-1996, courtesy of Kent Fine Art, NYC.