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Mikhl Likht: from Procession Three
for Yankev BeriTranslation from Yiddish by Merle BachmanPortrait of Mikhl Likht by Evelin Markon, 1927[note. Bachman’s translation from the experimental Yiddish-American modernist poet Mikhl Likht is...
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Jerome Rothenberg: From Eye of Witness: "Toward an Omnipoetics" (excerpted...
with Rodrigo Garcia Lopescirca 1999, revised 2012J.R., from The Leonardo Project[This is the final prose piece in Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, which brings together aspects of my work in...
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Ariel Resnikoff: Louis Zukofsky and Mikhl Likht, A Test of Jewish American...
with special reference to Zukofsky’s “Poem Beginning ‘The’” & Likht’s “Protsesiye Dray” [Processions Three] Louis Zukofsky, circa 1940Mikhl Likht[editor’s note.To say again what I’ve been driving...
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Eye of Witness: Publication & Announcement
Monday (September 16) is the actual publication date for Eye of Witness: A Jerome Rothenberg Reader, co-edited with Heriberto Yépez & published by Black Widow Press (Joe Philips & Susan Wood)...
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Seymour Faust: Two Poems Recovered & an Added Fragment (Redux)
[Originally posted June 8, 2009 on the blogger version of Poems and Poetics]In a conversation the other day with David Antin, the name of Seymour Faust came up, as it often does for us. In the distant...
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Ariel Resnikoff: Louis Zukofsky and Mikhl Likht, A Test of Jewish American...
Photo of Mikhl Likht courtesy of YIVO New York[The first part of Resnikoff's essay on Zukofsky & Likht appeared September 11, 2013 on Poems and Poetics, while a significant section of "Procession...
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Jorge Santiago Perednik: "The Great Skidder" (from Shock of the Lenders)
Translation from Spanish by Molly WeigelThree little birds up on a wirewere singing "tu amor, tu amor"or maybe "tu est mort"the one on the left holding some grass in its beakthe one in the middle...
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From “An Interview with David Antin, Spring 2013” conducted by Stephen Fredman
[The full interview will appear as a foreword to David Antin’s How Long Is the Present: Selected Talk Poems, edited by Stephen Fredman & scheduled for publication by the University of New Mexico...
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Outside & Subterranean Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (57): Husayn ibn...
The execution of Mansur al-Hallaj, 1602 AD (1011 AH) from the section: Dereliction81. Yâ sirra sirrî O my secret’s secret, you have dwindled so much you’re hidden from the thought of...
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John Martone, Two New Poems: “Gamma” &“Juniperus virginiana”
[To describe John Martone as our greatest living miniaturist, as I have in the past, is to go back for me to a time many years ago when Ian Hamilton Finlay & I corresponded about a poetry of small...
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John Bloomberg-Rissman: From In The House of the Hangman, with a commentary...
At that moment, an explosion occurs. At that moment the sumo wrestler dives; he enters the water and makes no splash. The prisoner’s strike is on. Often I wonder whether my teeth are rotting. On...
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Raymond Federman: from The Carcasses, with a blurb by the author (redux)
The excerpt below is from a collection of Federman’s writings, Carcasses, published by BlazeVOX Books shortly before his death in October 2009. It was first posted on Poems and Poetics, blogger...
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Marcel de Lima Santos: From “The Poetics of Shamanism”
[The following excerpt from a longer work by the Paris-born Brazilian scholar Marcel de Lima Santosgives a capsule view of the role played by Alcheringa& its contributors & predecesors in the...
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Marthe Reed: Five Poems from Binx’s Blues, with a Note on the Process
On lines from Walker Percy (1) still burningsky over Gentilly it is easily overlookedstrange island the slightest interestNew Orleans sags like rotten lacebehind high walls a week before Mardi...
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Jerome Rothenberg: Corno Emplumado Improvisación Blues y Fantasía, in Spanish...
[It was during our transition into the fabled 1960s that it began to feel that everything we wanted for poetry was now becoming possible. I’ve written about much of this before, but a curious moment...
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David-Baptiste Chirot: Cinema of Catharsis (I-III) Redux
for Rex Chirot & Jerome Rothenberg Preface: El Colonel is smiling, writing with his cigarette’s smoke in that great page, the sky . . . that great page, ever open to all, in which all eyes may...
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Mark Weiss: “Glass Palace,” 17 Poems
ADVICE What you need, he said,is another trip to the edgeand beyond. And I thought he was joking. EASE OF MOTION This fantasy that has deluded many,that you could open the door and walkinto another...
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David-Baptiste Chirot: Cinema of Catharsis (IV-VII) [redux]
[continued from an earlier posting]IV. As the patterns are emerging from the small battered lawn—the patterns which are for her continuously seeping in from those in the long-ago linoleums . . . they...
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Toward a Poetry & Poetics of the Americas (1): Rubén Darío, “To Roosevelt”
Translation & End-Note by Gabriel Gudding[As I enter my eighty-third year the work that still lies ahead begins to focus on the possibility of a new poetry & poetics of the Americas. The idea,...
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Jerome Rothenberg, with Arie Galles: From “Twenty Cloud Poems,” 1-8
Jerome Rothenberg & Arie Galles: A Double-Headed Portrait with Clouds But none of them paused, none of them wanted to be a cloud...
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