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Four Poems by Heriberto Yépez translated by Nathaniel Tarn (redux)
A SEXY EPIC“A SEXY EPIC.”An untoward allianceof words.A prosti-code of our time(an era which is scarcely maternal). An age pusillanimous or absurd What would Homer have saidhad he seen this movie?...
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Michael Davidson: Four Poems from Bleed Through, plus one other
BAD MODERNISM Suddenly all is / loathing (John Ashbery) and there’s plenty to be unhappy aboutif I can just get the reception area festoonedin time for their arrival, paper cupsand those...
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Toward a Poetry & Poetics of the Americas (5): Víctor Terán, Six Poems from...
Translation from Isthmus Zapotec by David Shook THE NORTH WIND WHIPS The north wind whips through,in the streets papers and leaves are chased with resentment. Houses moan,dogs curl into balls. There is...
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Jean Portante: What does and what doesn’t come to pass
Translation from French by Zoë SkouldingFrom: Ce qui advient et ce qui n’advient pas Je suis devenue immatérielle, ombre qui se déplace dans la flamme de la mort perpétuelle....
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Jerome Rothenberg: Complete Airplane Poems 1980/1983/1992/1994/2008
Wing Two by Allen D'Arcangelo (1982)AIRPLANE POEMS19801circles on the earth – somewhere in Kansas –what do they mean?I take the circular form to markthe coming of Messiahday by day– but not in Kansas!...
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From “An Artist’s Life as Told by Eleanora Antinova to Eleanor Antin”
[a brief note for the following. I spent many years working in a variety of media (performance, photography, writing, film, video, installation, drawing) inventing what I called my alternate selves....
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Milton Resnick, Poet – In Memory – An Essay & a Poem
Milton Resnick and Pat Passlof, circa 1970 [The following coincides with a major exhibition (May 10 to August 1) of Milton Resnick’s work over a six-decade career, sponsored by Mana Contemporary of...
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Sam Truitt: from “Dick: A Vertical Elegy”
Did they do it? At the pump, did Jill hit Jack? But each place is well and each well a hole encircled by hunters on their hams with spears listening between the broken and whole words into the...
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Robert Kelly: “Statement 1968” from A Voice Full of Cities
[The following will appear later this year in A Voice Full of Cities: The Collected Essays of Robert Kelly (Contra Mundum Press), edited by Pierre Joris & PeterCockelbergh. Originally published by...
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Outsider Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (36): Drukpa Kunley’s “Sutra of...
Translation from Bhutanese by Keith Dowman and Sonam Paljor[In the course of a recent conversation with George Quasha & Charles Stein, the idea of “crazy wisdom” came up, as it often does, &...
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Cyprian Norwid: Chopin’s Piano (redux), with commentary
Translation from Polish by Jerome Rothenberg & Arie GallesCHOPIN’S PIANOLa musique est une chose étrange! -- ByronL'art? ... c'est l'art - et puis, Voilà tout. -- Béranger1Bound to your place those...
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Toward a Poetry & Poetics of the Americas (6): Charles Bernstein’s “Our...
W. Blaeu, Americae Nova Tabula. Amsterdam, 1645[Published previously in Poems and Poetics but revisited here in the context of a new project undertaken by me & Heriberto Yépez toward an...
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Outside & Subterranean Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (61): Harry Smith,...
In the final stages of preparing Barbaric Vast & Wild: An Assemblage of Outside & Subterranean Poetry with John Bloomberg-Rissman, I’m continuing to post excerpts on Poems and Poetics....
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Rochelle Owens: Hermaphropoetics/Ice Water
[The fifth installment published in Poems and Poetics of Owens’s work in progress, Hermaphropoetics.]A master photographerfocusing her lens a figure trussed and lying downA glass of ice water...
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Outside & Subterranean Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (62): James Tilly...
James Tilly Matthews, Engraving of the Air Loom, from John Haslam’s “Illustrations of Madness”, 1810. Ink on paper.[As John Bloomberg-Rissman and I draw to the end of our new assemblage of outside...
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David Antin: 10 for George
[The following is a new work by David Antin, commissioned for The Oppens Remembered: Poetry, Politics, Friendship, edited by Rachel Blau Du Plessis & scheduled for publication in a new &...
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Poems for the Millennium, Volume 5: A First Announcement by Black Widow Press...
Adolf Wölfli: The DragonRock-TrimbachRailwayFoot & TrafficBridge(from From the Cradle to the Graave [1909])For October 2014Black Widow PressISBN: 978-0-9960079-9-3650 pages. $35.00POEMS FOR THE...
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Two Occitan Poets: Bernat Manciet & Marcela Delpastre, from an Assemblage in...
Translated with commentaries by Pierre Joris & Nicole PeyrafitteMarcela DelpastreBernat Manciet [What follows is part of a new gathering of written & oral Occitan literatures, conceived...
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Outside & Subterranean Poems, a Mini-Anthology in Progress (63): Joanna...
Joanna Southcott: “A box of common wood” whichholds “the ark of the new covenant”June 13th, 1804AT the time the horror of the devil was upon me, I felt I could not bear my existence: therefore I...
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Marthe Reed: Three Poems from “Nights Reading”
[Scheduled for publication later this year by Lavender Ink: a major coming forth]Gazing at Plums Though the reasonable man does not have doubts, the condition of woman is perhaps less certain. A...
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