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Issue #46 -- 2018

North Adams, Massachusetts, with Brown Blotch

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A Special Section on Basil King
edited by Burt Kimmelman and Martha King
Burt Kimmelman, An Introduction to the Essays on Basil King
Mallory King, Basil King, Artist
Joshua Gardner, Between the Physical and the Cultural: Basil King
and Charles Olson’s “Herodotean Exploration.”
Mitch Highfill, Basil King and the Small Press Revolution
Vyt Bakaitis, Borne to Light: Basil King’s History Now
Laurie Duggan, Basil King and the Green Man
Vincent Katz, Some Thoughts on the Paintings and Poetics of Basil King
Burt Kimmelman, Painting, Poetry, Basil King
Martha King, “Aldgate Narcissus”: Basil King’s work in the late 1960s
Andrew Levy, Talking Pause – Reflections on Basil
Kimberly Lyons, Basil King Works on Paper: Singularity, Dyads, Families and Mass
George Quasha, Everything Is Language
Barry Schwabsky, Playing Cards and Cigarettes
Daniel Staniforth, Basil King’s Learning to Draw/ A History

A Special Section on Materiality and Poetry
edited by Elisabeth Joyce
Elisabeth Joyce, Diffractions and Soundings in the Poetry of Christian Bök and Kenneth Goldsmith
Daniel Morris, History and/as Language Poetry: Remembering Literary Community
through Negation in Barrett Watten’s Questions of Poetics.
Andrew Levy, By the Time I Get to You and I Was Taught the Wrong App
Scarlett Higgins, Harryette Mullen and the “Matter” of Femininity
Mark Noble, Havoc in a Small Voice: George Oppen’s Materials
Julie Brown, Hinged-Pictures: the Material Poetics of Punctuation
[More to follow]

New Poetry
Ruxandra Cesereanu translated from the Romanian
by Adam J. Sorkin and Andrei Codrescu
Neeli Cherkovski
Rob Couteau
Miljana Cunta translated from the Slovene
by Rawley Grau, with photograph by Dušan Šarotar
Mirce Dinescu translated from the Romanian
by Adam J. Sorkin and Lidia Vianu
Joseph Donahue
Thomas Fink
Jack Foley
Barbara Henning
W. Scott Howard
George Kalamaras
Heller Levinson
Joseph Massey
Daniel Morris
Andrew Mossin
Dennis Ryan
Susan M. Schultz
Peter Valente
David Wilk

Prose
Mark Jacobs, “Digging to China”
“Sylvette David, Picasso’s Muse” interviewed by Rob Couteau
Heller Levinson, “Hinge by the Slice” (on “Hinge Theory”)
John Ashbery, reviewed by Peter Valente
Peter O’Leary, reviewed by David Need
Ntozake Shange, reviewed by Christopher Sawyer-Lauҫanno,
J. Chester Johnson (on W.H. Auden and the translation of the Psalms), reviewed by Turgin Snow