Stories Collection
- The impiety of Assyrians; the fight with Kappa
the water-wheel and the Huns that swa...
- Jerry, being only a makeshift wiseacre,
living a life the size
of a spool of thre...
- theft, cheat, wrong or iniquity
dance with joy displacing
emphasis viewed fully in ...
- after billiards with Ed Dorn
The spin is English
language turned into
itself bo...
- The Drenchers advocate more water everywhere
whether by silver nitrate dispersal
or...
- Edward Dorn (1929-1999) should need no introduction. Regardless what readers may not...
- Geoffrey Hill. The Orchards of Syon. Washington, DC: Counterpoint, 2002. 72 pp. $24 ...
- So I adopt a style and say even less than
had I kept my wits and become a mathematic...
- It's midnight in the Derry-O.
Tom follows signs to water and air
while Jerry slee...
- [Act/ONE]
Francine Michalek drives
Bread. Taystee
Bakery:
an occasion ...
- Edward Dorn is the dead poet I miss most these days, when the poetry passing for pol...
- The equipment has a certain cost--
the supertech Remington Police Rifle.
The traini...
- Ammiel Alcalay. from the warring factions. Los Angeles: Beyond Baroque Books, 2002. ...
- Will we ever leave the subjunctive, the moody
forecasts of doubt, and will we grow c...
- I'm lying in bed watching TV
She's going to kill some guy
I haven't been following ...
- How much more is there to add to what
we can never forget, and what
will happen to ...
- Lord, your mercy is stretched so thin
to accommodate the need
of the trembling eart...
- Great Dane mudflaps cut the backwash,
block the stones slung out of the tread ravine...
- Christopher Logue. All Day Permanent Red. New York: FSG, 2003. 64pp. $18
Twent...
- Two deer alike as clones stop
at the curb, the steep stair
to the four-room Carne...
- I wait for you
beneath the wrecked marquee
of the Chinese movie
in the yellow smok...
- Of course we inhabit decisions not made by us
or anyone we can trace, decisions thre...
- They came in spaceships
the size (i.e. dimension)
doesn't matter
smaller than matt...
- We had come to Boulder from San Francisco in the fall of 1977, not planning to stay....
- During the French Enlightenment, gardens were designed and plants trimmed according ...
- The volume under review is the only republication to date of William Carlos Williams...
- from THE AMERICANS
after Robert Frank
(indianapolis)
as though waiting, ...
- THE PHANTOM OF LIBERTY
The summer snows, a bit of a surprise,
and the new t...
- From the north side of London, the Tate Modern is best reached by walking from the t...
- For more than a decade, Mark McMorris has been publishing his dense and eloquent poe...
- from WHAT THE SURFACES ENCLAVE OF WANG WEI
3.
Detained without cup in
...
- DESIGN FOR A NEW JOLLY ROGER
The water lifts
a dog brown and dirty
as...
- I first met Stan Brakhage during the summer of 1997, but it wasn't until the winter ...
- Firstly, you have to forget that Randolph Healy is Irish. Because he doesn't trade i...
- I LOVE MORNING
1.
We're in New Mexico.
It's summer--all morning to ...
- IDEAS GRAY SUITS BOWLER HATS BAAL
Adventure somehow decides to bypass all the a...
- Translated from German by Susan Bernofsky. Providence: Burning Deck Press, 2003. 103...
- TWO SONNETS
Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,
the earth, blue egg, in...
- VERNAL
I.
I seem to be thinking of a pink rock
we'd walk to around a ...
- FINGER SMELL OF SCRATCH
Fingers smell of scratching;
and on words the odors...
- Chantilly, VA: Leaping Dog Press, 2002. 136 pp. $14.95
If reality is essentiall...
- ARTIST
Where is the Artist whose art they protest? Every
Prop, every player...
- TRANSSEXUAL CLOUD
all through this metamorphosis we hunt for therapies burly re...
- TRACKS
Storm over
during the night;
this morning,
caboose sky
...
- Translated from Portuguese by Margaret Jull Costa. NY: Harcourt, 2002. 320 pp. $25 ...
- AN ACT
I gave it all back. She took every drop of it.
It was never mine. I ...
- TRANSSEXUAL FALL
Living behind windows shaped to catch the rain
(a house in...
- THE PATENT
The tip imagines the iceberg;
the side you make
up is always...
- Woodstock, NY: Overlook Press, 2002. 104 pp. $24.95
Since his debut in the mid-...
- LW: In logic nothing is accidental.
GS: A sentence is a part of the way when th...
- Aaron, sitting up in bed, the sheet drawn up to his chest, has his hands in Kevin's ...
- DEFENDING ONESELF
With a lonely girl's lust
For allegorical violets, for vi...
- NY: FSG, 2002. 100 pp. $21
John Ashbery is the horizon beyond which, at present...
- From Lindner's Notes
portrait of senior consultant s. * So, this feller spits o...
- Kant thought he was honoring art when among the predicates of beauty he emphasized a...
- My mother's family were harbour people, my maternal grandmother a Scot married to a ...
- Those of us who had just started calibrating to Chicago's pleasant pace along Lake M...
- Harryette Mullen. Sleeping with the Dictionary. Berkeley: University of California P...
- (View from a hotel window--Butte, Montana)
(how it is to awaken to running
...
- "The world of plants, in aspect so peaceful, so resigned--in which all seems to...
- I have been trying to write this text for several hours, and I'm still having proble...
- Washington, D.C.: Edge Books, 2002.78 pp. $12.50
The Sense Record is Jennifer M...
- (Assembly line--Detroit)
two boys at a Michigan drive-in
--If my car were...
- Anna Zemankova was born in Olomouc, Moldavia on August 23, 1908, worked as a dental ...
- Ekbert Faas with Maria Trombacco. Robert Creeley: A Biography. Hanover: University P...
- Cees Nooteboom, All Souls Day. Translated by Susan Massotty. New York: Harcourt, 200...
- How to be Tibullus.
(Elegiae 1.1).
Albius Tibullus
Pile your money high in y...
- Daily
More fashionable than ever in the stifling
the next to last to arrive at '8...
- [When you touch down upon this earth. little reindeers]
When you touch down upon t...
- Harold Jaffe. False Positive. Tallahassee, FL: FC2, 2002. 140 pp. $12.95. ISBN 15736...
- Revenge.
Phillipos
[blackened at top by fire]
that little hill, rubbed bald ...
- Matters.
Whatever flares up in our mental precincts
a picture of how we were a ph...
- Sync.
Leave Melbourne
in a Sleeper, seal in a wilderness of habit
Continuous s...
- Herta Muller. The Appointment. Translated by Michael Hulse & Philip Boehm. New Y...
- Ammonides
ON IMITATION
Splay the oozing Theophrastus (1) on a catapult.
Pul...
- National's rival.
A story in which all things are mysteries
with a one-third moon...
- Target rich environment.
Tho not calm in the head
we went off to factories in the...
- Bruce Bond. The Throats of Narcissus. Fayetteville, AK: University of Arkansas Press...
- Hipponax
ON THE BASTARD BOUPALOUS (1)
Be a coatrack for me, dear, while I cloc...
- Few days cop.
whelming to precreate
consumes convincing
the phallic contingent...
- Super Georgic
1.
The dream begins here
again, on a Good Day, where light
whit...
- John Wilkinson. Effigies Against the Light. Cambridge, U.K.: Salt Publishing, 2001. ...
- Hipponax
Mimnes, you sick aesthete! Why'd ya paint a long
snake-thing going up t...
- Three variations hum the possible-to-say
I hum seaweed word-
wise due homeward
d...
- Donald Revell. Arcady. Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2002. 81 pp. $12.9...
- The miseries of poetry.
HIPPONAX
In Lydian tone she said, "Come hither, I ...
- Variations as in our bibles (white-faced, predatory).
History has to live with wha...
- I'll tell you why I can't find it, Curtis is telling us up there on the bridge. It's...
- The Irish poet Trevor Joyce is a distant cousin of his novelist namesake, as I learn...
- Epithalamium.
1.
The revolutionary challenges
Previous answers seeking ...
- Known to the river.
Tell your young
every fish's heart throbs
with searching.
W...
- Poetry is, from one perspective, a treasury of memorable statements; from another, i...
- Garden Pieces: for Jennifer Moyer.
i.
this morning orange
false monarchs
alig...
- Dear Geoffrey Treacle:
In the issue of CR in which I appeared ("Statement ...
- From Annunciation
Rachel Zucker
Sighting
you say it is a cloud formation...
- "He holds me against the wall and rams it in" was how Sheila put it.
...
- THEN.
Go on, go on, the other said.
Not not not, the other said. And I was not
l...
- An account of TOM RAWORTH'S PETITES IRREGULARITES, new collages and exhibition of ch...
- Translator's note:
The following passage, about the young narrator's love of th...
- There I am again--late morning, late June, 1982--leaning in the humid shack doorway,...
- CANAL.
So: the bridge was too low, which meant
this length was not for trade.
Yo...
- MONOLOGICAL POEM NO.2
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
In between there are
so...
- VESUVIUS
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
after days of kissing and weeping we ...
- HORSE
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
When sadness prepares its rising line:...
- I-VISIBLE SUDS
translated by Andrew Duncan
lurch as person araound a string. ...
- translated by Carol Brown Janeway
My brother squatted on a white blanket and la...
- translated by W. Martin
The world began. Mr. Biformity and Mrs. Discord were th...
- It was freezing winter north of Harper's Ferry. In Maryland, a large billboard invit...
- translated by W. Martin
The hero steps out of the forest. He is wearing a heavy...
- Broken German or moment embraced
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop and by Andrew Dunc...
- Attending a literary reading in Germany today is like going to a rock concert. Not o...
- GRAVITATION
translated by Susan Bernofsky
distance
calls ...
- PHYSICAL OPTICS IV
translated by Iain Galbraith
all things cleave to the wind...
- BEHIND THE COLD-ROOM DOORS
translated by Andrew Duncan
the words wait on the ...
- TO LEAP FROM MOUNTAINS, A FIGURE OF THOUGHT
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
of...
- EFFI BRIEST; GERMAN-LANGUAGE POLAROID
translated by Andrew Duncan
1
...
- translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
* * *
WHAT ALL COMES CLEAR on such a morning. Yo...
- BLACK /RED/ GOLD
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
everybody wants to wrestle wi...
- VERY JESUS
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
Below the mosaic dome of the apse...
- KASPAR HAUSER'S UNDERPANTS
translated by Andrew Shields
a darwin on the backp...
- translated by Susan Bernofsky
Between the sea and the steep rocks, there is now...
- Opening ceremony for the sorting machine extension.
translated by Tony Frazer
...
- Signs of the Times
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
the omenon, he said, how it...
- translated by Isabel Fargo Cole
For some unknown time he had experienced the wo...
- translated by Susan Bernofsky
My father's mother once dragged her adversary out...
- THERE WAS A BOND BETWEEN OUT HOURS
translated by Susan Bernofsky
there were d...
- translated by Iain Galbraith
nautical twilight . under the brow of the trees th...
- THEN ONCE MORE ALONG THE LOW BULGING
translated by Andrew Duncan
facades, fro...
- INDICATIONS
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
the power plant glittering, he sai...
- HISTORY PAINTING
translated by Andrew Duncan
landscape with patches.
a lands...
- translated by Susan Bernofsky
* * *
LATER THEN it was the streak of luminous ...
- INTERMUNDIUM OR KNOWLEDGE MEANS MELANCHOLY
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
m...
- TO BE HUMAN, NOT:
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
a horse that rears--and bolt...
- FULL LENGTH
translated by Andrew Duncan
and it is bruised into our blue aware...
- translated by Darren Ilett
Other people go to church every Sunday, but I prefer...
- translated by W. Martin
to prove how eurohip you are by making a special trip t...
- translated by Peter Constantine
Cat's Cradle
The fourth kitten of our bla...
- tanslated by Elizabeth Gaffney
Chapter 34
Klein took in the room in a gla...
- Talking to oneself is just a roar from the sea.
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
...
- GOOD EVENING CAPE
translated by Susan Bernofsky
what they love out here are t...
- HORST AND HIS NEW OPEL
translated by Tony Frazer
Captain take us with you, sp...
- KINDLED
translated by Andrew Duncan
on the night frequency when outside on th...
- VINETA
translted by Michael Hamburger
Do you remember, those times when silen...
- DERMAGRAPHIC (CANAANITE)
translated by Andrew Duncan
gazelles. gazelle-
skin...
- SNOW
translated by Susan Bernofsky
Where trees of ice blossom
the words for ...
- POETIC STRUCTURE & NORMAL TIME
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
imagine you...
- YOU
(three months later)
translated by Andrew Shields
can you see the clou...
- MONUMENT
translated by Andrew Duncan
going to pasture out of oneself at it,
ye...
- Christine has been living in New York ever since she came to the U.S. illegally from...
- translated by W. Martin
In retrospect I think I must have seen her first at Sch...
- translated by Isabel Fargo Cole
The novella Fruhling is an account--in the form...
- translated by Margot Bettauer Dembo
It was winter when Stein found the house. H...
- translated by Susan Bernofsky
I'm supposed to go to a party, and the zipper at ...
- SLAGHEAP GLOW
translated by Andrew Duncan
meant physically: accidents, looks ...
- WING-BEAT
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
in the beginning eye-gods
indwelled...
- YES-NO-YES
translated by Andrew Duncan
the diodes are winking in the dark, so...
- VILLA MASSIMO
translated by Tony Frazer
We've known these gatherings long eno...
- CHALDAEAN CATALOG
translated by Andrew Duncan
night watch, cometess! old snow...
- EMISSIONS PROFILE
translated by Andrew Duncan
spoken into sleep
the acutely ...
- ALL WORDS ARE GUILTY
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
not only i not only all o...
- (in the eighth night, dream)
translated by Andrew Shields
saw her push
a tam...
- PHOTOREALISM. PICNIC.
translated Tony Frazer
Through smeared glass I see some...
- Dame, street, dublin
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
"the wild swans at c...
- DOMINOTAURUS
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
dominotaurusbekistandrogynecologi...
- For allen Ginsberg, died 5 april 1997
translated by Tony Frazer
You weren't t...
- translated by Philip Boehm
An everyday sort of earthquake had caused the sapphi...
- Am my own zoo
translated by Andrew Shields and by Andrew Duncan
sow bug, litt...
- A FORTUNE IN PITCHABLENDE
translated by Andrew Duncan
what blew at us out of ...
- WATER AND LIGHT
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
under you hands
sun-stones bl...
- IN THE GLOSS OF JUNE, IN THE PARKING-METER
translated by Andrew Duncan
zone, ...
- translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
***
The end is
nearest the beginning.
Taking...
- translated by Nick Grindell
* * *
Wired, sparks flying, all night long, then ...
- DR EYEYE DR
translated by Andrew Duncan
shavings of light
planed out of the ...
- INTROIT
translated by Andrew Duncan
early, when in your eyes
the brick-red c...
- TWO TO ONE
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
just to be talking to somebody
I t...
- (in the seventh night)
translated by Andrew Shields
in dream the hills go
away...
- RETINA. POST-WAR MODEL
translated Tony Frazer
Whether you sit by wooden shacks ...
- CASING
translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
These are the walls, a white
egg, inha...
- translted by Lilian Friedberg
In 1976 I returned to Berlin after nine years. Wh...
- translated by Rosmarie Waldrop
* * *
O BAPTIST, YOU too will lose your head. ...
- [TO.sup. *]
translated by Christopher Middleton
1
The shortness of your brea...
- 1
The world was galaxies imagined flesh. Mortal. What to think now? Think simp...
- Although American avant-gardist Stan Brakhage has achieved a level of expression com...
- The Lost Films is a series of nine untitled films, from the late 1980s through to 19...
- What slips from her hand while the metro goes black
is anyone's guess
it's funny ho...
- ...all that we call psychological projections are the movies of the angels--the home...
- If it be an art, then it is intrinsically aesthetic, requiring aesthete--that is to ...
- How do I start?
The photograph would go here
endless leg moving risers ri...
- What we loved about Brakhage back then remains a permanent liberation in the medium:...
- Before a work of art people who feel little or no emotion for pure form find themsel...
- The same eye hesitates in a narrow street,
Every edge line fades
Inside, ...
- I
The angel Heurtebise, on the stairs
Silken in his wings
Singes me...
- Having declared a belief in God, and God's presence in current human affairs and (ho...
- Frank Stanford. The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You. Barrington, R.I.: Lo...
- What say repulsive caterpillar
turns into cause of a thing migratory
No welcome s...
- MICHAEL McCLURE: Stan is a realm buster, and I use "realm" as the word is ...
- From "time...en dit"
There are two pictorial extremes of human though...
- Charles Wright. Night Music. Exeter, UK: Stride, 2001.
Franz Wright Hell. Exete...
- A bazaar before the day begins:
each stall's shadows
silvered in the last suggest...