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FEATURES
BERKELEY DAZE
ART
The Convergence of Then and When: A Game Without Rules
FICTION
Reviews of:
Reviewed by:
Interviews:
Vernon Frazer Lou Rowan
POETRY
Index of poems by at least 138 writers
LITTLE MAGS
Humonomous
Versal
Heaven Bone
Poem by Nathaniel Tarn; Drawings by Nancy Victoria Davis
Exhaustive anthology and commentary on the Berkeley Poetry Scene
of the 1960s; some writers went on to become major figures;
others set up a unique dispensarion of their own
Edited with Commentery by Rychard Denner
BOLINAS DREAMING
Book-length study of community of poets just north of San Francisco
from the mid 60s to mid 80s, many of whom went on to play major roles
in the literary modes that followed throughout the century
by Kevin Opstedal
AN ANTHOLOGY OF BAY AREA WOMEN WRITERS
Spritely and diverse anthology of women living in the San Francisco Bay
area today
edited by Katherine Hastings
On The Publication of Philip Whalen's COLLECTED POEMS
Celebration of the Collected poems of one of the most important American
poets to emerge at mid century. One of the original Beats, his poems do not
age or become dated, as this ample selection of commentary, poems, and
appreciations makes clear.
Edited by Dale Smith
THE CHILDREN
Poems by Philip Whalen; Photographs by Aram Saroyan:
Saroyan took photos of children more or less his own age while travelling
in Europe with his father. He sent them to Whalen who wrote poems based
on them.
WAR PAPERS (2)
Poems, essays, comments, and hyper-text art against war.
First Impressions of
OCEANS BEYOND MONOTONOUS SPACE:
Selected Poems of Kitasono Katue
For most readers in the west, Japanese poetry of the 20th Century remains
almost if not completely unknown. Yet it had its Avant Gardists comparable
to Ezra Pound, Kenneth Rexroth, and Kenneth Patchen (to mention three who
saw Kitasono as a peer. Kitasono foreshadowed most concerns and methods of
western poets, from Concrete to Language Poetry to the PhotoPoetry emerging
today decades before his western counterparts. This gathering respresents
initial responses to the first large and easily available selection of
his work.
NOW, AS YOU AWAKEN
Poems of Mahmoud Darwish; Translated by Omnia Amin and Rick London
Generally considered the most important contemporary Palestinian Poet,
this selection of poems shows a poet steeped in a great tradition
dealing with contemporary issues, and doing so outside of stereotypes
and predictable misconceptions
a d.a.levy satellite
Still controversial 39 years after his death, levy is finally emerging as
a major American poet, inovator, publisher, and influence. This widly
diverse collection of responses gives a sense of his range and his appeal
to audiences of all sorts.
Edited by Ingrid Swanberg and Karl Young
Nathaniel Tarn: quatre poèmes; traduction :
Auxéméry
French translations of some of Tarn's best-known poems
A California Trip: Salutations from Ira Cohen —
Two Spontaneous Odes and a Photo of Terri Carrion
CORNUCOPION BOSEGSZARU
Ira Cohen in Hungarian
A Retrospective of the Publication Work of Karl Young, Part 3
by Jane Dalrymple-Hollo
Spitzer Breakdown
A Reading of a Poster by Jim Spitzer
La Femme Mecanique
Photo Art by Jonathan Kane
Family Photos: Beats In Winter
by Larry Keenan
The Fine Art of Conversation
Collaborative art by Brian Howlett and Associates
Waning Moon – March 20, 2003
In Memoriam Carl J. Young
by Karl Young, Jr.
Fiction by
Chris Wells, Paul A. Toth, Roberta Allen, Ann Bogle,
Stephen-Paul Martin, Tsipi Keller, Tsipi Keller, Marc Lowe, Richard
Martin, Mel Freilicher, Fisher Thompson, Nickolay Todorov, Paul Kahn
Lou Rowan, and Jordan Zinovich.
REVIEWS and INTERVIEWS
Vali Myers, Joanne Kyger, Alice Notley, Judith Roche, Allan Weisbecker, Lou Rowan,
James Broughton, Jack Foley, Jeffrey Side, William Allegrezza, and Raymond Bianchi
Allan Graubard, Kirpal Gordon, Stephen Vincent, Alan Davies, Lyn Coffin,
Mary Sands Woodbury, James Tierney, Katherine Hastings, Jake Berry, Michael Schumacher,
T. Hibbard
Malcolm McNeill
Interviewed by Larry Sawyer
with some of McNeill's graphic collaborations with
William S. Burroughs
Interviewed by Ric Cafagna
Interviewed by Dominic Aulisio