An Announcement from John Tranter, publisher/editor of Jacket Magazine :

There are over two hundred books and magazines forlornly awaiting reviewers
in Jacket's unassigned list, from Kazim Ali to Rachel Zucker:

Jacket's List of Books for Review

And Jacket 29 is slowly growing...

Jacket 29, Index

=== Douglas Messerli: The Countess of Berkeley: on Barbara Guest

Feature: Gilbert Sorrentino -- Edited by Ken Bolton

=== Ken Bolton: Gilbert Sorrentino: an Introduction
=== John O'Brien: Gilbert Sorrentino: Some Various Looks
=== Eric Mottram: The Black Polar Night: The Poetry Of Gilbert Sorrentino
=== Donald Phelps: Extra Space
=== Gilbert Sorrentino in conversation with Barry Alpert, 1974

Interviews

=== Bill Berkson in Conversation with Robert Glück, August 2005
=== Setting the World on Fire: Charles Bernstein in conversation with
Leonard Schwartz, 2004
=== On the Nature of the Lyric: Tom Clark in conversation with Ryan Newton
=== My Motto Is: 'Translation Fights Cultural Narcissism' -- Chris Daniels
in conversation with Kent Johnson, on Fernando Pessoa, Brazilian Poetry,
and the Task of the Translator, 2005

Feature: James Schuyler, Edited by Pam Brown

=== James Schuyler: Letters from Italy, Winter 195455, to Frank O'Hara (a
selection, ed. William Corbett)
=== Simply, Freely, Clearly: David Kennedy reviews Just the Thing: Selected
Letters of James Schuyler 1951-1991, edited by William Corbett. 470pp.
Turtle Point Press. US$21.95 / £13.99. 1885586302. Paper. AND James
Schuyler: Selected Art Writings, edited by Simon Pettet. 310pp. Black
Sparrow Press. US$17.50. 157423076X. Paper.
=== On editing James Schuyler: Simon Pettet and William Corbett and Nathan
Kernan in conversation with Pam Brown

Mallarmé revisited

=== Chris Edwards: A Fluke: 'A Fluke' is a mistranslation into English of
Stéphane Mallarmé's 1897 poem 'Un coup de dés...' with parallel French text.
=== Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 73: Vertigo -- a response to Mallarmés work.
=== John Tranter: Desmond's Coupé: A partly homophonic mistranslation into
English of 'Un coup de dés', using a nice, sensible even left margin.
=== John Tranter: a review of Musicopoematographoscope, by Australian poet
Christopher Brennan, a manuscript parody of 'Un coup de dés' written within
a few months of Mallarmé's poem being published in the May 1897 issue of
the Paris journal Cosmopolis.

On Flarf

=== Dan Hoy: on Flarf: The Virtual Dependency of the Post-Avant and the
Problematics of Flarf: What Happens when Poets Spend Too Much Time Fucking
Around on the Internet
=== The Flarflist Collective: Actual Interview with a Six-Year-Old on the
Topic of Flarf

Margaret Avison:

Eight poems: The World Still Needs / End of a Day or I as a Blurry
Needy / Christmas Approaches, Highway 401 / The Hid, Here / A Small Music
on a Spring Morning / Cycle of Community / The Fixed in a Flux /

Articles

=== David Brooks: "Petit Testament": A Reading [on the Ern Malley hoax]
=== Stephen Kirbach: Resisting the power museum with and beyond Allen
Ginsberg's 'Wichita Vortex Sutra'
=== Thomas Lisk: William Bronk's Path Among the Forms
=== Michael Palmer: Ground Work: on Robert Duncan
=== John Welch: Getting it Printed: London in the 1970s
=== Barry Wood and Bill Luckin: Catch the Music as it Fades: The Poetry of
Jack Beeching

Comic Strip

=== John Tranter: Dan Dactyl and the Mad Jungle Doctor: A 95-frame black
and white comic strip that traces the adventures of adventurer Dan Dactyl
and his pals as they search the South American jungles for the mysterious
French poet Doctor Verlaine. First published in Chain (US), Poetry Review
(London) and Southerly magazine (Sydney).

Reviews

=== Erik Anderson: Join the Planets, by Reed Bye
=== Jasper Bernes: The Hounds of No by Lara Glenum and A Defense of Poetry
by Gabriel Gudding
=== Michael Cross: Rumored Place by Rob Halpern
=== Elaine Equi Light and Shade: New and Selected Poems, by Tom Clark
=== Michael Farrell reviews "Hyper Taiwan: Art Design Culture", by Kurt
Brereton
=== Thomas Fink: 60 lv bo(e)mbs, by Paolo Javier
=== John Hall: Whisper 'Louise', A double historical memoir and meditation,
by Douglas Oliver
=== David Koehn reviews: Profane Halo by Gillian Conoley
=== Michael Leddy: More Winnowed Fragments by Simon Pettet
=== David McCooey: Compared to What: Selected Poems 1971-2003 and The Ash
Range by Laurie Duggan
=== Marianne Morris: Embrace, by Andrea Brady
=== Chris Murray: Small Works by Pam Rehm
=== John Olson: What He Ought To Know, New and Selected Poems by Edward Foster
=== Gerald Schwartz: Drunken Sailor by John Montague
=== Erik Sweet: American Music by Chris Martin
=== Erik Sweet: Father of Noise by Anthony McCann
=== Eileen Tabios: The Passion of Phineas Gage & Selected Poems by Jesse Glass
=== Nathaniel Tarn: Red Sky Café by Geoffrey O'Brien
=== Ed Taylor: The Beautifully Worthless, by Ali Liebegott

Poems

=== Aaron Belz: Four Poems for Jen Bervin
=== Dustin Collis: Two poems: Title Poem / Light Plucked
=== Alfred Corn: Rip at the Half Moon
=== Wystan Curnow: Three poems from Modern Colours
=== Denise Duhamel and Stephen Paul Miller: from 'Hurricanes': 2. B-Boy /
4. Desperate Young Americans / 6. If RFK had become President
=== Jon Fosse: The train in one's heart: English version by May-Brit Akerholt
=== Bill Freind: Four poems: Serenade for Intercom and Tardy Chorister /
Dispensationalist Foxtrot / Deportation Celebrant / Chillun of the Hods
=== John Hall: An essay on lyric ethics
=== Anthony Hawley: Six poems: 'Awhile' -- Field Guide for Voices / Five
poems from P(r)etty Sonnets
=== Brian Henry: Three poems: Poem for the Man / Dead Aesthetic / Jesus/Stick
=== Kent Johnson: Prosodic Structure (A bit after Barbara Guest)
=== Kent Johnson: Julian in Nicomedeia -- after Cavafy
=== Andrew Johnston: Mauve
=== Peter Larkin: Urban Woods (Section 1 of Open Woods)
=== Norman MacAfee: The Coming of Fascism to America
=== Nicholas Messenger: The Pleasures of Reading
=== Philip Nikolayev: Two poems: Three Stars / Litmus Test
=== Ron Padgett and Yu Jian: Five poems: Shoe Cloud / Poem 8 / Poem 9 /
Poem 16 / Poem 11
=== Christopher Salerno: Two poems: The Republic, Book X / Not Dying
=== Ouyang Yu: Nine Poems: Listening to the ex-Chinese-woman-soldier /
Listening to the Pakistani Taxi-driver / Listening to the Big Bus Guy in
London / Listening to the poet talk about himself / Listening to the
Lebanese Taxi-driver / Listening to my woman patient / Listening to the 80
year old telling me a story / Listening to the Bangladeshi taxi-driver /
Listening to the Chinese audience
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