Print version376 Pages*Ships to United States Only*Part One: MalignanciesAlain Badiou on Rene Char, Tongo Eisen-Martin, poem, Farid Matuk, two poems, Kevin Holden, poem, Rodrigo Toscano, four poems, Dom Hale, three poems, Terese Svoboda, five poems, Er(ic) Linsker, two poems 60Aditya Bahl, poem, Jan Verberkmoes,Alain Badiou on Samuel BeckettPart Two: Writing AskewBen Lerner, poem, John Wilkinson, poem, HL Hazuka, four poems, Janani Ambikapathy, two poems, Lee Sumyeong, three poems, Tom Crompton, two poems, Jamie Green, three poems, Jessica O. Marsh, poem, Doren Robbins, two prose poems, Paolo Javier, poem, Tomaž Šalamun, two poems, Kim Haengsook, four poems, Yongu Chen, three poems, Lim Solah, five poems, Jessica Laser, poem, Lillian-Yvonne Bertram, poem, PJ Lombardo, two poems, Josh English, two poemsPart Three: ArtAfton Love, graphite paintings and an InterviewPart Four: EssaysJoyelle McSweeney on Keats, Alain Badiou on the Intelligence of Form, Karen Garthe on Covid in New York (194)Part Five: Cristina Rivera Garza’s Poetry, with a review of Grievances by David Lau,an essay by translators Cheyla Samuelson and Ilana Luna, and poemsPart Six: Aesthetic Practices/Political ActionDavid Lau on Mark Nowak’s Social PoeticsPart Seven: ReviewsBrenda Hillman on Rukeyser, Peter Bouscheljong on Katrina Gogou, Janani Ambikapathy on Sergio Chejfec, Andrew Joron on Majorie Welish
Print version262 Pages*Ships to United States Only*Part One: The Poetry of Experience by James Galvin, Jane Miller, Brenda Hillman, Sawnie Morris, Susan McCabe, Sandra Simonds, Mars Tekosky, Henri Cole, Tawanda Mulalu, Martha Ronk, Matvei Yankelevich, Meghan Maguire Dahn, Sherah Bloor, Tom Prime, Meg Shevenock, Karla Kelsey 68Part Two: Photography by Polly Borland’s “Nudie” (photographs), Conversation with Polly Borland 80Part Three: Essays by Joyelle McSweeney, John Wilkinson, Cal Bedient, David Lau, Alain Badiou, Craig Dworkin, Susan McCabePart Four: Papers on Topical Poetry by Rae Armantrout, Monica Youn, Lyn Hejinian, Paolo JavierPart Five: Miscellaneous Poems by Timothy McGinnis, Robert Carr, Emily Wilson, Lindsey Webb 195Part Six: Poems by Mark Levine, Jason de Stefano, Peter Mishler, Alan Elyshevitz, Anthony Madrid, Kate Colby, Marcelo Morales, Kristin Dykstra, Rae Armantrout, Stella Wong, Liam Ferney, Janeline Hayes, Logan Fry 244Part Seven: Reviews by Susan McCabe, Carol Moldaw, Jeanne HeuvingArt Credits:Polly Borland’s photographs by courtesy of the Nino Mier Gallery and the artist. The inside and outside covers of the issue are from KNOT, a collaboration between poet Forrest Gander and photographer Jack Shear (MW Editions Press & Copper Canyon, 2022). The Diagrams come by courtesy of Robert R. Thurman, and “Argon” by courtesy of Valyntina Grenier. Simon Hantaï’s Etude on page 204 is a reminder of our Hantaï issue.
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Featuring poetry by John Ashbery, Cyrus Console, Ángel Escobar, Shane Book, Ben Lerner, Joshua Clover, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, ‘Annah Sobelman, Rusty Morrison, Rae Armantrout, Cole Swensen, and Andrew Joron, among others.
The essays include C. D. Wright on Poetry and Wall-mart, Catherine Wagner on New Sonnet Collections, Calvin Bedient on Metasexual Poetry, Matt Lau on Godard, Robert von Hallberg on Film Noir, Steve Willard on Fergie, and Aaron Benanav on Gopal Balakrishnan’s Agonistics. Plus Gopal Balakrishnan and Joshua Clover in conversation.
Featured artist: Peter Sacks.
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Includes David Lau on Poetry as Critique, Vanessa Place on Radically Evil Poetry, Cal Bedient on Modern Art and Equality, Ben Lerner on the artist Simon Hantai, Marjorie Perloff on Merce Cunningham, and Gopal Balakrishnan on Badiou's The Century.
Hugo Hopping is the featured artist.
Poems by Forrest Gander, Jorie Graham, Michael Palmer, Nathaniel Mackey, Carolyn Forche, Jane Miller, and many others.
Including essays by Tariq Ali on “the Abbotabad Incident,” Bernard Stiegler’s “The Proletarianization of the Subject,” Marilyn Chin’s “Brown Girl Manifesto,” Brian Ang’s “Manifesto: Poetry and Militancy,” Ben Lerner’s “Letter from New York,” and Robert von
Hallberg on Susan Howe.
Poems by Jed Rasula, Vanessa Place, Tom Raworth, Jeanine Webb, Joshua Clover, Brenda Hillman, Elizabeth Robinson, William Fuller, Jeffrey Yang, Pablo de Rokha, Rae Armantrout, Paul Hoover, Sandra Simonds, Angela Carr, Shane Book, Douglas Piccinnini, Karen Garthe, Anthony Madrid, and many others.
Feature artist: Howard Hodgkin.
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Featuring Emile Benveniste’s Notes on Baudelaire, Lindsay Turner on Béla Tarr’s movie Turin Horse, Alain Badiou on Godard’s film Passion, Joshua Clover on Epic and the World-system, David Lau on Cathy Hong and Will Alexander, Jason E. Smith on Badiou and Riots, Nathan Brown on Badiou and Communist Theory, among other prose essays.
Plus Urs Allemann’s short story “Aeroaquatia,” and poetry by Rae Armantrout, C. D. Wright, Jorie Graham, Erín Moure, Ben Lerner, Jane Miller, Richard Greenfield, Claudia Rankine, Brenda Hillman, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Jacqueline Frost, Joshua Clover, Cole Swensen, and many others. Many brief reviews.
Featured artist: Barrie Cooke
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Featuring poetry by Molly Bendall, Jessica O. Marsh, Lyn Hejinian Richard Meier, Catherine Wagner, Lauren Levin, Samuel Amadon, Marjorie Welish, Joshua Clover, James Galvin, Emily Wilson, Mallarmé, Tomaz Salamun, Sandra Simonds, Barbara Claire Freeman, Alli Warren, and Dora Malech, among others.
Featuring also Forrest Gander’s series of poems on the dancers Eiko & Koma and extracts from Alexander Vvedensky’s The Grey Notebook; and among other essays, Edoardo Sanguineti on the Avant-Garde, Claudia Rankine on Serena Williams, Calvin Bedient on Brenda Hillman, and David Lau on Committed Poetry.
Featured artist: Maria Lessnig.
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Featuring a long debate between Alain Badiou and Alain Finkielkraut, and Alain Badiou on Theater and Philosophy, Karen Garthe on Sorrentino’s movie The Great Beauty, Emily Wilson on Van Gogh, David Lau on Framing Social Crisis in Films, Edoardo Sanguineti essays on Futurism, on Surrealism, and on the literature of cruelty, Alain Badiou on the Age of the Poets, and Andrew Joron on Ronald Johnson’s ARK, among other essays.
Featuring a special section on the Avant-garde in the U.S.A., with essays by Joshua Clover, Kent Johnson, McKenzie Wark, Cathy Park Hong, Joyelle McSweeney, Tyrone Williams, Jed Rasula, Brenda Hillman, and Nick Twemlow, among others.
Poems by Juliana Spahr, Aleksandr Skidan, Amelia Rosselli, Joshua Clover, Jasper Bernes, C. D. Wright, Baudelaire, Jorie Graham, Nick Twemlow, ‘Annah Sobelman, Bin Ramke, Mallarmé, Robert Fernandez, Amanda Berenguer, Sawnie Morris, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and Aaron Kunin, among many others.
Featured artists: Brian Shields and Despina Stokou.
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Poetry by César Vallejo, David Buuck, , Jorie Graham, Douglas Piccinnini, Rae Armantrout, Angelo Mao, Anne Boyer, Geoffrey G. O’Brien, Anthony Madrid, Sara Deniz Akant, Shane Book, and Michael Farrell, among others.
César Vallejo on Art and the Social Sphere, and on Charlie Chaplin, Asad Haider on Baraka and Black Lives Matter, Gopal Balakrishnan on the Meaning of Marxism, Karen Garthe’s Notes on New York, Brian Shields and Emily Wilson and Calvin Bedient on J. M. W. Turner, and Eleni Sikelianos, Cole Swensen, and Calvin Bedient on the Experimental Lyric.
Fiction by Jean Frémon.
Featured Artists: J. M. W. Turner, Peter Sacks, Hank Saxe.
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Featuring Michael Palmer’s “Letter to St. Petersberg,” Giorgio Agamben’s “The Fire and the Tale,” Alain Badiou on the artist Pierre Soulages, Kevin Simmonds on Leontyne Price’s last performance, Cole Swenson on Andre des Gachons’s Watercolors of weather, Alain Badiou on Black as an Invention of White People, David Lau on the Political Turn in Poetry, Laura Martin on Roland Barthes as a Young Marxist, and Carlos Lara’s translation of Louis Aragon’s classic essay on the beginning of Surrealism.
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Poems by Nam Le, John Wilkinson, Aditi Machado, Rodrigo Toscano, Daniel Borzutzky, Lindsay Turner Dorothea Lasky, Brenda Hillman, Cathrine Strisik, Douglas Piccinnini, Rae Armantrout, Richard Greenfield, and many others. Essays by John Wilkinson on line breaks, Barrett Watten on poetic value, David Lau on the avant-garde then and now. Art feature: Cal Bedient on the survival of sensibility, galeries of paintings by Brian Shields, John Walker, and Peter Sacks, and an essay each on all three painters; Reviews of books by Robyn Schiff, Jessica Laser, Ed Roberson, Jorie Graham, Kevin Holden, Dominique Fourcade, Ben Lerner, and Johannes Göransson, among others.
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Table of ContentsRUMBLES
Tongo Eisen-Martin 5 David Buuck 7 Farid Matuk 11Daniel Borzutzky 18Matthew Cooperman 24Joe Luna 26Richard Hamilton 30Christopher Kazar Janigian 32Brianna Colburn 34
HARM
Douglas Piccinnini 37Keston Sutherland 40Evalyn Lee 43Patrick Carr 45Mars Tekosky 46David Moolten 47Mitchell Glazier 49Kristina Andersson Bicher 53Nathaniel Calhoun 54Joel Chace 59
PLACE/PARTICULARS
Eleni Sikelianos 61John Latta 63Maxwell Gontarek 74Lindsay Turner 77Karla Kelsey 80Molly Bendall 89George Kovalenko 93Cole Swensen 94Scott Challener 96John Wilkinson 99Brenda Hillman 106
Words Aslant
Ron Silliman 112Stella Wong 115Michael Farrell 116John Cross 121Ryan Taylor 123Anima Ehtiat 128Ham Kiseok 131Thibault Raoult 137Michael Snediker 143Nicholas Wong 145Daniel Poppick 148Doren Robbins 149Trevor KS 152Alexandria Peary 155Andrew Wildermuth 157
ASSORTED SUBJECTS
Rae Armantrout 160Peter Krumbach 165Peter Szilagyi 166Amie Zimmerman 168Terese Swoboda 171
REVIEWS
Karen Garthe: Brian Teare 175Adrienne Raphel: Mark Levine 178Cole Swensen: Rusty Morrison 181
ASTROPHOTOS & ESSAYS
Terry Maurice’s Astrophotos 185Robert Scott: Sutherland 196David Lau: Arab War PoetryDelmore Schwartz, avant-garde 202Rick Dasenbrock: Nietzsche 218Cal Bedient: on Horizontal Poetry(Piccinnini, Turner, Giraudon,Robertson, Sumyeong) 233Blackboard 254Bio-notes 258
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Featuring essay-reviews by Joyelle McSweeney on Sandra Simonds and Dorothea Lasky, Andrew Joron on Oulipo and Surrealism, David Lau on Daniel Borzutzky, Ange Mlinko on James Merrill, and more.
Poems by Rae Armantrout, Daniel Borzutzky, Jorie Graham, Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Rodrigo Toscano, Rusty Morrison, Rowan Ricado Phillips, Reina Maria Rodriguez, Brian Kim Stefans, Sawnie Morris, and others.
An essays by Alain Badiou on Lacan and Politics, and a forum on the question: “Is Poetry Still in the Game.”
Tina Bryant and Douglas Kearney on Black Panther.
An art section featuring Ashwini Bhat’s ceramic sculpture and Judith Belzer’s oil paintings.
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