Golden Handcuffs #11
(Spring-Summer, 2009; Vol. 1, No. 11)
THE WORK
ART
Eight Photographs cover, special insert
Brian Smale
How to Write a Literary Masterpiece
William Powhida
ESSAYS
“Conceptual Poetry” As Reinvented Formalism:
Tug a Thread
Norman Weinstein
FICTION
A Good Start
Andrew Ervin
A Collector of Bum Porn
Zack Wentz
POETRY
Five Poems from Negativity’s Kiss
Alice Notley
Three Poems
Simon Pettet
Eight Poems in Black, After Goya
Jerome Rothenberg
Lovely Love
David Meltzer
from Velocity But No Location
Rosmarie Waldrop
Bird. Song. Knife. Heart.
Katherine Hastings
Written in a Kentish Pub on Hearing
of the Death of Jonathan Williams
Grenadines
Laurie Duggan
Notebook #1 from The Notebooks (of Being & Time)
Hank Lazer
FOR LUISA VALENZUELA’S 70th BIRTHDAY
edited by Mark Axelrod
from The Journey, a novel
Luisa Valenzuela
Luisa Valenzuela and her Work
Gwendolyn Diaz
Luisa Valenuela on Power, Gender and Writing
an interview with Gwendolyn Diaz
Puzzled Words across Two Worlds: Re-Writing of the Fairy Tales in Luisa Valenzuela and Elfriede Jelinek
Maria Teresa Madeiros-Lichem
Luisa Valenzuela
David Matlin
SOUTH AMERICAN POETRY
continued, edited by Mark Axelrod
Lost Scenes from the Movie
“The Funerals of our Generation”
Alicia Partnoy
Nine Poems
Christina Peri Rossi
Hours
Susana Szwarc
Three Dreams for Dylan
Raul Zurita
FOR NATHANIEL TARN’S 80th BIRTHDAY
edited by Joseph Donahue
?Growing Older?
Anselm Hollo
Dreams and Prognostications
Peter Quartermain
Three Globo-Gardening Poems
Nathaniel Tarn
A Conversation with Tarn’s Beautiful Contradictions
John Olson
Sanctity and Iraq
Ed Foster
Meeting in the Fire: Nathaniel Tarn’s Poetics of Proximity
Richard Deming
Initiation and Lyric Structure:
Nathaniel Tarn’s Essays on Poetics
David Need
Lyrics for the Bride of God:
Nathaniel Tarn’s Eternal Feminine
Norman Finkelstein
The Kleptobject Sleeps
Gherasim Luca
the phosphorescence of thought
Peter O’Leary
Macroscian
Brian Strang
On Beethoven, Dunne and Immanence
(with or without Expectations
Dennis Phillips
Of the Limits
Michael Heller
In the Garden of the King of Fez
Pedro Calderón
The Bee Catcher
Randy Hayes
from Terra Lucida
Joseph Donahue
RESPONSE
Toby Olson’s Tampico
Joe Ashby Porter
Talking to the Dead (Toby Olson)
Douglas Messerli
On a Sentence of Joe Ashby Porter
Paul Griffiths
Clearly Enigmatic:
Glen Mott’s Analects on a Chinese Screen
Hank Laser
So where are we now? And does it really matter?
(Ken Edwards)
Brian Marley
ALL: A James Broughton Reader
Katherine Hastings
John Olson and Jeanne Heuving
Mississippi: A Narrative (Randy Hayes)
Rebecca Brown
Multiple Choice (Michael Rothenberg)
Pat Nolan
Notes on Contributors