Editor: Ian Ayres
Genre: Literature / Prose & Poetry / Anthology
Paperback: 203 pages
Publisher: French Connection Press
Publishing Date: 2002
Language: English
ISBN-10: 2-914853-00-9
ISBN-13: 978-2-914853-00-2
Retail Price: $19 USD / 15€ EUR / 12£ GBP
The first volume of the “Van Gogh’s Ear” anthology series primarily focuses on poetry characterized by experimentation with form, a revitalized interest in the lyric, and journeys into daring realms of imagination. Among the book’s many highlights are Joyce Carol Oates’s intense prose poem of sex and murder “Erotic Fantasy in Fast Forward”; Victor Bockris’s haunting, prophetic poem “New York City Footsteps” – written just five days before 9/11; Susan Howe’s “The Chair”, which achieves a rare synthesis of linguistic rigor and humor; “Labor: A company job”, the last poem John Wieners ever wrote (included is a letter by him – in his writing – about the poem); plus Rod Smith’s “Junkspace Canto”, a canto as tremblingly accurate as the jab of a needle, with perceptions wound into a jagged sweet music like a gypsy violin.
Shane Allison
Beth Anderson
Bruce Andrews
Mary Angeline
Antler
Louis Armand
Ian Ayres
Amiri Baraka
Margo Berdeshevsky
Bill Berkson
Anselm Berrigan
Edmund Berrigan
Ted Berrigan
Victor Bockris
Mary Burger
David Caddy
Tom Clark
Andrei Codrescu
Ira Cohen
Robert Creeley
Quentin Crisp
Dave Cunliffe
Albert Flynn DeSilver
Diane di Prima
Edward Dorn
Jennifer Dunbar Dorn
Buck Downs
David Lehman
Lyn Lifshin
Brendan Lorber
Bill Luoma
Gerard Malanga
Michael McClure
Wendy Mulford
Eileen Myles
Hoa Nguyen
Michelle Noteboom
Alice Notley
Joyce Carol Oates
Frank O’Hara
Douglas Oliver
Peter Orlovsky
Douglas Oliver
Peter Orlovsky
Ron Padgett
Molly Peacock
Sarah Petlin
Simon Pettet
Bob Rosenthal
Jerome Rothenberg
kari edwards
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
Ethan Gilsdorf
Allen Ginsberg
Robert Glück
Marilyn Hacker
Linda Healey
Lynne Hjelmgaard
Anselm Hollo
Amy Holman
Paul Hoover
Susan Howe
Christopher Ide
Lisa Jarnot
Leslie Scalapino
Sozan Schellin
Andrew Schelling
Susan M. Schultz
Leonard Schwartz
Charley Shively
Eleni Sikelianos
Iain Sinclair
Dale Smith
Rod Smith
Edwin Torres
John Updike
Jean Valentine
Roberta Vellvé
Anne Waldman
Phillip Ward
Chocolate Waters
Philip Whalen
John Wieners
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