Van Gogh's Ear 1
Volume one of Van Gogh's Ear 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.
Contributors
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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 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 |
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 Ron Padgett Molly Peacock Sarah Petlin Simon Pettet Bob Rosenthal Jerome Rothenberg 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 |