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 Severed Leg
Alan Singer

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

Correspondences
Louis Armand

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

Luisa Valenzuela
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

Travels with Tarn
Toby Olson

Dreams and Prognostications
Peter Quartermain

Three Globo-Gardening Poems
Nathaniel Tarn

TARN: a Tribute
Robert Kelly

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