Title:     Chain

Editor(s):	Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr

Address:	Department of English
		University of Hawai'i, Manoa
		1733 Donaghho Road
		Honolulu, Hawai'i 96822


E-mail:		spahr@hawaii.edu

Issn:		1076-0520
Frequency:	Annual
Sub. Cost:	$10.00 for 1 issue
		(Payable to UB Foundation)

Ed. Stmt:	Chain is a new journal that investigates language
		and its various frames. It includes poetry, prose,
		and visual work. 

Issue Info:	

Chain 1: "Special Topic: Gender and Editing" (282 p.)

Edited by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr 
Appears annually
$7.95
6x9, 288 pages
issn: 1076-0520
isbn: 0-922668-12-4
Publication date: October 1, 1994

This first issue explores its editors' apprehension about editing. It
attempts to create a dialogic space through its investigation of the
(im)possibility of an unmediated reception and the (im)possibility of
detaching a writing from its presentational/ideological form.


Chain 1 begins with a forum on how and why journals are created and in
what ways questions of gender have informed those decisions. As such
it investigates the implications behind making taste public and the
manner in which taste presents itself in the public sphere. This
section includes an interview between Dodie Bellamy (of Mirage) and
Andrea Juno (of REsearch) on Angry Women and "sex positive" editing
practices; Dubravka Djuric (of Mental Space) on editing in communist
and post-communist societies; Heather Findlay (of On Our Backs) on
collaborative editing; Susan Gevirtz (of HOW(ever)) reading editing as
medical diagnosis; Holly Laird (of Tulsa Studies in Women's Litera-
ture) on the difficulties and rewards of editing feminist journals in
the academy as well as pieces from a number of small press and
feminist editors.


Instead of a collection that claims over and over the ability of the
editor to know and define,Chain is a journal that claims instead
"this made itself and here is what it's made of; it is just part of
what continues." In order to facilitate a journal that could make
itself,Chain used the model of the chain letter. A number of writers
from the U.S., Canada, and England were asked to send a piece of
writing to another writer. These writers responded by writing a poem
and then send ing both poems onto a third participant, and so
forth. This section includes work by Abigail Child, Gail Scott, Norma
Cole, Sianne Ngai, Kate Rushin, Fiona Templeton and others.




Chain/2: Documentary


Edited by Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr
107 - 14th St./Buffalo, NY  14213
$10 for one issue (6"x9", 250 pp.)
Make checks payable to UB Foundation.

The second issue of Chain questions the supposed neutrality/
objectivity of documentary forms. The concerns of this issue are: in
what ways does the topical world filter through language? how do
creative forms actually capture an event, a person, a place? The work
included highlights the way we use language/image to cut up our
experiential encounters so as to (re)see them.


Contributing writers and artists: Alicia Askenase, Lutz
Bacher, Merle Lyn Bachman, Dodie Bellamy, Celia Bland, Pascale-Anne
Brault, Sherry Brennan, Laynie Browne, AnJanette Brush, Kathe
Burkhardt, Juanita But, Catalina Cariaga, Norma Cole, Leslie Davis &
Hoa Nguyen, Connie Deanovich, Dubrovka Djuric, Sally Doyle, Maggie
Dubris, Carrie Moyer & Sue Schaffer, Ann Erickson, Liz Fodaski, Darcy
Frey, Susan Gevirtz, Phoebe Gloeckner, Lyn Hejinian, Lisa Hoke, Akua
Lezli Hope, Karen Kelley, Ike Kim, Basil King, Andrew Levy, Walter
Lew, Tan Lin, Pamela Lu, Lori Lubeski, Kimberly Lyons, Kevin Magee,
Paul Maurice, Katie Merz, Douglas Messerli, Harryette Mullen, Aife
Murray, Susan Smith Nash, Sianne Ngai, Erin O'Brien, Alix Pearlstein,
M. Nourbese Philip, Stephen Ratcliffe, Susan Rosenberg & Jacob Wisse,
Leslie Scalapino, Jenny Scobel, Eleni Sikelianos, Rod Smith, Meredith
Stricker, Nathaniel Tarn, HT, Rodrigo Toscano, Nicola Tyson, Cecilia
Vicuna, Anne Waldman, Hannah Weiner, Karen Yasinsky, Susan Wheeler,
Alexander Zane, Janet Zweig.



CONTENTS OF CHAIN/3, VOLUME ONE:(hybrid Genres)
Publication date:  May, 1996

Mac Adams:  Four Sculptures
Will Alexander: Transgression of Genre as Vitality
Dennis Barone:  Pia at Play
Martine Bellen:  Lola Montez
Charles Bernstein:  Introjective Verse
Sherry Brennan:  Belle Mort
Patti Capaldi:  Consumption
Norma Cole & Michael Palmer:   A Library Book
Elizabeth Cross:  Schoenberg Dance 12
Maria Damon:  Perfume River: the Oxymoron Wannabe & Me
Tim Davis:  The Nearsighted Poet Reads to St. Jerome
Marta Dieke, Spencer Selby, Gary Sullivan:  from How We Learn
Rachel Blau DuPlessis:  Draft 29: Intellectual Autobiography
Geraldine Erman:  Vivarium No. 2
William L. Fox:  from Zero Comma One:  A Visual Essay
Janie Geiser:  Evidence of Floods
Susan Gevirtz:  Figment of Appointment
David Golumbia:  Theory
Jenny Gough
Carla Harryman:  Males (terrorists)
Lyn Hejinian & Travis Ortiz:  The Staking Effect
Fanny Howe:  from Nod (a novel)
Lisa Jarnot:  Five Collages
Tom Johnson
Alystyre Julian:  Shifting Attentions, Shifting Attentions
Karen Kelley:   Gesture/Geisha/Genre
Bruce McIntosh
E.A. Miller:  Trouble (please do not disturb)
Afe Murray:  Phenomenal Rooms
Sianne Ngai:  Five Collage Poems
Hoa Nguyen:  From A Series of Letters
Nick Piombino: New Languages for Old
Mark Robbins:  Scoring the Park
Christy Sheffield Sanford:  Bivens Arm Nature Poem
Gail Sher:  Innocent Diversions
Brian Kim Stefans
Cassandra Terman and Katie Yates
Nico Vassilakis:  Orange:  A Manual
Mac Wellman: The Peach-Bottom Nuclear Reactor Full Of Sleepers
C.D. Wright: The Lost Roads Project: A Walk-in Book of Arkansas
Paul Zelevansky:  Four Pieces




CONTENTS OF CHAIN/3, VOLUME TWO
Publication date:  September, 1996

Perry Bard:  A Modest Proposal
Jim Brashear:  from The Western Materials
Lee Ann Brown & Susan Meyer Fenton
Brad Buckley
Mary Burger:  Coughing Fit
Stacy Doris:  Re: The Birth of So And So, or, How I Noticed the
       Beginnings of Nature
Johanna Drucker & Brad Freeman:  Hybrid Anxieties
Thalia Field : On the First Day
Heather Fuller:  Placards
Loss Pequeño Glazier:  Intermedial Investigations
Barbara Henning & Miranda Maher:  How to Read and Write in the
	Dark
Kathy High:  (A Few) Statistics On the (Possible) Meaning of An Encounter
       With (Some) (Middle-Class) Academic Women
Adeena Karasick:  Genrecide: A Poetics for the Unproductive
Cynthia Kimball:  Thinking In Words Does Not Become You
Heidi Kumao:  Cinema Machines
Eve Andre Larame:  Apparatus for the Distillation of Vague Intuitions
Pamela Lu:  from Noir
Walter K. Lew: from The Movieteller
Steve McCaffery:  Dilemma of the Meno
Jerome McGann:  The Alice Fallacy, Or, Only God Can Make A Tree: A
       Dialogue of Pleasure and Instruction
Kevin Magee:  from April Theses
Gerard Malanga:  Prototypes of Experience
Denise Newman
M. Nourbese Philip:  Discourse on the Logic of Language
Kristin Prevallet:  Allegory for the Real, Covered Up
Joan Retallack & Rod Smith & Melanie Nielson:  Empty Envelopes: Is
	This Any Way to Correspond?
Lisa Robertson:  Index A: Lyric Or Prohibitive
James Sherry:  Critical Menus  Clef
Ken Sherwood:  Scrims
Sally Silvers:  Wall of Ownbrain: Movement/Film/Text/Science
Carolyn Steinhoff-Smith:  from . . . And If, Taking From a Cage an
	Eye
Fiona Templeton:  Real Dead and Fake Living: Notes for the Issue on
       Hybrid Form
Anne Waldman:  from Iovis
Janet Zweig:  Mind Over Matter