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<h2 class='date-header'><span>Friday, October 18, 2002</span></h2>

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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"><a href="http://www.rattapallax.com/fusion.htm">Short Fuse</a></span></i><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> is an extraordinarily ambitious project.
In addition to the 400 page book released this week by Rattapallax Press is a
CD and a supplementary e-book that one can download with a password found in
the hard copy. Edited by a Philip Norton, a performance poet now in Australia
who was matriculating at DePaul University when Marc Smith's Green Mill poetry
slam events in Chicago<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>kicked off the
slam scene in 1987, and </span><st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Todd Swift</span></st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">, a Canadian poet with intermedia impulses now in Paris who makes
a living as a television screenwriter, the 175 poets gathered into <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse</i> represent an attempt on the
part of its editors to jump start what they characterize as Fusion Poetry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">What is Fusion Poetry? Given
that at least 130 of the 175 poets in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short
Fuse</i> come out of the spoken word / slam / performance poetry communities of
different English speaking countries, plus a smattering of poets from diverse
traditions -- Simon Armitage and Glyn Maxwell represent the most conservative
tendencies of British neoformalism, Charles Bernstein &amp; myself represent a<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>performative side of langpo, and even Billy
Collins is on the CD to incorporate that side of the plain-speaking McPoem
tradition that can be enjoyed as<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;
</span>stand-up comedy<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>-- it would seem
to be an attempt to place oral poetries into a broader &amp; perhaps more
legitimated context. At its most grandiose, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short
Fuse</i> may be an attempt to overcome the various skirmishes in the poetry
wars by proposing performativity<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span>as the
glue that would bring all these other aesthetics together into one world-wide
happy family. The book even promises to donate "a portion of the
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<span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Time will tell how far the
editors can take that agenda, but it certainly doesn't want for lack of scale.
What it may do, however, and this would be unfortunate, is to obscure just what
a wonderfully global collection of performance poetry the editors have put
together. </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Canada</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">, the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">, the </span><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">British Isles</span></st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">, </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Australia</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">, and the Anglophone scenes of several
other countries are all represented. From the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">, you have a good representation of the
slam scene: Patricia Smith, Bob Holman, Edwin Torres &amp; some of the more
stellar poets who came out of the Nuyorican Poetry Cafe scene, such as Willie <span class="SpellE">Perdomo</span> and Guillermo Castro. While there certainly are
some glaring omissions, especially among the older, more established
performance poets (</span><st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;">Steve McCaffery</span></st1:personname><span style="color: black; font-family: Arial;"> &amp; his fellow Four Horsemen, Hazel Smith, the late Bob <span class="SpellE">Cobbing</span>, anything with a taste of Fluxus*), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse</i> can be read as an Olympian
panorama of performance poetics, one that stands up on these terms quite well,
with a curious sprinkling of "performance-like" poetries out of other
more page-based traditions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">* There are
moments when, reading <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Short Fuse</i> and
listening to its editors, one has the eerie sense that this what it might be
like to want to be Jerome Rothenberg if one had never heard of Jerome
Rothenberg.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp; </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">The new issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i> is out and continues the
magazine&#8217;s run as the premier American literary journal. No other publication
in the past decade has envisioned the breadth of American literature (defined here
as more than just U.S. writing) with the reach, complexity, completeness and
nuance of this publication co-edited originally by </span><st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;">Juliana Spahr</span></st1:personname><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and Jena Osman, now with the assistance of Thalia
Field and Cecilia Vicuña. For a reader of my generation, the experience of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i> harkens back to the heroic period
of postmodern literary publications &#8211; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Origin,
Coyote&#8217;s Journal, Yugen,</i> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black
Mountain Review, Caterpillar, Sulfur, This, Hills, Temblor, Roof, Poetics
Journal, </i>the original<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> HOW(ever)</i>
&amp; their peers. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i> is the one
print publication right now that can be said to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">change</i> writing as it publishes it, in the sense that a reader comes
away with a sense both of what is possible and what is necessary that is wider
and deeper than before. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So why am I unable to look
at an issue of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i> without thinking
about a question that Jena Osman put to me several years ago at a Writers House
event? <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I had mentioned the
disproportionate hoopla that had greeted a little journal called <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apex of the M</i>, edited by Lew Daley, Alan
Gilbert, Kristin Prevallet &amp; Pam Rehm*. To oversimplify only slightly, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apex</i> took a confrontational view of
literature, arguing that the language poets had largely been a rationalist
movement, excluding mysticism in general and especially Gnostic views of
Christianity. Ignoring all evidence to the contrary (such as the poetry of
Susan Howe, one of the journal&#8217;s<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"> </i>advisory
editors), <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apex</i> presented a range of
American postmodernist work that could be read as an inconsistent critique of
langpo &#8211; John Taggart, Will Alexander, Elizabeth Robinson, Ed Dorn and Gustaf
Sobin were among the contributors in its first two issues. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Identifying the boundaries
of langpo, as <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apex</i> seems rather
effectively to have done, is not the same as identifying an alternative, let
alone an anti- (or post-) langpo movement, particularly given the famously
isolative nature of several of the writers listed above. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apex</i> came and went rather quickly in the larger scheme of things,
but continued to be discussed for several years after. &#8220;So why is it,&#8221; Jena
asked (I&#8217;m paraphrasing here from a mediocre memory), &#8220;that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i>, which was begun at the same time
in the same city, which has a much broader and more democratic view of the
possibilities of literature, receives so much less attention?&#8221; [It is worth
noting, of course, that in the long run, this is certainly not the case. If it
were a contest of which publication best manifested lasting literary value, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i> won hands down. But the question
as I understood it had more to do with the proportionality of response.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Part of the answer, of
course, was that <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i> lacks <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apex&#8217;s</i> hyperactive &amp; self-important presentation.
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apex </i>led off its issues with fiery
editorials proclaiming its revolutionary (or counter-revolutionary, depending
on your perspective here) world view. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apex</i>
offered the charm of the quixotic. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i>,
on the other hand, was from the beginning inherently inclusive and its impulses
democratic. Language poetry was presented as though it were only one of several
sources every young writer would want to think about. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apex</i> by contrast put langpo on a pedestal only in order to take
better aim as it attempted to knock it off. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But having said all this,
there was &#8211; and still is &#8211; an inherent muting within <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain&#8217;s</i> editorial position, one that has limited its impact and
runs oddly contrary to the extraordinary intellectual ambition that otherwise
informs every issue. And that is its use of alphabetical order to present
content.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I obviously am not one to
speak ill of the alphabet as an organizing principle, but in writing my own
poem of that name, I know that I&#8217;ve had to take special to deal with the
narrative needs of the poem. Narrative in this sense means literally the
unfolding of meaning over time. This isn&#8217;t possible when the elements of the
ordering are the surnames of authors.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">I have never been fond of
the use of themes to organize literary journals &#8211; it feels to me far more
stifling than generative, causing many publications to include second-rate work
that &#8220;fits&#8221; while ignoring far better writing that doesn&#8217;t. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i>, which has used themes from its
initial issue, has avoided, or perhaps transcended, the usual limitations of
the thematic by envisioning each of them so broadly, and so creatively. There
is a sequence in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i> 8, on comics,
that moves from Leslie Scalapino (whose conception of genre is itself worthy of
a doctoral dissertation), through Lytle Shaw to Sally Silvers, that is worth
the price of the 300-page journal<span class="GramE">.*</span>*<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">But such moments are
fortuitous and accidental. What if Lytle Shaw had been named Bruce Andrews or
Al Young? The problem is that, editorially, magazines are always arguments:
their mode is exposition. What comes first and who goes where matters. Nobody
understood this better than Clayton Eshleman with his journals <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Caterpillar</i> and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sulfur.</i> Eshleman&#8217;s issues were composed almost musically. Thus, for
example, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sulfur 3</i>, published in 1982,
begins with one of Robert Duncan&#8217;s last <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Passages</i>
and closes its literature section (Eshleman&#8217;s journals followed the editorial
mode set by Harriet Monroe with <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Poetry,</i>
placing reviews at the &#8220;back of the book&#8221;) with selections from the
correspondence between Charles Olson and Edward Dahlberg. In between, works
were positioned primarily for the sake of contrast. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">[Following </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Duncan</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> in that issue was a prose poem of mine &#8211; one of the
first sections of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Alphabet</i> to
appear in print &amp; something that at the time must have appeared
antithetical to Duncan&#8217;s poetry &#8211; followed by a young British poet with more
overt &#8220;New American&#8221; tendencies, Allen Fisher, and then a young East Coast
writer still working under the visible influence of George Oppen, Rachel Blau
DuPlessis. That Eshleman intuited correspondences between my work, Allen&#8217;s and
Rachel&#8217;s I can only imagine. In 2002, it seems immediately apparent in ways
that still appear unfathomable to me if I look at these texts of two decades
ago.]<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apex</i>, Eshleman&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sulfur&#8217;s</i>
influence among writers, especially in its early years, far outstripped its
distribution. But each issue was always making an argument about value in
writing. It is precisely that argumentation by editorial placement that
disappears into the arbitrariness of alphabeticism in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain.</i> At best, one can intuit one by the range of inclusion, but
this is a second order of editorial exposition. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Clearly, the use of the
alphabet corresponds to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain&#8217;s</i>
democratic impulses. Nobody gets to go first but by the accident of their
father&#8217;s last name. But argued thus &#8211; or perhaps not argued thus &#8211; it&#8217;s a
bureaucratic democracy at best, and one that carries within it the not so dim
echoes of patriarchy in the use of surnames. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In one sense, this editorial
muteness may make <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i> an even truer
representative of contemporary literary culture, which in the past 15 years has
tended to be both progressive and yet firmly committed to thwarting its own
political efficacy***. It&#8217;s a curious position, ultimately, and one that seems
very much at odds with the journal&#8217;s own <span class="GramE">ambition,</span> as
though it were ambition itself with which <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain
</i>might be at odds. In the long view of history, the test of a journal is
best gauged by the writers whom it brings forward to broader audiences. Thus,
in addition to their editors, one associates <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Origin</i> with Olson, </span><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Blackburn</span></st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;"> and Zukofsky, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Black
Mountain Review </i>with Creeley, Duncan and again Olson. One associates <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Caterpillar </i>and <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Sulfur</i> with David Antin, Jerome Rothenberg, Jackson Mac Low, Robert
Kelly, Pierre Joris, Michael Palmer and Charles Bernstein. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">HOW(ever)</i> proved decisive in the renaissance of interest in Lorine
Niedecker. But after nine issues, one associates <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i> only with its editors. And that I think is the answer to the
question that </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Jena</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> Osman posed. <span class="GramE">Though it has taken
me years to respond.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">*This was
the order as presented in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Apex&#8217;s</i>
masthead, very much a &#8220;boys first&#8221; vision of literature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">** At $12
for issues that typically weigh in at over 300 pages, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Chain</i> is also one of the great bargains in literature.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">***Not
unlike the way the Green Party helped to put George W., Dick Cheney, Donald
Rumsfeld, and John Ashcroft into their current positions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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