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<p class=MsoNormal align=center style='margin-bottom:12.0pt;text-align:center'><span style='color:black'><img height="308" id="_x0000_i1025" src="https://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/images/lh5.googleusercontent.com/proxy/kABGVvvGNwCc7_tlQujqf9l9olAr480IPzEh4rgpR3L2gIR2HsVfIGTNmhoR_ePrNjscC6-DfQpL3f6DoIpkMs4%3Ds0-d" width="421"><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The new issue of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://damnthecaesars.org/"><span style='color:black'>Damn the Caesars</span></a>, </i>Richard Owens&#8217; magazine out of </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Buffalo</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>,<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'> </i>technically vol. III, is worth reading, even if it also is troubling in some old familiar ways. Owens knows that the editorial positioning of content in a journal is, in and of itself, <span class=GramE>a syntax</span>, an exposition, an argument. He is masterful at this, indeed one of very best since, say, Clayton Eshleman in knowing what to put where. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>DtheC</span></i></span><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>starts off with a longish poem &#8211; a single 327-line stanza, the lines themselves stretching most of the way across the page &#8211; by Thomas Meyer. &#8220;The Magician&#8217;s Assistant&#8221; is so atypical of Meyer&#8217;s mature work that it is by definition a major publication. I can report also that it&#8217;s a terrific poem, dense, fresh, surprising, <span class=GramE>full</span> of wit, a great read. It more than justifies the $10 price of the magazine. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Meyer piece starts off the opening section of the journal, containing also work by Steve McCaffery, Karen Mac <span class=SpellE>Cormack</span> &amp; Dale Smith. All are given a substantial space to work with &#8211; excluding one Korean feature, the journal gives each contributor an average of 8.5 pages, and everyone seems to have taken advantage of this by sending in their very best work. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The Korean feature is the volume&#8217;s second section, a selection of five major contemporary poets &#8211; <span class=SpellE>Ko</span> Un, Kim <span class=SpellE>Seung-Hui</span>, </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Ynhui</span></span></st1:PlaceName><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Park</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, <span class=GramE>Lee</span> <span class=SpellE>Si</span>-Young &amp; <span class=SpellE>Chonggi</span> <span class=SpellE>Mah</span> &#8211; between the ages of 55 &amp; 77. <span class=SpellE>Ko</span> Un is of course world famous &amp; two of the others have significant </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>U.S.</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> connections (<span class=SpellE>Chonggi</span> <span class=SpellE>Mah</span>, having been an M.D. in </span><st1:City><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Toledo</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, lives part of the year in </span><st1:State><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Florida</span></st1:place></st1:State><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>). The English versions, by Brother Anthony of <span class=SpellE>Taizé</span> with the help of three native speakers, are first rate. Everything here reads like poetry &amp; can be judged on its own merits, rather than taken as an approximation. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The third section again contains the poetry of four English-speaking poets &#8211; the late Bill Griffiths (who must have died while this was in press), Stan Mir, Peter Finch &amp; Thom Donovan. The selection by </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Griffiths</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, a long untitled poem in 22 parts and a short essay on David Jones&#8217; inscriptions, are quite wonderful. We&#8217;ve never had anyone quite like </span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Griffiths</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> in the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>US</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, a one-time Hells Angel with a Ph.D., a terrific ear &amp; great love for detail. <o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The fourth section consists of a 20-page selection of poetry by <span class=SpellE>Andrzej</span> Bursa, a brilliant Polish poet who died of congenital heart failure at <span class=GramE>the of</span> 25 in 1957 (that is him on the left in the image above, the cover of the issue). In a five-page introductory essay, Kevin Christianson, one of the two translators, compares Bursa variously to Dorothy Parker, Phillip Larkin, <span class=SpellE>ee</span> <span class=SpellE>cummings</span> &amp; the Beats, which mostly tells you that Christianson doesn&#8217;t read contemporary poetry. The poems here, however, sound like they were written just yesterday, maybe by a sharp young poet taking workshops at St. Marks. You&#8217;re more aware here of the scrim of translation between reader &amp; &#8220;original&#8221; than with the earlier Korean materials, but on the whole these are very good.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>The last general section contains the work of six poets &#8211; <span class=SpellE>Sotère</span> <span class=SpellE>Torregian</span>, Michael Kelleher, Richard Deming, Rachel <span class=SpellE>Levitsky</span>, Jonathan Greene &amp; <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Childish"><span style='color:black'>Billy Childish</span></a>. Only <a href="http://www.billychildish.com/home.html"><span style='color:black'>Childish</span></a>, one of the key figures of anti-conceptual British <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stuckism"><span class=SpellE><span style='color:black'>Stuckism</span></span></a>, is new to me here. Since Childish appears to have published some 30 books, made many records &amp; painted over 1,000 paintings, my lack of familiarity suggests either (a) I need to get out more or (b) British work still has a terrible time with U.S. distribution. The <span class=SpellE>Torregian</span> is especially interesting, given this latter-day surrealist&#8217;s &amp; one-time NY School poet (he&#8217;s lived in </span><st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Northern California</span></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> for decades) apparent reticence toward publishing. The piece is a photocopy of a &#8220;petite&#8221; essay on Mahmoud Darwish, &#8220;The Poet as Outlaw.&#8221; As essay, the piece looks closer to notes for an otherwise impromptu talk, but it&#8217;s fascinating to watch the poet thinking, which is what this deeply annotated piece really is. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>But what really struck most in this issue is a tone that shows up almost satirically in <span class=SpellE>Childish&#8217;s</span> &#8220;I Come With Shin Bones Like Knives.&#8221; Here is its first stanza, the extra spacing part of the original:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:0in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in;line-height:150%'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;line-height:150%;font-family:Arial;color:black'>it is <span class=SpellE>wonderfull</span> being a man<br>
and<br>
washing your body down at the sink<br>
in the early morning<br>
with a flannel rough as a badgers <span class=SpellE>arse</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>And here, a page later, is the final stanza:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This is almost Archie <span class=SpellE>Bunkerville</span> in its <span class=SpellE>masculinist</span> take on the world. It does, however, serve to call attention to the rest of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Damn the Caesars </i>as a whole. And here I note that I misspoke above when I suggested that the issue led off with work by Thomas Meyer. There is, in fact, a short epigraph facing Meyer&#8217;s first page with a quote from Michael Palmer&#8217;s &#8220;The Flower of Capital&#8221;:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>Politics seems a realm of power and persuasion that would like to subsume poetry (and science, and fashion, and &#8230;<span class=GramE>)under</span> its mantle, for whatever noble or base motives. Yet if poetry is to function &#8211; politically &#8211; with integrity, it must resist such appeals as certainly as it resists others.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Editor Owens makes something of the same point in a final essay that looks at the editing process under the belligerent heading of &#8220;Take It or Leave It.&#8221; Pointedly, Owens writes:<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'>This journal is no different. It is implicated in precisely the thing it aims to critique &#8211; exclusion and the willful production of scarcity. This is, after all, a print journal, and, as a print journal, limits are immediately imposed upon the range of things it can do. <o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>So let&#8217;s take a quick peek at who is being limited through exclusion. Mostly it&#8217;s women. The current issue has 15 contributors outside of the Korean selection, of whom just two are female, 13 percent. One of the five Koreans is female. By page count, it&#8217;s even worse &#8211; Karen Mac <span class=SpellE>Cormack</span>, Kim <span class=SpellE>Seung-Hui</span> and Rachel <span class=SpellE>Levitsky</span> have just 13 pages or eight percent of the 162 pages given to content. Let me put <span class=GramE>this another</span> way: 92 percent of the content is by men.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Nor is volume III exceptional in this regard, going back through the archives, one quickly realizes that of the 101 contributors to the journal&#8217;s history (a big second volume, plus all four issues of the first) whose gender can be identified (I failed in the case of Jan Bender), only 18 have been women. Volume II, with 24 percent of its contributors being women, is the best <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Damn the Caesars </i>has ever done. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I know that this plays into Stephanie Young &amp; Juliana <span class=SpellE>Spahr&#8217;s</span> critique of a gendered poetry world (<a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/CR_532_Spahr_Young.pdf"><span style='color:black'>PDF</span></a>) in the new <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Chicago Review </i> as well as the statistical analysis (<a href="http://humanities.uchicago.edu/orgs/review/CR_532_Kotin_Baird.pdf"><span style='color:black'>PDF</span></a>) done there by <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>ChiRev </i>editors Joshua <span class=SpellE>Kotin</span> &amp; Robert P. Baird. In general, <span class=SpellE>Kotin</span> &amp; Baird focus on more institutional publications, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Nation, New Yorker, </i></span><st1:City><st1:place><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Paris</span></i></st1:place></st1:City><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> Review, Poetry, Southern Review, TriQuarterly, </span></i><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>than they do the likes of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Damn the Caesars, </i>tho Spahr &amp; Young are kind enough to include <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Silliman&#8217;s Blog </i>where they&#8217;ve done some impressive work counting noses &amp; calculating percentages. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>It&#8217;s one thing to suggest, as I have at times, that we are in the midst of a long historic transformation between the roles played by various genders and <span class=GramE>that different moments</span> and/or stages are discernible along the way, and a journal like <span class=SpellE><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>DtheC</i></span> that behaves as if the 1950s were still the present. <span class=GramE>Eight percent?</span> At least the Allen anthology 43 years ago got to nine with its four contributors out of 44. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>All of which leaves me with this very uneasy feeling &#8211; a sense that Owens&#8217; afterward may in fact be as much a prophylactic against such criticism <span class=GramE>than</span> a statement in &amp; for itself. On the one hand, this is a wonderful issue with much great stuff worth reading. On the other, I have a hard &#8211; impossible &#8211; time imagining any woman ever wanting to buy this issue &amp; I have to confess that I myself come away from it feeling very sad indeed. And I don&#8217;t think that was the editor&#8217;s intent. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Jordan Davis and Chris Edgar know the secret of editing a magazine that is ordered alphabetically. It helps to get work either from a Rae Armantrout &#8211; as they have done with the seventh issue of <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://hatpoetry.com/"><span style='color:black'>The Hat</span></a> </i>&#8211; a John Ashbery (who led off its fourth number), an Anselm Berrigan (issue number two). It&#8217;s those little touches &#8211; like knowing how best to title an untitled poem on the page &#8211; that shows their experience &amp; intelligence. The result is a journal that is always worth reading. Still, I came away with questions after reading the current issue that made me wonder just where both poetry and the institution of the magazine might be headed.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>I don&#8217;t think there is any publication more dedicated to the work</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> it presents than <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Hat. </i>Like most if not all strengths in life, this is also its weakness. It&#8217;s not simply that there is no embellishment, no art work, no commentary, no contributors&#8217; notes, <span class=GramE>a</span> minimalist design that stretches from the cover to the idea of having only author&#8217;s names in a san seraph that contrasts with the roman type of these texts on the white, white page. Even to the alphabetical ordering, <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Hat </i>lets you know in every way possible that it is precisely &#8211; and only &#8211; a repository for texts. Each issue is a small archive. Tho, oddly perhaps, the journal&#8217;s website fails to pick up on this, simply replicating the minimalism of the print edition, listing names without actually posting work. This raises the question: <b style='mso-bidi-font-weight:normal'><i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>would this work better online?</i></b> Wouldn&#8217;t these poets even ultimately become <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>more accessible</i> if this were online? The first five issues would appear to be out of print &amp; hence out of sight. Is this a way of distributing the work, or of limiting distribution? I think you can make a good argument in either direction. <o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Because of its deliberate plainness, the almost Mennonite severity of its approach, it can be hard to discern the very active editorial intelligence that is at play here. When you have 64 contributors with 99 poems and one story (or is it 98 and two if we place Anne Boyer&#8217;s prose suite on the side of narrativity, if not fiction as such?) dividing 152 pages, point of view can difficult to convey &#8211; that&#8217;s partly what is wrong with most campus literary magazines. Here <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Hat  </i>excels &#8211; it offers work that mostly falls in such a distinct range that its personality as a publication is almost instantly apparent. If you like the writing of the folks whose poetry you already know &#8211; Armantrout, Jim Behrle, Aaron Belz, Anne Boyer, Jesse Crockett, Vincent Katz, Wayne Koestenbaum, <span class=SpellE>Reb</span> Livingston, Rachel Loden, Catherine <span class=SpellE>Meng</span>, Andrew Mister, Charles North, Ken Rumble, Gary Sullivan, Chris <span class=SpellE>Vitiello</span> &#8211; you are very apt to like the writing of the people who are completely new to you. Thus Jason <span class=SpellE>Koo</span> turns out to have one of the most exciting pieces in the entire issue, tho it&#8217;s remarkable just how close <span class=SpellE>Koo&#8217;s</span> recounting of lost loves feels, in practice, to Gary Sullivan&#8217;s broad satire of a help desk call center for poets or to Rev Livingston's more collage like list of &#8220;What There Wasn&#8217;t Time to Mention.&#8221; Since there is no contributor&#8217;s note, I can&#8217;t tell you anything about <span class=SpellE>Koo</span> that you can&#8217;t find out by <a href="http://tinyurl.com/3y3z97"><span style='color:black'>googling</span></a>. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Editorially, a project like this turns on three or four decisions: who goes first? is there to be a consistent tone, and if so, what? which contributors get the most space? In general, you might characterize this tone as post-NY school, although there are exceptions like an Armantrout or a Koestenbaum, Rumble or <span class=SpellE>Vitiello</span> who don&#8217;t quite fit that picture. Still, the poet who has the most work here is Gary Lenhart so that it is his work, and the long story by Dale Herd, that ultimately define the issue.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Herd is a prose writer who, some 35 years ago, was loosely associated with the poetics of the Bolinas mesa, which brought together Creeley and Bobbie Louise Hawkins with Joanne Kyger, Richard Brautigan, and such NY School exiles as Lewis Mac Adams, Bill Berkson &amp; Tom Clark. Herd&#8217;s prose in those days was part of the broader tradition of fiction for poets that Creeley, Hawkins &amp; Brautigan all practiced, along <span style='color:black'>with the likes of Douglas <span class=SpellE>Woolf</span>, Fielding Dawson, Michael Rumaker &amp; Jim Dodge. Herd had three books (<i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'><a href="http://tinyurl.com/yvc3su"><span style='color:black'>Early Morning Wind, Diamonds </span><span style='color:black;font-style:normal'>and </span><span style='color:black'>Wild Cherries</span></a></i>) in eight years, two of them published in Bolinas, the third in </span></span><st1:City><st1:place><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Berkeley</span></st1:place></st1:City><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>, and then nothing for over a quarter century. So &#8220;The Dream&#8221; published here is a real coup &#8211; the sort of piece another journal would have put up front, rather than burying between Anne <span class=SpellE>Heide</span> and Claire Hero. It appears to have been written if not very recently, at least well after his early <span class=GramE>books,</span> and its tone is more straight forward &amp; less stylized than his earlier writing. As narrative, it&#8217;s masterfully simple, with not a single wasted move or extra word that I could see. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Lenhart has always been one of the more affable members of the </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>New York</span></st1:PlaceName><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>School</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>&#8217;s third generation and the poems here all fit comfortably into that mode. They are well written, personal and contained. <span class=GramE>Which may be why they set the tone for so much else in this issue.</span> Imagine<span class=GramE>,</span> if you will, walking into an art gallery and seeing a show by five dozen or so painters all doing smallish still <span class=SpellE>lifes</span> in the style of Wayne Thiebaud. Thiebaud himself is a wonderful painter, but dozens and dozens of such works with dozens of names attached to them would frankly be exhausting. That&#8217;s a little how I felt reading <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Hat </i>&#8211; poem after poem that I liked but very few that I actually could say I loved. <span class=GramE>Perhaps just Armantrout&#8217;s, <span class=SpellE>Koo&#8217;s</span> and a piece by Wayne Koestenbaum.</span> Koestenbaum, the archivist of beatitudes and the Bettie Page of <span class=SpellE>situationism</span>, the Cal Arts of maple syrup &amp; the Beresford of bilge, is somebody whom I&#8217;ve been reading for years without getting particularly excited. But &#8220;Possessiveness,&#8221; his piece here, which lists 29 &#8220;X of Y&#8221; constructions such as the four I&#8217;ve just deployed, strips the poem of everything but <span class=SpellE>figurativity</span> and feels like a bucket of Gatorade in ice dumped over your head after some 80 pages of warm, cozy Other. His two other pieces here are superb as well. <o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>It&#8217;s the contrast that Koestenbaum creates, coming as he does deep in the issue, makes me worry about the future of what I think of as </span><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>post-NY</span></st1:PlaceName><span  style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> </span><st1:PlaceType><span   style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>School</span></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> writing. It very much feels here as tho the tradition, to call it that, is at risk of being conquered by its own domesticity. It reminds me that Davis himself has (or has had) a project called a Million Poems, an idea that has always made me wonder. His own poems are always well-made, but the premise suggests its own problematic &#8211; who needs a million well-made poems, regardless of how friendly and bright they might be? It is of course just another way of slicing the Whitman-Zukofsky &#8220;the words are my life&#8221; longpoem approach to one&#8217;s work, but it&#8217;s a strategy that privileges containment, discreteness, segmentation. The world wrought small. It seems to me that <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Hat </i>comes very close to being an argument <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>for</i> such a poetics, while at the same time revealing precisely what the risks must be. <o:p></o:p></span></p> 

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>This is where the personality of the journal, one of its best features, is a weakness &#8211; there is no visual poetry here, and no poetry that would suggest anything on the order of a broader aesthetic perspective. You can&#8217;t imagine Lyn Hejinian here, <span class=GramE>nor Barrett Watten, nor Nate Mackey, nor</span> Will Alexander. David Antin would be as much of a shock as Richard Wilbur, Kenny Goldsmith as much as C.D. Wright. In reaching out to other aesthetics that don&#8217;t disrupt its tight frame &#8211; Armantrout, Herd, Koestenbaum, Rumble, etc. &#8211; <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>The Hat </i>ultimately feels timid. Disruption is precisely what it needs. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-top:0in;margin-right:.5in;margin-bottom:12.0pt;margin-left:.5in'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana'>May 1993 to Oct 1994 on the BBS circuit (24 countries phoning in to get the magazine on a monthly basis)<span class=GramE>,</span> then <span class=SpellE>Igal</span> <span class=SpellE>Koshevoy</span> created the first Ygdrasil Internet pages in Nov 1994&#8230;.</span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;mso-bidi-font-family:Arial;color:black'><o:p></o:p></span></p>

<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'><span class=SpellE><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'>Koshevoy</span></span><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:black'> gave up poetry a year later &amp; basically walked away from the project, with <span class=SpellE>Gerken</span> &amp; Pedro <span class=SpellE>Sena</span> taking over in December 1995, revising <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ygdrasil </i>into its current form. Since August of 2000, the Literary Archives of Canada have archived the <i style='mso-bidi-font-style:normal'>Ygdrasil </i>site.<o:p></o:p></span></p>

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<span style="font-family: Arial;">If Sylvester <span class="SpellE">Pollet&#8217;s</span> Backwoods Broadsides chaplet series represents the
epitome of pristine design and text presentation in micropublishing, Kenneth
Warren&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House Organ</i> is its polar
opposite. Even though the two publications have occasionally printed the same
people, they&#8217;re as far apart in some ways as two magazines could get. Typeset
in a san-serif font that is hard-going on the page &#8211; it works far better on a
PC screen &#8211; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House Organ </i>is copied
onto 8.5- by 11-inch sheets of white paper and then stapled in a saddle-stitch
format down the center longwise to create a journal in which the pages are 11
inches tall but only 4.25 inches wide. Sent through the mail sans envelope, my
copies arrive bent, nicked, <span class="GramE">torn</span>. Inside, </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Warren</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> appears to have a horror of white space &#8211; each page
is as crowded with text as is humanly possible. In the summer 2002 issue, the
last inch &amp; one-half of the very last page is given to Cid <span class="SpellE">Corman&#8217;s</span> contribution, wedged in as though an afterthought.
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House Organ </i>is so ugly that it can&#8217;t
possibly be an accident &#8211; </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Warren</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">
is insisting that these works have to be taken on their merits alone. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Yet in spite of all this, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House Organ </i>always has something of
interest &amp; is often a very lively publication. It is literally the only
Projectivist publication extant in the </span><st1:country-region><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">United States</span></st1:place></st1:country-region><span style="font-family: Arial;">. In addition to Corman, the summer issue, number 39,
includes work by Tom Meyer, Albert Glover, Vincent <span class="SpellE">Ferrini</span>,
Olson biographer Tom Clark, and the fourth installment of </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Warren</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">&#8217;s own tour through Charles Olson&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Selected Letters,</i> plus another ten
contributors that include Paul Pines &amp; Joseph Massey, whose first book, </span><st1:street><st1:address><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Minima St</span></i></st1:address></st1:street><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">. </span></i><span style="font-family: Arial;">I reviewed on the blog, <a href="http://writing.upenn.edu/epc/mirrors/ronsilliman.blogspot.com/2002_09_01_ronsilliman_archive.html%2381815073">September
19</a>.* In fact, short works, such as those favored by Corman &amp; Massey,
work best in this format. Here is <span class="SpellE">Corman&#8217;s</span>, entitled
&#8220;1/&#8221;:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">This
is getting you<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">nowhere</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
&#8211; exactly<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">where</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
you were heading<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">once</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
your mother fed you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">And this is Massey&#8217;s untitled
poem:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>Forefinger<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">stuck</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
in peripheral<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">make</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">a</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> moon<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">There is a way in which a
short work creates its own white space, cognitively if not physically. The self
containment that is possible in a work of this scale serves these pieces, which
stand out in the context of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House Organ</i>
more clearly than do longer pieces, even when those works are as thoroughly
composed &amp; finished as these, as in Tom Meyer&#8217;s excerpts from &#8220;Book Two&#8221;**
or Tom Clark&#8217;s poems on the September 11 attacks. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Projectivism of course was
always more interested in the poem as document of thinking more than of the
finished </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">tex</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">t &amp; <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House
Organ&#8217;s </i>summer issue shows just how far such work might go. </span><st1:city><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">Gloucester</span></st1:place></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;"> poet Vincent <span class="SpellE">Ferrini</span>
provides an annotated list of the &#8220;Authors in My Life,&#8221; interesting mostly
because they aren&#8217;t who you might think. Albert Glover&#8217;s &#8220;Sketching Greg&#8221; comes
straight out of a creative writing class project, literally, of having students
write in the presence of a &#8220;life model&#8221; &#8211; the nude male of the title &#8211; while
listening to the music of John Coltrane.*** To call Glover&#8217;s poetry slack
misses the point completely. There is simply no attempt to work toward a
polished <span class="GramE">surface,</span> it is literature as pure process:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">so</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"> let
us occupy a safe space<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class="GramE">made</span> by some invisible
wall<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span><span class="GramE">arms</span> like
little legs<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">winged</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
up behind Greg&#8217;s back<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">&nbsp;</span><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; </span>(Michele
must be looking<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span class="GramE"><span style="font-family: Arial;">right</span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;">
up his butt)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">That Glover organizes the &#8220;<span class="SpellE">g&#8221;s</span> and the terminal &#8220;k&#8221; in that first stanza is
fortuitous, perhaps the one singular moment in the three pages of the piece.
But, as Michele can see, it&#8217;s not necessarily the point of this project. What
makes this kind of poetry &#8220;difficult&#8221; or off-putting to non-fans of
Projectivism is how much it depends on the inherent value of traced thought
regardless of the quality of thinking. <span class="GramE">It&#8217;s</span> one thing
when one is reading a brilliant if undisciplined polymath like Charles Olson.
As Paul Blackburn&#8217;s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Journals</i> show,
even a fine poet does not necessarily make for great reading when writing
becomes all but dissociated from intention. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Invariably, one comes across
work in a publication like <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House Organ</i>
by people whose names are unfamiliar. Robert <span class="SpellE">Podgurski</span>
in the summer issue has a poem, &#8220;Insistence,&#8221; that feels quite uneven. Its
third stanza shines and the final one is technically competent, but I don&#8217;t get
anything from the first two beyond a couple of unusual adjectives &#8211; <span class="SpellE"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">anguine</i></span><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">, <span class="SpellE">batrachian</span> &#8211;</i>
that would compel me to reread them enough times to really get what he&#8217;s trying
to say. I </span><st1:state><st1:place><span style="font-family: Arial;">wis</span></st1:place></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">h there were some contributors&#8217; notes that would
direct me <span class="SpellE">me</span> to other publications. I&#8217;m curious, but
there&#8217;s no guarantee I&#8217;ll remember the name the next time I happen across it in
print.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So I get <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House Organ</i> &amp; am always interested,
but I seem to fight with a lot of what is going on &#8211; not, I suppose, too unlike
my relationship to certain aspects of Projectivism. <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">House Organ</i> is available from Kenneth Warren at </span><st1:address><st1:street><span style="font-family: Arial;">1250 Belle Avenue</span></st1:street><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">Lakewood</span></st1:city><span style="font-family: Arial;">, </span><st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;">Ohio</span></st1:state><span style="font-family: Arial;"> </span><st1:postalcode><span style="font-family: Arial;">44107</span></st1:postalcode></st1:address><span style="font-family: Arial;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">*Which just
happened to be his 24<sup>th</sup> <span class="GramE">birthday<span style="font-size: 12.0pt;">.</span></span></span><span style="font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">**
Suggesting of course the presence of &#8220;Book One&#8221; &amp; the possibility of
others. Is there a new Tom Meyer long poem in the works?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 10.0pt;">*** I
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wasn&#8217;t so uncommon in the 1960s.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<li><a href='http://ronsillimanbibliography.blogspot.com/'>Silliman's Bibliography</a></li>
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<li><a href='http://eclipsearchive.org/projects/TOTTELS/'>Tottel's</a></li>
<li><a href='http://twitter.com/ronsilliman'>Twitter</a></li>
<li><a href='http://www.ubu.com/contemp/silliman/index.html'>Ubuweb</a></li>
<li><a href='https://library.ucsd.edu/speccoll/findingaids/mss0075.html'>UC San Diego Archives</a></li>
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<span style="font-weight: bold;">MEMOIRS &amp; COLLABORATIONS</span><br /><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Leningrad-American-Writers-Soviet-Union/dp/1562790056">Leningrad</a><br /><a href="http://www.thegrandpiano.org/">The Grand Piano</a><br /><a href="https://www.saltpublishing.com/products/under-albany-9781844710515">Under Albany</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">CRITICISM</span><br /><a href="http://www.spdbooks.org/Producte/0937804207/the-new-sentence.aspx">The New Sentence</a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">ANTHOLOGY</span><br /><a href="https://secure.touchnet.com/C22921_ustores/web/classic/product_detail.jsp?PRODUCTID=327&SINGLESTORE=true">In The American Tree</a><br /><br /><br /><br />
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