A cross-section of small press publications from France
guest edited by Norma Cole

2001 • 312 pp. • 6" x 9" • $12.00
ISSN: 1532-5539

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Contrairment à ce que son nom peut laisser penser, cette nouvelle revue est 100 % anglo-saxonne. Elle inaugure son premier numéro avec un << cahier-photos de covertures >> de quelques revues françaises de poésie, disparues ou toujours vivantes. French Mags, où l’on retrouve l’in-plano, Change, Banana Split, zuk, Vendredi 13, Tartine, Skôria, Nioques, Siècle à mains, détail, fig., Fin, Java, la Revue de littérature générale, If et...Action Poétique. L’ombre fertile de Claude Royet-Journoud semble planer sur les choix faits par nos amis d’outre atlantique. Suivent cent quatre-vingts pages de poèmes pour une quarantaine d’auteurs américains. Une véritable anthologie instantanée. Bravo. << We were taught not to be empirical >>, as Elizabeth Treadwell said!

—Action Poétique 166 (Spring 2002)

Table of Contents

Covers & title pages from publications from France edited by Norma Cole

Poetry guest edited by Leslie Scalapino

P. Inman
Miles Champion
Pierre Joris
Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge
Rod Smith
Lyn Hejinian and Leslie Scalapino
Ted Pearson
Heather Fuller
Jason Ellrott
Susan Bee and Charles Bernstein
Fanny Howe

Poetry edited by E. Tracy Grinnell and Peter Neufeld

Giovanni Singleton, Boxes
Mary Burger, Thin Straw That I Suck Life Through—episodes 18-21
Patrick Durgin, A Mojority in the House, Improovisations Frumth, On A Lark About Your Sentence
Avery Burns, Figure 39, Figure 39a, Figure 19, Figure 19a, Figure 31, Figure 31a
Catherine Wagner, A Box For Zachary, A Box For Lincoln, A Box For Connie S., A Box For Martin,
............. A Box For Donald
George Albon, The Exquisite Oscillations
Andrew Levy, from Paper Head Last Lyrics
Jean Day, from Romantic Fragments
Elizabeth Treadwell, Mayvonne Quilty, The Lions/The Scenes
Standard Schaefer, from Nova Suite
Lytle Shaw, On Jeff Wall’s Wall, Wilhelm Meister
Jocelyn Saidenberg, other grounds
Rick Snyder, Passive Passage, Liner Notes
Elizabeth Robinson, Calliope
Jackson Mac Low, She Has Plenty Today (Stein 41), Martha Was Certainly Thinking Together (Stein 75)
Will Alexander, from The Sri Lankan Loxodrome
Andrew Joron, Communication With Drowned Souls, What Spills Spells
Susan Gevirtz, Hyphen’s Hyphen, Songs for Song
Joseph Noble, from an ives set
Scott Inguito, 31
Edmund Berrigan, Subverting The Eye Gunk, I Pity The Mud, Vino De Milo, Why Men Confess
Harryette Mullen, The Anthropic Principle, Souvenir from Anywhere
Emily Grossman, from Diary
Jono Schneider, What it is to “Seem”
Laynie Browne, Lunations
Noah DeLissovoy, Notes for the Imagination 5
Elizabeth Willis, Seven Poems

Essays, Notes, Talks

Elizabeth Treadwell, possibly or Colleen Maddingill & the history of error
George Albon, Be Very Careful of I Want to Be Told: Gertrude Stein as Teacher
Noah Delissovoy, Notes for the Imagination 4
Pamela Lu, Notes
Mary Burger, We Will Construct A Map of the World According to Some Specific But Arbitrary Conventions: A Publishers Recourse

REVIEWS
Susan Gevirtz, Belief’s Afterimage—Three new books by Barbara Guest
Andrew Joron, The Crisis of the Crystal—Clark Coolidge’s Crystal Text
Elizabeth Robinson, on Spectral Angel by Gale Nelson, Anatomies by Dan Featherson,
........... and The Book of Tendons by Eleni Sikelianos
Brian Strang, on Demoncracy Boulevard by Kit Robinson
Joseph Noble, A Language of the City—on two poems by George Oppen