Aufgabe #9

Featuring Polish poetry & poetics in translation
guest edited by Mark Tardi
& an A Tonalist Set guest edited by Laura Moriarty

2010 • 408 pp. • 6" x 9" • $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-933959-15-3 • ISSN: 1532-5539

Original art by Hannah Barrett

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aufgabe 9 events

Monday, April 19, 2010; 7:00 pm
THE SALT OF STRUCTURE:
A Celebration of Miron Białoszewski & Launch of Aufgabe #9
Reading with Joan Retallack, Peter Gizzi, Lisa Jarnot, Edwin Frank, Ewa Chruściel, Corina Copp,
Paolo Javier, Eugene Ostashevsky, and Joanna Niżyńska
Sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute
St Marks Poetry Project: 131 E. 10th Street; New York, NY 10003
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010; 10:00 pm
Film Screening: SEVERAL PEOPLE, LITTLE TIME
Acclaimed film on Miron Białoszewski and his blind secretary starring Krystyna Janda & Andrzej Hudziak
Sponsored by the Polish Cultural Institute
Nuyorican Poets Cafe: 236 E. 3rd St; New York, NY 10009
Admission: $8; $7 students/seniors; Proceeds benefit Aufgabe

Table of Contents

Feature | Polish poetry & poetics guest edited by Mark Tardi

Translations from the Polish by Kacper Bartczak, Miłosz Biedrzycki, Andrzej Busza, Bogdan Czaykowski, Rick Hiles, Katarzyna Jakubiak, Monica Kocot, Gabriel Gudding, Ela Kotowska, Rod Mengham, Katarzyna Szuster, Mark Tardi, Alissa Valles, Frank L. Vigoda, and Ilona Zineczko

Mark Tardi, The Salt of Structure: Miron Białoszewski & the Future of Innovative Polish Poetry

Gallery I: The Salt of Structure
Miron Białoszewski, Five Poems
Andrzej Sosnowski, Five Poems
Przemysław Owczarek, Four Poems
Ewa Chruściel, Five Poems
Kacper Bartczak, The Polish Language in Extreme and Intermediary States of “Siulpet”: Miron Białoszewski’s Erroneous Emotions

Gallery II: Erroneous Emotions
Miron Białoszewski, Seven Poems
Justyna Bargielska, Six Poems
Miłosz Biedrzycki, Three Poems
Katarzyna Szuster, Five Poems

Gallery III: Were & Whir
Miron Białoszewski, Nine Poems
Monika Mosiewicz, Five Poems
Kacper Bartczak, Four Poems
Aneta Kamińska, Eight Poems

Poetry | A Tonalist Set

Laura Moriarty, Note: A Tonalist Set
Andrew Joron, Thunk
Patrick Durgin, More Familiars
Norma Cole, from More Facts
Rob Halpern, Nonsound, The Musical
Brent Cunningham, from Journey to the Sun
Alan Halsey, The Voyage of the Lizopard
Tyrone Williams, See Above
Scott Inguito, The Same Complaint
Standard Schaefer, Repetition as War By Identity
Taylor Brady, A Ruse of Rule
Jocelyn Saidenberg, On Community
Myung Mi Kim, from Civil Bound
Laura Moriarty, A Tonalist Coda

Poetry

Edited by E. Tracy Grinnell, Paul Foster Johnson & Julian T. Brolaski
with contributing editors Jen Hofer & Nathalie Stephens

Anne Shaw, Bleat
Julia Bloch, Two Poems
Geoffrey Olsen, Waker Erasure
Noah Eli Gordon, from The Source
Elizabeth Zuba, Two Poems
Filip Marinovich, Petasos
Paolo Javier, from Lunatic, Act III
Dolores Dorantes and Rodrigo Flores, Intervene
............ (Jen Hofer, trans.)
Laura Elrick, from Oscillatory/A Near-Miss Sequence
C.J. Martin, Wardrobe
Rob Cook, Two Poems
Nada Gordon, Six Poems
Dustin Williamson, from Most Popular
Linnea Ogden, Three Poems
Vincent Katz, Liz Phair
Kate Schapira, from Ethel’s Dream
Martine Bellen, The Memory Group
Michel van Schendel, from A thousand paces in the garden also go around the world
............ (Nathalie Stephens, trans.)
Edric Mesmer, A Discourse on Gender in Eden
Jasmine Dreame Wagner, Champion Mill
Craig Watson, Three Poems
Tomaž Šalamun, Three Poems
............ (Michael Thomas Taren and the author, trans.)
Lee Norton, Two Poems
Ellen Baxt, Two Poems
Stefani Barber, Two Poems
Craig Cotter, Two Poems
Cal Freeman, Two Poems
Virginia Lucas, from Ah.Me.RICH.Ah: Your Exchange Value
............ (Jen Hofer and Dolores Dorantes, trans.)
Rick Snyder, Two Poems
Guy Bennett, from Self-Evident Poems
Celina Su, Two Poems
James Grinwis, Three Poems
Michael Ives, from Floaters
Stephanie Young, from Cleaning the House Workshop, or, No Initimacy Without Reciprocity
Karen Garthe, Three Poems
Cathy Eisenhower, from distance decay

Essays, notes, reviews

Edited by Julian T. Brolaski, E. Tracy Grinnell & Paul Foster Johnson

Eileen Myles, from The Inferno
Dodie Bellamy, Notes for a San Diego Reader Profile on Eileen Myles that Was Never Written
CAConrad, (Soma)tic Poetry Exercises & Resulting Poems
Craig Cotter, Notes from Awake
Ouyang Yu, shi and fei
Brenda Iijima, Animals Remake Animals—the Animal is Intra
Andy Gricevich, Roberto Harrison’s Urracá
Mina Pam Dick, Willie Monad
Michael Cross, Interview with Leslie Scalapino

Contributors’ Notes