CONJUNCTIONS:8

Fall 1985

Edited by Bradford Morrow

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Robert Duncan and R. B. Kitaj, A Paris Visit

Barbara Einzig, After Wim Wenders’ Die Angst des Tormanns Beim Elfmeter

Robert Kelly, Elegy

Paul West, A Feather on the Breath of God

Ronald Johnson, Arc 53: The Balanchine Spire

Guy Davenport, We Often Think of Lenin at the Clothespin Factory

Karin Lessing, ‘A Picture of Perfect Rest’

Kenneth Rexroth, A Crystal out of Time and Space: The Only Diary

Paul Metcalf, From Firebird

Ann Lauterbach, Two Poems

Coleman Dowell, Writings on a Cave Wall

Bradford Morrow, The Lightness and Dexterity of Juanito Apinani

Claude Royet-Journoud, Love in the Ruins, translated by Keith Waldrop

Armand Schwerner, Tablet XXV

Stephen Rodefer, Fidelity

John Hollander, The Treasure Hunt

William H. Gass, The Barricade, a passage from The Tunnel

Walter Abish, Just When We Believe that Everything Has Changed

Ed McClanahan, The Day the Lampshades Breathed

Hilda Morley, The Leaf

Barbara Guest, The Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights


A TRIBUTE TO BASIL BUNTING

Edited by Jonathan Williams

Gilbert Sorrentino, Edwin Morgan, Carl Rakosi, Donald Davie, Eric Mottram, Kenneth Irby, Jenny Penberthy, Roy Fisher, Peter Quartermain, Thomas Meyer, James Laughlin, Brent Mackay, Russell Banks, E. Maria Makepiece, Joel Oppenheimer, Colin Simms, Sid Chaplin, William Corbett, Reno Odlin, Mary de Rachewiltz, Michael Hamburger, Cid Corman, John Furnival, Douglas Chambers, Ronald Johnson, Raymond & Mary Moore, Robert Creeley, Tom Pickard, Alan Halsey, Omar Pound, Tom Patterson, Michael Wade, Peyton Houston, Lisa Kenner, Sam Hamill, F. Whitney Jones, Derek Smith, Richard Caddel, Carroll F. Terrell, Simon Cutts, Gus Blaisdell, Richard Else, John Yau, W. H. Ferry, Tom Callaghan, Kenneth Cox, Gael Turnbull




READINGS: Reviews and Criticism

George Butterick, Ain’t Those the Berries: The Writings of Lorine Niedecker

Robert Kelly on William Gaddis

Coleman Dowell on Edmund White

Gerrit Lansing on O.V. de L Milosz

Bradford Morrow on Jack Chambers

Jodi Daynard on John Hawkes

Brief Mentions