1990
Edited by Bradford Morrow
Subscribe to Conjunctions here. Or to receive notifications of updates to the issue-in-progress, information on the themes of upcoming issues, and announcements when we post full texts from our forthcoming issue, join us on Facebook or follow us on Twitter.Features a book-length anthology of 33 contemporary American poets working at the cutting edge of their craft.
John Barth, The First Voyage of Somebody the Sailor
Yannick Murphy, India
Jay Cantor, Eating Disorders
John Hawkes, The Horse Killers
Lydia Davis, Lord Royston’s Tour
Diane Williams, Four Stories
Michael Ondaatje, An Interview with Catherine
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33 CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POETS:
Susan Howe, The Nonconformist’s Memorial
Norma Cole, Seven Poems
Barbara Guest, Two Poems
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, Ideal
John Ashbery, Way of Life
David Rattray, Two Poems
Ronald Johnson, Ark: The Ramparts (Arches I–XVIII)
Leslie Scalapino, Essays on the Comic Book
Janet Rodney, Echoes from the Spanish Civil War
Diane Ward, Hold It
Barbara Einzig, After Christoph Hein’s The Distant Lover
John Ash, Two Poems
Laura Moriarty, Seven Rondeaux
Michael Palmer, Letters to Zanzotto
Nathaniel Tarn, Italian Sequence Comma With Italian Words Stop One Stop
Sarah Menefee, From Over The Hill
Robert Kelly, A Baltic Tragedy
Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Page
Ann Lauterbach, Prom In Toledo Nights
Charles Bernstein, Virtual Reality
Martine Bellen, Three Poems
Marjorie Welish, Three Poems
Keith Waldrop, Variations on a Paraphrase
Phillip Foss, Geisha Mime
Bruce Andrews, Seven Poems
Forrest Gander, Eggplant and Lotus Roots
George Evans, Three Poems
Theodore Enslin, From Herself Compassionate
Charles Stein, Five Nails
Peter Gizzi, Mise en Scène
Rae Armantrout, Covers
Rosmarie Waldrop, The Attraction of the Ground
Peter Cole, One to Bet: A Jerusalem Pamphlet
William T. Vollmann, American Writing Today: A Diagnosis of the Disease
John Taggart, Fragments from Aeschylus’ Prometheos Aumenos
Paul West, No’s Knife in Yes’s Throat