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Vol. 49

Conjunctions:49

A Writers’ Aviary

Fall 2007
Edited by Bradford Morrow, with a portfolio of tributes to John Ashbery coedited by Peter Gizzi and Bradford Morrow

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Cover art: Morire de Cara al Sol, by Walton Ford, 2004. Reproduced by kind permission of the Paul Kasmin Gallery.

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Contents

Peter Orner

Birding with Lanioturdus

A Flock Descends into the Pentagonal Garden

Pan, Pan, Pan

Anne Waldman

Tears Streak the Reddest Rouge
duan zui jin si yan

Tim Dee

Vagrant Voices: Some Atlantic Crossings

Arthur Sze

After Completion

Three Poems

Merrill Gilfillan

Three Essays from the Warbler Road

From The Tinajera Notebook

Owl Puke

J’Lyn Chapman

Catalog and Brief Comments on the Archive Written and Compiled by the Ministry of Sorrow to Birds

Sandhills in Chukotka

Micaela Morrissette

Ave Maria

Rick Moody

Cardinal in a Forsythia

Eric Linsker

Five Poems

Ascending Flight, Los Angeles

Elizabeth Robinson

Crow & Robin

Time Bends

Bird Cantos

C. D. Wright

Like Something Christenberry Pictured

The Imaginary Dead Baby Seagull

Melanie Rae Thon

A Song Unbroken

Four Birds

William H. Gass

Garden

The Secret Conversing of Birds

Catherine Imbriglio

Two Intimacy Poems

Zvirbulis

John Ashbery Tribute

Photography by Richard Avedon

John Ashbery, poet, New York, September 27, 1983

Peter Gizzi, Bradford Morrow

Editors’ Note

John Ashbery

Three Early Works

Reginald Shepherd

Only in the Light of Lost Words Can We Imagine Our Rewards (Some Trees, 1956)

Peter Straub

The Oath Unbroken (The Tennis Court Oath, 1962)

Charles Bernstein

The Meandering Yangtze (Rivers and Mountains, 1966)

The Art of Curling (A Nest of Ninnies, with James Schuyler, 1969)

Marjorie Welish

The Double Dream of Spring Would Like to Make a Few Statements (The Double Dream of Spring, 1970)

Ron Silliman

Four Contexts for Three Poems (Three Poems, 1972)

A Birthday Notebook for JA (The Vermont Notebook, 1975)

I Was Reading and Rereading Ashbery's Self-Portrait for Many Years (Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror, 1975)

A Long Period of Adjustment Followed (Houseboat Days, 1977)

Ashbery's Theater (Three Plays, 1978)

What We Know as We Know It: Reading “Litany” With JA (As We Know, 1979)

Shadowboxing (Shadow Train, 1981)

Graham Foust

A Place from Which to Wave: "Just Someone You Say Hi To" (A Wave, 1984)

Eileen Myles

Energy (April Galleons, 1987)

Jed Perl

A Magically Alive Aesthetic (Reported Sightings, 1989)

Ben Lerner

The Refleciton of a Reading (Flow Chart, 1991)

Cole Swensen

Besides, of Bedouins (Hotel Lautréamont, 1992)

Marcella Durand

This Very Poem Refutes It (And the Stars Were Shining, 1994)

Christian Hawkey

I Believe I Am the Man from Nowhere (Can You Hear, Bird, 1995)

Anselm Berrigan

Like the Blistered Exterior of a Sigh (Wakefulness, 1998)

Tragi-Kitsch & Elegiac-Comix (Girls on the Run, 1999)

Besides Being Beside Ourselves (Your Name Here, 2000)

Geoffrey O’Brien

Changeable Hieroglyphics (Other Traditions, 2000, and Selected Prose, 2004)

Robert Kelly

I'm Not Sure I Meant What You Said (Chinese Whispers, 2002)

James Longenbach

Four Questions (Where Shall I Wander, 2005)

Would That a Worldly Country We Were (A Worldly Country, 2007)