Fall 1981

TABLE OF CONTENTS

For J. L.
Robert Creeley

A Wintry Landscape
John Hawkes

Keats at Highgate
Thom Gunn

Bottom of the Forty-Fifth
Jonathan Williams

Meeting James Laughlin
Robert Fitzgerald

The Flowing
Gary Snyder

Six Translations from Baudelaire
Richard Howard

Clearing
Octavio Paz

Blarney Spalpeen on the True Meaning of St. Patrick\'s Day
Gilbert Sorrentino

Nothing Which Celebrates Ezra Pound\'s Relationship with J.
Mary de Rachewiltz

A Rallying Point
William Jay Smith

In a Guest Book, N.Y.C.
Michael McClure

Homage to J.
Tennessee Williams

A Continental European Tribute
Eva Hesse

An Interview
Bradford Morrow and Kenneth Rexroth

About James Laughlin
Denise Levertov

Two Poems
Vittorio Sereni

A Most Magnificent Oration
Edouard Roditi

Two Poems
William Stafford

A Poem for James Laughlin
Joel Oppenheimer

Three Poems
Barbara Howes

A Statement
Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Finding a New Audience
Gerald Pollinger

Notes about Laughlin\'s Typewriter
Hayden Carruth

Poem on the Occasion of an Afternoon Walk
Josephine Miles

If Ever
Robert Penn Warren

Two Poems
Edwin Brock

A Statement
George Oppen

Looking across at the Silvretta
J.M. Edelstein

What Else
Walter Abish

Earth
Mohammed Mrabet and Translated by Paul Bowles

Cougar
William Everson

Homage to James Laughlin
Richard Eberhart

James Laughlin
Lawrence Clark Powell

An Occasion
Carl Rakosi

How Long Is the Present
David Antin

Death in the Photomaton
Mary Guggenheim

For James Laughlin: A Dedication and a Poem
Jerome Rothenberg

A Statement and Anonymous Anomalous Letters
James Purdy

My Mother Chupa\'s Song
William Goyen

Defense
Frederick Busch

Dunkard Creek
D.  and W. Faulkner

Five Poems
Cid Corman

For James Laughlin
Malcolm Cowley

James Laughlin
Peter du Sautoy

The Joy of Persephone
Clayton Eshleman

A Letter and a Poem
Walter Hamady

A Statement
George Brockway

My Sand Clan and a Tribute
Shiraishi Kazuko

Five Poems
Montri Umavijani

Compass and Set Square: The Hermetic Triumph
Carol Tinker

A Struggle for Humility
Robert Coles

Poem for JL
Eliot Weinberger

Three Afro-Ditties
Omar Pound

A Native American Folktale
Thomas Sanchez

Early Days at New Directions
Miriam Patchen

Twenty-One Ways of Loving Celestine
Martin Bax

Three Poems and a Translation
Ann Stanford

On James Laughlin
Howard Nemerov

Voids
Leonardo de Arrizabalaga y Prado

A Man of Purpose
William Targ

A Form of Intelligence
Hugh Kenner

The Inner House
Robert Bly

The Difference of James Laughlin
Donald Hall

A Checklist of the Publications of James Laughlin
John A. Harrison