Conjunctions: 21 / The Credos Issue

Fall 1993

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Found Credo
Ann Lauterbach

A Credo: Writing in My Native American Voice
Simon Ortiz

Credo
Robert Creeley

Rendezvous
Frank Chin

Writing Praxis
Kathy Acker

Writin’ Is Fightin’
Ishmael Reed

Notes for the Next Century
David Mura

Four Fidelities
Anne Waldman

Beliefs Reasonable, Unreasonable Beliefs
Gilbert Sorrentino

Credo
Victor Hernández Cruz

The Theory and Practice of Postmodernism: A Manifesto
David Antin

She and I
Robert Olen Butler

Art and Politics
William T. Vollmann

Credo
Walter Mosley

Middle River Stump Jump: A Credo
Paul West

From John’s Wife
Robert Coover

From The American Woman in the Chinese Hat
Carole Maso

Primer
Myung Mi Kim

The Second Presence
Forrest Gander

And the Stars Were Shining
John Ashbery

The Further Complexities of Intimacy
Mary Caponegro

Seven Poems
Cole Swensen

Abendmusik
Theodore Enslin

Nowhere
Joanna Scott

Heavenly Junket (with collages by the author)
Kenward Elmslie

Animals Behind Bars!
Scott Bradfield

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Ron Silliman

From The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
Janice Galloway

The Physiology of William Blake
Robert Kelly

Seven Outsiders
Jonathan Williams, Roger Manley and Guy Mendes

Two Unidentifiable Persons
Can Xue, Translated by Ronald R. Janssen and Translated by Jian Zhang

Renga
Melanie Neilson, Elaine Equi and Martine Bellen

Twelve Poems
Thomas Meyer

Description

Conjunctions: 21, The Credos Issue

Edited by Bradford Morrow, with a Credos portfolio coedited by Bradford Morrow and Quincy Troupe

Cover art: Sculptures and prepared background by Robin Winters. Photography by Kevin Noble.

What do you believe? It’s an impossible question in many ways, given that a credo is both essential and absurd. But we thought we’d ask anyhow. The fifteen narratives of belief gathered in this issue’s special portfolio are the result.