Conjunctions: 42 / Cinema Lingua: Writers Respond to Film

Spring 2004

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Turnbuckle, a play
John Sayles

Don’t Even Try, Sam
William H. Gass

Seven Poems
Arielle Greenberg

Rewatching The Passenger
C. D. Wright

Two or Three Things I Know About Them
John Haskell

Anticipation of the Night
Lisa Jarnot

Two Poems
Alexander Theroux

Far and Wide My Country Stretches
William T. Vollmann

Ten Temporary Sonnets
Peter Hutton and Lyn Hejinian

The Park Near Marienbad
Frederic Tuten

Something Erotic in the Nape of the Neck [the thick cloth]
Malinda Markham

Twelve Poems
Clark Coolidge

The Shed
Brenda Coultas

Happy Film
Laird Hunt

Lapland, or Film Noir
Peter Straub

Two Poems
Elizabeth Robinson

Three Poems and Twelve Portraits
Gerard Malanga

Peter Lorre in the Afterlife
Howard Norman

Still No Still
Ann Lauterbach

Three Poems
Donald Revell

ULULU: Clown Shrapnel
Thalia Field and Bill Morrison

They Put a Spell on You
Gilbert Sorrentino

Four Poems
Peter Gizzi

The Philadelphia Story
Diane Williams

My Wife Looks Like Greta Garbo
Tan Lin

Boys’ Bodies
David Shields

Fat Man My Love
Joyce Carol Oates

Going to the Poem
Robert Kelly

The Reefs of Love
Robert Desnos and Translated by Luc Sante

Three Poems
John Yau

The Black Cat
Joanna Howard

Undercurrencies
Leighton Pierce and Sarah Riggs

Two Poems
Geoffrey O&rsquo and Brien

Cinema Nights
Maureen Howard

Three Poems
Gillian Conoley

Voice Over
Paul West

Mother, I: From a Film Script Based on Georges Bataille’s Novel Ma Mère
Chris Tysh

At the Drive-In With Reciprocal Rib
Logan Burns

In Turnaround
Joshua Furst

From The California Poem: We dream up movies, photosynthesis, Lombard & Lana Turner, & the hills are haunted by celluloid ghosts
Eleni Sikelianos

Past Time Based
Kristin Prevallet

White Screen
Rusty Morrison

A Place in the Sun
Lewis Warsh

Description

Conjunctions: 42, Cinema Lingua: Writers Respond to Film

Edited by Bradford Morrow

Cover photograph courtesy of The Granger Collection, New York.