Fall 1985

TABLE OF CONTENTS

A Paris Visit
Robert Duncan, R.  and B. Kitaj

The Basilicum in the Gryke
Jonathan Williams

After Wim Wenders’ Die Angst des Tormanns Beim Elfmeter
Barbara Einzig

 “The poem supreme, addressed to/ emptiness” (Creeley)
Gilbert Sorrentino

Elegy
Robert Kelly

 A Trace of Wings
Edwin Morgan

A Feather on the Breath of God
Paul West

 “A Minor Poet Not Conspicuously Dishonest”
Carl Rakosi

Arc 53: The Balanchine Spire
Ronald Johnson

For Bunting
Donald Davie

We Often Think of Lenin at the Clothespin Factory
Guy Davenport

Bunting in Buffalo
Eric Mottram

[Sophrosyne spring muse overhang • Memorial Day]: Basil Bunting in memoriam
Kenneth Irby

‘A Picture of Perfect Rest’
Karin Lessing

A Crystal out of Time and Space: The Only Diary
Kenneth Rexroth

“Brief Words Are Hard to Find”: Basil Bunting & Lorine Niedecker
Jenny Penberthy

From Firebird
Paul Metcalf

News for the Ear
Roy Fisher

Two Poems
Ann Lauterbach

Six Plaints and a Lament for Basil Bunting
Peter Quartermain

Writings on a Cave Wall
Coleman Dowell

Ode
Thomas Meyer

The Lightness and Dexterity of Juanito Apiñani
Bradford Morrow

The ‘Baz’
James Laughlin

Love in the Ruins
Translated by Keith Waldrop and Claude Royet-Journoud

Bunting as Teacher
Brent MacKay

Tablet XXV
Armand Schwerner

Bunting
Russell Banks

Fidelity
Stephen Rodefer

Untitled
E. Maria Makepiece

For Bunting
Joel Oppenheimer

The Treasure Hunt
John Hollander

The Barricade, a passage from The Tunnel
William H. Gass

18.4.85 Northumberland, for B. B.
Colin Simms

Just When We Believe that Everything Has Changed
Walter Abish

For Basil
Sid Chaplin

The Day the Lampshades Breathed
Ed McClanahan

Basil Bunting
William Corbett

The Leaf
Hilda Morley

Still combustible cinders …
Reno Odlin

The Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights
Barbara Guest

A Tessera for Basil Bunting’s Library
Mary de Rachewiltz

Ain’t Those the Berries: The Writings of Lorine Niedecker
George Butterick

Minimal Words
Michael Hamburger

on William Gaddis
Robert Kelly

Bunting
Cid Corman

Basil / Leaves
John Furnival

on Edmund White
Coleman Dowell

on O. V. de L. Milosz
Gerrit Lansing

A Haiku for Basil, Riving the Apples of Elysium
Douglas Chambers

on Jack Chambers
Bradford Morrow

A Flag for Bunting
Ronald Johnson

on John Hawkes
Jodi Daynard

In the Bushes
Mary Moore and Raymond Moore

Life
Robert Creeley

Spring Tide: For Basil Bunting, Spring 1900 to Spring 1985
Tom Pickard

An Epitaph
Alan Halsey

Three Poems
Omar Pound

’Bye Basil Bunting (April 17, 1985)
Tom Patterson

Una Dormienda
Michael Wade

Question and Answer Session Between Old Parties
Peyton Houston

The Mouse and the Lion
Lisa Kenner

Appreciating Present Conditions
Sam Hamill

The Voice of the Winter Poet
F. Whitney Jones

Waving His Stick
Derek Smith

From Wreay Churchyard
Richard Caddel

Light As Spider Floss
Carroll F. Terrell

Ode: Schubert Impromptu in F Minor
Simon Cutts

A Woman With Flaxen Hair in Norfolk Heard A Sequence Set to Honor Basil Bunting, No More Mourning Than the Sea
Robert Kelly

Untitled
Kenneth Cox

Letter to Jonathan Williams, 8 July 1985
Gus Blaisdell

Epitaph
Tom Callaghan

A Glimpse Into the Many Lives of the Baz
Richard Else

Words From & For Basil Bunting
John Yau

An Epitaph, Perhaps, For Beloved Baz
W.H. Ferry

A Last Poem
Gael Turnbull