Spring 1986

TABLE OF CONTENTS

From The Cat Inside
William S. Burroughs

Three Poems from Gisants
Michel Deguy

Five Poems from Baudelaire Series
Michael Palmer

From Oz
Ron Silliman

Four Rondeaux
Laura Moriarty

The Marionette Theatre
Dennis Silk

Leviticus and Four Poems
Peter Cole

Eleven Memoranda on the Culture of Jazz
Hayden Carruth

Forms of Politeness
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge

Not Quite Parallel Lines
John Taggart and Bradford Graves

Two Poems
Michael McClure

From Artery (11–15)
Aaron Shurin

Chinese Crossing
Cecile Abish

Three Poems
Nathaniel Tarn

An Interview
Edmond Jabès and Jason Weiss

Two Poems
Marjorie Welish

Dominion in February
Ann Lauterbach

Masking
Barbara Tedlock

Photographs from the Navajo Pueblos
Roger Manley

The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests
Paul West

Two Poems
Saú, Translated by l Yurkievich and Cola Franzen

Motet
Theodore Enslin

The Rose Marble Table
Barbara Guest

From a Crown of Sonnets
Thomas Meyer

Five Prose Pieces: Wool Tea, Cancer, City Sundays, A Lifetime Proposition, Elegy
Coleman Dowell

A Round-Up of Some Recent Books about the Politics and Problems of Central America
Bradford Morrow

on John Ashbery
Gene Frumkin

on Robert Coover
Robert Kelly

on Leslie Scalapino
Benjamin Hollander

on Popol Vuh
Nathaniel Tarn

on Michael McClure
Peter Cole

on Ernest Matthew Mickler
Sarah Belk

on Steve Erickson and Roger Ormond
Deborah Baker

on Nathaniel Mackey
George Butterick

on David M. Guss
Dennis Tedlock