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nception of american poetry whatever that may mean is instantly made more complex and rich by a consideration not only of pound s stein s as the two central figures in my view of american modernist poetry respective exiles on their own poetics but how their self conceptions as citizens of the world transformed the very basic assumptions of what it means to be an innovative american poet moving forward in time many of the most important beautiful american achievements of the last 50 odd years from spicer s channeling of lorca to eshleman s realization of vallejo cesaire among others to olson s explorations of the mayan to rosmarie waldrop s rendering of jabes to rothenberg s absolutely essential anthology projects have likewise completely re conceptualized and re considered the most basic notions of national and innovative traditions at the most fundamental level i conceive of fascicle as an educational and inspirational venue for myself as a poet and reader my own more or less official poetic education seemed to pass over notions of not only global but also local conceptions of poetry for a rather uninspiring institutional orthodoxy of self containment and self marginalization fascicle is hopefully one of many venues that endeavor a richer stance towards the poetic there are numerous reasons why i think this is the strongest issue we ve managed thus far foremost perhaps is the first translation into english of the chilean modernist vicente huidobro s major long poem sky tremor brilliantly realized by tony frazer among other significant archival material the first two publications credited to gertrude stein the first co authored by leon m solomons who reputedly is the sole writer of the piece though the findings were the result of experiments co conducted with stein both from psychological review in the laste 1890s on motor automatism a side note these two pieces have enjoyed an increase in critical attention from friedrich kittler priscilla wald stephen meyer and others but have remained out of print and unavailable for decades jasminlive selections from two books by the woefully overlooked 1920s innovator and publisher harry crosby as well as dh lawrence s introduction to one of those selections the collective manifesto poetry is vertical from eugene jolas transition magazine published in the 1930s signed by jolas beckett arp mcgreevey others a further installment from edna sarah beardsley s mysterious compelling and rigorous the word a philosophy of words published in 1958 and new translations of catullus oliverio girondo juan sánchez peláez jean paulhan among others additionally fascicle is lucky to feature a series of beautiful translations from the chinese by ken chen another major feature of this issue is the presence of two superbly edited and conceptualized portfolios of recent live sex chat work from taiwan and eritrea edited by shin yu pai and charles cantalupo respectively both of these portfolios offer readers a generous view of sites of poetic energy and expression that have as of yet not received a great deal of attention at least in my part of town finally this issue also features new poems and translations as well as essays and interviews some of the highlights include sex a chapbook by allyssa wolf author of vaudeville one of the most exciting poetry debuts of the aughts new poetry from stephen rodefer rachel blau duplessis eleni sikelianos kent johnson elizabeth robinson peter o leary robert kelly tyrone williams clayton eshleman kate greenstreet cs giscombe deborah meadows and many others also featured in this issue are new work by alexei parshchikov tim van dyke matthew goulish and a haunting and inventive one act play by joshua marie wilkinson as well as wilkinson s interview of the exciting prose writer danielle dutton you would also be remiss to not read van dyke s fascinating illuminating and free wheeling interview with jake berry author of bambu drezi among other works among the new essays featured in this issue are david rosenberg s compelling and most likely controversial essay on the authentic poet in the late 20th century focused upon three intensely beloved and or disputed figures ted berrigan bpnichol and araki yasusada also discussed provocatively at length is the sainted george oppen whose work and person come alive in kevin killian s talk i m going to take a few months off from fascicle related work but by late spring early summer we ll again be welcoming submissions of poetry and especially translations essays and other genred work you can send submissions or queries to fascicle be warned we get quite a few submissions and my schedule can be sporadic so it will likely be a matter of months until you hear a response open talk most of you know the entire career of george oppen better than i know my own name but for the newbies among you i ll try to sketch out his life in four parts he was born in 1908 in new rochelle like the dick van dyke show but ten years later his family a wealthy jewish family came here to california in college oppen met mary colby a gentile beauty from a lower class family in oregon and the two of them abandoned school and hitch hiked to new york then they came back and tried to settle into the high livejasmin society of san francisco but they couldn t on a later trip to new york they joined the avant garde circles of louis zukofsky william carlos williams and charles reznikoff by the early 30s the objectivists were established as a school but after writing one book discrete series oppen decided to abandon poetry and pursue political activism instead the second phase of his life includes membership in the communist party being drafted by the army and serving overseas during world war ii the birth of a daughter linda in 1950 hounded by mccarthy s secret police the oppens left this country for mexico city where george worked as a furniture maker and truck driver etc in 1958 they returned to new york whereupon oppen began to write again the third phase includes writing six books and winning a pulitzer prize and becoming famous and giving many interviews and moving to san francisco in 1969 during this time mary oppen assumes her rightful place as george s other half you have to read between the lines in a lot of the supplementary material but it s clear that if you wanted to meet george oppen during this time you had to be vetted by mary many interviewers seem to have submitted to this protocol so there are a number of articles called an interview with george and mary oppen even though mary s credentials must have seemed of the whitmanic sort i was the woman i suffered i was there the fourth phase the tragic one begins with the diagnosis of alzheimer s disease and ends with george s death in 1984 each of these phases of oppen s life has a special and distinct interest for a guy like me because each of them has its own glamor and its own foreboding i hope my queer reading of oppen offends none of his old friends and family please understand that i am trying to find a foothold in his great shadows after the initial shock your heads will start to nod as if on their own accord and your mouths will open and say yes kevin you are right and no one has ever seen this before but in the meantime forgive my clumsy lack of tact i propose to work the malentendu of jacques lacan the tragic misunderstanding between intention and interpretation which lacan pioneered in his ecrits written at the same time oppen began his poetic career style is the man wrote lacan to whom one is speaking 2 i misconstrue oppen s equation of heterosexual monogamy with living opposing it through a thin veil of viral meninges my agency gives answer to the questions posed by the writing i am his family now lacan a family beleaguered by its own models has been caught in the imaginary impasse of sexual polarization involving cultural patterns mores the arts rebelling and thought i start with the holes in oppen s poem solution there is no piece missing the puzzle the puzzle assembled at last the cultural fad artifact of the late modern age that first swept france and england in the wake of the first world war 1919 an emblem for an age where confusion and determination to reassemble invented the perfect reflection of the soul s own struggle it s showing off to assemble it in the box lid something like doing a crossword puzzle in ink but that s part of oppen s bravura he is among other things a handy man a mensch good with tools anyway all of us assemble our puzzles without reference to the box lid in the sense that the picture we are assembling is invisible to us until the very last moment then we are left with extra pieces or whatever or we find that the puzzle we thought we were working on is not the picture on the front of the box etc the puzzle showing a green hillside a house a barn the sentimental landscapes you see on most box lids the barn and man and wife and children all of it polychrome lucid this matches the general pattern of rhetoric about the oppen s own home life in which only a few important figures make themselves felt in the landscape a man a wife a little girl though it is odd that all these human figures are referred to as it instead of the more natural them a barn and man and wife and children all of them polychrome lucid and also the specificity of the plural children jars a little bit when you think that after all george and mary had only the one daughter linda isn t the disparity hinting that no all was not picture perfect in the oppen s domestic life shouldn t they have had more children instead of the abortions mary later reveals in her memoir meaning a life despite how one feels about abortion there is something kind of murky about it something in opposition to the lucid normative family solved in this poem polychrome and you will remember polychrome from the oz books too the kind of repellently flighty fairy dorothy gets so enchanted by you don t find creatures like polly in kansas do you polychrome lucid and backed by the blue sky backed in the sense of supported by moral assistance or substantiated nature connives and supports the family unit without its assistance the figures would assume rather different shapes perhaps more sinister ones lucid suffused with light backed by the blue sky translucent lucid as in sane having full use of one s faculties lucid intelligible easily read okay that s the picture the family now the poem shows the jigsaw of cracks and the salient part leaps up yes the puzzle is filled with cracks a jigsaw after all is a powerful carving tool its knife edge infinitely sharp and painful used to mutilate the recalcitrant body of the text in this case the lucid picture the jigsaw of cracks suggesting the violence with which the oppositions are defined and maintained within mainstream culture compare with auden the crack in the teacup that looks all the way down to the pit of hell i e i cite auden as the gay modernist who s always going on and on comparing bourgeois family life with hell this jigsaw of cracks crazes the landscape the poem tells us but there is no gap why not if we were to really look at our 3 d world would we see and recognize and read the cracks in our bourgeois solidity and realize the jigsaw as its most accurate representation why no gap the opposition between the lucid sane and the crazed the crushed the demolished the stunned of course there s the hint of the craze in there too the fad in the sense that the jigsaw puzzle makes the landscape the family popular in an exaggerated and often transient enthusiasm jigsaw modernity makes landscape into fashion the gap that there is none of is the actual edged hole the missing orifice or as we read it inside the flat world of the jigsaw puzzle the orifice that is solidly filled there is no longer an actual edged hole the triumph of materiality over lack or the continuous repression of the genital despite the cracks there is no actual edged hole the poem is turning into a series of no s but these no s oddly become positive and reassuring entities these little words each one hammering home another reason why the speaker or reader should not be anxious nowhere the wooden texture of the table top glares out of scale in the picture because of this emphasis on reassurance the glare becomes the most important thing in the poem it s not there but it might have been what s so bad about seeing part of a table top and this is the poem of a man who made tables for a living and did not hesitate to point out the christology involved in hiring a jewish carpenter so how does the table top frighten well it glares like a monster or an angry human or the heat of the sun and it s out of scale hence it shows up the landscape and its figures as having been a construction a miniaturization somehow a falsification of the realities of existence but at the same time this sight the ghastliness of it is nowhere thanks to the successful solution of the puzzle the success of its maker we may also think of the seance of table tapping there is a horror involved in the table top in that it has an underside like the mind like the narrow membrane between life and death nowhere the wooden texture of the table top sordid as cellars as bare foundations the sordidity of the cellar is linked inevitably to the concept of the unconscious the sordid drives the sex and death drives that have created the house barn man wife children the bare foundations the rag and bone shop of the heart the it s like a horror movie what happened in the cellar it is not for the eye that s for sure it is the glimpse into hell it is the genital it is the actual edged hole it may not be seen it is the unspeakable and it must be covered in fact i think of it as the homosexual there is no piece missing the puzzle is complete now in its red and green and brown lacan taking up the ideas of melanie klein would argue that the puzzle is not complete that the body does not exist except as a mere pile of parts or pieces a fragmented and thus violent body the solution provides a veneer of identity yet as catherine clement insists identity is a mere outer skin that constantly distorts one s relations to others 3 and so it is with the poem a fixed discrete entity that nevertheless leaks with sloppy messy juices the poem says but since it is composed of words parts it creates its own desire for that which it does not have or want the poem lacks meaning and reader and slithers across the earth to find both or either in this case it found me billions of students all over the world got their first a thanks to the essaypro service our professionals are here to help you with your essay essaypro always ready to handle students write my essay for me write my essay or write an essay for me requests essaypro is a place where any student can pay for an essay and get best quality paper in no time recent posts the romantic glamor listen to mary the 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