TALISMAN: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY POETRY AND POETICS
Issue #43 -- 2015
Contact Talisman for copies of any of the following material
Issue #42 can be found at talismanarchive2a.weebly.com
Issue #41 can be found at talismanarchive.weebly.com
Nathaniel Mackey
edited by Joseph Donahue
Poetry by Nathaniel Mackey
Essays by Maria Damon, Norman Finkelstein, Davis Need, and Adra Raine
Occupation
edited by Lisa Bourbeau
Visual work by Jennifer Arin, Lee Chapman, Janet Rodney, Melanie Hubbard
Prose by Allison Cobb, Pamela Laskin, Darlene Reddaway
Poetry by Jennifer Arin, Laura Boss, Laynie Browne, Tamra Carraher, Laura Carter, Allison Cobb, Brenda Coultas, Sara Dailey, Donna de la Perriere, Christine Deavel, Marcella Durand, Alice B. Fogel, Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., Janet Hamill, Ruth D. Handel, Pauletta Hansel, Jeanne Heuving, Marjorie Deiter Keyishian, Martha King, Pamela Laskin, Louise Levi, Bronwyn Mills, Helen Mitsios, Rusty Morrison, Jillian Mukavetz, Hoa Nguyen, Maureen Owen, Kallia Papadaki, Vanessa Place, Darlene Reddaway, Janet Rodney, Olivia Stiffler, Carole Stone, Maria Teutsch, Heather H. Thomas, Madeline Tiger, and Phyllis Wat
Translations of Svetlana Carstean (by Anca Bărbulescu), Ana Dragu (Anca Bărbulescu), Domnica Drumea (Anca Bărbulescu), Gabi Eftimie (Anca Bărbulescu), Adela Greceanu (Anca Bărbulescu), Angela Marcovici (Anca Bărbulescu), Ana Sandu (Anca Bărbulescu), Elena Vladareanu (Anca Bărbulescu); Yolanda Castaño (Jonathan Dunn and Lawrence Schimel), Kallia Papadaki (Moira Egan & Krystalli Glyniadakis), Marianna Markovna Geide (Sibelan Forester), Edda Armas (Rowena Hill), Andrea Cote-Botero (Gordon E. McNeer), Véronique Pittolo (Laura Mullen), Yaiza Martinez (Maria Ramirez), Vadim Mesyats (Darlene Reddaway), Nathalie Gassel (Pierre-Dominique Schmidt), Olga Martynova (Misha Semenov), Zoya Barzakh(Misha Semenov), Tanya Skarynkina (Misha Semenov), Olga Sulchinskaya (Misha Semenov), Evgeniya Izvarina (Misha Semenov), and Evgeniya Rits (Misha Semenov),
Poetry
Charles Borkhuis, Catullus translated by Peter Valente, Norman Fischer, W. Scott Howard, George Kalamaras, Basil King, Heller Levinson,
Daniel Morris, Riva Roller, Leonard Schwartz, and Alexander Ulanov translated by Alex Cigale
Prose
Essays and Interviews: Andrea Applebee on John Ashbery, Andrea Applebee on Lydia Davis, Burt Kimmelman on the New New England Mind, Sandy McIntosh on H.R. Hays, Daniel Morris on Andrei Codescu, Peter Valente on Antonin Artaud,
and Donald Wellman on open field poetics and the practice of autoethnography
Fiction: Mark Jacobs, "The University of Sleep"
Reviews: Thomas Fink on Charles Borkhuis and George Kalamaras on Stonehouse
PROSE
Samuel Retsov: How Do We Know: A Few Notes on Talisman
***
Contact Talisman for copies of any of the following material
Issue 50 -- 2020
Introduction: Time in Search of Language
Burt Kimmelman:Virginia Woolf et la recherche du modernisme proustienne:
Marcel Proust in La Belle Époque, the Great War, and After
The Aesthetic Era and Finding a Language for Homosexuality:
Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, Oscar Wilde, George Sylvester Viereck
Gian Lombardo: Harry Crosby, Unblotting the Sun
William Jay Barker: from Junior Birdman
Carmen Firan:New York, where are you?
***
Brane Mozetič: interview
Joel Lewis: from: Frownland: A Memoir with Music
John High: Angel in the Pocket
Daniel Morris: Calling, Being Called, and Calling Back in Tyrone Williams' c.c.
W. Scott Howard: “oblique act”: Susan Howe’s Liberties
Mark Jacobs: Mr. Tidy
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Celebrating Martha King
Martha King: excerpts from Max Turns Yellow
Don Yorty: On Reading the First Chapter of Max Turns Yellow: A Review
Cheryl J. Fish, "Unabashed," (for Martha King) and "Median"
Peter Valente: Am I Saved Yet Sister? Is It Morning?: On the work of Martha King
Kim Lyons: Inside Outside/Inside
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Reviews
Peter Valente: “Poesis of sweet disorder”: A review of Adeena Karasick’s Salomé: A Woman of Valor
W. Scott Howard:A review of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry. Ed. Jeanne Heuving and Tyrone Williams.
Rachel Cualedare: Profane Conversions: A Review of supermoon by Gillian Parrish (Singing Horse Press, 2020)
Peter Valente: “Sooner than later the end will arrive”: A Review of Andrew Zawacki’s Unsun: f/11
Peter Valente: New Aesthetics of Dissident Sexualities: A Review of An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing
by Paul B. Preciado
Peter Valente: My Daemon Brother: A Review of Evan Kennedy’s I am, am I, to trust the joy that joy is no more or less
there now than before
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Poetry
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A Festschrift for Donna de la Perrière
May-lee Chai: Interview with Donna de la Perrière
Norman Fischer: Notes on the Poetry of Donna de la Perrière
Megan Breiseth: Under the Black and Purple Skies
Joseph Donahue: The Rift Makes The Ritual: On the Poetry of Donna de la Perrière
Charles Alexander: To Dream, To Wake, To Gather, To Disperse
Tiff Dressen and Alexandra Mattraw: A string-and-cup phone to the night sky: a conversation on
Donna de la Perrière’s Works of Love & Terror
Owen Hill and Noah Ross: (Donna)&(de la Perrière)
Maxine Chernoff: Token (1)
Kevin Hatch: The Tongue is a Brush
Sheila Murphy: Implicity
Elizabeth Robinson: "First Love" and the Remodelling of Trauma
Sharon Coleman: "Who Has the Body?" Two Poetic Series by Donna de la Perrière
Joseph Lease: Real-life Poetry Top Ten, February 5, 2021: Donna de la Perrière edition
Gillian Conoly: Works of Love & Terror (and space and time and art)
***
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New Poetry
George Quasha and Susan Quasha: Genius Foci
Heller Levinson
Mary Newell
Jeffrey Kahrs
George Kalamaras
Charles Borkhuis
Maged Zaher
Jack Foley
Helen Mitsios
Norman Fischer
Issue #43 -- 2015
Contact Talisman for copies of any of the following material
Issue #42 can be found at talismanarchive2a.weebly.com
Issue #41 can be found at talismanarchive.weebly.com
Nathaniel Mackey
edited by Joseph Donahue
Poetry by Nathaniel Mackey
Essays by Maria Damon, Norman Finkelstein, Davis Need, and Adra Raine
Occupation
edited by Lisa Bourbeau
Visual work by Jennifer Arin, Lee Chapman, Janet Rodney, Melanie Hubbard
Prose by Allison Cobb, Pamela Laskin, Darlene Reddaway
Poetry by Jennifer Arin, Laura Boss, Laynie Browne, Tamra Carraher, Laura Carter, Allison Cobb, Brenda Coultas, Sara Dailey, Donna de la Perriere, Christine Deavel, Marcella Durand, Alice B. Fogel, Elizabeth T. Gray, Jr., Janet Hamill, Ruth D. Handel, Pauletta Hansel, Jeanne Heuving, Marjorie Deiter Keyishian, Martha King, Pamela Laskin, Louise Levi, Bronwyn Mills, Helen Mitsios, Rusty Morrison, Jillian Mukavetz, Hoa Nguyen, Maureen Owen, Kallia Papadaki, Vanessa Place, Darlene Reddaway, Janet Rodney, Olivia Stiffler, Carole Stone, Maria Teutsch, Heather H. Thomas, Madeline Tiger, and Phyllis Wat
Translations of Svetlana Carstean (by Anca Bărbulescu), Ana Dragu (Anca Bărbulescu), Domnica Drumea (Anca Bărbulescu), Gabi Eftimie (Anca Bărbulescu), Adela Greceanu (Anca Bărbulescu), Angela Marcovici (Anca Bărbulescu), Ana Sandu (Anca Bărbulescu), Elena Vladareanu (Anca Bărbulescu); Yolanda Castaño (Jonathan Dunn and Lawrence Schimel), Kallia Papadaki (Moira Egan & Krystalli Glyniadakis), Marianna Markovna Geide (Sibelan Forester), Edda Armas (Rowena Hill), Andrea Cote-Botero (Gordon E. McNeer), Véronique Pittolo (Laura Mullen), Yaiza Martinez (Maria Ramirez), Vadim Mesyats (Darlene Reddaway), Nathalie Gassel (Pierre-Dominique Schmidt), Olga Martynova (Misha Semenov), Zoya Barzakh(Misha Semenov), Tanya Skarynkina (Misha Semenov), Olga Sulchinskaya (Misha Semenov), Evgeniya Izvarina (Misha Semenov), and Evgeniya Rits (Misha Semenov),
Poetry
Charles Borkhuis, Catullus translated by Peter Valente, Norman Fischer, W. Scott Howard, George Kalamaras, Basil King, Heller Levinson,
Daniel Morris, Riva Roller, Leonard Schwartz, and Alexander Ulanov translated by Alex Cigale
Prose
Essays and Interviews: Andrea Applebee on John Ashbery, Andrea Applebee on Lydia Davis, Burt Kimmelman on the New New England Mind, Sandy McIntosh on H.R. Hays, Daniel Morris on Andrei Codescu, Peter Valente on Antonin Artaud,
and Donald Wellman on open field poetics and the practice of autoethnography
Fiction: Mark Jacobs, "The University of Sleep"
Reviews: Thomas Fink on Charles Borkhuis and George Kalamaras on Stonehouse
PROSE
Samuel Retsov: How Do We Know: A Few Notes on Talisman
***
Contact Talisman for copies of any of the following material
Issue 50 -- 2020
Introduction: Time in Search of Language
Burt Kimmelman:Virginia Woolf et la recherche du modernisme proustienne:
Marcel Proust in La Belle Époque, the Great War, and After
The Aesthetic Era and Finding a Language for Homosexuality:
Walter Pater, John Addington Symonds, Oscar Wilde, George Sylvester Viereck
Gian Lombardo: Harry Crosby, Unblotting the Sun
William Jay Barker: from Junior Birdman
Carmen Firan:New York, where are you?
***
Brane Mozetič: interview
Joel Lewis: from: Frownland: A Memoir with Music
John High: Angel in the Pocket
Daniel Morris: Calling, Being Called, and Calling Back in Tyrone Williams' c.c.
W. Scott Howard: “oblique act”: Susan Howe’s Liberties
Mark Jacobs: Mr. Tidy
***
Celebrating Martha King
Martha King: excerpts from Max Turns Yellow
Don Yorty: On Reading the First Chapter of Max Turns Yellow: A Review
Cheryl J. Fish, "Unabashed," (for Martha King) and "Median"
Peter Valente: Am I Saved Yet Sister? Is It Morning?: On the work of Martha King
Kim Lyons: Inside Outside/Inside
***
Reviews
Peter Valente: “Poesis of sweet disorder”: A review of Adeena Karasick’s Salomé: A Woman of Valor
W. Scott Howard:A review of Inciting Poetics: Thinking and Writing Poetry. Ed. Jeanne Heuving and Tyrone Williams.
Rachel Cualedare: Profane Conversions: A Review of supermoon by Gillian Parrish (Singing Horse Press, 2020)
Peter Valente: “Sooner than later the end will arrive”: A Review of Andrew Zawacki’s Unsun: f/11
Peter Valente: New Aesthetics of Dissident Sexualities: A Review of An Apartment on Uranus: Chronicles of the Crossing
by Paul B. Preciado
Peter Valente: My Daemon Brother: A Review of Evan Kennedy’s I am, am I, to trust the joy that joy is no more or less
there now than before
***
Poetry
***
A Festschrift for Donna de la Perrière
May-lee Chai: Interview with Donna de la Perrière
Norman Fischer: Notes on the Poetry of Donna de la Perrière
Megan Breiseth: Under the Black and Purple Skies
Joseph Donahue: The Rift Makes The Ritual: On the Poetry of Donna de la Perrière
Charles Alexander: To Dream, To Wake, To Gather, To Disperse
Tiff Dressen and Alexandra Mattraw: A string-and-cup phone to the night sky: a conversation on
Donna de la Perrière’s Works of Love & Terror
Owen Hill and Noah Ross: (Donna)&(de la Perrière)
Maxine Chernoff: Token (1)
Kevin Hatch: The Tongue is a Brush
Sheila Murphy: Implicity
Elizabeth Robinson: "First Love" and the Remodelling of Trauma
Sharon Coleman: "Who Has the Body?" Two Poetic Series by Donna de la Perrière
Joseph Lease: Real-life Poetry Top Ten, February 5, 2021: Donna de la Perrière edition
Gillian Conoly: Works of Love & Terror (and space and time and art)
***
***
New Poetry
George Quasha and Susan Quasha: Genius Foci
Heller Levinson
Mary Newell
Jeffrey Kahrs
George Kalamaras
Charles Borkhuis
Maged Zaher
Jack Foley
Helen Mitsios
Norman Fischer