Poetry
In Conversation
ROBERT KELLY with John Yau, David Levi Strauss, and Phong Bui
On a late Saturday afternoon in August, Publisher Phong Bui and Art Editor John Yau drove up to High Falls, New York, to visit the poet and writer Robert Kelly at Consulting Editor David Levi Strauss’s library to discuss Kelly’s life and work.
what is determined disintegrates
By Alli WarrenAlli Warren was born before the turn of the century and remains extant. She is the author of the chapbooks Schema, Yoke, Hounds, Cousins, No Can Do, and with Michael Nicoloff, Bruised Dick. Mitzvah Chaps will soon publish Well-Meaning White Girl. She works in Berkeley, lives in Oakland, and co-curates The New Reading Series at 21 Grand.
from the spiritual life of replicants
By Murat Nemet-NejatMurat Nemet-Nejat's work includes the translations A Blind Cat Black and Orthodoxies (Sun & Moon Press, 1997), and Eda: An Anthology of Contemporary Turkish Poetry (Talisman Books, 2004). "The Spiritual Life of Replicants" is part six of a 250-page, seven part poem entitled The Structure of Escape. The question underlying "The Spiritual" is whether it is possible to imagine, to trace a language of death. Since consciousness (the very essence of living) is intricately bound to language, is it possible to decouple them, have them exist as independent, distinct entities?
