Cross Words refers to cultural hybrids, trans-cultural alliances, and associations. This fascinating compendium documents—in essays, conversations, and socratic raps—the vital work poets perform when they write across borders.
Anne Waldman is the author of more than forty collections of poetry, the editor of numerous anthologies, and, for The Iovis Trilogy, the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award and the USA PEN Center Award for Poetry. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Laura E. Wright is a poet, translator, and librarian. With Anne Waldman, she co-edited Beats at Naropa (Coffee House Press, 2009).
Table des matières
Spontaneous Poetics: Australian Aboriginal Song Sticks: Allen Ginsberg
Basil Bunting: an introduction: Tom Pickard
Infiltrating the Mass Media: Romania, 1989: Andrei Codrescu
Ploughing the Clouds: Peter Lamborn Wilson
Border Zones: Lyn Hejinian, Wang Ping, Christian Ide Hintze, Ilya Kutik, Elsa Cross
Parallel Verse, Translation, the Popul Vuh: Dennis Tedlock
Hidden Female Shamanic Traditions: Barbara Tedlock
Nothing I Withhold: a Socratic Rap: Cid Corman
Geographic Distortions: Culture, Politics, Diversity: Victor Hernandez Cruz
Talking Back to Whitman: Lorenzo Thomas
Interview with Jerome Rothenberg (sidebar)
Horizons of Expectation: Samuel Delany, Karen Tei Yamashita, Nina Zivancevic
Choralizing Cultures: Eileen Myles
Hip-Hop Culture: Alexs Pate
Arabic Poetics & the International Literary Scene: Pierre Joris
The Event of the Border: Bhanu Kapil
Cultural Activism: Oliver, Joanne Kyger, Eleni Sikelianos
Put Fire on this Crazy World: an Interview with Nicole Brossard
Po/Ethics: Collom, Harryette Mullen, Daisy Zamora, David Henderson
What is the Light: Monica de la Torre
The Deluge: Contemporary Vietnamese Poetry: Linh Dinh
Love and Politics: Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov
What’s Poetry to You?: Cecilia Vicuña
Telling Stories: Hoa Nguyen, Meredith Quartermain, James Thomas Stevens
Moving Across Languages, Borders, and Cultures: Heriberto Yepez, Myung Mi Kim, C.S. Giscombe, Sherwin Bitsui
I Am Both. I Am Neither: Michelle Naka Pierce
Poemers, Translations: Sawako Nakayasu
Piercing the Walls: Margaret Randall
Savoring Death in Mexico: Alberto Ruy-Sanchez (translated by Rhonda Buchanan)
About Today: Bei Dao
Great Divides and Common Ground: Dolores Durantes & Jen Hofer
How to be an Eastern European poet in America: Ana Božicevic ´
The Question is How to Interrogate the Remains (Sidebar): Eleni Sikelianos
Words, Quotes, Questions, In and Around and All Over “THE FIELD”: Anselm Hollo
A propos de l’auteur
Anne Waldman, poet, professor, cultural activist, and co-founder, with Allen Ginsberg, of one of the most vital writing programs in the world—the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics—is the author of more than 40 collections of her own poetry and the editor of numerous anthologies including
Nice to See You (Homage to Ted Berrigan),
The Beat Book, and
Civil Disobediences: Poetics and Politics in Action. She is the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award and the USA PEN Center Award for Poetry 2012 for her monumental feminist epic
The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment. She received a Guggenheim Fellowship 2013-14 and is a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets.
Laura E. Wright is a poet, translator, and librarian; she has also worked as a classical musician and a volunteer firefighter/EMT. She has published various chapbooks and one full-length collection of poems,
Part of the Design (Meeting Eyes Bindery, 2005). With Anne Waldman, she co-edited
Beats at Naropa (Coffee House Press, 2009), a collection of talks given at Naropa University. Her translation (with Anselm Hollo) of Henri Michaux’s
La vie dans les plis (Life in the Folds) is in search of a home. From 1999-2006 she curated/co-curated (with Mark Du Charme and then Daron Mueller) the Left Hand Reading Series in Boulder. She was a co-editor, from 2001-2005, of Potato Clock Editions, the publishing arm of the School of Continuation. She also manages Lit Cal, a listserve/group that was started in 2000 by Kass Fleisher announcing literary events in the Front Range area.