Parataxis: modernism and modern writing

Contents issues numbers 1 – 10.

Number 1, Spring 1991
Editorial and notes on contributors. 3
JOHN WILKINSON , NINE POEMS 4
DREW MILNE, 'The Function of Criticism': A polemical history 30
DAVID AYERS, 'It's a sick picture, B.J.': Imagism Regurgitated 51
DREW MILNE, Review: Utopian Tales from Weimar ed. & tr. Jack Zipes 67
SIMON JARVIS, Quality and the non-identical in J.H.Prynne's 'Aristeas, in Seven Years' 69
TONY LOPEZ , TWO POEMS 87

Number 2, Summer, 1992.
GRACE LAKE, POEMS 4
ROD MENGHAM, DOWN IN THE MOUTH 13
STEPHEN RODEFER, LISBONARIA 15
SIMON JARVIS, Review: Lambert Zuidervaart, Adorno's Aesthetic Theory 19
GORDON FINLAYSON, Review: R.Pippin, Modernism as a Philosophical Problem 22
DAVID AYERS, Review: R. Godden, Fictions of Capital 29
EDWIN MORGAN, Review: Tom Raworth, Catacoustics 34
ROD MENGHAM, Review: J.H.Prynne, Word Order 38
JOHN WILKINSON, Review: B.Catling, The Stumbling Block 42
TONY LOPEZ, Review: Peter Riley, Sea Watches 45
RICHARD KERRIDGE, Review: Tony Lopez, A Theory of Surplus Labour 48
ANDREW DUNCAN, Letter to the Editors 51
BOOKS RECEIVED 55
DREW MILNE, POEMS 56
TONY LOPEZ, POEMS 59

Number 3, Spring 1993
BRIAN CATLING, POEMS 4
MICHAEL HASLAM, POEMS 14
DREW MILNE, ‘Agoraphobia, and the embarrassment of manifestos: notes towards a community or risk’ 25
TIM WOODS, ‘Louis Zukofsky and Theodor Adorno: the ‘Negative Dialectics’ of Zukofsky’s ‘A’’ 41
N.H.REEVE & RICHARD KERRIDGE, ‘Deaf to meaning: on J.H.Prynne’s The Oval Window’ 67
DAVID AYERS, Review: of Randall Stevenson, Modernist Fiction: An Introduction 92
RANDALL STEVENSON, Review: of David Ayers, Wyndham Lewis and Western Man 95
TIM WOODS, Review: of Contemporary Poetry Meets Modern Theory, eds. A.Easthope & J. Thompson 98
ANDREW DUNCAN, Review: of John James, Dreaming flesh 100
ANDREW DUNCAN, Review: of Connie Fox, Our Lady of Laussel 105
DREW MILNE, POEM 108

Number 4, Summer 1993
JOHN WILKINSON, POEMS 4
DENISE RILEY, POEMS 14
PETER NICHOLLS, ‘Violence, Recognition, and Some Versions of Modernism’ 19
SIMON JARVIS, ‘The cost of the stumbling block’ 36
IAN HUNT, ‘An interview with Brian Catling’ 42
DREW MILNE, Review of Poets on Writing; Britain, 1970-1991, edited by Denise Riley 58
NIGEL WHEALE, ‘Colours – Ethics – Lyric, Voice: Recent Poetry by Denise Riley’ 70
STEPHEN KEANE, Review of Peter Myers, The Sound of Finnegans Wake 78
EDWIN MORGAN, Review of Wendy Mulford, The Bay of Naples 81
OUT TO LUNCH, Review of John Wilkinson, ‘Harmolodics’ 84
DAVID AYERS, ‘Ford Madox Ford, A historical note’ 87
‘LOST PRECURSORS’ — A LETTER 89
STEPHEN RODEFER, POEM 92

Number 5, Winter 1993-4
PETER RILEY, from THIS CAROL THEY BEGAN 4
SIMON SMITH, Poems: PERIODIC TABLES 10
ANTHONY BARNETT, Three Poems 12
WENDY MULFORD, Poem: OLD FLIES 15
DOUGLAS OLIVER, Poem: THE HERB 16
ALICE NOTLEY, Poem: FOLKSONGS 18
FANNY HOWE, Excerpt from RECONSTRUCTION 20
RICHARD GODDEN, ‘BLUE HINTS’ 22
JOHN WILKINSON, Poems from The Interior Planets 24
SIMON JARVIS, ‘Soteriology and Reciprocity’ 30
RACHEL POTTER, ‘Culture Vulture: the testimony of Iain Sinclair’s Downriver’ 40
DREW MILNE, ‘Torn-off receipts of the my-voice: John Wilkinson’s The Nile’ 49
J.H. PRYNNE / DREW MILNE: Some letters 56
D.S. MARRIOTT, Review: Shadow of Spirit, eds. Phillipa Berry & Andrew Wernick 63
MICHAEL HASLAM, Review of D.S. Marriott, Lative 66
ANDREW DUNCAN, Review: The Faber Book of Twentieth Century Scottish Poetry, ed. Douglas Dunn 72
OLGA TAXIDOU, Review, of Gertrude Stein, Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights, directed by Robert Wilson 79
DAVID AYERS, Review: Anthony Barnett box set 82
TONY LOPEZ, Review: Thomas A.Clark, Barry MacSweeney & Chris Torrance, The Tempers of Hazard 86
KRIS LONG, A letter relating to The Oval Window 89
BOOKS RECEIVED 91
EDWIN MORGAN, Poem 92

Number 6, Spring / Summer, 1994
IAIN SINCLAIR, ‘The Oxford Reading’ 4
OUT TO LUNCH, from ‘STACK-LOG’ 10
RICHARD MAKIN, from ‘foreword’ 12
RACHEL BLAU DuPLESSIS, ‘Draft 20: Incipit’ 14
ROSMARIE WALDROP, ‘Vigilance’ 18
MICHAEL HASLAM, ‘A Lancashire Chimaera’ 19
ALLEN FISHER, Four Poems 24
DREW MILNE/ALLEN FISHER: Exchange in process 28
D.S. MARRIOTT, ‘A Note on Olson’s Projective Prosody’ 37
CHRIS THORNHILL, ‘Michael Theunissen: Theology, Ontology, Correctivity’ 43
ANTHONY MELLORS, ‘Resistance and Representation’, Review: New British Poetries 49
JOHN WILKINSON, ‘Illyrian Places’ Review: Denise Riley, Mop Mop Georgette 58
STEPHEN KEANE, ‘The Professor was not always right: H.D. and the Freudian Un/Conscious’ 70
N.H. REEVE, ‘In One Ear And Out The Other: a further note on The Oval Window’ 76
RACHEL POTTER, ‘He’s so ugly naked’ Review: Mina Loy, Insel 80
PETER RILEY, ‘A Sounding Dome’ Review: Michael Haslam, Four Poems 83
AARON WILLIAMSON, ‘Sorceric Battery’, Review: Maggie O’Sullivan, In the House of the Shaman 86
CAROLINE BERGVALL, ‘Writing the Undone’ Review: Rachel Blau DuPlessis’ Drafts 90
LETTER from JOHAN DE WIT & BOOKS RECEIVED 94
ROBERT CREELEY, Poem: ECHO 96

Number 7, Fall 1994
ORIGINAL: Chinese Language-Poetry Group
Part I: CHE QIANZI
cup, poem 1 8
chinese box 9
contents of a song 10
a song 12
new rider and horse 13
‘cloth’ no. 2 14
pool with a loose clockwork spring 16
handle 17
late autumn in suzhou 17
pink stone green and numerals 18
H (also titled ‘if, symmetry: touchable smoothness’) 19
the scene 20
hollow rope 21
song and autobiography and
improvisation and paper ladder 22
persian rug 23
dozens of lines of characters 24
papers of readings notes 26
chair, an extract 30
paper cup 32
fictitious fish (poem sequence) 35
Part II: ZHOU YAPING
master of maize (jade rice) 42
our agriculture 48
apples and art, 25 poems 49
in public 54
art, 69 sections 62
vulgar beauty 71
story horse • red firewood (four parts) 74
dropped on the ground • the small coin 74 written characters • A and B 75
story horse • red firewood 76
parable • the track in the mountains 77
Part III: YI CUM, HONG LIU, HUANG FAN, XIAN MENG: YI CUM: A 80
hunter 80
two landscape sketches with trees 81
parable : beat the shepherd, the sheep scatter 83
HONG LIU: cross and flower 84
nude 84
light of peace 85
waltz 85
woman 86
vanishing 87
telepathy 88
love 89
HUANG FAN: jump the house (hopscotch) 90
games up and down the icy slope 90
snow scene 91
recollection 92
indicator 93
Xian Meng: a morning to love flowers 94
walking the horse in the shade of a tree 95
Part IV: manifesto & other remarks
original: manifesto of spring 1988 98
letter to j.h. prynne (Zhou Yaping) 100
impoverished poetry (Che Qianzi) 102
shadow (Zhou Yaping) 104
a critical sketch on ‘story horse : red firewood’ (Yi Cun) 111
some remarks by the poet on a white bird in winter (Yi Cun) 113
poetry’s new shore: language (Huang Fan) 115
original poets 117
note on the translations (Jeff Twitchell) 119
afterword (J.H. Prynne) 121

Number 8 / 9, 1996 (Double issue)
Number 8:
MARJORIE WELISH, Poems 4
LYNNE TILLMAN, Profane 32 9
STEPHEN RODEFER, Arabesque at Bar 10
NORMA COLE, from ‘MOIRA’ 23
FANNY HOWE, Five Road Poems 26
LYN HEJINIAN & LESLIE SCALAPINO, from SIGHT’ 28
LISA ROBERTSON, Debbie’s Folly 36
TIM WOODS, Allen Fisher’s Place Project and the ‘Spatial Turn’ 39
ALLEN FISHER / DREW MILNE, Exchange in process, part 2 47
JOHN WILKINSON, The Metastases of Poetry 49
VICKY LEBEAU, Psycho-politics: As if 56
RACHEL BLAU DUPLESSIS, Knowing in the Real World: 63 review: Denise Riley, Mop Mop Georgette
ANDREW DUNCAN, Isig ond utfus 70 review: Susan Howe, The Europe of Trusts
ESTHER LESLIE, Askant Visions 75 review: Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy
OUT TO LUNCH, Terrible Visions: the Ideal on the Skids 78 review: The Violent Muse
MARK CURRIE, Between the Sheets 82 review: John Cayley, Under It All
MILES CHAMPION, Apollinaire (w/beard) 85 review: Ted Berrigan, Selected Poems
KADIATU KANNEH, Routes and Roots 88 review: Paul Gilroy, The Black Atlantic
Letters: Robert Hampson 90 Johannes die Witz 93
PETER PHILPOTT, from UTTERS 94
Number 9
ANDREW DUNCAN, Services (Polyptych) 95
CHARLES BERNSTEIN, Poems 103
OUT TO LUNCH, Pop Poems for 1993 105
RALPH HAWKINS, Helen Whose Name I’ve Changed 110
AARON WILLIAMSON, Poem 114
PETER MANSON, From an abandoned adaptation 116
PETER FINCH, Conran’s Blodeuwedd Translated 117
MILES CHAMPION, Recognition 118
SCOTT THURSTON, Poems 120
KESTON SUTHERLAND, from I AM SECOND 122
SHIELA E. MURPHY, She occupies her partially repaired house 124
STEPHEN RODEFER, Titular 125
ANTHONY BARNETT, Poems 126
PETER RUSSELL, Four glosses from QUINTILIUS 128
PETER LARKIN, To Edge; from Three Conformities of Forest 134
PETER LARKIN, Postface in Paratext 140
SIMON JARVIS, Tombeau 144
J.H. PRYNNE, A letter to Allen Fisher (1985) 153
D.S. MARRIOTT, Contemporary British Poetry and Resistance: Reading J.H. Prynne 159
ANTHONY MELLORS, The Spirit of Poetry: Heidegger, Trakl, Derrida and Prynne 175
JOHN WILKINSON, Counterfactual Prynne:
An Approach to Not-You 190
ALAN MARSHALL, The Two Poetries and the Concept of Risk 203
DREW MILNE, A brief response: at the risk of being misunderstood 213
PETER LARKIN, review: Michael Haslam, A Whole Bauble 216
TONY LOPEZ, review: Morning Star Publications 221
RICHARD MAKIN, review, James / Milne, How Peace Came 226
SIMON PERRIL, review: Ben Watson, Frank Zappa 228
PETER FAULKNER, review: C. Butler, Early Modernism 231
PETER BOXALL, review: Nolan, James Joyce and Nationalism 233
OLGA TAXIDOU, review: Handke / Lepage (Edinburgh Festival) 236
ALAN MUNTON, review: Jacqueline Rose, Why War? 239
JOHN WILKINSON, from SARN HELEN 242