The Poetry Project

#91 — May 1982

Editor: Greg Masters

Book Reviews:

  • The Postmoderns: The New American Poetry Revised edited by Donald Allen and George F. Butterick; reviewed by Gary Lenhart
  • The Women Poets of China translated and edited by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung; reviewed by Bernadette Mayer
  • Last Nights of Paris by Philippe Soupault, translated by William Carlos Williams; reviewed by Carl Solomon
  • Plutonian Ode and Other Poems, 1977-1980 by Allen Ginsberg; reviewed by Tom Weigel
  • The Morning of the Poem by James Schuyler; reviewed by Geoffrey Young
  • Waltzing Matilda by Alice Notley; reviewed by Norman Fischer
  • Dabble: Poems, 1966-1980 by John Godfrey; reviewed by Jim Brodey

Art Reviews:

  • “Exhibitions of Paintings” by Milton Resnick; reviewed by Louise Hamlin
  • ”1980/The Last Works” by Philip Guston; reviewed by Michael Scholnick

Poems:

  • “Sleep Gummed Eyes” by James Schuyler
  • “High Plains Drifting”, “Tend”, “Paranthesis” and “On The Phone” by Anselm Hollo
  • “Small Confession” by William Corbett
  • “‘Ukranian’ Joke” by Reed Bye
  • “On A Stream” by Michael Brownstein
  • “Why I Can’t Come To Your Poetry Reading” by Jana Harris
  • “A b u n d a n c e” by Paul Violi
  • “Summer Vacation” by Bernadette Mayer
  • “Confession” by Kenneth King
  • “In The Night” by Bob Holman and Elizabeth Murray
  • “The Death of Bop” by Tom Clark
  • “Mixed Gift” by Shelley Kraut and Rudy Burckhardt
  • “Untitled” and “City Seasons” by Edwin Denby
  • “Untitled” by Michael Scholnick
  • “Life on the Bun” by Greg Masters
  • “Commentary” by Bob Rosenthal
  • “Port of Authority” by Charles and Paula North
  • “No Way” by Robert Creeley

Also:

  • readings
  • announcements
  • books and magazines received
  • recommendations

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