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A _ C O M M U N I O N _ O F _ S A I N T S A Communion of Saints takes us on a harrowing trek through denial, descent, and resurrection in the Honolulu gay community of the 1980s. This book of prose poems, each glossed with a Biblical quotation, is an extended elegy for those who frequented the bar Meg Withers tended. She tends it - and them - still in this echo chamber of voices and stories.
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T H E _ E R O T I C S _ O F _ G E O G R A P H Y
Hazel Smith, author of the creative writing text, The Writing Experiment, shows us how it's done in this spirited book of performance poems, collages, elegies, meditations, explorations of gossip, uncertain identities, bodies and the city, to say nothing of “acts of omission.” An accompanying cd-rom includes new media and performance works by Hazel Smith and Roger Dean.
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F A R O U T _ L I B R A R Y _ S O F T W A R E
The collaboration between Pam Brown (Australia) and Maged Zaher (Seattle) came about due to the absence of a poem. Maged sent Pam a submission to Jacket, of which Pam is associate editor. But Maged forgot to enclose the poem. In an effort to atone, Maged proposed a collaboration between them; this collaboration was to last for a year and a half and comprise the poems published in this chapbook. The collaboration is seamless; even Pam attests she could no longer tell whose writing was whose as she proof-read. Among the poems' subjects: change, constant change of jobs, friends, cities, and of course the software with which we mark time's passing.
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S O M E D A Y _ I ' L L _ B E _
Hwang Jiwoo's poems are built of odd juxtapositions and comparisons, like a mother's hospital crisis and “the Verona World Cup,” its happily hopping soccer ball; “the waning day, the black cow moaning inside the gate”; “Mormon missionaries [who] enter the subway like penguins”; acacias waving “their white handkerchiefs.” Whatever is metaphysical in Hwang's poems is also intensely physical, like the dingy bar alluded to in the title. Young-Jun Lee and the late Scott Swaner have performed deft and conversational translations of this provocative work.
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C O R P S E _ W A T C H I N G
In Corpse Watching, Sarith Peou offers witness to the Cambodian holocaust of the late 1970s, which he survived, in language at once dispassionate and evocative. Upwards of a quarter of all Cambodians died between 1975 and 1979: “The river is swollen / The current is strong / Corpses float by all day long.” As poet Ed Bok Lee writes in his forward to the book, “Beyond telling, in total, a personal story of devastation under Angkar, these poems serve as steadfast interpreters for a multiplicity of voices and intensely human emotions still seeping out of that nation’s deepest wounds.” Send CORPSE WATCHING to the War Criminal of Your Choice
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J O U R N A L _ I S S U E _ 1 7
Tinfish 17 is our largest, most bountiful issue yet, and includes work by R. Zamora Linmark, Shin Yu Pai, Kaia Sand, Sage U`ilani Takehiro, Tiare Picard, Afaa Michael Weaver, Ryan Oishi, Deborah Meadows, Kimo Armitage, Ann Inoshita, Jules Boykoff, Craig Perez, Clint Frakes, Jane Sprague, Paolo Javier, Truong Tran, Normie Salvador, and many others. What are some things you will find in this issue? --definitions to words like “skin,” “rock,” “bangungot,” “mynah litatur,” “Guam” Covers by Jean Pitman, centerfold by N. Trisha Lagaso Goldberg.
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L A N G U A G E _ A S _ R E S P O N S I B I L I T Y
This hand-sewn chapbook contains three parts:
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