I find the idea that we write alone laughable, even egotistical. Poetry is a palimpsest that has been endlessly rewritten—it’s a social space we share with others.
—
Jen Bervin
Two Poems by Ronald Edward Kittell
- The Score: to Richard Stark by April Bernard
- Two Poems by Bob Holman
- Post Partum by Bradford Morrow
- Promised Land by Burt Barr
- My Bio: Notes on an American Childhood, 1949–1959 by Cookie Mueller
- Family Business by David Rattray
- Fasola: Shape-Note Folk Hymns
- Mackinaw by Felice Rosser
- The Land of Juan Rulfo by Joan Harvey
- Two Poems by Kimiko Hahn
- Peter and the Pen by Klaus Kertess
- Out of the Past by Luc Sante
- Il 4 luglio by Marguerite Feitlowitz
- That Far Away Place: A Video Documentary on the Life of Clarence Adams by Oliver Phillip Walker
- Two Poems by Ronald Edward Kittell
- Four Poems by Ruth Danon
- Four Poems by Tim Dlugos
First Proof
- Envy by Miyoshi Barosh
- North America Abstracted by Neil Jenney
- Detail of Kissing Dogs by Not Vital
- Claude’s Trees by Pierluigi Consagra
- The Colossus by Arnold Mesches
- Stack by Robert Moskowitz
- Untitled Painting by Ross Bleckner
- Untitled by Brice Marden
- Quarry I by Bryan Hunt
- Red Line by Shelley Kaplan
- After Walker Evans by Sherrie Levine
- Aspen Colorado by Christopher Makos
- Red Swans by Susan Rothenberg
- 1954 by Clyfford Still
- Training the Warhorse by Cora Cohen
- Green Figure by David Deutsch
- Casanova by David Kapp
- Untitled Painting by David Row
- Trees at the Pond by Sylvia Plimack Mangold
- Soil Cap by Terry Winters
- Dracula by Tim Rollins & KOS
- Witches Rock by Timothy H. O'Sullivan
- Four Gangsters by Vernon Fisher
- Untitled Drawing by David Salle
- Four Photographs by Wendel A. White
- Journey by David True
- Western Sky by Yolanda Shashaty
- Rushing Water IV by Deborah Kass
- Santa Cruz by Denise Green
- Harbor Fire by Donald Sultan
- My Dog Dick by Ed Rainey
- Daddy’s Girl by Eric Fischl
- The Saints by Forrest Bess
- Untitled Painting by George Condo
- Bacchus and Ariadne by Georgia Marsh
- Photograph of Michael Heizer’s Complex I, Nevada 1975 by Gianfranco Gorgoni
More
Sherrie Levine, After Walker Evans, 1981, black and white photograph, 8 × 10 inches. Courtesy of the artist.
The Candy Bar Blooz
they
seezed
hour musheen
frum the
shop
cuz we
wood rok
the candy
loose
get it
free
now we
all got the
candy bar
blooz
Big Bo & Curly
even got in
a fite
never noo
shugar was
such a
powerful
force
cood moov
mowntins
like that
Sum
people drive like
froot nats
all over
the rode
scatturd like
alfabet
soop
little vw
xke & zees
try but fale to out distance
the big trux
the belly dumps
loggers & cranes
the flatbedz
stacked with
sod
all held at bay
by the rig
its snout
arking over
the hood
sucking silt
like
ants
Originally published in
BOMB 11,
Winter 1985
Ralph Humphrey, John Jesurun, art by Amanda Means, David Salle, Julian Schnabel, Eric Fischl, Jackson Pollack, writing by Luc Sante, Kimiko Hahn, Tim Dlugos, and more.
