In this Book
- A Sulfur Anthology
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
From 1981 to 2000, Sulfur magazine presented an American and international overview of innovative writing across forty-six issues, totaling some 11,000 pages and featuring over eight hundred writers and artists, including Norman O. Brown, Jorie Graham, James Hillman, Mina Loy, Ron Padgett, Octavio Paz, Ezra Pound, Adrienne Rich, Rainer Maria Rilke, and William Carlos Williams. Each issue featured a diverse offering of poetry, translations, previously unpublished archival material, visual art, essays, and reviews. Sulfur was a hotbed for critical thinking and commentary, and also provided a home for the work of unknown and younger poets. In the course of its twenty year run, Sulfur maintained a reputation as the premier publication of alternative and experimental writing. This was due in no small measure to its impressive masthead of contributing editors and correspondents: Marjorie Perloff, James Clifford, Rachel Blau DuPlessis, Keith Tuma, Allen Weiss, Jed Rasula, Charles Bernstein, Michael Palmer, Clark Coolidge, Jayne Cortez, Marjorie Welish, Jerome Rothenberg, Eliot Weinberger, managing editor Caryl Eshleman, and founding editor Clayton Eshleman.
A Sulfur Anthology offers readers an expanded view of artistic activity at the century's end. It's also a luminous document of international poetic vision. Many of the contributions have never been published outside of Sulfur, making this an indispensible collection of poetry in translation, and poetry in the world.
Publication of this book is funded by the Beatrice Fox Auerbach Foundation Fund at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- pp. xiii-xxi
- Issue 1
- from A Book of Confusions
- pp. 44-47
- Issue 2
- Issue 3
- In Blood’s Domaine
- pp. 77-78
- On Paul Celan
- pp. 81-87
- Issue 4
- Mediterráneo: a litoral
- pp. 89-91
- Issue 5
- Who Is Aimé Césaire?
- pp. 93-99
- Issue 6
- A Dozen Cocktails — Please
- pp. 107-109
- Issue 7
- Uluru Wild Fig Song
- pp. 115-117
- Letter to Peter Watson
- pp. 118-124
- Issue 8
- The Book Belongs to the Reader
- pp. 131-135
- Fundamental Stone
- pp. 136-137
- Issue 10
- Issue 11
- The Second Cycle of Zeitgehöft
- pp. 149-157
- Issue 12
- from A Night with Hamlet
- pp. 159-166
- Pieces o’ Six VII
- pp. 167-169
- The Dream of India
- pp. 170-177
- Issue 13
- Three Poems
- pp. 181-182
- Response to Mary Kinzie
- pp. 183-187
- Issue 14
- An Open Letter to Louis Zukofsky
- pp. 189-191
- L.A. in Time
- pp. 192-193
- Issue 15
- Stones for a Possible Alberto Giacometti
- pp. 195-200
- from The Mudlark Poems
- pp. 201-206
- The Man Named East and Other Poems
- pp. 207-213
- Issue 16
- On Psychology and Poetry
- pp. 217-235
- Of Canons and Contemporaries
- pp. 242-249
- Issue 17
- Pieces o’ Six XXIV
- pp. 251-253
- What Were the Questions?
- pp. 258-267
- Issue 19
- Collard Greens and Black-Eye Peas
- pp. 269-271
- Issue 20
- Unachieved
- pp. 291-294
- Issue 21
- Poland/1987
- pp. 301-310
- Seventh Eclogue
- pp. 311-312
- The Visitor’s Memories
- p. 313
- Section III from At Egypt
- pp. 333-339
- Issue 22
- On the Facets: The Flashing
- pp. 341-344
- A Selection of Statements and Notes
- pp. 345-348
- Ana Mendieta: A Postscript
- pp. 349-353
- Issue 23
- In Erasmus Darwin’s Generous Light
- pp. 355-357
- Issue 24
- Issue 25
- “The chain of memory is resurrection . . . “
- pp. 363-367
- Under Flag
- pp. 368-371
- The Object of Desire
- pp. 372-373
- Confluences
- pp. 374-389
- Metamorphoses III: Narcissus (1989)
- pp. 390-401
- Issue 26
- The Red Snake We Woke
- pp. 403-414
- Scalpel in Hand
- pp. 415-416
- Four Poems
- pp. 417-418
- Issue 27
- Notes on Religion
- pp. 426-429
- The Philosophy of the Astonished
- pp. 431-447
- Issue 28
- Land Surveyor
- pp. 454-455
- Issue 29
- Dissonance Royal Traveler
- pp. 457-459
- Prose Poem
- p. 460
- Incidents of Tourism in Chiapas and Yucatan
- pp. 464-471
- Issue 30
- When Miles Split!
- pp. 473-475
- Issue 31
- Four Poems
- pp. 507-509
- Issue 32
- Draft 17: Unnamed
- pp. 511-516
- Short Story
- pp. 517-518
- Albania & the Death of Enver Hoxha
- pp. 528-533
- Issue 33
- The hours, keepers of Heaven
- pp. 535-536
- Issue 35
- Gendering the Muse
- pp. 544-561
- Issue 36
- Naked Mole-Rats
- pp. 563-565
- Three Poems
- pp. 566-567
- Issue 37
- Issue 38
- Early Iron: A Journey Book
- pp. 571-581
- Issue 39
- from Ape Man
- pp. 583-592
- Aboriginal (Number Two)
- pp. 593-594
- Barbara Guest’s Recent Work
- pp. 595-604
- Le Manteau de Pascal
- pp. 605-611
- Issue 40
- Flash of Selfish Consciousness
- pp. 618-623
- Issue 41
- Amṛta: The Neuropharmacology of Nirvana
- pp. 625-637
- from Animals to the Point
- pp. 638-641
- The Lesser Rose Garden
- pp. 642-645
- Issue 42
- Spine to Spin, Spoke to Speak
- pp. 647-648
- A Phantom of Clouds
- pp. 649-651
- Issue 43
- Three Poems
- pp. 653-657
- Issue 44
- Essay on the Origin of Our Languages
- pp. 659-661
- Issue 45/46
- (tulip etudes)
- pp. 663-665
- The Sound of the Center
- pp. 666-667
- Publication Credits
- pp. 668-671
- Index of Authors
- pp. 672-673
- ABOUT THE EDITOR
- p. 674