The Blind See Only This World

by Corbett, William; Gizzi, Michael; Torra, Joseph; Wieners, John; Corbett, William

• ISBN13: 9781887123341
• ISBN10: 1887123342
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2000-06-01
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

Edited by Michael Gizzi, Joseph Torra, William Corbett.

Table of Contents

Introduction	11	(13)
Mephisto Waltz No.3	13	(1)
John Ashbery
Accident Report	14	(2)
Paul Auster
Of What Use is Poetry?	16	(1)
Amiri Baraka
Letter in Latin to Bill	17	(2)
Ed Barrett
Marathon Night	19	(2)
Jim Behrle
Cunt Up #15	21	(2)
Dodie Bellamy
Stains of Stalin	23	(1)
Bill Berkson
Pax	24	(1)
Daniel Bouchard
Easter (Riding Westward)	25	(1)
John Clarke
A Ruffled Sheen	26	(2)
Clark Coolidge
Fortune Cookie	28	(1)
William Corbett
There	29	(1)
Robert Creeley
Why I'm	30	(1)
Tim Davis
Eureka Canyon	31	(1)
Diane di Prima
Rome	32	(2)
Edward Dorn
for Michael	34	(2)
Robert Duncan
The Flight of Stairs	36	(2)
Jim Dunn
Squeegee Bijoux of '99	38	(2)
Kenward Elmslie
My Taste	40	(1)
Elaine Equi
For John Wieners	41	(1)
Larry Fagin
from A Book of Measure (I) [Close]	42	(1)
Michael Franco
For Maurice Templeton and his Kind/Attentions	43	(1)
Benjamin Friedlander
Identity	44	(1)
Michael Friedman
Ballad Circumstantial	45	(2)
Merrill Gilfillan
Photo of John Wieners, 1985
Allen Ginsberg
For J.W.	47	(1)
Michael Gizzi
Poem for John Wieners	48	(2)
Peter Gizzi
Phantom Objectivity	50	(1)
Robert Gluck
Dry Under the Nails	51	(1)
John Godfrey
Send me a Telegram	52	(1)
Barbara Guest
This Morning Light	53	(1)
Thom Gunn
Portal, Arizona	54	(1)
Jim Harrison
Safe-Past-Words?	55	(2)
Lee Harwood
Existential Rag on a Sense of Place	57	(1)
Stratis Haviaras
from The Splinter	58	(1)
Fanny Howe
from Bed Hangings	59	(1)
Susan Howe
[-and with all respects to James Davidson's Courtesans and Fishcakes]	60	(2)
Kenneth Irby
For John Wieners 1/6/60	62	(2)
Stephen Jonas
Blue Distances	64	(2)
Robert Kelly
``K''	66	(1)
Kevin Killian
Storm Watch	67	(1)
Ann Kim
Meat	68	(1)
August Kleinzahler
A One Page Unpublished Poem for my friend John	69	(2)
Joanne Kyger
Going Green in the Fall	71	(1)
Gerritt Lansing
Viagra Rx# 900922	72	(1)
Frank Lima
from Song of the Andoumboulou:44	73	(2)
Nathaniel Mackey
too much ataxia	75	(1)
Bernadette Mayer
Rudy's Tree	76	(2)
Gail Mazur
Phryne's open blouse	78	(1)
Duncan McNaughton
The Venus of Odessa	79	(2)
Askold Melnyczuk
Generous Estimates	81	(1)
Ange Mlinko
October	82	(1)
Charles North
Electric shock wave poetry	83	(1)
Jawn P
Bob Creeley Breakthrough	84	(1)
Ron Padgett
Untitled (May '99)	85	(1)
Michael Palmer
What the Little Girl Saw	86	(2)
Jack Powers
Two Poems	88	(1)
Michael Rumaker
Haibun	89	(2)
Andrew Schelling
Only Once	91	(2)
Charley Shively
from Involuntary Lyrics	93	(1)
Aaron Shurin
Speedway	94	(1)
Cedar Sigo
The Improbable	95	(1)
Charles Simic
The Muses' Darling	96	(1)
James Tate
J.W.	97	(1)
Joseph Torra
Seesaw	98	(1)
Paul Violi
Temper the Troubadour	99	(2)
Anne Waldman
Lorimer Street	101	(1)
Lewis Warsh
Vers la Flamme	102	(2)
Carol Weston
Selling Your Mother	104	(1)
Dara Wier
A Woman's Face	105	(1)
Elizabeth Willis
Persian Comic Book	106	(1)
John Yau
Splashed with Eau de Philosopher King	107	(1)
Geoffrey Young
Final Version of an Attempt at a Reading in The Guggenheim	108
John Wieners