INTRODUCTION / Anne Waldman and Laura Wright -- WOLF SONG TRANSMISSIONS / Daniel Staniforth -- SPONTANEOUS POETICS: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL SONG STICKS / Allen Ginsberg -- BASIL BUNTING: AN INTRODUCTION / Tom Pickard -- INFILTRATING THE MASS MEDIA: ROMANIA, 1989 / Andrei Codrescu -- PLOUGHING THE CLOUDS / Peter Lamborn Wilson -- BORDER ZONES: OTHER PARADIGMS OF LANGUAGE / Wang Ping, Christian Ide Hintze, Elsa Cross, Ilya Kutik, Lyn Hejinian -- PARALLEL VERSE, TRANSLATION, THE POPOL VUH / Dennis Tedlock -- HIDDEN FEMALE SHAMANIC TRADITIONS / Barbara Tedlock -- NOTHING I WITHHOLD: A SOCRATIC RAP / Cid Corman -- TALKING BACK TO WHITMAN / Lorenzo Thomas -- GEOGRAPHIC DISTORTIONS: CULTURE, POLITICS, AND DIVERSITY / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- SOME QUESTIONS FOR JEROME ROTHENBERG / Anne Waldman, Laura Wright -- HORIZONS OF EXPECTATION: PANEL ON PROSE TRANSLA·TION / Samuel R. Delany, Karen Tei Yamashita, Nina Zivancevic -- CHORALIZING CULTURES / Eileen Myles -- HIP-HOP CULTURE / Alexs Pate -- ARABIC POETICS & THE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY SCENE / Pierre Joris -- THE EVENT OF THE BORDER / Bhanu Kapil -- CULTURAL ACTIVISM: WRITING UNDER THE NEW WORLD ORDER / Akilah Oliver, Joanne Kyger, Anne Waldman, Eleni Sikelianos -- PUT FIRE ON THIS CRAZY WORLD: AN INTERVIEW WITH NICOLE BROSSARD / Melissa Buzzeo, Anne Waldman, Soma Feldmar -- WHAT IS THE LIGHT?: REFLECTIONS ON OTHER WORLDS / Monica de la Torre -- THE DELUGE: CONTEMPORARY VIETNAMESE POETRY / Linh Dinh -- LOVE AND POLITICS / Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov -- WHAT'S POETRY TO YOU? / Cecilia Vicuna -- TELLING STORIES / Samuel R. Delany, Hoa Nguyen, Meredith Q],lartermain, James Thomas Stevens -- MOVING ACROSS LANGUAGES, BORDERS, AND CULTURES / Heriberto Yepez, Myung Mi Kim, C. S. Giscombe, Sherwin Bitsui -- I AM BOTH. I AM NEITHER. / Michelle Naka Pierce -- POEMAAZU {POEMERS) AND TORANRANRANZUREESHONZU {TRANSLATIONS) / Sawako Nakayasu -- PIERCING THE WALLS / Margaret Randall -- SAVORING DEATH IN MEXICO / Alberto Ruy,Sanchez (translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan) -- ABOUT TODAY / Bei Dao (translated by Perry Link) -- GREAT DIVIDES AND COMMON GROUND / Dolores Dorantes, Jen Hofer -- HOW TO BE. AN EASTERN EUROPEAN POET IN AMERIKA / Ana Bozicevic -- THE QUESTION IS HOW TO INTERROGATE THE REMAINS / Eleni Sikelianos -- WORDS, QUOTES, QUESTIONS, IN AND AROUND AND ALLOVER "THE FIELD" / Anselm Hollo -- PO/ETHICS / Anne Waldman, Daisy Zamora, Jack Collom, Harryette Mullen, David Henderson
Summary:
"Cross Words refers to cultural hybrids, trans-cultural alliances, and associations. This fascinating compendium documents--in essays, conversations, and Socratic raps--the vital work poets perform when they write across borders. Anne Waldman is the author of more than forty collections of poetry, the editor of numerous anthologies, and, for The Iovis Trilogy, the winner of the Shelley Memorial Award and the USA PEN Center Award for Poetry. She is a chancellor of the Academy of American Poets. Laura E. Wright is a poet, translator, and librarian. With Anne Waldman, she co-edited Beats at Naropa (Coffee House Press, 2009). "-- Provided by publisher.
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