Exquisite Corpse Annual #1 contains poetry, fiction, essays, reviews, artwork, etc., by Diane di Prima, Aram Saroyan, Jerome Rothenberg, Robin Becker, Alice Notley, Dave Brinks, Lance Olsen, Davis Schneiderman, Mike Topp, Willie Smith, Garry Craig Powell, Joel Dailey, Ruxandra Cesereanu, Bob May, Skip Fox, and more more more!!!
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Founded in 1983, Exquisite Corpse went through many lives before finally transforming into an online-only journal in 1996. Now offering an annual print anthology of material from the web journal, the work in Exquisite Corpse is as richly layered as it is stunningly diverse. The maiden voyage of the Exquisite Corpse Annual lives and dies with the poetry. The issue curiously eschews contributor bios, which is perhaps because its pages feature a litany of the most renowned, seminal poets of the field. Diane di Prima kickstarts the issue with a series of poems loosely centered on ruin, time, and death (and other upbeat topics). Her poem Madhyamaka chronicles her response to the remains of New Orleans ( Extinct / as mammoths / or forests of giant ferns ) while Loba Desesperada describes a world where everything that one has known has turned to pointillist / dust / turned to so much / sand. Other poetry offerings include first rate work from the celebrated Jerome Rothenberg and New York School poet Bill Berkson. The issue also includes a wonderful selection of translated work by international poet Attila Jozsef. It is Alice Notley s The Mask of Proserpina, however, that glimmers the loudest in Exquisite Corpse. Mytho-centered and death-transfixed, Notley s work here dances nimbly between myth and memoir. These are memories, she writes, but not of what happened. The visuals in Exquisite Corpse are as strong as the written work. Featuring a gloriously disgusting cover illustration by Gonzo-ite Ralph Steadman, the issue also offering Joel Lipman s Pictopoesy, which shows poetry and protest slogans scrawled across the grime and detritus of an urban environment. The prose in Exquisite Corpse takes somewhat of a backseat to the poetry, but by no means does it lack the diversity and depth of the latter. Two pieces from Kane X. Faucher rail against everything from Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper to Facebook ( like a Borgesian aleph, Facebook s population continues to swell with the living and the dead ). Plunge Pool by Garry Craig Powell is a magnificent short-short story about masculinity, sexuality, and gender relations in modern Dubai. And Willie Smith s surrealistic, time-displaced Resurrected Manhunt rounds out the scattershot and enjoyable issue in an appropriate manner. Find myself once again back in 1969, hunting rhino downtown, Smith s piece begins, followed by, Have swallowed a couple PCP tabs. Indeed, Willie, indeed. --newpages.com
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Editor-in-Chief Andrei Codrescu is a historic literary icon, poet, novelist, essayist, and NPR commentator. Managing Editor Mark Spitzer is the author of cult classic poetry & fiction.
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5.0 out of 5 stars
Groundbreaking!!!,
By Victoria Vermafluvio "Queen of the World" (Timbuktoo) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Exquisite Corpse Annual #1 (Paperback)
From India to Hungary to Dubai to Egypt to the forgotten leper village of Carville, Louisiana and the flooded city of New Orleans, reading this collection is like going on a journey, picking up bits of lives and cultures along the way. There's a good selection of work in translation by writers that may not be familiar to most readers-- Arlene Zide's introduction and translation of four Hindi poets, the translations of Attila Jozsef's Hungarian verse as well as Nicolas Born's German poems. Garry Craig Powell and Dawn-Michelle Baude both give perspectives on the lives of expatriates. The end of the collection returns to the States with Megan Burns' "Carville, Louisiana: Village of Forgotten Names" and Andrei Codrescu's photographs of post-Katrina refrigerator art in New Orleans.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great collection...,
This review is from: Exquisite Corpse Annual #1 (Paperback)
This is a great collection. There's something for every mood: poetry, essays, fiction, a short play, all beautifully written; there's even an excerpt from a zombie story by Robin Becker. It's a great way to find writers you'll love but have never heard of. Check out the often overlooked Willie Smith in "Resurrected Manhunt" for a crazy trip. The essays in the collection confront key issues of our time from a discussion of the nature and limitations of anthologies by Jerome Rothenberg to Kane Faucher on the economic possibilities of Facebook. Overall, it's a very playful collection that defies expectations by being extremely readable.
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Beautiful work!,
By C.S. (Arkansas, USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Exquisite Corpse Annual #1 (Paperback)
The poetry and fiction in this annual is original, creative, and, above all, moving. It shows you what language can be and should be. You get a good selection of work from each author, so you get a real feel for their style. The poetry has a presence it isn't just shoved in between essays and fiction. It is substantial. The first selections in the book are poems from Diane di Prima, and the loveliness of the language begs that it be read aloud. Her experimentation with words and form is remarkable and is excellent preparation for the rest of the work in the book, which includes work by Bill Berkson, Alice Notley, Dave Brinks, and a poetic collaboration by Ruxandra Cesereanu and Andrei Codrescu.
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