Fall/Winter 2011

The Drunken Boat ISSN: 1530-7646
Fall/Winter 2011 Vol.9 Issues III-IV

“I am not active only when I am speaking; rather, I precede my thought in the listener. I am not passive while I am listening; rather, I speak according to. . .what the other is saying. Speaking is not just my own initiative, listening is not submitting to the initiative of the other, because as speaking subjects we are continuing, we are resuming a common effort more ancient than we, upon which we are grafted to one another and which is the manifestation, the growth, of truth.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty in The Prose of the World

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In this issue:

Selected poems and new work by:

Gregory Orr

A chapbook feature of prose poetry by:

Melanie Braverman

A chapbook feature of Polish poetry in translation by:

Mieczysław Jastrun translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Jeff Friedman

A chapbook feature of a poetic sequence by:

Abayomi Animashaun

Poetry by:

Jeff Friedman

Dzvinia Orlowsky

Mary Ellen Redmond

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Features in Previous Issues

Spring/Summer 2011:
Translation Issue, including new translations of Tedi López Mills, Kiki Dimoula, Sabina Naef, Nathalie Quintane,Yankev Glatshteyn (Jacob Glatstein), Ioulita Iliopoulou, Lêdo Ivo, Tautvyda Marcinkevičiūtė, Else Lasker-Schüler. David Leo García, and Sam Hamill.

Spring/Summer 2008:
A feature of Cave Canem poets and faculty, guest-edited by Niki Herd

Fall/Winter 2007 Contemporary Poetry and Translation from Malta. Interviews with Eleni Sikelianos and Cynthia Hogue. Feature of H.D.’s novel The Sword Went Out to Sea, new work by Sikelianos and Hogue, new translations of Roubaud, and more.

Featured Interview:

“I believe that the only thing that is sacred is the human project to survive against huge odds including the basic nature of what it is to be human, the evil in us, the joy that many of us seem to take in destruction. ”
Gregory Orr

Interviewed by Mary Ellen Redmond

Selected and new poems

by Gregory Orr.

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Featured Translation

10 Poems

by Mieczysław Jastrun
translated by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Jeff Friedman.

Featured Chapbooks

Twelve poems from The World With Us In It

by Melanie Braverman

The Revelations of Christ According to Sancho Panza