The Drunken Boat Spring/Summer 2003

	The Drunken Boat ISSN: 1530-7646 Spring/Summer Vol.4, Issue I-II What is it all for, this poetry, This bundle of accomplishment Put together with so much pain? Do you remember the corpse in the basement? What are we doing at the turn of our years, Writers and readers of the liberal weeklies? &#151from “August 22, 1939,” Kenneth Rexroth
Winter 2003 … Fall 2002 … Summer 2002 … Spring 2002 … Winter 2002 … Fall 2001 … Summer 2001 … Spring 2001 … Winter 2000 … Spring 2000 … Summer 2000 … Fall 2000 … Poetry … Chapbooks … Translations … Columns … Talk … Reviews … Essays … Features … Contributors … Artwork … Links … Index … Masthead … Rimbaud … Submissions … Contact Us …

Poetry

From Israel: An interview and new work from Shirley Kaufman and Gali-Dana Singer translated by Lisa Katz, a chapbook from Rachel Tzvia Back and artwork by Nekoda Singer.

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From Spain:Willis Barnstone’s forthcoming translations of Antonio Machado

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From France: Andrew Boobier’s translations of Francis Ponge and Tom Hibbard’s translations of Francis Jammes.

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From Germany:Herbert Kuhner’s translations of Heinrich Eggerth

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From Poland:Leonard Kress’s translations of Czesloz Milosz and Tadeusz Borowski.

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From the US: poems by John Amen, Tina Barr, Claire Barbetti, Adrian Blevins, Karen Donovan, Carol Frome, Peter Schmitt, Susan Terris, Natalia Zaretsky, and a new chapbook from Gail Wronsky.

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Recent Issues

Winter 2003

Alison Croggon.

Fall 2002
Agi Mishol.

Summer 2002 Artwork by and interview with Maureen Fain

Spring 2002
David Lehman.

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Issues 2001

Winter

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Issues 2000

Spring

Ruth Stone.

Summer

David Romtvedt.

Fall

Eleanor Wilner.

Winter Tony Barnstone

Tony Barnstone.

Interviews

“When I despair about the everlasting struggle here between Palestinians and Israelis, and the devastation and cost of wars all over the globe during my lifetime alone, I try to find some faint gleam of hope in people who are gifted in language, communicating with each other and with the widening circles around them. ” An interview with American-Israeli poet
Shirley Kaufman.
By Lisa Katz.

“Well, there’s always some freedom; it’s the necessary oxygen of translation. If you don’t take that freedom, the poem never lives in the new language. For me the meditative process during which you sink into the text and begin to reconstruct it is slightly different; it’s more like writing where you don’t know what’s coming next. ” An interview with Russian-Israeli poet Gali-Dana Singer.
By Lisa Katz.

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Artwork

Cemetery Photos by Gali-Dana Singer.

Artwork by Nekoda Singer.

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Online

“Making poetry accessible to the public does not mean that poetry becomes the stuff of mainstream, or a how-to-guide for flatliners. I believe there has to be a balance between poetry floating on mediocrity and slipping into near oblivion. ” By Mia, Editor.

“The journal presents poems, interviews, and essays by new, emerging, or well-known poets, including Pulitzer Prize winners and Poet Laureates of the United States. ” By Edward Byrne, Editor.
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Presses

“Using Manifold Press’ website, I hope to make an electronic contribution, also, by publishing Manifold Chapbook, a page that’s devoted to rotating the work of worthy poets. This is a free public service to both poets and readers because that way I can give some exposure to more poets. . . ” By Carol Frome, Editor.
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Recommended Reading

The Lightning Field Winner of the 2002 FIELD Poetry Prize and a Pushcart Prize
By Carol Moldaw