Fall 2012/Winter 2013

The Drunken Boat ISSN: 1530-7646
Fall 2012/Winter 2013 Vol. 11 Issues I-II

Drop everything.
The blackbird -jewel on
the crown of the chimney cowl-
must be granted a fair hearing,
given the final word.

—from “Pecking Order” by Dennis O’Driscoll

Spring/Summer 2012 …Translation Issue 2011 … Fall/Winter 2011 …Translation Issue 2011 … Cave Canem 2008 … Fall/Winter 2007 … Fall/Winter 2006 … Spring/Summer 2006 … Fall/Winter 2005 … Spring/Summer 2005 … Fall/Winter 2004 … Spring/Summer 2003 … Winter 2003 … Fall 2002 … Summer 2002 … Spring 2002 … Winter 2002 … Fall 2001 … Summer 2001 … Spring 2001 … Winter 2000 … Spring 2000 … Summer 2000 … Fall 2000 … Contributors … Chapbooks … Translation Feature … Reviews … Essays … Artwork … Masthead … Rimbaud … Contact …

IN THIS ISSUE:

Contributors:

AndreBagoo
Richard Beban
Laura Bell
Ian Ganassi
Dave Hardin
Nathan Hondros
Michael Jennings
Brian Johnstone
George Kalamaras
Kaaren Kitchell
Luis Vasquez La Roche
Rika Lesser
Aimee A. Norton
Marijane Osborn
Elisabeth Rynell
Tomaž Šalamun
Michael Thomas Taren
Rimas Uzgiris
Judita Vaičiūnaitė
Joyce Wilson

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Features in Previous Issues

Spring/Summer 2012Fall/Winter 2011: Guest Editor, Melissa Buckheit, interviews Australian poet, Emma Jones, and Native American poet, Orlando White. Featuring a chapbook by Sueyeun Juliette Lee and Nicholas DeBoer, a Transmedia project by Jen Ofer, Hyptertropes of Paul Braffort by Amaranth Borsuk and Gabriela Jauregui, Adaptations by Kit Fryatt, and many other works.

Fall/Winter 2011: Interview and selection of poems with Gregory Orr, chapbooks by Melanie Braverman and Abayomi Animashaun, translation feature from the Polish of Mieczysław Jastrun by Dzvinia Orlowsky and Jeff Friedman.

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

Featured Poet

Brian Johnstone

A Scottish poet whose poems ‘evoke…a sense of spiritual immanence in their slow still spaces’ (Scottish Literary Journal) while being ‘full of stilled moments and nicely shaped incidents’ (Scotland on Sunday). His work has appeared throughout Scotland, in England, America and in various European countries.

Reading the Book
Twenty Poems: New & Selected

by Brian Johnstone

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Artwork/Collaborations

From The Undiscovered Country.
Poems by Andre Bagoo.
Artwork by Luis Vasquez La Roche.

“The Corpses”:
A collaboration between Laura Bell and Ian Ganassi.

Grenade:
Poem by Kaaren Kitchell.
Photos by Richard Beban.

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Reviews

The Blue Tree of the Wind

Night Flight by Kerry Shawn Keys. Reviewed by Michael Jennings

Among the Goddesses

by Annie Finch. Reviewed by Joyce Wilson

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Featured Chapbooks

Permissions

Watercolour on paper, 2008, by Justine Frischmann

by Aimee A. Norton

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Translations

The Battle of Maldon

“In this translation I attempt to recreate “The Battle of Maldon” as faithfully as possible while roughly imitating the original meter and including the alliteration that both defines the Anglo-Saxon verse line and creates its unique music. Though the beginning and end have been lost, the poem is probably nearly complete.”

Translation and Introduction
by Marijane Osborn

Judita Vaičiūnaitė

Translation and Introduction
by Rimas Uzgiris

Tomaž Šalamun

Translated by
Michael Thomas Taren