Tripwire: No. 4

by Yedda Morrison (Editor), David Buuck (Editor)

A JOURNAL OF POETICS WORK 1099-2170, $8.00, 188pp. Tripwire 2001 Poetics. Poetry. Edited by Yedda Morrison and David Buuck. The theme of this issue is Work. Material vs. intellectual labor. Class, production, productivity, economy...Mission, service, vocation, career(ism). End-product, by-product, opus, oeuvre. (from Editor's Notes) Includes work by Laura Elrick, Jeff Derksen, Eileen Myles, Bobbie West, Stephen Callis, Leslie Ernst, Rub‚n Ortiz Torres, Steven Farmer, Catherine Daly, Alan Gilbert, Py‚ Banbou, Bibiana Padilla Maltos, Rodrigo Toscano, France Th‚oret, Camille Roy, Karen Brodine, Bruce Andrews, Rosmarie Waldrop, Kevin Killian, Brian Kim Stefans, Ramez Qureshi and others. Perfectbound.

188 pages, Paperback

Published January 1, 2001

Reviews

[Joe · Rating 5 out of 5]

Rare delight: reading back issue of Tripwire, number 4 on work (2000/1). Parts of it have aged well. Parts...interestingly. Thankful for the context for Karen Brodine's work (I'm interested in what a collection of radical socialist+ poets would look like); Yepez' pithy manifest on art and the public which feels right on if you want to not give a shit about 99% of poetry and instead think about where poetry might actually have purchase on a real public; Eileen Myle's Work Letters ("I'd give the same advice to you, but I know you wont take it"); a very sick burn of David Lehman by Brian Kim Stefans in a book review; Olga Cabral's epic "Empire State"; the EZLN's play; Elrick, Banbou, Toscano, Théoret, Roy. The conversation and reviews between and by langpo' ppl and early conceptualists in the back end of the issue is the interesting part, a snapshot into the concerns (and omissions, large) of early 00s avant poetics discourse. Folks running on tracks that might have seemed parallel on this issue but which would diverge utterly. 
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