Synopses & Reviews
This must-have second installment of the new, highly acclaimed annual that brings together poetry, literature, critical writing, visual arts and other culturally significant material in an exciting, fresh, contemporary way includes never-before-seen Bushbaby drawings by Jasper Johns; unpublished poems by New York School poet James Schuyler; a film treatment in collage by Canadian cult director Guy Maddin; an unpublished drawing by Verlaine of Rimbaud, who is drawing Verlaine; a portfolio of works on paper by Mary Heilmann; a look inside Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Ashbery's country home; artist Alexi Worth interviewing artist Alfred Leslie; intimate paintings by the reclusive artist Albert York; an Objects of Our Affection section featuring a unique, never-before-seen Man Ray iron and a pair of shoes once owned by British spy Anthony Blunt; photographs of poems installed at Tipperary by Simon Cutts; dollar-bill collages by artist Mark Wagner; poet Bill Zavatsky introducing Richard Griffin, the cult Bug House poet; an unpublished Appolinaire calligram; photographs by Susan Unterberg; a cartoon by Christophe; and a recording of Charles North reading a selection of poems. Plus much more