Synopses & Reviews
RIBOT has established itself over the past 10 years as one of the most exciting literary and arts publications from around the world. In this appearance, the annual will address the problematic of leisure or idleness in our ravenously consumptive, multi-national society, as originally explored by Paul Lafargue's notorious 1883 essay from St. Pelagie prison. Contributors include Amiri Baraka, John Baldessari, Guy Bennett, Frank Chin, Jeff Clark, Norma Cole, Corrado Costa, Douglas Messerli, Dennis Phillips, Leslie Scalapino, and many others.
Table of Contents
Charles Reznikoff -- Lorine Niedecker -- Carl Rakosi -- Louis Zukofsky -- George Oppen -- Charles Olson -- Robert Duncan -- Robin Blaser -- Jack Spicer -- Allen Ginsberg -- Larry Eigner -- Gilbert Sorrentino -- John Wieners -- Robert Kelly -- Ronald Johnson -- Rosmarie Waldrop -- Kenneth Irby -- Clarence Major -- Susan Howe -- Fanny Howe -- Bpnichol -- Aaron Shurin -- Dennis Phillips -- Christopher Dewdney -- Barbara Guest -- James Schuyler -- Frank O'Hara -- John Ashbery -- Joseph Ceravolo -- Ted Berrigan -- Charles North -- Ron Padgett -- Michael Brownstein -- Lewis Warsh -- Lorenzo Thomas -- Marjorie Welish -- John Godfrey -- Alice Notley -- Diane Ward -- Robert Creeley -- Hannah Weiner -- David Bromige -- Clark Coolidge -- Lyn Hejinian -- Robert Grenier -- Ted Greenwald -- Nick Piombino -- Ray Di Palma -- Michael Palmer -- Michael Davidson -- Bernadette Mayer -- James Sherry -- Ron Silliman -- Rae Armantrout -- Bob Perelman -- Barrett Watten -- Kit Robinson -- Charles Bernstein -- Alan Davies -- Jean Day -- John Cage -- Jackson Mac Low -- Kenward Elmslie -- Jerome Rothenberg -- David Antin -- Amiri Baraka/Leroi Jones -- Joan Retallack -- John Taggart -- Nicole Brossard -- Mac Wellman -- Douglas Messerli -- Peter Inman -- Steve McCaffery -- Nathaniel Mackey -- Leslie Scalapino -- Bruce Andrews -- Steve Benson -- Abigail Child -- Tina Darragh -- Fiona Templeton -- Carla Harryman.