John Mack
White Lines
With the lady of Ise I might have ridden small boats
That row the waves, and avoided the tangles of this sea.
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Like jade may you be invariably firm and tender; like a bracelet may there be no break between before and after.
The things have no intrinsic value. They are meant to signify.
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Fireflies pierce the curtained window,
the dragon song turns pale,
Phoenix airs in thinning mist turn
the dwarf pines darker green, the court bamboo
tinkles, look—she is moving in pieces like a heron,
her pendant robe stirring the jade dust.
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VOLUME SIX (2020): ARCHIVES ON FIRE
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- * * * VOLUME ONE (2007): CONTINGENCY * * *
- Editors, "After Contingency"
- * * * ESSAYS * * *
- Osita Ezeliora, "The Swedish Academy"
- Bill Freind, "Inquiring Minds Want to Know"
- Rich Murphy, "Spectacle and Aporia"
- Erika M. Nelson, "Orpheus Underwater"
- Elizabeth Lee Steere, "The Very List"
- * * * FEATURE * * *
- "Difficult Praise"
- * * * INTERVIEWS * * *
- Mario Hibert with Kent Johnson
- Kelly Moffett with Mary Ann Samyn
- Francis Raven with Rae Armantrout
- * * * POETRY * * *
- John M. Bennett, "chIRping"
- Charles Bernstein, "Taches Blanches"
- Ann Cefola, "Aspiration" & "Shelter Island"
- Vernon Frazer, "Front Line" & "Vehement Treaties"
- Giles Goodland, "The Poet"
- John Mack, "White Lines"
- Marjorie Maddox, "Articulate" & other poems
- Peter Manson, "Sigh," "The Flowers," & "Saint"
- Christina Mengert, "Morning Marks" & "Per Aspera"
- * * * PROSE * * *
- Andrew H. Banecker, "Capital"
- Barbara Henning, "An Arc Into the Bougainvillea"
- Mark Jacobs, "My Letter to Sandy"
- Richard Kostelanetz, "Unobvious Disadvantages"
- Francis Raven, "Thanks for Letting Me Read"
- Eve Rosenbaum, "Before Sleep"
- * * * REVIEWS * * *
- J’Lyn Chapman, "BlazeVOX & the Post-Avant"
- R.G. Evans, review: "Sweet Masses / Anxious Heart"
- Tiel Lundy, review: "A Man You Could Love"
- Christina Mengert, "The Excited Interrogative"
- Richard Jeffrey Newman, review: "Griffin"
- Christy Rowe, review: "Joyful Noise"
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