false 370435 2 1 http://www.factorial.org/sn/sn_home.html]]> female 1471142 3 <![CDATA[Insect Country]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259161569m/1471142.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1259161569s/1471142.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1471142.Insect_Country 4.41 37 370435 4.50 146 9 2007 692920 0974450367 9780974450360 1 <![CDATA[nothing fictional but the accuracy or arrangement]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177297714m/692920.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177297714s/692920.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/692920.nothing_fictional_but_the_accuracy_or_arrangement 4.56 32 370435 4.50 146 9 2005 692921 0974635308 9780974635309 2 <![CDATA[So We Have Been Given Time Or]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177297714m/692921.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177297714s/692921.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/692921.So_We_Have_Been_Given_Time_Or 4.47 32 Nakayasu's book-length poem uses its tumbling dramatic form to create a new inquiry into "character," "time," "place," "direction " and other elements. Lyrical language and personal, engaging voices take the reader on a dizzying and affecting journey through a "geography of risk." This wholly original work brings poetry into regions hitherto explored only by the most experimental forms of music and plastic arts.

Sawako Nakayasu was born in Yokohama, Japan, and has lived in the US since the age of six. Her previous pubications include Clutch (Tinfish, 2002), Balconic (Duration, 2003), and Nothing fictional but accuracy or arrangement (she (Faux, 2003), and she edits the press Factorial. In 2003 she received the US-Japan Creative Artists' Program Fellowship from the NEA.

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The issue also features the results of the 2004 Speed Round, PLUS, a collaborative visual poem by Jennifer Lowe and Tim Ramick, and an essay on Japanese surrealism by George Kalamaras.]]> 370435 4.50 146 9 2005 692928 0975446819 9780975446812 0 <![CDATA[Two Factorial]]> http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177297716m/692928.jpg http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1177297716s/692928.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/692928.Two_Factorial 4.50 2 Elements of Performance Art by Fiona Templeton & Anthony Howell; a trans-Atlantic exchange between Jerome Rothenberg and Stefan Hyner addressing the Holocaust; and various acts of crime, fraud, fire, prolificiency, and always, collaboration.

Other writers featured in this issue include Norma Cole & Avery Burns, Sarah Ann Cox & Yedda Morrison & Elizabeth Treadwell, Caroline Presnell & Bobbie West & April West, Kerri Sonnenberg & Sawako Nakayasu, Sue Landers & Natasha Dwyer, Dawn Trook & Jeff Lytle, Eric Baus & Noah Eli Gordon & Nick Moudry & Travis Nichols, John Crouse & Andrew Topel, Octavia Orange & Accomplice, Fiona Templeton & Anthony Howell, Zara Houshmand & Tamiko Thiel, plus a few anonymous contributors.

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Preface by Sawako Nakayasu
Chika Sagawa, Poems
Seiichi Niikuni, Three Poems
Chimako Tada, From A Woman of a Distant Land
Taeko Tomioka, Two Poems
Ayane Kawata, from Time of Sky
Sumiko Yagawa, Etcetera Ode
Takashi Hiraide, from For the Fighting Spirit of the Walnut
Masato Inagawa, from Seal
Ayane Kawata, from Castles in the Air – A Dream Journal
Hirata Toshiko, Four Poems
Hiromi Ito, Snow
Kyong-Mi Park, Weather Patterns

Poetry

Africa Wayne, Three Poems
kari edwards, from having been blue for charity
Jennifer Scappettone, Beauty is the New Absurdity
Gustaf Sobin, Three Poems
Trey Sager, Two Plus Two Makes Data
E. Tracy Grinnell & Paul Foster Johnson, from Quadriga
Laynie Browne, from The Scented Fox
Drew Kunz, from A Lull of Margins
John Sakkis, from Quotidian
Dawn Michelle Baude, Two Poems
Roberto Harrison, from Counter Daemons – WYSIWYG
Sarah Rosenthal, Two Poems
Kate Colby, Pangaea Redivivus/Re[as]sembling Anastasia
Elizabeth Marie Young, Two Poems
Xue Di, Two Poems
John Keene, Three Poems
Chris Tysh, Viv’s vague à l’âme
David Pavelich, from Ash
Christine Hume, Static Portrait the Younger
Timothy Shea, Above
Jennifer K. Dick, Frequency
Gian Lombardo, A’s Tale
Susan Landers, The Suicides: Words & Blood
Chris Martin, Three Poems
Jill Magi, from Threads
Bill Marsh, Two Poems
Jeffrey Jullich, Throes
Michelle Noteboom, Two Poems
Scott Inguito, Three Poems
Ted Mathys, from The Figure
Mary Burger, Talking About the Universe as if It Existed
Laura Mullen, (Undersong) The Distance (This)

Essays/Notes/Reviews/Interviews

Christine Hume, The SonNets of William Shakespeare by Jen Bervin
Drew Kunz, in the process of writing-in arrangement: Laynie Browne’s Acts of Levitation
Eric Selland, The Landscape of Identity: Poetry and the Modern in Japan
Sarah Rosenthal, from Artifice and Accident: An Interview with Stephen Ratcliffe
Bill Marsh, An Aura of Occasion: The Poker, Submodern Fiction, and Antennae
Laynie Browne, Poetics of Impending Loss, A Tale
Chris Martin, Talking Dirty & Carried Away: kari edwards' iduna
Meadow Dibble-Dieng and Heidi Brevik, Beyond the Darkness: An Interview with Xue Di
Brian Strang, Returning to Our Lesser Instincts: Craig Watson's True News
Contributors’ Notes

Cover Art

Rachel Bers
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