| Wherein
the EDITOR
describes with Impunity & Authority what makes this
issue & other current issues impossible to ignore |
| MIRCEA
CARTARESCU is one of Romania's most brilliant
poets, fictioneers and critics. We have published sporadic
translations of his work before, but the difficulties
of making his dense, musical prose cross the waters
has been formidable. We believe that he has found his
translator in JULIAN SEMILIAN |
| PAUL
GOLDBERG in a classic tale of immigration: Russian
boy misses Grampa Moysha |
 The
john in HELEN
KITSON's tough hooker story shoulda worn a hardhat |
JILL
SOLOWAY on
Courtney Cox's Asshole |
| HAROLD
WAYNE BOWMAN dissects punk youth |
| DENNIS
MUST on Westley McCool's sentimental education |
|
JOSH
WARDRIP in a tale of Masturbation, Murder, and
Performance Art |
| SABINA
C. BECKER on Sex with Baguettes |
| DENNIS
BROCK: Stories of Fucking and Dying in America |
| T.
ANDERSON's "La Chincha" spends most
of her time sucking |
| MICHELLE
RICHMOND unveils threesome in brief prose |
| PETER
FREUND on the love life of a Jewish Gary Cooper |
| JAMIE
WASSERMAN in Sweet Romance with Piano |
| TOM
BRADLEY on Mormon Ground Zero |
| What
Americans are made of: WOTAN's
extraordinary story of revenge set in Bosnia |
| A.C.
KOCH: A mystery involving Identity, Incest,
Sex, and Video. |
| JASON
DEBOER rewrites "The Tempest" after
Bataille and de Sade |
| OLYMPIA
VERNON in a bruising tale of revenge |
| ANAMARIA
BELIGAN unrolls a voyeuristic mystery through
layers of good reading |
| TERRY
JACOBUS romps through the blue-collar heart
of Chicago |
| KEVIN
MCCAFFREY in another tale of young mating rituals |
| WILLIE
SMITH, the shy Seattle author of the shocking
"Spider Fuck," which had Corpse readers vomiting
all over the Internet, returns with two NEW stories |
| PENELOPE
ROSEMONT on Women and the Surrealist Revolution,
interviewed by DANNY
POSTEL. |
| THE
DR. SUZANN KOLE , PhD, FILE: Corpse Features
the Classic American Battle between the Beauty (Dr.
Kole's Daughter), the Beast (Wal-Mart), and the Internet |
| XAVIERA
HOLLANDER: Camp Memoirs! Heroine feeds the hounds
of hell |
| ROBERT
GAL, the Czech Cioran, reprises the philosophical
fragment afresh! Translated by CHARLES SABATOS |
| ARNAB
RAY GHATAK on MR. DEATH, FRED LEUCHTER, JR. |
|
You
Are a Stupid Stupid Fucking Wimp, by HENRY
BROWN |
|
JOHN
SCHUERMAN lifts Jana Sterbak's Meat Dress |
|
ALISON
ROSS on Political Erectness! How to wear a political
hardon |
|
KEVIN
PQ PHELAN reviews What the Fuck: The Avant-Porn
Anthology |
| PATRICK
PRITCHETT on The Politics of the Television
Car Commercial |
| DALE
SHANK: In Case of Heart-Attack |
| EDDIE
WOODS: A Memoir of Smoking |
| DOUGLAS
PUCHOWSKI on Postmodernism as 'Pataphysics Institutionalized |
| RICHARD
COLLINS on Lawrence Ferlinghetti |
| LAWRENCE
FERLINGHETTI on KPFA and freedom of speech |
| JEFF
SMITHPETERS reviews poet responses to the Shrub's
first 100 days in office |
| Through
HARIETTE
SUROVELL's eyes: Watching it Hard |
| CODRESCU's
thumbail reviews: A New Feature. For syndication contact:
andrei@codrescu.com |
| DR.
MENLO raises global consciousness with the Swordfighter
of Today |
|
Edited
by ANDREI CODRESCU
| How
real is real? NICK
ROMBES on terror and academia! What sayeth you
Baudrillardians now? |
| FREDERICK
ZACKEL on Osama bin Laden and the Crusades!
History, cont. |
| ARNOLD
WESKER delivers a message straight from the
holy mouth of God |
| On
October 11, 2000 one of, if not the largest, environmental
disasters in the history of North America occurred deep
within the APPALACHIAN MOUNTAINS OF EASTERN KENTUCKY
(USA). LARRY
WILSON reports |
| YUGOSLAVIA
FILE: SAM
VAKNIN nails in sharp detail some of the craziness
in the Balkans |
| CHINA,
TIANNAMEN SQUARE: HAMMOND
GUTHRIE, our man in Beijing, breaks out the
list of New Competitive Games in the 2008 Olympics!
SPECIAL! EXTRA |
| THE
PENTAGON: MARTIN
A. LEE on the wonderful new world of electromagnetic
weaponry |
| WASHINGTON,
DC: MARK
N. KATZ from the heart of the beast! INSIDER
REPORT |
| SORBONNE,
PARIS: American Football! At the Sorbonne! Impossible?
Read ZACK
ROGOW for the shocking details |
| DEHLI,
INDIA: Inexplicable Mystery of the Monkey Man, special
to the Corpse from ARNAB
RAY GHATAK |
| UNITED
STATES: Presenting the award for United States Anti-Laureate
is Miss Suzanne Somers...America's Anti-Laureate is
ANSELM HOLLO! Special to the Corpse from ROBERT
ARCHAMBEAU, High Commissioner, United States
Anti-Laureate Commission |
| RONNIE
BURK REPUBLIC, Somewhere in the USA: Our own
Ronnie Burk, a true scientist who is his own experiment,
faces down the judicial system; waves Corpse in self-defense |
| JOHN
IVAN-PALMER's dogged search to interview the
man who cut off the head of Yukio Mishima |
| KEVIN
DUCEY on deer hunting! Travails of meat in the
21st century |
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|
Legendary
New Orleans Photographer ERNEST J. BELLOCQ, introduced
by REX
ROSE.
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|
LYNNE
DOUGLAS has
had some "self-quibble with balancing the concept
of digital art vs photography, since the dawning
of the Age of the iMac," but they are now both
"drives" she "now" likes "to
take."
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|
SHALOM
NEUMAN had a great
art event in his New York loft about fifteen years
ago, full of great art, and very sexy people. These
"satirized metaphors" are redolent of
that party, or am I Proust's cookie gulping down
Pavlov's dog?
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| MARC
ELLIS injects Music into Drama for the first
time ever on USA Internet |
| CLAUDIA
STEVENS' quicky play raises questions of glottal
vocalization |
| NICK
ROMBES reviews unclassifiable music! Read! Listen! |
| ALFRED BURYCHKA comments on the flute-tooting synergy of wZ's techno evolution |
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| Our
READERS
rave on, but we can take it |
| Voila!
Bow down to the omniscient CYBER
BAG -- wherein our contributors are made legend
and stuff is perused |
| BARRY
GIFFORD performs poetic tanka with ghosts Kerouac
and Corso |
| EDMOND
JABES passes chilling abstract suffering intact
through translator KEVIN PQ PHELAN |
| WILLIAM
LEVY spots river of sperm heading for Notre
Dame Cathedral |
| BILL
EVANS, the last of the wild cupcakes, speaks
to us; he speaks to you, too |
| DENNIS
HOLT voyages through wilderness marked by landmarks
Olson, Creeley, Duncan, and others, and is confronted
by variety of instructional perils, including own Periplus |
| GORDON
MASSMAN speaks angelese in a hypnotic murmur
populated by cats, dream-operations, and the crumbling
empire of his diverted senses |
| KAREN
WHITE, naked, wishes to teach armadillo to eat
fire ants in backyard |
| GABRIEL
and MARCEL PIQUERAY were Belgian surrealist
writers, most active in the Forties and Fifties, and
for that they are being punished here in translation
by ROBERT ARCHAMBEAU and JEAN-LUC GARNEAU |
| RANDALL
RADER on Lemurs, Darwin, and Simcity |
| SAVIANA
STANESCU keeps deepening the metaphoric-erotic
well of Romanian poetry that has been sporadically geysering
in the Corpse thanks to translators ADAM SORKIN
and LIDIA VIANU, now aided by JANA ROTESCU,
and the vigilant poeta herself |
| JOHN
HARRIS' depraved Catullian poesy! Sex is the
main thrust! Don't be fooled by the art |
| UTAHNA
FAITH's short poem comes from Real Life |
| HEATHER
O'NEIL makes you move your hips |
| CHRISTOPHER
LOCKE's themes are Masturbation, Smoking Crack,
Love of His Cat, and Innocence |
| JAN
VLADISLAV, eminent Czech poet and translator,
englished here by MADELAINE HRON, wonders what
he's doing between Locke and Robinson |
| ANTHONY
ROBINSON half-dedicates one of his poems to
Michael Palmer, and that's good enough for us |
| VALERY
OISTEANU, chtonian pan-piper, urges orgiastic
abandon |
| MARYANNE
STAHL asks, please, Fuck me to Sleep! |
| JEFF
STUMPO learned everything he knows from Mike
Topp. Is this good? You be the judge |
| STEPHEN
KIRBACH's work crackles with adolescent urban
energy |
| GREG
BACHAR makes boxes full of action |
| BRIAN
BEATTY: Refreshingly American, right on the
money |
| M.L.
LIEBLER, Bard of Detroit, knocks them back with
Gustafson, Sinclair, Mikolowski, and Codrescu |
| JENI
OLIN begs us not to let her eat dinner, for
the sake of estrous chinchillas in New Jersey! Put that
down, Jeni |
| LEE
VILENSKY, cabdriver, writes the cabby poems!
The stuff that goes on! Omygod! Sticky backseats explained |
| MICHAEL
STANDEART's poems are violent and pornographic!
Are they also in English? |
| MATTHEW
KEENAN telegraphs secret sexual practice from
the Ivory Coast |
| GARY
KEENAN hardboils us a poem & stays cool |
| NAT
HARDY, tough Canadian acrobat, on the subject
of fake orgasm |
| PARRIS
GARNIER, tough city boy, hard-edges metaphor
right up to freeway, then screws mayor's wife! Who said
the Corpse is getting soft? Step out here |
| BARRY
BLUMENFELD features L.A. night obsessions |
| BRIAN
SWANN, long-time Corpse dweller, is All Thumbs |
| JOSEPH
CORONITI's masochist saga takes one to exotic
locales! Listen to the whip |
| ROBERT
SWARD goes unafraid through the inevitable!
We needed that! Too many of our poets think they can
kill the demon by lullabying it to death. Ha! |
| DAVE
BRINKS has been making tricky mechanisms in
square boxes! They blow up if you try to open them,
but you can drink them through a straw. Dreamy |
| SHEILA
LANHAM, the slum-fleured lubricious-mouthed
Sappho in our family, will stop at nothing |
| BRENTLEY
FRAZER has precise nightmares in prose! We fear
them |
| AMBER
RIFE disciplines the disappointments of youth
and moves our stone heart |
| JOE
MAYNARD argues with his wife! Ostensibly not
erotic, there is nevertheless spume at the core of the
rant |
| KATIE
KIDDER's "little Miss Elektra" has
a thing for older guys. Take a number |
| MIKE
TOPP is shameless on top of legendary! He now
rips off Alfred Starr Hamilton! Is there no end to Topp-impunity |
| JOEL
DAILEY is the saltimbanque whose hand springs
are sometimes in popular kulchur, sometimes in the air
full of letters |
| JAMES
BROOK broadcasts from the penumbra, throws shadows
from wound lantern |
| DAVID
LEHMAN is not afraid to place Intelligence at
the center of his poetic altar, but not before putting
a sparkler up her ass |
| PAT
NOLAN's narrative prosoemic works are saturated
with dreams of reality, but not to the detriment of
his signature attention to rigor |
| RICHARD
COLLINS is the fresh new face of Zazen! About
time |
| YAGO
CURA negotiates immigration and newyorican with
one hand behind his back |
| KEN
WAINIO retains logic, Catholic sentiments, and
calm before electronics |
| DR.
CHARLES VERMONT knows danger: he looks out for
the sheep |
TERRY
JACOBUS rededicates himself to poetry in fire
test plus Catholicism
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| REBECCA
LU KIERNAN is fresh like Lorca's Andalusia,
earnest like Chicago after a good snowstorm, and sexy
like a Martinican cricket (aka cra-cra) |
| JOSH
BELL on why It's Hell Naming Flowers |
| JOHN
CARTER's imagistic poetry flowers forth in hypertext |
GEORGE
QUASHA's erotic manifesto is a stormy verbal performance!
Hold on to your hat
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