Arras::just when you thought the internet had died

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Arras has some updates:

1. the entire run of 8 issues of The Impercipient in .pdf format

2. "little reviews" page


see here:


1. the impercipient
http://www.arras.net/impercipient.htm


with an introduction by editor/publisher Jennifer Moxley:

Pillow Talk: A Short History of a Small Magazine
http://www.arras.net/impercipient_intro_paragraphs.htm


The Impercipient 1

Time to relive the nineties with an electronic reprint of the first issue of
Jennifer Moxley's zine The Impercipient. Writing by: Lisa Jarnot, Brian
Schorn, Sianne Ngai, Scott Bentley, Douglas Rothschild, Helena Bennett, Bill
Luoma, Lee Ann Brown, Ben Friedlander, John Mignault and Moxley herself.
Originally pubbed Feb 92.

64 pp., 260kb
http://www.arras.net/pdfs/imp_1.pdf


The Impercipient 2

The second (much shorter) issue of the legendary "silent pillow of a
generation," including new old writing by: Gale Nelson, Elizabeth Willis,
Sianne Ngai, Karen Davies, Lisa Jarnot, Peter Gizzi, Brian Schorn, Gabriel
Alfieri, and the editor, Jennifer Moxley. Published originally August 92.

44 pp., 148kb
http://www.arras.net/pdfs/imp_2.pdf


The Impercipient 3

Issue 3, "designed for poets," contains writing by Lee Ann Brown, Gabriel
Alfieri, Gale Nelson, Ray Jordan, Lisa Jarnot, Brian Barry, Jennifer Moxley,
Douglas Rothschild, Robert Kocik, and Beth Anderson. Unflowered April 1993.

56 pp., 272kb
http://www.arras.net/pdfs/imp_3.pdf


The Impercipient 4

Some new names here: Chris Stroffolino, Judith Goldman, Rod Smith, Damon
Krukowski, Mark McMorris, J.L. Jacobs, Patrick Phillips, Kirstin Prevallet
and Scott Bentley. Featuring really groovy cover art by Bill Luoma. Debuted
in December 93.

52 pp., 224kb
http://www.arras.net/pdfs/imp_4.pdf


The Impercipient 5

The "pink issue" premiered in May 1994, and featured Jessica Lowenthal,
Peter Gizzi, Jeff Hull, Lisa Jarnot, Rob Fitterman, Lee Ann Brown, Magdalena
Zurawski, Jennifer Moxley, Thad Ziolkowski, Joe Ross, and Kevin Davies.

58 pp., 256kb
http://www.arras.net/pdfs/imp_5.pdf


The Impercipient 6

The silent pillow continues to roar with it's 6th issue of "poems for
utopians," containing work by: Tanya Erzen, Jennifer Blackledge, Sally
Silvers, Beth Anderson, Juliana Spahr, Mark Ducharme, Gale Nelson, Helena
Bennett and yours truly.

50 pp., 201kb
http://www.arras.net/pdfs/imp_6.pdf


The Impercipient 7

Did I say issue 5 was the "pink issue"? I meant this one, containing writing
by: Dan Bouchard, Damon Krukowski, Rod Smith, Bill Luoma, Steve Carll, Kevin
Davies, William Keckler, Joe Ross, Douglas Rothschild, Avery E.D. Burns and
Connie Deanovich. This pillow issued June 1995.

80 pp., 333kb
http://www.arras.net/pdfs/imp_7.pdf


The Impercipient 8

So ends our little travel back in time, the concluding issue containing work
by: Camille Guthrie, Lisa Jarnot, Judith Goldman, Sianne Ngai, Jay
Dillemuth, Brian Schorn, Bob Harrison and yours truly. Come back next
fin-de-siecle for more exciting poetic adventures!

44 pp., 148kb
http://www.arras.net/pdfs/imp_8.pdf


2. little reviews
http://www.arras.net/little_reviews.htm


Introduction by bks
http://www.arras.net/the_franks/_intro.htm


Armantrout, Rae / Pretext
Ashbery, John / As Umbrellas Follow Rain

Berg, Stephen / Halo and Porno Diva Numero Uno
Bernstein, Charles / My Way
Bernstein, Charles / Republics of Reality
Bernstein, Charles / With Strings
Berrigan, Edmund / Disarming Matter
Bok, Christian / Eunoia
Brown, Lee Ann / Polyverse
Brownstein, Michael / World On Fire

Caddel, Quartermain, eds. / Other: British and Irish Poetry Since 1970
Caples, Garrett / The Garrett Caples Reader
Caws, Mary Ann / Manifesto
Champion, Miles / Three Bell Zero
Clark, Jeff / The Little Door Slides Back
Cole, Norma / Spinoza In Her Youth
Coleman, Wanda / Bathwater Wine
Coolidge, Clark / Alien Tatters
Coolidge, Clark / On The Nameways: Volume One
Coover, Robert / The Grand Hotels (of Joseph Cornell)

Davies, Kevin / Comp.
Deniz, Gerardo / Poemas/Poems
Doris, Stacy / Paramour

Farrell, Dan / Last Instance
Fitterman, Rob / Metropolis 1-15

Gladman, Renee / Juice
Godfrey, John / Push the Mule
Goldman, Judith / Vocoder

Harryman, Carla / Gardener of Stars
Hejinian, Lyn / A Border Comedy
Hejinian, Lyn / Happily

Ignatow, David / Living Is What I Wanted: Last Poems
Joris, Pierre/ Poasis

Kim, Myung Mi / Dura
Kusai, Joel / poetics@

Lehman, David / Evening Sun
Levy, Andrew / Paper Head Last Lyrics
Luoma, Bill / Works & Days

Mackey, Nathaniel / Atet A.D.
Mccaffery, Steve / Seven Pages Missing, Volume One
Mcgrath, Thomas / Letter To An Imaginary Friend
Mullen, Harryette / Sleeping With the Dictionary

Ngai, Sianne / Criteria
Notley, Alice / Disobedience

Osherow, Jacqueline / Dead Men's Praise
Osman, Jena / The Character

Prynne, J.H. / Poems

Rankine, Claudia / End of the Alphabet
Rankine, Claudia / Plot
Raworth, Tom / Tottering State
Robinson, Kit / Democracy Boulevard
Rodefer, Stephen / Mon Canard
Rothenberg, Joris, eds. / Poems from the Millennium, Vol. 2

Shaw, Nancy and Strang, Catriana / Busted
Smith, Rod / Protective Immediacy
Spahr, Juliana / Fuck You-Aloha-I Love You

Tarkos, Christophe / Ma Langue Est Poetique: Selected Work
Torres, Edward / The All-Union Day of the Shock Worker
Toscano, Rodrigo / Partisans
Tu, Hung / Verisimilitude

Villa, Jose Garcia / Anchored Angel
Volkman, Karen / Spar

Wershler-Henry, Darren / Tapeworm Foundry
Wheeler, Susan / Smokes
Wheeler, Susan / Source Codes

Yau, John Borrowed / Love Songs





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