XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics, 1997–2010 (ed. Mark Nowak)

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Reissues is thrilled to partner with Open Door Archive (ed. Harris Feinsod et al.) to cohost the digital afterlife of the extraordinary journal, XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics (ed. Mark Nowak). If ever a journal might inspire elaborate forms of postdigital crossposting, it’s this one. XCP likely needs no introduction to readers of Jacket2. Over thirteen years and across twenty-three stacked issues, XCP forged a network of global poetics and protest rarely seen in an editorial project.

Indeed, few journals have left such a lasting impact on the field of poetry and poetics, not just on the local conversations in the US and the Americas, but in their crosscultural connections to a planetary conception of resistance via poetic practice. In many ways, XCP also bridges the collection here at Reissues: between the ethnopoetics of magazines like Alcheringa and New Wilderness Letter and global poetics projects around the turn of the millennium like Aufgabe and Calque. In league with our colleagues at Open Door, we’ll introduce the journal in its own words, excerpted below and adapted from the XCP about page around the time of the closure of the journal.

As always, full issues are available for download or browsing below. The index to each issue attempts to retain the formatting of the contents as printed in the magazine, including original pagination. Each PDF is fully searchable for easy navigation to individual pieces within the magazine. A special thank you is owed to the brilliant Megan Anderson for her work on XCP — the Reissues side of this partnership would not be possible without her help.

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics began in the mid-1990s as a journal of social utterance and social inscription that sought to open and engage a dialogue between writers, researchers, and theorists in the creative arts, social sciences, political economy, and cultural studies. Its first issues included an expansive array of new works from emerging and established writers such as Amiri Baraka, Diane Glancy, U Sam Oeur, and Edwin Torres as well as translations of writings from the Spanish, Chinese, Khmer, and Tohono O’odham. Issues during the late 1990s focused on central concerns in social documentation and ethnographic praxis, including features on “Fieldnotes & Notebooks” (XCP no 3), Dialogical Anthropology (XCP no 5), “Documentary” (XCP no 6), and “Everyday Life” (XCP no 7).

In response to the perceived retreat of social movements in post-9/11 America, XCP expanded its concerns to include more creative and scholarly work addressing the articulation of literature and social movements: Bruce Campbell’s essay “Assembly Poetics in the Global Economy: Nicaragua” (XCP no 10, early 2002), reviews of books like Nancy Chang’s Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties, and a special “Third Millennium Red” issue in late 2004 serve as examples.

During the second half of the twentieth century’s first decade, we continued to expand our issues (and double issues) with features on “Word” (an XCP-style remake of Raymond Williams’ classic Keywords), a special 20th issue comprised of micro-essays on the theme “Cross Cultural Poetics,” and a final issue of the decade on “South Africa: Literature and Social Movements.” With issue 23, “Social Studies,” founding editor Mark Nowak continued the magazine from a new home at Manhattanville College in Purchase, NY. Issues 24 and 25 on pedagogy and “China: Literature and Social Movements” were planned but never published. Reviewing XCP’s inaugural issue, Juan Felipe Hererra wrote: “Welcome to a Writer’s Manual on how to detonate the Master Axis of Big Brother Narratives.” (Adapted from the XCP About page last accessed Dec 15, 2020)

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 1 (1997) [PDF, 81 MB]

Contents

X-Section
Amiri Baraka	What is Undug Will Be	7
	from Speech	13
	Re: Port	14
Maria Damon	When the NuYoricans Came to Town: (Ex)Changing Poetics	16
Lise McCloud	Mixed American Pak: National Holiday Thunder Chrysanthemum With Pearls & Reports	41

Multilingual and Translated Poetries
Solomon Deressa	fragments form the Horn	61
	The Poem Sheathed	67
Walker K. Lew	1983	70
Ofelia Zepeda	DA:M KA:CIM HIHIMDAM / Those That Walk The Earth	78
	JEWED ’I-HOI / Riding The Earth	82
Elizabeth Burns	el puente / the bridge	84
Diane Glancy	nahna adulvdi gesvi / of that wanting which is	85
Edwin Torres	Seeds Sown Long Ago: Are You The Layer?	89
	Taxi-Toxic-Tiction	92
	Planet Concertina	93
Alejandro Aura (translated by Forrest Gander)	from Fuentes	95

Reviews
Michael Heller	Anthropology and Literature	105
Bonnie D. Irwin	The Dialogic Emergence of Culture	108
Kim Koch	Fictions of Feminist Ethnography	112
David Michalski	Things As They Are: New Directions in Phenomenological Anthropology	118
Dan Featherston	Home Places: Contemporary Native American Writing from Sun Tracks	122

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 2 (1998) [PDF, 70 MB]

Contents

History/ In/ Heritance
Juan Felipe Herrera	Cilantroman: A Performance Cocina	7
	Canto for Chan Ki’n Viejo…	20
Zhang Er (translated by the author and Leonard Schwartz)	The Fifth Direction	26
Chung Na Yei	Departure	28
U Sam Oeur	Work at the Douglas Corporation…	30
	Neo-Pol Pot: 1979-91	34
Wai-lim Yip	Condemned to Cultural Displacements: The Case of Modern China	38
Paul Naylor	On Certainty (Part Three: Memphis, Capital of North Mississippi)	51
Jeff Derksen	I Need to Know If This Is Normal	63
Fernand Roqueplan	Flat, Silent Soda	76
	A Thousand Cranes	77
	Fifty-Six Churches	78
Lise McCloud	Highway 75	79
Hilton Obenzinger	Writing (In) the Past	80
Diane Glancy	The Woman Who Was A Red Deer Dressed For The Deer Dance	88
Victoria Lena Manyarrows	The Language of Endangerment	105

Reviews
Thomas Biolsi	Routes: Travel and Translation in the Late Twentieth Century	109
Susan M. Schultz	The Spanish American Roots of William Carlos Williams	113
Yunte Huang	Modernity at Large: Cultural Dimensions of Globalization	116
Kathleen Stewart	The Magic of the State	121
Elizabeth Burns	Panoramas and Cantos to Blood & Honey	123

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 3 (1998) [PDF, 92 MB]

Contents

Fieldnotes & Notebooks
Che Qianzi	Hand-Copied Paperback	7
Fred Wah	from “China Journal”	12
Dhann Polnau	Notebooks	27
Allison Hedge Coke	New Flash: Tagging Death	32
Lila Abu-Lughod	On Photographs, Fieldnotes, and Participant-Observation	34
Mark Nowak	“Back Me Up”	42
Elaine Equi	Blue Notes	72
Carolyn Erler	Notebooks	75
Carolyn Lei-lanilau	Parabalabia(id): the 21th generation	80
Jack Turner	Field Report	98
Roger Sanjek	What Ethnographies Leave Out	99

Reviews
David Michalski	After Writing Culture: Epistemology and Praxis in Contemporary Anthropology	115
Deborah Reed-Danahay	Rootprints: Memory and Life Writing	119
Paul Naylor	Paul Metcalf—Collected Works, Volume One: 1956-1976	122
Hilton Obenzinger	Paul Metcalf—Collected Works, Volume Two: 1976-1986	126
Jefferson Hansen	Paul Metcalf—Collected Works, Volume Three 1987-1997	130
Tsianina Lomawaima	Indians and Anthropologists: Vine Deloria Jr. & the Critique of Anthropology	133
Maria Damon	The Journal of John Wieners / is to be called / 707 Scott Street	137

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 4 (1999) [PDF, 96 MB]

Contents

Voyage/Voyageur/Voyeur
Kamau Brathwaite	Scapeghost(s)	7
Terry Temescu	Itinerary	28
Roy Miki	fool’s scold, 1.4.97	36
Piotr Gwiazda	The Guest of Literature: The Issue of Hospitality in Literary Translation	40
Rachel Blau DuPlessis	from Draft 33: Deixis	46
Lyle Daggett	mythology	51
Mariela Gil Sánchez (translated by Jen Hofer)	Otel sin H	52
Leonard Schwartz	Elations	54
Ellen Strain	Hyphenated Anthropologists, Tourist Stand-ins, and the Logic of the Repeat Journey	60
Sandy Feinstein	Tracked: Costa Rica, Kansas, Peru	78
Juliana Spahr	gathering palolo stream	80
Gerald Vizenor	The Elevator Shaman	84
Hank Lazer	from The Abacos	93
May Joseph	Asian Mysticism and Soho Chic	98
Edwin Torres	from Underneath the Southern Cross: The Diary of a Journey	105
Will Alexander	Water as a Dysphoric Medium	112
	Mirage Evinced Across the Thalassic	114

Reviews
Michelle Stewart	Delivering Views: Distant Cultures in Early Postcards	119
Stephen Cope	Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word and Sound States: Innovative Poetics and Acoustical Technologies	123
Toral Gajarawala	Anthropological Locations: Boundaries and Grounds of a Field Science	128
Diane Glancy	A Long Way from St. Louie	132
	Blue Marrow	133
Eric Lorberer	Just In: Word of Navigational Challenges: New and Selected Work	135
Amitava Kumar	Border Theory: The Limits of Cultural Politics	140
John Bradley	The Redshifting Web: Poems 1970-1998	144
David Michalski	Destination Culture: Tourism, Museums, and Heritage	147
Julia Van Cleve	Stigmata: Escaping Texts	150

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 5 (1999) [PDF, 110 MB]

Contents

Dia/Logos: Speaking Across
Guillermo Gómez-Peña & Frederick Luis Aldama	The New Millennial Xicano: An Interview with Guillermo Gómez-Peña	7
Sianne Ngai	Orientation	12
Wang Ping	Chinese Bathroom	14
Eleni Sikelianos	Essay: 13 Pressure Points Inside The Skull	22
Elaine Pigeon	Michel Tremblay’s Hosanna and the Queering of National Identity	23
Mickey Jenkins	Flirt-Wife and Love-Whack, How:	41
John Olson	Crewel Embroidery	42
George Kalamaras	Mirrors in the Medulla: A Coroner’s Interview with the Exhumed Corpse of Gerard de Nerval During a Delayed Autopsy	43
Laurie Price	Tick	47
Rafeeq Hasan	Slipping into the Easy India…	48
Zhang Er (translated by the author and Susan M. Schultz)	NuWa Jing Wei (the baby girl, Jing Wei)	55
Sterling Plumpp	Five Poems	57
John Taggart	from When The Saints (Part Three)	73
Nathaniel Mackey	Song of the Andoumboulou: 42	90

Anthropology/Poetry/Poetics: A Special Nathaniel Tarn Section
Nathaniel Tarn	from Ecce Homo Martin (1983)	97
Shamoon Zamir	Scandals in the House of Anthropolog: notes toward a reading of Nathaniel Tarn	99
Christopher Funkhouser	Scandals in the House of Birds: Shamans and Priest on Lake Atitlán (a review)	123
Peter O’Leary	Rus: An Interview with Nathaniel Tarn	125

Reviews
Jessica Cattelino	Exotics at Home: Anthropologies, Others, American Modernity	137
David Michalski	The Practice of Everyday Life, Volume 2: Living and Cooking	141
Anna Reckin	Voice-Over	145
Maria Damon	Race Traitor 9/Surrealist Issue	149
Jon Spayde	The Scandals of Translation	153
Jordan Davis	Review Essay: A. L. Nielsen and Kimiko Hahn	157
Julia Van Cleve	Deleuze and Guattari: New Mappings in Politics, Philosophy, and Culture	162

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 6 (2000) [PDF, 117 MB]

Contents

(Documentary)
C.S. Giscombe	from Inland	7
Ed Pavlić	“Come on in my kitchen”: Asymmetry, Angularity, and Incremental Repetition in Zora Neale Hurston’s Diasporic Modernism	10
Tirtza Even	(Documentary) Gallery One	20
Deborah Meadows	from antiself.doc	32
Jason Nelson	Unambiguous and Basic	38
	Seven Series Eight	39
Paul Naylor	Some Assembly Required: Paul Metcalf’s Rhizomatic Machines	40
Jonathan Monroe	from Demonsthenes’ Dictionary	59
Everett Hoagland	dot dis:	61
Christof Migone	Ricochets, or How the Bullet Skips to the Tune of the Phonograph	63
Walter K. Lew	from Seoul kihaeng	77
Phil Young	(Documentary) Gallery Two, “Genuine Indian Burial Site at Starrs”	80
Guillermo Juan Parra	Ancestors	96
	Chapoquoit II	97
Mary Kasimor	Chaplin’s Machinery	99
	Disembodied Relationship	100
	Made	101
Mary Weems	Needles and Pins	102
	Not Hatred	103
	Graffiti	104
	Inspiration	105
Jeffery Renard Allen	Hush Arbor — for Mahalia Jackson	106
Alan Gilbert	Poetry and Reportage: Andrew Schelling’s The Road to Ocosingo	111

Reviews
David Michalski	Collecting Visible Evidence	125
Stephen Cope	Poetic Culture: Contemporary American Poetry between Community and Institution	129
Jefferson Hansen	Blues Narratives and Jumping the Line	133
Julia Van Cleve	Gilles Deleuze and the Ruin of Representation	136
Robin Ann Lukes	The Politics of Fieldwork: Research in an American Concentration Camp	143
Elizabeth Burns	Collected Poems (Madeline Gleason) and Midwinter Day	147
Michelle Stewart	Feminism and Documentary and For Documentary: Twelve Essays	151
Chistopher Winks	Poetic Investigations: Singing the Holes in History	156
Mark Nowak	Critical Vehicles: Writings, Projects, Interviews and Object to be Destroyed: The Work of Gordon Matta-Clark	160

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 7 (2000) [PDF, 119 MB]

Contents

“Everyday Life”
Kathleen Stewart	Death Sightings	7
Diane Glancy	Tongues	12
	Velcro	13
	Retrieval	14
	I am your true woman, Blinky	15
Harryette Mullen	X-ray Vision	16
	Present Tense	17
Wing Young Huie	“Everyday Life,” Gallery One “Lakestreet, U.S.A.”	18
Michael Sheringham	Michel de Certeau: The Logic of Everyday Practices	28
John Harvey	The Decline and Fall of the Silver Glo Motel	44
Rae Armantrout	The Cell Phone At Your Ear May Not Exist	45
	Yet	46
Chad Sellers	from (poverty of such)	48
Ray DiPalma	August 4—August 7, 2000	50
Bill Brown	Henri Lefebvre’s The Production of Space	52
Jamason Chen	“Everyday Life,” Gallery Two “The Story of the Coat”	62
Mytili Jagannathan	Twenty-Eight Happy: Seven (Diss)Courses for Emily Z.	71
Justin Chin	Pandora’s Box of Shrimp Chow-Fun	75
Kamau Brathwaite	Esplanade Poem	84
Ben Highmore	‘Opaque, Stubborn Life’: Everyday Life and Resistance in the Work of Michel de Certeau	89
G.E. Patterson	from New York Suite	101
	from Give or Take	105
Theodore Enslin	Moon Change	108
Nicole Brossard (translated by Rosmarie Waldrop)	Theater: Speed of Water	114

Reviews
Christopher Winks	Édouard Glissant and Postcolonial Theory: Strategies of Language and Resistance [Celia M. Britton]	123
Karlyn Koh	Faking It: Poetics & Hybridity (Critical Writing 1984-1999) [Fred Wah]	129
Marcella Durand	Bliss to Fill [Prageeta Sharma] and The Kingdom of the Subjunctive [Suzanne Wise]	132
Vazira Fazila-Yacoobali	Cultural Compass: Ethnographic Explorations of Asian America [Martin F. Manalansan IV, ed.]	136
Najat Rahman	Dear Mr. Kawabata [Rashid Al-Daif] and Sherazade: Missing: aged 17, dark curly hair, green eyes [Leila Sebbar]	140
Edwin Torres	Thunderweavers and Lotería Cards and Fortune Poems [Juan Felipe Herrera]	144
Kelly Everding	Translating the Unspeakable: Poetry and the Innovative Necessity [Kathleen Fraser]	148
Julia Van Cleve	Deleuzism [Ian Buchanan] and Proust and Signs [Gilles Deleuze]	152
David Michalski	The Arcades Project [Walter Benjamin]	159
Roberto Tejada	Turtle Pictures [Ray Gonzalez] and Point and Line [Thalia Field]	166

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 8 (2001) [PDF, 102 MB]

Contents

“Authenticating (Dis)Location/(Dis)Locating Authenticity”
Wang Ping	Mixed Blood	7
Mark McMorris	Postcolonial “A”? Empire & Nation in Louis Zukofsky’s American Movements, A-14—A-17	11
Hoa Nguyen	[Years after stealing cattle from the womb]	23
	I Woke Up This Morning And It Was Friday	24
	Mission Dolores	25
	Lozenge	26
May Joseph	Hanoi Palimpsest	27
Kazim Ali	Sughra Kirmani:	40
	Juan Gris/le livre	42
Taj Jackson	Flock To	43
Cecilia Vicuña	[Gallery]	44
Gregory Vincent St. Thomasino	William	55
Lise Erdrich	Great Love Poems of the State Hospital	57
Kamau Brathwaite	Film Studies +2 +3	59
Everett Hoagland	language doodle: on a post-lunch napkin	78
Alan Gilbert	“There’s no center where / similarity would begin”: C.S. Giscombe’s Giscome Road and Here	80
Deborah Richards	from The Beauty Projection	93
Kenneth Sherwood	from Mud Tablet (Tableta de barro)	98
Ruth Now	124 seconds of Surviving the Dustbowl	103
Leslie Scalapino	from The Tango	105
Rosamond S. King	Rules of Order	111
	Indigenous	113
	(is) there a choice	114

Reviews
Huda Seif	The Pre-Occupation of Postcolonial Studies [Fawzia Afzal-Khan and Kalpana Seshadri-Crooks, editors]	117
Ramez Qureshi	Discrepant Engagement: Dissonance, Cross-Culturality and Experimental Writing [Nathaniel Mackey]	122
Rafeeq Hasan	Passport Photos [Amitava Kumar]	126
Lisa Jarnot	The Wireless Room [Shane Rhodes] and Echo Regime [John Olson]	130
Aldon Nielsen	Transfigurations: Collected Poems [Jay Wright]	134
Peter O’Leary	Living Root: A Memoir [Michael Heller]	137
Julia Van Cleve	(Dis)figurations [Ian Angus] and Empire [Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri]	142
Biodun Iginla	Edward Said and the Work of the Critic: Speaking the Truth to Power [Paul Bové, editor]	151
Juan Obarrio	States of Emergency: Documentaries, War, Democracies [Patricia Zimmermann]	155
David Michalski	The Ends of Globalization [Mohammed A. Bamyeh] and Cultural Studies and Political Theory [Jodi Dean, editor]	159
Maria Damon	Dyssemia Sleaze [Adeena Karasick] and hovercraft [K. Silem Muhammad]	163

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 9 (2001) [PDF, 111 MB]

Contents

Writing (Working) Class
Ole Gram	Left Hook: Brecht, Boxing, and Committed Art	7
Jena Osman	from Press Scrutiny: The Doubles	17
Curtis Crisler	Red-Brick Dust	20
	3 steps over	21
Amiri Baraka	Wooden Negroes Appear At A Slam	24
	Rhythm & Rime	27
Tisa Bryant	from Playing House	31
Paulette Myers-Rich	Gallery	40
Rodrigo Toscano	Jukebox Selection, A Brick and Mortar Remembrance (following a conversation with a Local 4-121 pensioner)	49
	Ideo-Degradable Verses from Immokalee (for Lucas Benitez)	51
	General Secretary Lula’s Last Stand?	55
Jeff Derksen	As Ideology: Denaturalized Globalization and Articulatory Poetics	58
Mark Nowak	$OO / Line / Steel / Train	66
Pauline Butling	Writing as social practice (Writing Class: The Kootenay School of Writing Anthology)	85
Allison Hedge Coke	Four Corner Nabs	93
Elizabeth Willis	Possessing Possession: Lorine Niedecker, Folk, and the Allegory of Making	97

Reviews
Johanna Brenner [a review by Rebecca Scherr]	Women and the Politics of Class	109
Bryan K. Garman [a review by Steven Garabedian]	A Race of Singers: Whitman’s Working-Class Hero from Guthrie to Springsteen	114
Frank Stanford [a review by Eric Lorberer]	The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You	118
bell hooks [a review by Gabrielle Civil]	Where We Stand: Class Matters	124
Michael Perelman [a review by Bill Brown]	The Invention of Capitalism	129
Juliana Spahr [a review by Elisabeth Frost]	Everybody’s Autonomy: Connective Reading and Collective Identity	136
Wanda Coleman [a review by Mary E. Weems]	Mercurochrome	140
J.K. Gibson-Graham, Stephen Resnick, and Richard Wolff, eds. [a review by Mark Soderstrom]	Re/Presenting Class: Essays in Postmodern Marxism	146
Richard Iton [a review by David Michalski]	Solidarity Blues: Race, Culture and the American Left	151
Clarence Major [a review by Joel Bettridge]	Necessary Distance	156
Susan Zlotnick [a review by Deirdre Murphy]	Women, Writing, and the Industrial Revolution	160
Frances Chung [a review by Heather Nagami]	Crazy Melon and Chinese Apple	165

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 10 (2002) [PDF, 110 MB]

Contents

• Articulation • Alterity •
Bruce Campbell	Assembly Poetics in the Global Economy: Nicaragua	7
Ranjani Neriya	Transparencies	29
	Aquarelle	30
May Mahala	DIVING: “A one-act play”	31
Jeffery Renard Allen	He Was Like Us: A War Story	48
Theodore Harris & Amiri Baraka	Gallery	50
Edwin Torres	Song of the Red Lamb	58
Craig Dworkin	Five Words In A Stein	59
Ulf Cronquist	“White Male Heterosexual Author Seeks…”: The Articulation of Queer Performativity Between Men in Leonard Cohen’s Beautiful Losers	67
Rosmarie Waldrop	We Will Always Ask, What Happened?	74
Frederick Luis Aldama	An Interview with Ntozake Shange	75
Peter O’Leary	“Peace On Earth?”: John Taggart’s Poem in Circular Motion	83
John Taggart	Car Museum	93
Elizabeth Robinson	The Little Matchgirl	97
Kristina Chew	Grafting as Comparative Literature: Virgil’s Georgics and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s Dictée	102
Bing He	Untitled Apples	116
Norma Cole	Like a Fish in a Dumpster	118
Arthur Sze	The Thermos	119
	Ice Line	120

Reviews
Victor Hernández Cruz [a review by George Kalamaras]	Maraca: New and Selected Poems 1965-2000	123
Bei Dao [a review by Wang Ping]	At the Sky’s Edge: Poems 1991-1996	129
Bud Schultz and Ruth Schultz, eds. [a review by Mark Soderstrom]	The Price of Dissent: Testimonies to Political Repression in America	131
Antonio José Ponte; Plays by Julio Matas, Carlos Felipe, and Virgilio Piñera; Reina María Rodríguez [a review by Deborah Meadows]	In the Cold of the Malecón; Three Masterpieces of Cuban Drama:; La detención del tiempo/Time’s Arrest	135
Alice Notley [a review by Kazim Ali]	Disobedience	141
Georges Bataille [a review by David Michalski]	The Unfinished System of Nonknowledge	147
Arjun Appadurai, editor [a review by Jeff Derksen]	Globalization	151
Jerry Gafio Watts [a review by Aldon Nielsen]	Amiri Baraka: The Politics and Art of a Black Intellectual	156
Beth Anderson [a review by Rusty Morrison]	The Habitable World	159
Richard Younker [a review by Patrick Lohier]	Chicago People	163

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 11 (2002) [PDF, 139 MB]

Contents

Writing “Home”
Kimiko Hahn	The Orient	7
	Utica Station, Dep. 10:07 a.m. to N.Y. Penn Station	12
	Sparrow	15
Heriberto Yepez	Babellebab	23
Will Alexander	from Concerning the Hebane Bird	37
Rodrigo Toscano	from SATIRE No. 4, “In-Formational Forum Rousers—Arcing”	45
Heather Nagami	Acts of Translation	51
Yong Soon Min and Allan de Souza	Gallery	63
Craig Watson	from Where/As: Ecuador	73
Wang Ping	Outskirts	81
	Our Teacher of Marxism and Leninism	83
Nora Ruth Roberts	Meridel Le Sueur: An interview conducted in the home of Le Sueur’s daughter, Rachel Tilsen, in St. Paul, MN., Summer 1994	84
Rick Mitchell	Brecht in L.A.	100

Reviews
Roy Miki [a review by Glen Lowry]	Surrender	163
Peter R. Mitchell and John Schoeffel, editors [a review by Robin Ann Lukes]	Understanding Power: The Indispensable Chomsky	172
Rodrigo Toscano [a review by Mark Wallace]	The Disparities	174
Piya Chatterjee [a review by Monika Mehta]	A Time for Tea: Women, Labor, and Post/ Colonial Politics on an Indian Tea Plantation	178
Caroline Sinavaiana-Gabbard; Francisco X. Alarcón [a review by Sun Yung Shin]	alchemies of distance; From the Other Side of Night/Del otro lado de la noche: New and Selected Poems	183
Yunte Huang [a review by Eleana Kim]	Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography, Translation, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature	187
Bhanu Kapil Rider [a review by Kazim Ali]	The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers	193
Krzysztof Ziarek [a review by Julia Van Cleve]	The Historicity of Experience: Modernity, the Avant-Garde, and the Event	197
Kamau Brathwaite [a review by Aldon Lynn Nielsen]	Ancestors; Words Need Love Too	203
Randy Martin [a review by Mark Soderstrom]	On Your Marx	211
Juliana Spahr [a review by Renee Gladman]	Fuck You—Aloha—I Love You	216
Chris Kraus and Sylvére Lotringer, editors [a review by Marcus Boon]	Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader	220

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 12 (2003) [PDF, 126 MB]

Contents

Ethnographic Past(iche)
George E. Marcus	On the Unbearable Slowness of Being an Anthropologist Now: Notes on a Contemporary Anxiety in the Making of Ethnography	7
Myung Mi Kim	from Penury	21
Ammiel Alcalay	from scene of the crime	27
Maria Damon	Some Discourses on/of the Divided Self: Lyric, Ethnography and Loneliness	31
Adrienne Rich	This Evening Let’s	61
Kirin Narayan	Don’t Be Simple, Be Complex	63
Duane Niatum	Girl with Yellow Monkey-flowers in Her Hair	67
Piya Chatterjee	Staging A Time for Tea: Theater and Poetry in Writing the Plantation	72
Thien-bao Phi	FOBulous	79
Tan Lin	Eleven Minute Painting: Reading Module v 0.1	81
Nicholas Lawrence	World Echoes: Caribbeanness as Method	85
Dale Smith	from The Idealist	94
Mark Soderstrom	Red Americanism Struggling to Control the Narrative: Conflict, Disjuncture and Patriotism in the Oral Life Story and Trial Documents of a Minnesota Communist	98

Reviews
Adam Jones [a review by Bruce Campbell]	Beyond the Barricades: Nicaragua and the Struggle for the Sandinista Press, 1979-1998	109
Wendy Rose [a review by Kimberly TallBear]	Itch Like Crazy	114
E. San Juan Jr. [a review by Charlie Samuyaveric]	Racism and Cultural Studies: Critiques of Multiculturalist Ideology and the Politics of Difference	122
Elizabeth McHenry [a review by Pamela R. Fletcher]	Forgotten Reader: Recovering the Lost History of African American Literary Societies	129
Nathaniel Tarn [a review by Peter O’Leary]	Selected Poems: 1950-2000	134
Michèle H. Richman [a review by David Michalski]	Sacred Revolutions: Durkheim and the Collège de Sociologie	138
Ammeil Alcalay [a review by Jane Sprague]	from the warring factions	142
Edited by Josephine Lee, Imogene L. Lim, and Yuko Matsukawa [a review by Sun Yung Shin]	Re/collecting Early Asian America: Essays in Cultural History	147
Christian Bök [a review by Christophe Wall-Romana]	Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science	150
T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting [a review by Gabrielle Civil]	Negritude Women	154
Hoa Nguyen [a review by Lisa Jarnot]	Your Ancient See Through	159
Kate A. Baldwin [a review by Christopher Winks]	Beyond the Color Line and the Iron Curtain: Reading Encounters Between Black and Red, 1922-1963	163

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 13 (2003) [PDF, 112 MB]

Contents

Poets’ Theater/People’s Theater
Alan Filewod	People’s Theatre, People’s Army: Masculinism, Agitprop, Reenactment	7
Beth Cleary	Break	21
Amiri Baraka	Skin Trouble: A Play in One Act	39
Beth Cherne	Taking the Stage: Theatre by and for the Working Class during the Depression Era	58
Sparrow	At War	67
Gabrielle Civil	Infestation of Gnats	82
Josephine Lee	Racial Actors, Liberal Myths	88
Tracie Morris	Afrofuturistic	111
Bob Holman	Apocalypse Eternity	126

Reviews
Chandra Talpade Mohanty [a review by Anjali Nerlaker]	Feminism Without Borders: Decolonizing Theory, Practicing Solidarity	129
Kevin Wetmore, Jr. [a review May Mahala]	Black Dionysus: Greek Tragedy and African American Theatre	133
Nancy Chang and the Center for Constitutional Rights; David Cole and James X. Dempsey [a review Jules Boykoff]	Silencing Political Dissent: How Post-September 11 Anti-Terrorism Measures Threaten Our Civil Liberties; Terrorism and the Constitution: Sacrificing Civil Liberties in the Name of National Security	138
Max Shachtman [a review Yuichiro Onishi]	Race and Revolution	146
Kelly Stuart; Pedro Pietri [a review Sun Yung Shin]	Demonology; The Masses are Asses	151
Texts collected by Dark Star [a review Yedda Morrison]	Quiet Rumours: An Anarcha-Feminist Reader	155
Emilio Bejel [a review Frederick Luis Aldama]	The Write Way Home: A Cuban-American Story	159
Amitava Kumar, editor [a review David Buuck]	World Bank Literature	162
Alan Gilbert	The Future Is a Wish: Emily Jacir Travels Tight Spaces	168

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 14 (2004) [PDF, 123 MB]

Contents

Third Millennium Red
Emelihter Kihleng	Micronesian Diaspora(s)	7
Rod Hernandez	Pocho-Che and the Production of a Transnational/Transcultural Poetics	14
Rita Wong	quotidian terror	39
	agricoda	40
Radha D’Souza	The World Social Forum Revisited: Back to Basics?	41
Kevin Coval	hip-hop poetica #1: macro n micro cosmos definite	46
Kamau Brathwaite	This sweet windperson poem	48
Tyrone Williams	A Day To Remember	58
	Another Day In Heaven, Another Day on Earth	59
	Faux Ersatz	60
Bob Harrison	macaw, for the island	61
	American friendly	63
Toni Solo	The “free trade” history eraser: Honduras, maquilas and popular protest in Latin America	64
Louis Cabri	After 1923: “The Social Command”	71
Stacy Szymaszek	auction	86
Sudhanva Deshpande	A World of Difference	89
Jeremy Cronin	The Tide Has Turned	93
	Hypothetically	94
	Things are not as bad as they say	95
Qadri Ismail	Towards A Critique of Anthropology	97
Sun Yung Shin	KUAI-ZI	117

Reviews
Ruth Needleman; Mary Margaret Fornow [a review by Peter Rachleff]	Black Freedom Fighters in Steel: The Struggle for Democratic Unionism; Union Women: Forging Feminism in the United Steelworkers of America	121
Marc Nichanian, editor (with the collaboration of Vartan Matiossian) [a review by Khachig Tololyan]	Yeghishe Charents: Poet of the Revolution	126
Barbara Foley [a review by Aldon Lynn Nielsen]	Spectres of 1919: Class and Nation in the Making of the New Negro	131
David Harvey [a review by David Michalski]	Paris, Capital of Modernity	134
Susie S. Porter [a review by Bruce Campbell]	Working Women in Mexico City: Public Discourses and Material Conditions, 1879-1930	139
Laura Elrick; Yedda Morrison [a review by Carol Mirakove]	sKincerity; Crop	143
Linh Dinh [a review by Jane Sprague]	All Around What Empties Out	148
Renée Gladman [a review by Maria Damon]	The Activist	153
Tony Bolden [a review by Pamela R. Fletcher]	Afro-Blue: Improvisations in African American Poetry and Culture	157
Fred Moten [a review by Christopher Winks]	In the Break: The Aesthetics of the Black Radical Tradition	165

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 15-16 (2006) [PDF, 193 MB]

Contents

State / Capital (No. 15)
Giles Goodland	Working Capital	7
	Phantom Capital	10
Interview by Sun Yung Shin	Interview with Grace Lee Boggs	13
Amiri Baraka	Got Any Change?	23
Kendra Fehrer, Photographs by Lisa Arrastía and Mark Nowak	Movement of Unemployed Workers	26
Interview with Toty Flores, of the MTD La Matanza, and Juan Golzman, radio broadcaster	Diario de Redes del Norte: Encuentro de Desocupados 1997	31
Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber	Super Citizen: Caracas, redistributing the city	41
Karen Tei Yamashita	Bread Machine	47
Clarence Major	Kiki’s Intersection	56
Kanishka Goonewardena	What’s in the ‘Full Option’?: On the Passage of Quite a Few Fast Cars Through Some Rather Narrow Streets in Colombo, Sri Lanka	58
Carl Hancock Rux	Mycenaean	69
Randy Martin	Self-Managed Colonialism	71
Jeff Derksen	Searching Out Locations	98
	If Rubber Gloving You Is Wrong	100
	Sometimes I Feel Like I’m Tied to the Local Post	102
Zapatista Army of National Liberation	Zapatista Army of National Liberation: Sixth Declaration of the Selva Lacandona	104

Reviews
reviewed by Rita Wong	Woodsquat	117
reviewed by Rosamond S. King	Aberrations In Black: Toward a Queer of Color Critique	122
reviewed by Peter O’Leary	Louis Riel: A Comic-Strip Biography	127
reviewed by David Michalski	My Cocaine Museum	137
reviewed by Jane Sprague	Last one out	142
reviewed by Radha D’Souza	Multitude: War and Democracy In The Age of Empire	149
reviewed by Maria Damon	Dancing on Main Street and Prayer to Spider Woman/ Reza a la Mujer Araña	154
reviewed by Anjali Nerleker	Debating World Literature	163
reviewed by Peter Rachleff	Finally Got The News	168

Word (No. 16)

Marie Trigona	Alavío	177
Juliana Spahr	Aloha Anger	178
Ammiel Alcalay	Amateur	179
Mike Gonzalez	Anti-Capitalism	180
Michael J. Pikus	Assessment	181
Eleni Stecopoulos	Autoimmunity	182
Pamela R. Fletcher	Bad	183
Deborah Richards	Boo	184
Mark Wallace	Border Class	185
Anna Reckin	Breakdown	186
Said Yusef	Buufis	187
C. Natale Peditto	Chatter	188
Fred Wah	Citizen	189
Mary E. Weems	Colorblind	190
Alan Filewod	Community	191
A.G. Cruz	Compañero	192
Eric Elshtain	Computational Poetics	193
Allison Hedge Coke	Congenital Memory	194
Giles Goodland	Consumee	195
Mike Goodman	Consumption	196
Michael Davidson	Cosmopolitan	197
David Michalski	Cosmoplastic	198
Jane Sprague	Cultural Workers	199
Michael Barnholden	Dehorn	200
Yuichiro Onishi	Diaspora	201
Jules Boykoff	Dissent	202
Phoua Her	Education	203
Christophe Wall-Romana	Embarrassment	204
Roger Farr	Enclosure	205
Greg Hewett	Eros	206
Tony Trehy	Eugenics	207
Kristin Prevallet	Force	208
Dennis B. Teichman	Forensic Eloquence	209
Lisa Arrastía	Gangster	210
Max Boykoff	Global Warming	211
Bruce Campbell	God	212
Amiri Baraka	God	213
Salvatore Engel-Di Mauro	Government	214
Sparrow	Henry	215
James Thomas Stevens	Historiscape	216
Heriberto Yépez	Hybrid	217
Sesshu Foster	Hypnopompic	218
Deborah Meadows	Icons, Iconoclasts	219
Frederick Luis Aldama	Ideology	220
Patrick F. Durgin	Indeterminacy	221
Ricardo Levins Morales	Integrity	222
Ted Pearson	Intellectual Property	223
Peter O’Leary	Islam	224
Rodrigo Toscano	“It’s Too Early to Say”	225
Fadumo Adan	Jihad	226
Ron Silliman	Journalism	227
Kevin Coval	Kike	228
Aaron Vidaver	Lumpenproletariat	229
Amina Haji	Mahadsanid	230
Jen Hofer	Manner, Manners	231
Sheila Lloyd	Melancholia	232
Emelihter Kihleng	Micronesian	233
kanarinka	Microperformance	234
Maria Damon	Micropoetries	235
Piotr Gwiazda	Migrant	236
David Roediger	Miserabilism	237
Annee Cha	Mob Qhoy Quav	238
Idris Goodwin	Monotical	239
Joel Allegretti	Mosque	240
Everett Hoagland	Motherfucker	241
Jennifer Uhlich	Mundane	242
Fred Ho	National Oppression	243
Yedda Morrison	Nature	244
Ethan Paquin	Neighborhood Plan	245
Rafael Ortiz	Neoliberalism	246
C. S. Giscombe	North	247
Paula Rabinowitz	Object	248
Diane Glancy	Ou’Wash	249
Rosamond S. King	Performance, Perform	250
Ed Pavlic	Phoneme Death	251
Denni Somera	Privile Giver	252
Carol Mirakove	Propaganda	253
Roderick Ferguson	Race	254
John J. Trause	Real	255
Christopher Winks	Red	256
David Landrey	Rendition, Extraordinary	257
Mayra Luna	Rights	258
Laura Elrick	Security	259
Robert Fitterman	Shopping	260
Stephanie Gray	Slumming	261
Adrienne Rich	Social Practice	262
Craig Dworkin	Spectacle	263
Kimiko Hahn	Spin	264
Reg Johanson	Standard English	265
Jane Jeong Trenka and Sun Yung Shin	Supply	266
Don LaCoss	Surrealism	267
Dennis Formento	Surregionalism	268
John Landry	Syphilization	269
May Joseph	Transpolitanism	270
Sabine Bitter and Helmut Weber	Transformative Urbanism	271
Jason Evans	Treaty (Indigenous Treatment)	272
Christine Hume	Uncanny	273
Frank Cunningham, IBEW Local 134	Union	274
Jeff Derksen	Universal Cultural Imperialism	275
Kevin Nolan	War	276
Edwin Starr	War	277
Shana L. Redmond	War on Terrorism	278
Shyamal Bagchee	Word	279
Adam Siegel	Xenography	280

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 17 (2007) [PDF, 101 MB]

Contents

Katherine McKittrick	I Entered the Lists…Diaspora Catalogues: The List, The Unbearable Territory, and Tormented Chronologies	7
M. Nourbese Philip	Zong! #9-#12	30
Roger Farr	Against Stratification: Dorothy Trujillo Lusk’s Ogress Oblige and the Poetics of Class Recomposition	34
Kamau Brathwaite	Kamau Brathwaite	50
Michael Davidson	The Dream of a Public Language: Modernity, Manifesto, and the Citizen Subject	72
Fred Wah	Three Poems	89
Opal Palmer Adisa	Mother Mushet	92

Reviews
Michael Parenti [reviewed by Bruce Campbell]	The Culture Struggle	113
Kamau Brathwaite [reviewed by Christopher Winks]	MR: Magical Realism (2 vols.) & Born to Slow Horses	118
Retort (Iain Boll, T.J. Clark, Joseph Matthews, Michael Watts) [reviewed by Mark Wallace]	Afflicted Powers: Capital and Spectacle In A New Age of War	127
Translated by Peter Green [reviewed by John Bradley]	The Poems of Catullus	131
Joseph H. Lake, Jr. [reviewed by Peter Rachleff]	Friendly Anger: The Rise of the Labor Movement in St. Martin	135
Aldon Lynn Nielsen and Lauri Ramey, editors [reviewed by Maria Damon]	Every Goodbye Ain’t Gone: An Anthology of Innovative Poetry by African Americans	140
David E. Lowes [reviewed by David Michalski]	The Anti-Capitalist Dictionary: Movements, Histories & Motivations	144

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 18 (2007) [PDF, 91 MB]

Contents

…News That Stays…
Adrienne Rich	Three Poems	7
Jaswinder Bolina	Novel	18
Rodrigo Toscano	First Box: A Poetics Theatre Play	21
Paula Boniolo and Rodolfo Elbert	A working class theory of corruption: Thematic analysis of workers’ ideas about corruption and its consequences	36
Amiri Baraka	“There are some soldiers”	48
Bill King	Blasting Damage	49
Kenny Tanemura	Mao Poems	51
Patricia Smith	For Jermaine, Six, Dead in Boston	57
Barbara Jane Reyes	Story Fragments and Process	58
Duriel Harris	Self-Portrait in Desire	61
Mani Rao	Airing at a sniff	63
Wayde Compton	Loxodromic	64
Tyrone Williams	“Apparently I am picking fights”: Cultural Studies and Poetics Mix It Up in Taylor Brady’s Yesterday’s News	66
Rachel Blau DuPlessis	Draft 79: Mass Observation	78
Renee Gladman	from The Event Factory	84
Stephen Mooney	from District Line Project (Proxy Central Park)	91
Victor Garcia	Señor Sanchez Quotes Himself	93
Kao Kalia Yang	from The Latehomecomer	94

Book Reviews
Peter Barry [reviewed by Piers Hugill]	Poetry Wars: British Poetry of the 1970s and the Battle of Earls Court	113
Jonathan Beller [reviewed by Christophe Wall-Ramona]	The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle	118
Tiya Miles [reviewed by Lisa Arrastía]	Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom	123
[reviewed by Allan Kolski Horwitz]	Is There ‘New’ Poetry in Post-Apartheid South Africa?	132
Stephen Duncombe [reviewed by Jules Boykoff]	Dream: Re-Imagining Progressive Politics in an Age of Fantasy	145

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 19 (2008) [PDF, 106 MB]

Contents

“Yet Citizen Are You?”
Scott Bear Don’t Walk	Two Poems	7
Larissa Lai	from Goodbye Butterfly, Hello Kitty: An Opiate Opera	10
Kim Duff	The Spatial Logic of Louis Cabri and Rodrigo Toscano’s Urban Poetics	22
Oliver Ressler	Globalizing Protest (Geneva, 6/2003)	41
Kimiko Hahn	Questions for Calliope	46
Diane Glancy	When the Language Parted	53
Anne Waldman	Two Poems	58
Oliver Ressler	Globalizing Protest (Edinburgh, 7/2005)	73
Bhanu Kapil	from “Humanimal: A Project for Future Children”	77
Kazim Ali	Cairo	85
Edwin Torres	I Am Trying To Perfect My Assént	92
Oliver Ressler	Globalizing Protest (Rostock, 6/2007)	95
Shamoon Zamir	Neo-Hoodoo: Proposals for a Literary History	100

Reviews
Haun Saussy, editor [reviewed by Christopher Winks]	Comparative Literature in an Age of Globalization	135
Rachel Zolf [reviewed by Joel Bettridge]	Human Resources	141
John David Rhodes [reviewed by C. Natale Peditto]	Stupendous, Miserable City: Pasolini’s Rome	147
Alan Gilbert [reviewed by Stephen Cope]	Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight	151
Marc Falkoff, editor [reviewed by Maria Damon]	Poems from Guantánamo : The Detainees Speak	155

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 20 (2008) [PDF, 122 MB]

Contents

Kazim Ali	The Poetics of Islam	5
Amiri Baraka	Black Power in Newark	8
Susan Briante	“I Did Not Marry Mary Todd” Webs, Red Ink, Highways Laid With Headstones, and Cross-Cultural Investigative Poetics.	18
Maria Damon	State, Condition	23
Jeff Derksen	The Idea of Cross-Culture	27
Patrick F. Durgin	Towards a Post-Ableist Poetics	32
Laura Elrick	De-Sublimated Multi-Lingualisms	37
C. S. Giscombe	Rollsigns/Notes on Transit	41
Diane Glancy	On My Way From One Place to Another in the Sandhills of Central Nebraska on Highway 183 in a New Car With 1016 Miles the Day After I Turned in the Old Car With 198,589 Miles or the Importance of Cross-Cultural Poetics	44
Kimiko Hahn	Feelings—?	47
Duriel Harris	Interdiscourse(s): Poetics & The Cross Cultural (Experiment in Brief)	49
A. A. Hedge Coke	Sway Value: Cross Cultural Poetics	54
Bhanu Kapil	Notes on Failure: A Short Essay on Cross-Cultural Poetics	59
Larissa Lai	Cellular Archive, Landed Militant: Poethic Notes on Asianted Futures	64
Francesco Levato	from War Rug	67
Farid Matuk	The Ungrammatical People: Minstrelsy, Love	80
Joyelle McSweeney and Johannes Göransson	Find Us With The Lemurs: Disability and the Språkgrotesk	84
Deborah Meadows	Notes Toward a Theoretical Exploration of “Contradictions. Irony. Sentimentality.”	89
Aimee Nezhukumatathil	Parrotfish, Pachyderms, and Poetry: Writing While Traveling	93
Yuichiro Onishi	Afro-Asian Solidarities and the “Circle of Culture”	97
Mani Rao	Stretch	102
Barbara Jane Reyes	On Feminism, Women of Color, Poetics, and Reticence: Some Considerations	107
Juliana Spahr	from The Incinerator	113
Jane Sprague	A Poetics of Dissent: Labor and IT Exigencies	118
Celina Su	I Am Your Electric Fan: Or, 13 Ways to Look at a Purported Heart	122
Edwin Torres	Seeker-Crossing in the Age of Glass Machines	129
Rodrigo Toscano	To Become Super-Solid	132
Azareen Van der Vliet Oloomi	Cross Cultural Poetics: Thought-Trafficking and the Plagued Text	138
Fred Wah	Music at the Heart of Thinking 135: The Score	143
Christophe Wall-Romana	Intersentience (Crimes of the Obvious)	147
Mary E. Weems	Echoes: A X-Cultural Response to Guy Senese’s Throwing Voices	153
Tyrone Williams	Problems and Promises of Actually Existing Cross Cultural Poetics	161
Christopher Winks	Many Cultures to Cross	168
Rita Wong	XC-Poetics, or Toward 90 Addresses for a Poem	173
Kao Kalia Yang	The Relationship of Cross-Cultural Poetics	180
Rachel Zolf	A Tenuous We: Writing as Not-Knowing	182

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 21-22 (2009) [PDF, 226 MB]

Contents

South Africa: Literature and Social Movements
Priya Narismulu	“All have joined in the struggle”: The Literature of the United Democratic Front in South Africa	9
Sabelo Mlangeni	All photographs by Sabelo Mlangeni	47 & ff.
Zine Magubane	“Can We AS Mother Not Take Our Fight to the Enemy?”: The Politics of Motherhood in South African Autobiography	48
Pumla Dineo Gqola	“As women we have multiple lives, and we need to honour all of them”: A conversation with Makhosazana Xaba	76
Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi	Usable Past: Language, Oral Tradition, Song, and the Mobilization of Nothern Ndebele Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid South Africa, 1994-2004	85
Victoria J. Collis-Buthelezi	“A Native Venture”: Sol (Solomon Tshekisho) Plaatje, Defining South African Literature	118
Vuyisile Msila	The new voices: Poetry as social commentary in the post-Apartheid South Africa	138
Botsotso Jesters	Poetic Script II, III, IV	157
Devarakshanam Govinden	The Mahatma, the Text, and the Critic	163
Osita Ezeliora	The South African Novel after Apartheid: Mphahlele, Mzamane, and Oliphant on the Idiom of Transition	191
Pumla Dineo Gqola	“Pushing out from the centre”: (Black) feminist imagination, redefined politics and emergent trends in South African poetry	214
Kelwyn Sole	“I have learned to hear more acutely”: Aesthetics, Agency and the Reader in Contemporary South African Poetry	240
Dennis Brutus	Sequence for Mumia Abu-Jamal and I Salute the Jacarandas Anyway	268

Reviews
Martin Murray [reviewed by N. Nieftagodien]	Taming the Disorderly City: The Spatial Landscape of Johannesburg after Apartheid	273
Richard Pithouse, editor [reviewed by Peter Rachleff]	Asinimali: University Struggles in Post-Apartheid South Africa	280
[reviewed by Simon Lewis]	Poetry and Protest: A Dennis Brutus Reader & Seasonal Fires: New and Selected Poems (Ingrid de Kok)	286
Xolela Mangcu [reviewed by Ashley Gunter]	To The Brink: The State of Democracy in South Africa	293
Boaventura de Sousa Santos, editor & Andrea Cornwall and Vera Schattan Coelho, editors & Xavier de Souza Briggs [reviewed by Celina Su]	Democratizing Democracy: Beyond the Liberal Democratic Canon & Spaces for Change?: The Politics of Citizen Participation in New Democratic Arenas & Democracy as Problem Solving: Civic Capacity in Communities Across the Globe	297

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics 23 (2010) [PDF, 111 MB]

Contents

Social Studies
Tyrone Williams	New Criticism and the Civil Rights Movement : : Identity Politics and the Liberal Arts	9
Soham Patel	Three Poems	30
Kate Eichorn	Multiple Registers of Silence in M. NourbeSe Philip’s Zong!	33
John-Michael Rivera	Sahagun’s Encyclopedia	40
Hilton Obenzinger	from How We Write: The Varieties of Writing Experience (w/ Renato Rosaldo, Diane Middlebrook, David Henry Hwang, and Larry Susskind)	50
Don Mee Choi	1950 June 28: The Fall of Seoul	59
Mahmoud Darwish (translated by Saifedean Ammous)	from In Praise of the High Shadow	60
Adrienne Rich	Two Poems	64
Philip Metres	“We Build a World”: War Resistance Poetry in/as the First Person Plural	68
Cara Benson	from spreek	79
Aldon Lynn Nielsen	Sit-in at Bullworth’s	83
Arisa White	lion woman	89
Amish Trivedi	The Military Band Organ at the Slater Park Carousel	92
Jake Wilhelmsen	the lion in wait	94
Patricia Smith	Two Poems	103
Timothy Yu	Forgotten Capital: Touring Berlin with John Yau and Bill Barrette	105

Book Reviews
Teresa L. Ebert [reviewed by Bruce Campbell]	The Task of Cultural Critique	119
Manuel Maples Arce (trans. Brandon Holmquest) [reviewed by Lindsey Freer]	City: Bolshevik Super-Poem in Five Cantos	124
Philip F. Rubio [reviewed by Peter Rachleff]	There’s Always Work at the Post Office: African American Postal Workers and the Fight for Jobs, Justice, and Equality	129
T.R. Reid & Jason Corburn [reviewed by Celina Su]	The Healing of America: A Global Quest for Better, Cheaper, and Fairer Health Care & Toward the Healthy City: People, Places, and the Politics of Urban Planning	136
Fred Moten & Douglas Kearney [reviewed by Maria Damon]	B Jenkins & The Black Automaton	144
C.L.R. James (ed. and with an introductionn by Noel Ignatiev)	A New Notion: Two Works by C.L.R. James	149
Ara Shirinyan [reviewed by Ellen Welcker]	Your Country is Great: Afghanistan—Guyana	154
Slavoj Zizek [reviewed by Mark Soderstrom]	First as Tragedy, Then as Farce	159

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Seccession (1922–1924)
Dir. Gorham B. Munson
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Alcheringa (1970–1980)
Ed. Dennis Tedlock & Jerome Rothenberg
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Roof (1976–1979)
Ed. James Sherry
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New Wilderness Letter (1977–1984)
Ed. Jerome Rothenberg
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Reality Studios (1978–1988)
Ed. Ken Edwards
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Infolio (1986–1991)
Ed. Tom Raworth
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Zuk (1987–1989)
Ed. Claude Royet-Journoud
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Pages (1987–1990)
Ed. Robert Sheppard
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M/E/A/N/I/N/G (1986–1996)
Ed. Susan Bee and Mira Schor

No. 1, December 1986 [PDF]
No. 2, November 1987 [PDF]
No. 3, May 1988 [PDF]
No. 4, November 1988 [PDF]
No. 5, May 1989 [PDF]
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No. 19-20, May 1996 [PDF]

O Books (1988-2009)
Ed. Leslie Scalapino et al.
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O/One: An Anthology, 1988 [PDF]
O/Two An Anthology, 1991 [PDF]
O/Three: War, 1993 [PDF]
O/Four: Subliminal Time, 1993 [PDF]
enough, (with Rick London), 2003 [PDF]
War & Peace, 2004 [PDF]
War & Peace 2: Poetry & Essays, (with Judith Goldman) 2005 [PDF]
War & Peace 3: The Future, (with Judith Goldman) 2007 [PDF]
War & Peace 4: Vision & Text, (with Judith Goldman) 2009 [PDF]

Big Allis (1989-2000)
Ed. Melanie Neilson and Jessica Grim
Introduction and Commentary on the Digital Reissue of Big Allis
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No. 1, 1989 [PDF]
No. 2, 1989 [PDF]
No. 3, 1990 [PDF]
No. 4, 1991 [PDF]
No. 5, 1992 [PDF]
No. 6, 1993 [PDF]
No. 7, 1996 [PDF]
No. 8, 1998 [PDF]
No. 9, 2000 [PDF]

Chain (1994–2005)
Ed. Jena Osman and Juliana Spahr
Some Facts About Chain

No. 1, Gender and Editing, 1994 [PDF]
No. 2, Documentary, 1995 [PDF]
No. 3/1, Hybrid Genres, 1996 [PDF]
No. 3/2, Hybrid Genres, 1996 [PDF]
No. 4, Precedures, 1997 [PDF]
No. 5, Different Languages, 1998 [PDF]
No. 6, Letters, 1999 [PDF]
No. 7, Memoir/Antimemoir, 2000 [PDF]
No. 8, Comics, 2001 [PDF]
No. 9, Dialogue, 2002 [PDF]
No. 10, Translucinación [PDF]
No. 11, Public Forms [PDF]
No. 12, Facts [PDF]

Combo (1998–2003)
Ed. Michael Magee
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No. 1, Summer 1998 [PDF]
No. 2, Fall-Winter 1998 [PDF]
No. 3, Spring 1999 [PDF]
No. 4, Fall 1999 [PDF]
No. 5, Winter 2000 [PDF]
No. 6, Spring 2000 [PDF]
No. 7, Fall 2000 [PDF]
No. 8, Winter-Spring 2001 [PDF]
No. 9, Fall-Winter 2001 [PDF]
No. 10, Spring 2002 [PDF]
No. 11, Fall-Winter 2002 [PDF]
No. 12, Spring 2003 [PDF]

XCP: Cross Cultural Poetics (1997–2010)
Ed. Mark Nowak
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No. 1, 1997 [PDF]
No. 2, 1998 [PDF]
No. 3, 1998 [PDF]
No. 4, 1999 [PDF]
No. 5, 1999 [PDF]
No. 6, 2000 [PDF]
No. 7, 2000 [PDF]
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No. 23, 2010 [PDF]

Aufgabe (2001–2014)
Ed. E. Tracy Grinnell et al.
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No. 1, Summer 2001 [PDF]
No. 2, Spring 2002 [PDF]
No. 3, Fall 2003 [PDF]
No. 4, Fall 2004 [PDF]
No. 5, Fall 2005 [PDF]
No. 6, Spring 2007 [PDF]
No. 7, 2008 [PDF]
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No. 10, 2011 [PDF]
No. 11, 2012 [PDF]
No. 12, 2013 [PDF]
No. 13, 2014 [PDF]

Calque (2007–2009)
Ed. Brandon Holmquest and Steve Dolph
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No. 1, January 2007 [PDF]
No. 2, May-June 2007 [PDF]
No. 3, November 2007 [PDF]
No. 4, Spring 2008 [PDF]
No. 5, Spring 2009 [PDF]