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Sumac (2 bound volumes of the magazine)

Publication details: Fremont, Michigan : Sumac Press, [1968-1971]Description: 2 v. : 21 cmGenre/Form: LOC classification:
  • PS3501 .S86 1968
Contents:
v. 1. Fall 1968: Wanting the moon I & II / Denise Levertov -- Letters from the poet who sleeps in a chair / Nicanor Parra -- Two poems (Nostalgia for the future) / William Corbett -- The sound of voices: a fictitious essay / John Thompson -- Three poems for the Dakotas (Paul Fish Hawk; Matthew Yellow Earring; John Flying Hawk) / Thomas Gatten -- 7 Epodon: Johnson City / Tim Reynolds -- Shark / Neil Claremon -- Untitled poem / Rebecca Newth -- The arsonist as benefactor / James Tate -- The massacre of the balloons / Lawrence Shea -- The Chuck Berry Triptych / J.D. Reed -- When they packed up, we went / Kenneth Koch -- from Riot Rimes: USA / Raymond Patterson -- Isadore / Louis Simpson -- Selected poems (Art of poetry; To see; In the full light of day; Portait; Repose; Gulls; from The rocks) / Eugene Guillevic -- Poland 1931: "The Beards" / Jerome Rothenberg -- Three poems (An uncollected note from Professor M--; Notes on Imagery; Laughing) / Paul Hannigan -- Two poems (The man that jumps barbed wire fences; Burning a replaced farm house) / Nathan N. Whiting -- Three poems (Emily Dickinson and the fox she knew from her house; Nature scene, as it imitates Klee; Words for a dead friend) / George Quasha -- Two poems (Dump poem; Birds that day) / Robert Vas Dias -- The night man / Mitchell Goodman -- Three poems (July, my sweet; A sequence of light; Autumn sequence) / Dan Gerber -- A year's changes / Jim Harrison -- Nights and days / Robert Duncan.
v. 1. Winter 1969: Notes for Canto CXI; Notes for a later Canto / Ezra Pound -- Port Jefferson / Louis Simpson -- Twelve poems (Anatomy lesson; The poor; Second Avenue winter; Poem without a title; How to Psalmodise; Psalm; Ax; Coal; Home; Stone to stones; The inner man; The forest) / Charles Simic -- Three poems (After the quarrel; Extract: notes from a dentist's chair; Air letters: Italy) / Joann Cattonar -- Two untitled poems / Lennart Bruce -- Three poems (Poker - Friday night; The fast; August 11, 1968, becomes memorable) / Gary Kissik -- Six poems (Sussex: The Downs; Angels; Further to a point first advanced by Walter Savage Landor; Good to the last cackle; Funerals depress me for some reason; This imperial day the dawnsun calls) / M.L. Rosenthal -- Two poems (Noticed; The girl from Durango) / Daniel J. Langton -- Early walk / Linda Pastan -- Six poems (Riders at dusk; Somebody trying; A cloak; Earth dust; Waiting; Swan that sings and) / Denise Levertov -- Pennsylvania funeral / George Shaw -- Five poems (Re-acquaintance; Place of abundance; Discourse; The ravine; Up on French Hill) / Hayden Carruth -- Two poems (Visions; I am) / Kathleen Spivack -- She tries hard / Terry Stokes -- The mermaid / Harold Witt -- Cleaning up after March / Greg Kuzma -- Two poems (Rectilinear; Sound of death) / Anghelos Phacas -- Two poems (No ultimate sacrilege; Season of Autumn light) / Judson Crews -- Happy times / Donald Hall -- The encounter / William Ferguson -- Three poems (View from the Lions Gate Bridge; Epiphany; The dybbuk) / Stanley Cooperman -- The album / George Hitchcock -- D.C.: fear in funland / William Holland -- Poem / John Silkin -- Seavoyage / George Quasha -- Review: John Thompson, The Talking Girl / Dan Gerber.
v. 1. Spring 1969: Three poems (Chengtu; Backsweep/Black; The busride) / Paul Blackburn -- Two poems (The light; With my eyes) / Evgeny Vinokurov -- Eight poems (At Cronkhite; The Prado: Bosch: S. Antonio; The Prado: Number 2671, Anonimo Espanol; Cornwall, touring; To die in Milltown; Sailing Dalmatia; Paestum; Morning in Padova) / Richard Hugo -- Two poems (Little changes; River Road) / Alan Brilliant -- Seven poems (Thirst; Love story; Lines; Waterlilies; A dangerous thing; In a Connaught pub; Mussels) / Claire McAllister -- Three poems (Heart of the pebble; Dream of the pebble; Two pebbles) / Vasko Popa -- A handbook reference to flowers / Gerard Malanga -- North past Newaygo / Daniel L. Rosochacki -- Four poems (Stan; Footfalls; The ground of Lincoln County; Coming to London from Toronto) / George Bowering -- Three poems (Love letter postmarked von Beethoven; My trouble; Being a landlord of the emotions) / Diane Wakoski -- Five poems / Michael Palmer -- Sunday afternoon / Clayton Eshelman -- The figure of grace / Tom Taylor -- Work for a pyre / Robert Marteau -- Three poems (Strange kind; Poem; The quarter-mile at Flat Rock) / J.D. Reed -- Ouled nail, she waits for me / James Mechem -- Three poems (Flatfish; Worm; Creatures) / John Silkin -- Two poems (For Hart Crane; Roberta) / Alex Gildzen -- Seven poems (Urban crisis; The meal at 33,000; Subway Sijo; Auto/Sijo; Colorado Sijo; Procession to Charlestown Market; Sijo beginning with words overheard in the sandbox, Prospect Park) / Robert Vas Dias -- Three poems (Material; Vision?s end; Sonnet to Robinson Jeffers) / Susan Thackery -- Two poems (The little girl; The pig) / Ron Koertge -- Four translations (Juan Ramon Jimenez: I was sitting, The lamb bleating softly, At first she came to me pure; and Goethe: To the United States) / Robert Bly -- Two poems (Saint Peter's; Bocca Della Verita) / Claire White -- Three poems (Do not suffer; from The angel of Arilye; Everybody will write poetry) / Brando Miljkovic -- Four poems (Sundown; The gray spider; Walking among graves; The Maja, naked) / Floyce Alexander -- Seven poems (Mood; Orchards; Men have dies in the streets of Cleveland; That?; Lautrec Poems: 1 & [2?]) / Rebecca Newth -- Vinegar bone / Martha MacNeal Zweig -- Reviews: The novels of Richard Brautigan / J.D. Reed; Four from Unicorn (The Dolphin with the Revolver in its Teeth, by George Hitchcock; Snow Vole, by Teo Savory; Slocum, by Tim Reynolds; The Torches, by Jim Tate) / Dan Gerber; Some recent books / Jim Harrison.
v. 2. Fall 1969: Permission to operate a motor vehicle / Louis Simpson -- Smokey the Bear sutra / Gary Snyder -- Three Poems / Allen Planz -- Two Poems / William Henkin -- Two Poems / Jim Crockett -- Five Poems / Michael Heller -- Two Poems / Albert Drake -- Two Poems / George Shaw -- No I?m not ready she always says / Paul Hannigan -- Mad lover, dead lady / Michael Hamburger -- My my / Daniel Langton -- Three poems / Stanley Cooperman -- To harness the horses / Siv Cedering Fox -- The cup, though / George Bowering -- Year?s end (1968) / E.G. Burrows -- Five poems / Toby Olson -- The beauty poems / Gary Kissik -- Eight poems / James Welch -- Five poems / Arthur Oberg -- Six poems / Stanley Plumly -- In a blue blazer / Lennart Bruce -- Eleven poems / Guiseppe Ungaretti -- A windless lilac dream / Linda Wagner -- Gloucester Maximus via Cambridge / Gerard Malanga -- Four poems / Greg Kuzma -- Poems for Mirko in which he appears near the end / William Ferguson -- Three Poems / Peter Straub -- Two Poems / Michael Benedikt -- Two Poems / Fanny Howe -- One true love / John Taggart -- Four poems / Robert Bonazzi -- Two Poems / Denise Levertov -- Two Poems / James Tipton -- Dance of the eagle / Dave Kelly -- Two Poems / Nina Adolph -- Our eyes get darker when we are down / Sister Michele Birch -- Study Break / Robert Lorenzi -- Dissolves / David Leviten -- Diagonal / Clayton Eshleman -- Two Poems / Terry Stokes -- Two Poems / Barbara Drake -- Two Poems / Ronald Overton -- Ablution / Ben Tibbs -- For Giambattista Guarini (1537-1612) / Jon Jackson -- Rilke?s Orpheus II/15 / George Quasha -- Four poems / Paul Zweig -- Eleven poems / Octavia Paz -- Two Poems / Raphael Rudnick -- Some notes on Charles Olson, Nothing personal [Comment] / Gerard Malanga -- Reviews: A word about Diane Wakowski / Paul Hannigan -- A note on J.D. Reed?s Expressways / Jim Harrison -- Gary Snyder, The Intermediary / Dan Gerber -- Paul Blackburn, In, On, Or About the Premises / Robert Vas Dias.
v. 2. Winter and Spring 1970 (Double issue): The blue ghazals / Adrienne Rich -- Nine poems / John Ingwersen -- Two Poems / Louis Simpson -- Three Poems / Greg Kuzma -- Five poems and the sky beetle (Prose) / W.S. Merwin -- Four Poems / Monroe L. Lerner -- Shadows / Linda Pastan -- Deutschland / Josephine Clare -- Two Poems / John Woods -- Three Poems / Besmilr Brigham -- Translation of Miodrag Pavlovic / Stephen Stepanchev -- Two Poems / Jim Crockett -- Two Poems / Clayton Eshleman -- Ten poems / Anselm Hollo -- Two Poems / Daniel L. Rosochacki -- Moving day / Ronald Koeroge -- Three Poems / Mel Bucholtz -- Film: Called five blind men / Diane Wakoski -- Four Poems / Russell Banks -- Four Poems / Carl Rakosi -- Two Poems / Fred Wolven -- Four Poems / Richard Tillinghast -- Four Poems / James Denboer -- Five Poems / Rebecca Newth -- Two Poems / Gerard Malanga -- Desnos reading the palms of men on their way to gas chambers / Stephen Berg -- Four Poems / Nathan Whiting -- Four Poems / William Matthews -- Girl hippies / Eric Barker -- The State / George Quasha -- Six poems / Eugene Ruggles -- Three Poems / Michael Heller -- Animal care (fiction) / Earl Ganz -- Poem / Clyde Henson -- Two Poems / John Tagliabue -- Six poems / Halvard Johnson -- Fish heads / Ifeanyi Menkiti -- Two poems / Stanley Cooperman -- Seconds / Susan Squier -- Going to Norway / Jack Anderson -- Four poems / Floyce Alexander -- Sex lives of five poets / Al lee -- I dream for her / Rosellen Brown -- Angels of suburbs / Philip Levine -- Separation meditations 10 & 11 / David Antin -- Two Poems / Douglas Lawder -- A ghost / George Hitchcock -- Two Poems / J.D. Reed -- Love?s old suite / Niall Montgomery -- Three Poems / David Rafael Wang -- Three Poems / Robert Kuntz -- Four poems / James Tate -- Early portage / Roy Bryan -- Two Poems / Suzi Mee -- Two Poems / L. Wiowode -- Two Poems / Wendell Berry -- Two Poems / Joseph Somoza -- Three Poems / Knute Skinner -- Pastorals, Book of seven of the common shore / Robert Kelley -- Five ghazals / Jim Harrison -- Four poems / Dan Gerber -- Criticism: Horizonal chords / Hugh Kenner -- Eshleman?s Indiana / Jim Harrison -- Goldfarb Tillinghast Whiting / William Corbett -- Paul Metcalf, Genoa / Russell Banks -- Dynamic crystalization: Creeley / Mel Bucholtz -- Charles Olson (1910-1970) obituary.
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Item type Current library Shelving location Call number Copy number Status Date due Barcode
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS3501 .S86 1968 V.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001080760
Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS3501 .S86 1968 V.2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001080778

Sumac, edited by Jim Harrison and Dan Gerber, was published by Sumac Press, Fremont, Michigan, from the Fall of 1968 until the Fall of 1971. Tom McGuane was the fiction editor from Fall 1969 through the Fall of 1971.

v. 1. Fall 1968: Wanting the moon I & II / Denise Levertov -- Letters from the poet who sleeps in a chair / Nicanor Parra -- Two poems (Nostalgia for the future) / William Corbett -- The sound of voices: a fictitious essay / John Thompson -- Three poems for the Dakotas (Paul Fish Hawk; Matthew Yellow Earring; John Flying Hawk) / Thomas Gatten -- 7 Epodon: Johnson City / Tim Reynolds -- Shark / Neil Claremon -- Untitled poem / Rebecca Newth -- The arsonist as benefactor / James Tate -- The massacre of the balloons / Lawrence Shea -- The Chuck Berry Triptych / J.D. Reed -- When they packed up, we went / Kenneth Koch -- from Riot Rimes: USA / Raymond Patterson -- Isadore / Louis Simpson -- Selected poems (Art of poetry; To see; In the full light of day; Portait; Repose; Gulls; from The rocks) / Eugene Guillevic -- Poland 1931: "The Beards" / Jerome Rothenberg -- Three poems (An uncollected note from Professor M--; Notes on Imagery; Laughing) / Paul Hannigan -- Two poems (The man that jumps barbed wire fences; Burning a replaced farm house) / Nathan N. Whiting -- Three poems (Emily Dickinson and the fox she knew from her house; Nature scene, as it imitates Klee; Words for a dead friend) / George Quasha -- Two poems (Dump poem; Birds that day) / Robert Vas Dias -- The night man / Mitchell Goodman -- Three poems (July, my sweet; A sequence of light; Autumn sequence) / Dan Gerber -- A year's changes / Jim Harrison -- Nights and days / Robert Duncan.

v. 1. Winter 1969: Notes for Canto CXI; Notes for a later Canto / Ezra Pound -- Port Jefferson / Louis Simpson -- Twelve poems (Anatomy lesson; The poor; Second Avenue winter; Poem without a title; How to Psalmodise; Psalm; Ax; Coal; Home; Stone to stones; The inner man; The forest) / Charles Simic -- Three poems (After the quarrel; Extract: notes from a dentist's chair; Air letters: Italy) / Joann Cattonar -- Two untitled poems / Lennart Bruce -- Three poems (Poker - Friday night; The fast; August 11, 1968, becomes memorable) / Gary Kissik -- Six poems (Sussex: The Downs; Angels; Further to a point first advanced by Walter Savage Landor; Good to the last cackle; Funerals depress me for some reason; This imperial day the dawnsun calls) / M.L. Rosenthal -- Two poems (Noticed; The girl from Durango) / Daniel J. Langton -- Early walk / Linda Pastan -- Six poems (Riders at dusk; Somebody trying; A cloak; Earth dust; Waiting; Swan that sings and) / Denise Levertov -- Pennsylvania funeral / George Shaw -- Five poems (Re-acquaintance; Place of abundance; Discourse; The ravine; Up on French Hill) / Hayden Carruth -- Two poems (Visions; I am) / Kathleen Spivack -- She tries hard / Terry Stokes -- The mermaid / Harold Witt -- Cleaning up after March / Greg Kuzma -- Two poems (Rectilinear; Sound of death) / Anghelos Phacas -- Two poems (No ultimate sacrilege; Season of Autumn light) / Judson Crews -- Happy times / Donald Hall -- The encounter / William Ferguson -- Three poems (View from the Lions Gate Bridge; Epiphany; The dybbuk) / Stanley Cooperman -- The album / George Hitchcock -- D.C.: fear in funland / William Holland -- Poem / John Silkin -- Seavoyage / George Quasha -- Review: John Thompson, The Talking Girl / Dan Gerber.

v. 1. Spring 1969: Three poems (Chengtu; Backsweep/Black; The busride) / Paul Blackburn -- Two poems (The light; With my eyes) / Evgeny Vinokurov -- Eight poems (At Cronkhite; The Prado: Bosch: S. Antonio; The Prado: Number 2671, Anonimo Espanol; Cornwall, touring; To die in Milltown; Sailing Dalmatia; Paestum; Morning in Padova) / Richard Hugo -- Two poems (Little changes; River Road) / Alan Brilliant -- Seven poems (Thirst; Love story; Lines; Waterlilies; A dangerous thing; In a Connaught pub; Mussels) / Claire McAllister -- Three poems (Heart of the pebble; Dream of the pebble; Two pebbles) / Vasko Popa -- A handbook reference to flowers / Gerard Malanga -- North past Newaygo / Daniel L. Rosochacki -- Four poems (Stan; Footfalls; The ground of Lincoln County; Coming to London from Toronto) / George Bowering -- Three poems (Love letter postmarked von Beethoven; My trouble; Being a landlord of the emotions) / Diane Wakoski -- Five poems / Michael Palmer -- Sunday afternoon / Clayton Eshelman -- The figure of grace / Tom Taylor -- Work for a pyre / Robert Marteau -- Three poems (Strange kind; Poem; The quarter-mile at Flat Rock) / J.D. Reed -- Ouled nail, she waits for me / James Mechem -- Three poems (Flatfish; Worm; Creatures) / John Silkin -- Two poems (For Hart Crane; Roberta) / Alex Gildzen -- Seven poems (Urban crisis; The meal at 33,000; Subway Sijo; Auto/Sijo; Colorado Sijo; Procession to Charlestown Market; Sijo beginning with words overheard in the sandbox, Prospect Park) / Robert Vas Dias -- Three poems (Material; Vision?s end; Sonnet to Robinson Jeffers) / Susan Thackery -- Two poems (The little girl; The pig) / Ron Koertge -- Four translations (Juan Ramon Jimenez: I was sitting, The lamb bleating softly, At first she came to me pure; and Goethe: To the United States) / Robert Bly -- Two poems (Saint Peter's; Bocca Della Verita) / Claire White -- Three poems (Do not suffer; from The angel of Arilye; Everybody will write poetry) / Brando Miljkovic -- Four poems (Sundown; The gray spider; Walking among graves; The Maja, naked) / Floyce Alexander -- Seven poems (Mood; Orchards; Men have dies in the streets of Cleveland; That?; Lautrec Poems: 1 & [2?]) / Rebecca Newth -- Vinegar bone / Martha MacNeal Zweig -- Reviews: The novels of Richard Brautigan / J.D. Reed; Four from Unicorn (The Dolphin with the Revolver in its Teeth, by George Hitchcock; Snow Vole, by Teo Savory; Slocum, by Tim Reynolds; The Torches, by Jim Tate) / Dan Gerber; Some recent books / Jim Harrison.

v. 2. Fall 1969: Permission to operate a motor vehicle / Louis Simpson -- Smokey the Bear sutra / Gary Snyder -- Three Poems / Allen Planz -- Two Poems / William Henkin -- Two Poems / Jim Crockett -- Five Poems / Michael Heller -- Two Poems / Albert Drake -- Two Poems / George Shaw -- No I?m not ready she always says / Paul Hannigan -- Mad lover, dead lady / Michael Hamburger -- My my / Daniel Langton -- Three poems / Stanley Cooperman -- To harness the horses / Siv Cedering Fox -- The cup, though / George Bowering -- Year?s end (1968) / E.G. Burrows -- Five poems / Toby Olson -- The beauty poems / Gary Kissik -- Eight poems / James Welch -- Five poems / Arthur Oberg -- Six poems / Stanley Plumly -- In a blue blazer / Lennart Bruce -- Eleven poems / Guiseppe Ungaretti -- A windless lilac dream / Linda Wagner -- Gloucester Maximus via Cambridge / Gerard Malanga -- Four poems / Greg Kuzma -- Poems for Mirko in which he appears near the end / William Ferguson -- Three Poems / Peter Straub -- Two Poems / Michael Benedikt -- Two Poems / Fanny Howe -- One true love / John Taggart -- Four poems / Robert Bonazzi -- Two Poems / Denise Levertov -- Two Poems / James Tipton -- Dance of the eagle / Dave Kelly -- Two Poems / Nina Adolph -- Our eyes get darker when we are down / Sister Michele Birch -- Study Break / Robert Lorenzi -- Dissolves / David Leviten -- Diagonal / Clayton Eshleman -- Two Poems / Terry Stokes -- Two Poems / Barbara Drake -- Two Poems / Ronald Overton -- Ablution / Ben Tibbs -- For Giambattista Guarini (1537-1612) / Jon Jackson -- Rilke?s Orpheus II/15 / George Quasha -- Four poems / Paul Zweig -- Eleven poems / Octavia Paz -- Two Poems / Raphael Rudnick -- Some notes on Charles Olson, Nothing personal [Comment] / Gerard Malanga -- Reviews: A word about Diane Wakowski / Paul Hannigan -- A note on J.D. Reed?s Expressways / Jim Harrison -- Gary Snyder, The Intermediary / Dan Gerber -- Paul Blackburn, In, On, Or About the Premises / Robert Vas Dias.

v. 2. Winter and Spring 1970 (Double issue): The blue ghazals / Adrienne Rich -- Nine poems / John Ingwersen -- Two Poems / Louis Simpson -- Three Poems / Greg Kuzma -- Five poems and the sky beetle (Prose) / W.S. Merwin -- Four Poems / Monroe L. Lerner -- Shadows / Linda Pastan -- Deutschland / Josephine Clare -- Two Poems / John Woods -- Three Poems / Besmilr Brigham -- Translation of Miodrag Pavlovic / Stephen Stepanchev -- Two Poems / Jim Crockett -- Two Poems / Clayton Eshleman -- Ten poems / Anselm Hollo -- Two Poems / Daniel L. Rosochacki -- Moving day / Ronald Koeroge -- Three Poems / Mel Bucholtz -- Film: Called five blind men / Diane Wakoski -- Four Poems / Russell Banks -- Four Poems / Carl Rakosi -- Two Poems / Fred Wolven -- Four Poems / Richard Tillinghast -- Four Poems / James Denboer -- Five Poems / Rebecca Newth -- Two Poems / Gerard Malanga -- Desnos reading the palms of men on their way to gas chambers / Stephen Berg -- Four Poems / Nathan Whiting -- Four Poems / William Matthews -- Girl hippies / Eric Barker -- The State / George Quasha -- Six poems / Eugene Ruggles -- Three Poems / Michael Heller -- Animal care (fiction) / Earl Ganz -- Poem / Clyde Henson -- Two Poems / John Tagliabue -- Six poems / Halvard Johnson -- Fish heads / Ifeanyi Menkiti -- Two poems / Stanley Cooperman -- Seconds / Susan Squier -- Going to Norway / Jack Anderson -- Four poems / Floyce Alexander -- Sex lives of five poets / Al lee -- I dream for her / Rosellen Brown -- Angels of suburbs / Philip Levine -- Separation meditations 10 & 11 / David Antin -- Two Poems / Douglas Lawder -- A ghost / George Hitchcock -- Two Poems / J.D. Reed -- Love?s old suite / Niall Montgomery -- Three Poems / David Rafael Wang -- Three Poems / Robert Kuntz -- Four poems / James Tate -- Early portage / Roy Bryan -- Two Poems / Suzi Mee -- Two Poems / L. Wiowode -- Two Poems / Wendell Berry -- Two Poems / Joseph Somoza -- Three Poems / Knute Skinner -- Pastorals, Book of seven of the common shore / Robert Kelley -- Five ghazals / Jim Harrison -- Four poems / Dan Gerber -- Criticism: Horizonal chords / Hugh Kenner -- Eshleman?s Indiana / Jim Harrison -- Goldfarb Tillinghast Whiting / William Corbett -- Paul Metcalf, Genoa / Russell Banks -- Dynamic crystalization: Creeley / Mel Bucholtz -- Charles Olson (1910-1970) obituary.

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