Conjunctions, Issue 9, 1986

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Includes the text of Burroughs' The Cat Inside, pp. 7-23.

Published in New York City by David R. Godine, Publishers, Inc. in 1986.

This hardcover copy was acquired from Jeffrey Weinberg at Water Row Books (Sudbury, Massachusetts, US).

A softcover copy of the same issue is also in the archive, acquired from the collection of Peter Lennon (Chicago, Illinois, US).

Bibliographic Information:

• Shoaf III.346
• Schottlaender v4.C558
• Raven 19860000CONJ.0.9

Contents:

• Trevor Winkfield: "Rice Bomb" (cover art)
• William S. Burroughs: "The Cat Inside" (prose/essay)
• Michel Deguy: "Three Poems from Gisants" (poetry, translated by Nathaniel Tarn):
• "Convoy" (prose-poetry)
• "Tale" (prose-poetry)
• "Dialogues" (prose-poetry)
• Michael Palmer: "Five Poems from Baudelaire Series" (poetry)
• Ron Silliman: "From OZ" (prose)
• Laura Moriarty: "Four Rondeaux" (poetry)
• Dennis Silk: "The Marionette Theatre" (prose)
• Peter Cole: "Leviticus and Four Poems" (poetry):
• "Leviticus" (poetry)
• "Torches" (poetry)
• "Alphabet" (poetry)
• "Isaac: A Poise" (poetry)
• "Knowing Is" (poetry)
• Hayden Carruth: "Eleven Memoranda On the Culture of Jazz" (prose)
• Mei-mei Berssenbrugge: "Forms of Politeness" (poetry)
• Bradford Graves: drawings
• John Taggart: "Not Quite Parallel Lines" (poetry)
• Michael McClure: "Two Poems":
• "The Torture Murders Upstate in Calaveras County" (poetry)
• "The Bulks of Heart" (poetry)
• Aaron Shurin: "From Artery (11-15)" (prose)
• Cecile Abish: "Chinese Crossing" (photographs)
• Nathaniel Tarn: "Three Poems":
• "Remission Bardo" (poetry)
• "Metamorphosis of Spider into Crab" (poetry)
• "The Land in Question" (poetry)
• Elizabeth Wajnberg: "Edmond Jabès" (photograph)
• Jason Weiss and Edmond Jabès: "An Interview with Edmond Jabès" (interview)
• Marjorie Welish: "Two Poems":
• "The Last Vaudeville" (poetry)
• "Two Studies of a Man's Head and One of a Kneeling Woman" (poetry)
• Ann Lauterbach: "Dominion in February" (poetry)
• Barbara Tedlock: "Masking" (prose)
• Roger Manley: "Navajo of Chil•Chin•Beto: Four Summers 1981-85" (photographs)
• Paul West: "The Place in Flowers Where Pollen Rests" (prose)
• Saúl Yurkievich: "Two Poems" (poetry, translated by Cola Franzen):
• "Grasp" (poetry)
• "So Then" (poetry)
• Theodore Enslin: "Motet" (poetry)
• Barbara Guest: "The Rose Marble Table" (poetry)
• Thomas Meyer: "From a Crown of Sonnets" (poetry)
• Coleman Dowell: "Five Prose Pieces" (prose):
• "Wool Tea" (prose)
• "Cancer" (prose)
• "City Sundays" (prose)
• "A Lifetime Proposition" (prose)
• "Elegy" (prose)
• Bradford Morrow: "Recent Books About the Problems and Politics of Central America" (combined review)
• Gene Frumkin: review of Selected Poems by John Ashbery
• Robert Kelly: review of Gerald's Party by Robert Coover
• Benjamin Hollander: review of that they were at the beach – aeolotrpoic series by Leslie Scalapino
• Nathaniel Tarn: review of Popul Vuh: The Definitive Edition of the Mayan Book of the Dawn of Life and the Glories of Gods and Kings, translated by Dennis Tedlock
• Peter Cole: review of Selected Poems by Michael McClure
• Sarah Belk: review of White Trash Cooking by Ernest Matthew Mickler
• Deborah Baker: 
• review of Days Between Stations by Steve Erickson
• review of The Apartheid Handbook: A Guide to South Africa's Everyday Racial Politics by Roger Ormond
• George F. Butterick: review of Eroding Witness by Nathaniel Mackey
• Dennis Tedlock: review of The Language of the Birds, edited by David M. Guss

Publishing Information: 

• Editor: Bradford Morrow
• Contributing Editors: Walter Abish, Mei-mei Bressenbrugge, Guy Davenport, William H. Gass, Kenneth Irby, Ann Lauterbach, Nathaniel Tarn
• Publisher: David R. Godine
• Senior Editor: Deborah Baker
• Associate Editor: Elisabeth Cunnick
• Business Manager: Marcella Matthaei
• Production Manager: Cynthia Anderson
• Production Assistants: Judy Neunuebel, Fran Setbacken
• Editorial Assistants: Kimball Fern, David Wheeler, Bruce Frankel, Michael Geld