Journal Issue
The issue takes its first formal cue from TRAFFIC by Tom Smith. Compact lyrics sit beside longer, more loosely unfolding poems, with changes in line and stanza doing much of the issue’s formal work. The movement toward RHYMES gives the number a clear closing direction while leaving its voices distinct. Across 31 poems, formal interest lies in the changes of scale: short, image-driven pieces give way to longer fields of syntax, and each new opening resets the relation between line, breath, and page. The variety reflects the Venice workshop culture around the publication, where experimental practice was less a house style than a shared willingness to let voice, spacing, and sequence determine form.
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- TRAFFIC — Tom Smith [Poem]
- NO — Richard Kostelanetz [Poem]
- KAMEA — Jack Hirschman [Poem]
- LMPHK — Jack Hirschman [Poem]
- Я — Jack Hirschman [Poem]
- The Law — Jack Hirschman [Poem]
- CURRENT EVENTS — Sandi Herschel [Poem]
- THREE SPANS — Kilian Anderson [Poem]
- PAINTING THE BRIDGE — Stuart Friebert [Poem]
- SYLVIA REDDING — S. M. Nechetsky [Poem]
- POEM — Don Menn [Poem]
- GREGOR SAMSA — Martha Zweig [Poem]
- Dogs in a circle with men know — Martha Zweig [Poem]
- HOW LONG? — Stuart Friebert [Poem]
- THROUGH THE FENCE — Stuart Friebert [Poem]
- RELATIONSHIP — Nicole [Poem]
- SEPARATE — Nicole [Poem]
- DILATIONS OF FELINITY — James Hoggard [Poem]
- surrealists talking* — Rheinhold Johannes Kaebitzsch [Poem]
- one month before the civil war — Rheinhold Johannes Kaebitzsch [Poem]
- PARLER ET LISE — Robert Brixius [Poem]
- COMPOSITION ELEVEN — E. Lagomarsino [Poem]
- MAO TSE-TUNG — Lee Byron Jennings [Poem]
- Mr. Smith — R. X. Massa [Poem]
- EVOL U — R. X. Massa [Poem]
- UNDERGROUND — Lynn Shoemaker [Poem]
- SENDING YOUR TONGUE TO ANOTHER COUNTRY — Lynn Shoemaker [Poem]
- TRANSPLANTING A TRUE CLOWN'S NOSE — Lynn Shoemaker [Poem]
- THIS IS POEM FOR — James Krusoe [Poem]
- TO THE OLD LADY DYING IN SHANAHAN'S MARKET, VENICE, CALIF — James Krusoe [Poem]
- RHYMES — Greg Druit [Poem]
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*Beyond Baroque*, vol. 2, no. 2, 1972. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.