JERRY #3
2011
JERRY #3 accidentally discovered its theme: approach. Working beyond the first idea. Construction specs for how the building will crumble once razed.
The six poets and three fiction writers featured here employ various methods toward their objectives, but they converge by encircling, ensnaring, and enabling. Whether the constraint is the periodic table, a site-specific poem, a Fibonacci sequence, Shakespeare, Ginsburg or the mundane toil of a walking other people’s chattel (dogs), the endgame is one of sequence and pattern, inversion and reversion, exhaustion and renewal, approached and approaching and lacking the desire to end.
—The Editors
POETRY
Laynie Browne
Sara Femenella
Good Things Will Strive to Dwell
Mother Eating Child
Galileo Effect
Andrew F. Giles
SendaiComfort
Ludwig Koch on the set of Orlando (tapes I–V)
Allen Ginsburg
Marni Ludwig
Little Box of Cotton and Lightning
Braille
Day Choir
Among the Living as Among the Dead
Michael Schiavo
George Szirtes
Limit Frame
Cloudscape
Abstraction
Canzone Animal
Dictionary
Minimenta Postcards to Anselm Kiefer
FICTION
Chris Miskiewicz
Amanda Nazario
Felice Neals
REVIEWS
Late Capitalism’s Contortionist: Geoffrey G. O’Brien’s Metropole Reviewed by Dawn Marie Knopf
Spectral Sensitivities: Devin Johnston’s Creaturely Reviewed by Edward Helfers
An Eye that Wounds: Shane Book’s Ceiling of Sticks Reviewed by Susannah Nevison
A New Sense of Loneliness: Kio Stark’s Follow Me Down Reviewed by Kera Yonker