Issue 3.18

Fall 2012

what are / the forms / we’d like /
to live in
— David Buuck

Editor: Brook Houglum

Features art by Marian Penner Bancroft and Fran Herndon; poems by George Stanley, Jeff Derksen, Jane Sprague, David Buuck, and others; librettos featured the Opera Project; Sean Howard’s winning entry to the Robin Blaser Poetry contest, and more.

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Fran Herndon, Catch Me If You Can, 1962, collage on masonite, 39.37 x 60.33 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco.

Fran Herndon, Catch Me If You Can, 1962, collage on masonite, 39.37 x 60.33 cm. Courtesy of the artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco.

Contributors

Jeff Derksen

from The Vestiges

Jeff Carpenter

Two Poems

Marian Penner Bancroft Hugh Brody

"within that trace": A Conversation

Marian Penner Bancroft

from Human Nature and CHORUS

Roger Farr

Six Bay Area Poets

Brian Ang

from Totality Canto 23

Jasper Bernes

from We Are Nothing and So Can You

David Buuck

from We Do the Polis in Different Voices

Melissa Mack

Of : Formation or Of, Anonymity : Of Black Bloc Fashion

Wendy Trevino

Division of Research

Jeanine Webb

Higgs Boson Fever Fills Cern . . .

Colin Browne

Tom Cone and The Opera Project

Jenny Penberthy

La crise: un drame d'Ubu Moi et Toi

Dave Deveau

Unnatural

Colin Browne

The Oval

Keith Wallace

Fran Herndon and Her Circle

Fran Herndon

Selected Works

Kevin Killian

Fran Herndon

David Farwell

Strand Palace

Jane Sprague

Two Poems

Sean Howard

Disjunctures (possible poems, for richard outram)

George Stanley

Two Poems

Fran Herndon

COVER: Catch Me If You Can, 1962, collage on masonite, 39.37 x 60.33 cm. Courtesy the artist and Altman Siegel, San Francisco

Prose

Pierre Coupey / The Big Bad World of Public Readings

Pierre Coupey

Pierre Coupey Most people think poetry readings are sedate tea-sipping affairs, nowhere near as much fun as a good NHL brawl, and mostly they’re right. Sometimes they degenerate from the … Continued

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See to see—

On That was Now, This is Then: 2012/2013 Pre-and-Review

Stephen Collis

This article was originally published in issue 3.18 (Fall 2012) Now that the world didn’t end on December 21, I’m sort of looking forward to 2013. It will be a … Continued

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A/V

AUDIO / The Opera Project: The Oval performed on September 22, 2012

The Editors

An archival recording from the second season of The Opera Project, September 22, 2012. The Opera Project was conceived by Tom Cone and Karen Matthews in Fall 2010. The first … Continued

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A/V

AUDIO / The Opera Project: Unnatural performed on September 22, 2012

The Editors

An archival recording from the second season of The Opera Project, September 22, 2012. The Opera Project was conceived by Tom Cone and Karen Matthews in Fall 2010. The first … Continued

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A/V

AUDIO / The Opera Project: La Crise, un drame d’Ubu Moi et Toi performed on September 22, 2012

The Editors

An archival recording from the second season of The Opera Project, September 22, 2012. The Opera Project was conceived by Tom Cone and Karen Matthews in Fall 2010. The first … Continued

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Interviews

An interview with Barry McKinnon

Sharon Thesen and Barry McKinnon

Reprinted from TCR 1.32 (1984). Sharon Thesen interviewed Barry McKinnon in Prince George in October, 1983. The following transcription was prepared by McKinnon as a condensation of the taped materials. … Continued

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Prose

Pierre Coupey / The Night We Hijacked Leonard Cohen, with digressions

Pierre Coupey

Pierre Coupey Inspired by McKinnon’s “Chairs in the Time Machine,” I thought my virgin blog post should tell the story of the night we hijacked Leonard Cohen –– yes, the … Continued

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Prose

Barry McKinnon / from Chairs in the Time Machine

Barry McKinnon

Barry McKinnon The following selections are from an unpublished manuscript of prose assemblages, Chairs in the Time Machine. McKinnon, what’s the answer? Professor Layton is standing at the front desk … Continued

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Art

Marian Penner Bancroft / from Human Nature and Chorus

Marian Penner Bancroft

This piece originally appeared in Issue 3.18 (Fall 2012). from Human Nature (2008) Original c-prints 30″ x 30″. Captions below in order of appearance. Alberta View of Abraham Lake and … Continued

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A/V

VIDEO / Steve McCaffery reading at Performance Works on May 16, 2012 for TCR’s 40th Anniversary

The Editors and Steve McCaffery

Reading recorded at Performance Works in Vancouver BC on May 16, 2012 at the launch event for TCR 3.17. [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knvfrVv3JCM]

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A/V

AUDIO / Barry McKinnon reading at Capilano College on February 15, 1978

Barry McKinnon

Excerpts from a reading at the college in the late 1970s, including “Bay Day” and “Bingo/Dance”.

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