TRIPWIRE: a journal of poetics

I’m pleased to receive copies of the new issue of Tripwire, one of my favourite journals of engaged literature and global poetics, and to see my dialogue with the great experimental novelist, essayist, and translator Gail Scott published in its pages.

It’s an outstanding issue – in memory of Sean Bonney, Diane di Prima, Jack Hirschman, Bernadette Mayer, Etel Adnan, Kamau Brathwaite, Keith Waldrop – with contributions from Anne Boyer & Eduardo Rabassa, D.S. Marriott, Anahid Nersessian, Lama El Khatib & Haytham El Wardany, Joshua Clover, Jasper Bernes, Jèssica Pujol Duran & Macarena Urzúa Opazo, Nicholas Komodore, David Lau, Hugo García Manríquez, Peter Bouscheljong, Uwe Möllhusen & Marie Schubenz, Coco Fitterman, and David Grundy, among others.

Please click HERE to order the issue.

I’m incredibly thankful to Tripwire’s editor David Buuck for fostering the array of conversations materialized in the journal, and for creating a site where global poetries and committed literatures can converge. The issue’s centrepiece – a extended tribute to Sean Bonney – ought to be read by everybody.

The exchange with Gail – on her recent book of essays Permanent Revolution, and on the politics of writing in Montréal since the Quiet Revolution – is my third dialogue in the journal: Tripwire 14 includes my long-form exchange with brilliant Cecily Nicholson, and Tripwire 16 features my conversation with the outstanding visual artist and writer Tanya Lukin Linklater. I’m truly proud to be a part of the greater community the journal articulates.

In closing, I thought I’d direct folks to the journal’s archive of back-issues – many of which are still available to order, and all of them are accessible to read in a free downloadable PDF. What a gift.