New American Writing

Dear Friends of New American Writing:

Issue 24 (2006) was published in July and is now available at bookstores and newstands for $15 or $36 for a three-issue subscription. You can also order from NAW, 369 Molino Avenue, Mill Valley, CA 94941. Online orders using a credit card: www.ccnow.com.

It contains a Nathaniel Mackey feature including a lengthy interview by Sarah Rosenthal; translations of poems by Pablo Neruda (Clayton Eshleman), Vladimir Holan (Josef Horacek and Lara Glenum), Pura Lopez-Colome (Jason Stumpf), Aase Berg (Johannes Gorannson), and Eugenio Montejo (Kirk Nesset), Yang Lian (Wang Ping and Alex Lemon), the ancient Vietnamese poet Nguyen Trai (Nguyen Do and Paul Hoover), and Yao Feng (Christopher Kelen); and poems by Pierre Joris, Rosmarie Waldrop, Nathaniel Mackey, Mac Wellman, Karen Garthe, Martine Bellen, Rusty Morrison, Joanna Klink, Edward Smallfield, Joseph Lease, Brian Teare, Denise Newman, G.C. Waldrep, John Olson, Campbell McGrath, Devin Johnston, Lisa Isaacson, Ethan Paquin, Caroline Knox, Douglas Messerli, Rachel Loden, Terence Winch, Todd Swift, Patrick Pritchett, Craig Watson, Stephen Vincent, Wang Ping, Barbara Jane Reyes, Maged Zaher, Noelle Kocot, Nathan Hauke, James Meetze, John Sakkis, and flarfists Michael Magee, Katie Degentesh, and Sharon Mesmer, among others.

Cover art: Bill Viola, The Messenger, 1996. Sing-channel color video and stereo-sound installation. Photograph by Sally Ritts. By permission of Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NYC. Cover design by Philip Krayna and Jason Snyder.