This premier issue published in 2001, features cover art by British photographer
Franklyn Rodgers, a photographic portolio by Suzun Lucia Lamaina, a collaborative work by Lyn Hejinian
and Brenda Hillman, and journal excerpts in fascimile by G. E. Patterson. To read the editor's note, Click Here.
Additional contributors include Ammiel Alcalay,
Don Mee Choi, Steven Davis, Aja Couchois Duncan, Percival
Everett, Orides Fontela (translated by Chris Daniels), Duriel
E. Harris, Jean-Luc Herisson (translated by Norma Cole), John
Keene, Arnold J. Kemp, Mendi Lewis Obadike, Nathaniel Mackey,
Dawn Lundy Martin, Mark McMorris, Abdelwahab Meddeb (translated
by Pierre Joris), David Meltzer, Douglas "D. Scott" Miller,
Semezdin Mehmedinovic (translated by Ammiel Alcalay), opalmoore,
Hoa Nguyen, Julie Ezelle Patton, Amarnath Ravva, Deborah C.
Richards, Lorenzo Thomas, Ronaldo V. Wilson and Yolanda Wisher.
160 pp., Perfectbound.
Single-issue: $12