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Special Issue
DEDICATED TO JAMES LAUGHLIN
Guest-edited by Emily Mitchell Wallace

CONTENTS

Note by the Guest Editor

Rodney Grove Dennis, “Poem: ‘The Other Second Canto’â€�

Tributes to James Laughlin

Tom Vitale, “National Public Radio Tribute, Friday, November 14, 1997�

“New Directions Tribute, The New York Times, Friday, November 14, 1977″

“New Directions Ceremony, Program in Memory of James Laughlin, Academy of Arts and Letters, Friday, January 9, 1998�

James Atlas, “Literature Is in the Details�

Joel Conarroe, “Just Dandy�

Anne Conover, “Jaz and the ‘George’ Poems�

Guy Davenport, “The Wittiest and Sexiest Poet of Our Time�

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, “Dissent Is Not UnAmerican�

Peggy L. Fox, “Norfolk Confetti: The Benevolent Tyranny of JL’s Little Notes�

Jonathan Galassi, “Notes from Mountain Road�

Donald Gallup, “Incredible Faithfulness�

Robert Giroux, “Callimachus on the Subway�

Peter Glassgold, “Beyond Myths & Astral Bodies: ND as Wuz�

David M. Gordon, “The Adaptor & Jas�

Theodora Rapp Graham, “Unexpected Gifts�

Daniel Hoffman, “Friendship, Pleasure, Wisdom�

Daniel Javitch, “O Tender, Small Self-Given Heroism�

Hugh Kenner, “Jas and Jasper�

L. R. Lind, “Poem: ‘JL / LRL’â€�

Christopher MacGowan, “JL’s Diplomatic Footwork�

Rebecca Newth, “J’s Gift of One of Aunt Leila’s Sheep�

Mary de Rachewiltz, “Bringing up Young Publishers�

Christa Sammons, “A Class Act�

Peter Dale Scott, “That gentle and Almost Timid Grace�

Gary Snyder, “Laughlin’s ‘Mahayana’ or ‘Big Open SPirit’â€�

Mary Ellen Solt, “‘Making a Love Poem’ Concrete�

Roger Eliot Stoddard, “The Harvardian�

Richard Taylor, “JL as Editor and Publisher: The Most Conscientious and Scrupulous Man I Have Ever Known�

John Updike, “Verve�

Rosmarie Waldrop, “Amazements�

Jonathan Williams, “An Abstemious Celt�

William Eric Williams, “For the Love of Poetry�

Hugh Witemeyer, “The Emperor’s Sunbelt Tour�

Biography

Hayden Carruth, “Five Selections from Beside the Shadblow Tree“

Penelope Laurans Fitzgerald, “‘…And in the Bond Which Endured between Us’: Notes on the Friendship of James Laughlin and Robert Fitzgerald�

Samuel A. Streit, “‘Great Learning and Discernment’: JL as Adjunct professor and Chancellor’s Fellow at Brown�

Emily Mitchell Wallace, “‘A Bridge over Worlds’: A Partial portrait of James Laughlin IV Based on His Poems, Stories, Essays, Letters, and Interviews, Including Many Photographs�

New Directions Archives

Hayden Carruth, “Jas’ Little Magazines and Correspondence�

Terry Halladay, “Of Books and the Bear at Meadows House�

Leslie A. Morris, “‘Make It New’: James Laughlin & the Houghton Library�

Samuel A. Streit, “The Laughlin Collection in the John hay Library at Brown�

Patricia C. Willis, “‘Luz Y Verdad‘: J Laughlin and Yale�

Bibliography

John A. Harrison, “A Selective List of Published Writing, 1935-2002, by and about James Laughlin�

The Periplum

Ezra Pound, “‘Chinese Poetry: Prof. Mori’s Lectures,’ Recast by Pound from Fenollosa’s Notes, Transcribed and Annotated by Zhaoming Qian�

Zhaoming Qian, “An Afterword Concerning Pound’s 1935 Revisit to the Fenollosa Papers for an Edition of Mori’s Lectures on Chinese Poetry�

Richard Taylor, “Editing the Variorum Cantos: Process and Policyâ€�

Demetres Tryphonopoulos, “James Laughlin’s ‘Visual-Couplet Metric’â€�

The Vortex

William McNaughton, “A Report on the 18th International Conference on Ezra Pound, Beijing, China, 16-19 July 1999�

Program of China Conference

Photographs of China Conference

Photographs of Some New Directions Authors

Patrizia de Rachewiltz, “Poem for Jas�

List of Complete Poems by James Laughlin in This Volume of Paideuma