Paideuma 31
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’”
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’”
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’”
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 Policy”
Demetres Tryphonopoulos, “James Laughlin’s ‘Visual-Couplet Metric’”
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