Publisher's Synopsis
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Art. African American Studies. BOMBAY GIN is the literary journal of the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at Naropa University, co-founded by Allen Ginsberg and Anne Waldman. Emerging from the "outrider" lineage, which operates outside the cultural mainstream, BOMBAY GIN publishes poetry, prose, and hybrid texts as well as art, translations, interviews, and book reviews. Each issue includes a lecture transcribed from the Naropa Audio Archives, comprised of six thousand hours of tapes documenting classes, performances, workshops, and lectures conducted at Naropa since 1974 by many of the leading figures of the literary avant-garde. This 40th Anniversary issue explores the theme of Recuperation, and includes a memorial folio on Anselm Hollo.
Featuring Anselm Hollo, Bill Berkson, Kai Nieminen, Christopher Luna, Jerome Rothenberg, Mark Ducharme, Maureen Owen, Anne Waldman, Elizabeth Robinson, Jane Dalrymple-Hollo, M. NourbeSe Philip, Fred Moten, Emerson Whitney, Travis MacDonald, Dolores Dorantes (trans. Jen Hofer), Eric Raanan Fischman, Erica Lewis, Claire Williams, Meena Alexander, Lora Kinkade, Ronaldo V. Wilson, Lauren Shufran, Deborah Brandon, Cecilia Vicuna w/ Angel Dominguez, Kat Sayarath, Andrea Spain & Bhanu Kapil, Melissa Buzzeo; Artwork by Christine Robakidze, Shelton Walsmith, Michael Labenz, Janelle Fine, David Chutorash, JH Phrydas, Shawn McDaniel; and Book Reviews by Alex Kilgore on Leonard Schwartz, Jennifer Kay Dorsey on Sandy Florian, Matt Pincus on Joyelle McSweeney, and Hannah Kezema on Danielle Collobert."
