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MUDLARK LIST _________________________ MUDLARK No. 1 (1995) TWELVE OF ONE by Valerie Anthony and A DOZEN OF THE OTHER by David Swoyer Valerie Anthony is a playwright as well as a poet. She received an Individual Artist's Grant for playwriting from the Florida Arts Council, 1994. Her play, LAND OF THE DOUBLEWIDES, was produced at the Florida Studio Theatre in Sarasota, 1995. She is presently a University Fellow in the English Department at Florida State University. Anthony writes fiction too. From "Lash," one of her stories: "There is only her breath and mine now, hanging in the air. Saying things." The TWELVE Anthony poems, hanging in th...

MUDLARK An Electronic Journal of Poetry & Poetics ISSN 1081-3500 Copyright (c) MUDLARK 1995, 1996, 1997 Editor: William Slaughter E-Mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark __________________________________________________ Where MUDLARK is and how to subscribe to it: MUDLARK will issue itself when it is ready to do so, frequently but irregularly. It is freely available in several formats at different addresses: E-MAIL MUDLARK news, including coming attractions and the release of new issues, is available by e-mail. Add your name to the MUDLARK list by sending e-mail to mudlark@unf.edu. WWW MUDLARK is available on...

MUDLARK No. 8 (1998) ISSN 1081-3500 Copyright (c) Mudlark 1998 Editor: William Slaughter E-mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark __________________________________________________ A SOUND THE MOBILE MAKES IN WIND by Sheila E. Murphy __________________________________________________ CONTENTS Author's Introduction He Could Not Sing Fulfillment Center Securities and Exchange Intermittencies Configurato What Next Safe Places A Relay Her Neighbors All Have Power There Was a Silly Putty Look within Her Lazy Eye Metonymy as Such(ness) Incommunity Stagnation Corporate Giving Remake Invariation Champion The Syndrome o...

MUDLARK No. 7 (1997) ISSN 1081-3500 Copyright (c) MUDLARK 1997 Editor: William Slaughter E-mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark __________________________________________________ ONLY A FRIEND CAN KNOW by Mike O'Connor Poems and Translations on the Theme of _Chi-yin_ for Ling-hui __________________________________________________ CONTENTS Introduction Farewell Dreaming of Li Po Canyon Creek on Buddha's Birthday For the Poet of Pablo Creek Wei City Song On the Road to Denver in a Coat and Tie, I Think of My Old Friend Master Red Pine and the Example He Inspires Summer Day at South Pavilion, Recalling Hsin Ta O...

MUDLARK No. 6 (1997) ISSN 1081-3500 Copyright (c) MUDLARK 1997 Editor: William Slaughter E-Mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark __________________________________________________ ISLAND ROAD by Henry Gould _Dedication_ ES A SB R T I To-- C X WSM O D --YZ SK N PW EH B FG F ROM A Shak-Spire WS/Henry Church LUV Q ? LIM * *** BE E*S !! KAW _Author's Note_ ISLAND ROAD is an attempt to graft a few idiosyncratic fragments of late 20th-century experience onto what is basically a Renaissance form, the sonnet sequence. I have tried to follow the example of John Berryman and Ted Berrigan on a path which has led to a...

MUDLARK No. 5 (1997) ISSN 1081-3500 Copyright (c) MUDLARK 1997 Editor: William Slaughter E-mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark __________________________________________________ FIVE FICTIONS by Joe Ahearn __________________________________________________ _:Poem_ Here is the fiction: The wave-tips rise, splendid with light, and we are not harmed, but hum with the tides and ebullient moon the blood-rose upswelled: that we are of light, that we are the blooming, thrown upwards in moonlight toward welcoming sands. THIS IS THE FICTION. He died well. Believe it. That light is the wave-- _:Poem_ Diana Ross turned...

MUDLARK No. 4 (1996) ISSN 1081-3500 Copyright (c) MUDLARK 1996 Editor: William Slaughter E-Mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark __________________________________________________ A CONVERSATION WITH MARTIN HEIDEGGER An Original Poem in English by Van K. Brock for Kathy Rugoff __________________________________________________ INTRODUCTION [The] ground that enabled modern technology to set free new energy in nature [is] a revolution in leading concepts . . . by which man is placed in a different world. This radical revolution in outlook has come about in modern philosophy. From this arises a completely new rel...

MUDLARK No. 3 (1996) ISSN 1081-3500 Copyright (c) MUDLARK 1996 Editor: William Slaughter E-Mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark __________________________________________________ ARS POETICA by Gerald Fleming _The reader is even, the writer is odd_. Contents [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10] [11] [12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23] [24] [25] [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] [31] [32] [33] [34] [35] [36] [37] [38] [39] [40] [41] [42] [43] [44] [45] [46] [47] [48,49] __________________________________________________ 1 Remember that first car? Not the first day--the day after--when you'd ...

MUDLARK No. 2 (1996) ISSN 1081-3500 Copyright (c) MUDLARK 1996 Editor: William Slaughter E-Mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark __________________________________________________ THE RAPE POEMS by Frances Driscoll Contents Wild Ribbons Common Expression Ray's Sentence First Recital Multiple Choice Incomplete Examination Difficult Word Some Lucky Girls Spotting Ray Baskets Parochial Air Entertaining Ray Vocabulary Words Outrageous Behavior Island of the Raped Women __________________________________________________ WILD RIBBONS This region gives the national wire cheap filler. Even our insects are of interest ...

MUDLARK No. 1 (1995) ISSN 1081-3500 Copyright (c) MUDLARK 1995 Editor: William Slaughter E-Mail: mudlark@unf.edu URL: http://www.unf.edu/mudlark __________________________________________________ A DOZEN OF THE OTHER by DAVID SWOYER Contents The Midway A Portrait of Marriot Bradden The Visitor Came One Morning Beer as Religious Art Rime for a Chicago Cow Hardly To A Sheba Forest Song For a Friend Having His Tattoo Removed The Viewing Dying Near Easter, 1969 Collision The Beginning of a Frog's Chorus __________________________________________________ THE MIDWAY The circus trucks stretched out along the highway like a crystal r...