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14.2 25Th Anniversary Issue •Fi Part 2 RAMPIKE 14/2 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ INDEX Reed Altemus p. 2 Editorial p. 3 Joyce Carol Oates p. 4 Brian Henderson p. 9 Alistair MacLeod p. 10 Charles Bernstein p. 21 Roy Miki p. 27 George Elliott Clarke & Ricardo Scipio p. 28 Doug Barbour & Sheila Murphy p. 33 Michael Winkler p. 36 Antanas Sileika p. 40 Juris Kronbergs p. 42 Juri Talvet p. 45 Larissa Kostoff p. 50 Di Brandt p. 52 Una McDonnell p. 55 Jeff Gundy p. 56 Christopher Dewdney p. 57 Margaret Christakos p. 58 Andrew Bomberry p. 62 Rachel Zolf p. 63 Richard Douglas-Chin p. 64 Matthew Holmes p. 67 Stuart Ross p. 68 Robert Dassanowsky p. 70 rob mclennan p. 72 Carla Hartsfield p. 74 Bob Wakulich p. 78 Richard Scarsbrook p. 79 Carol Stetser p. 80 1 RAMPIKE 14/2 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ 2 RAMPIKE 14/2 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ EDITORIAL 25 Years in print! A cause for celebration! In this, our 25th anniversary issue (Part II), we continue our mandate by featuring both new and established postmodern artists, writers and thinkers. We open this issue with interviews featuring Joyce Carol Oates and Alistair MacLeod, two internationally acclaimed authors with links to the University of Windsor and Southwestern Ontario. This issue also features conceptual works by innovative thinkers including Brian Henderson, Matthew Holmes and Michael Winkler. These three reconsider the intimate connections between thought and language. And, we present fresh new fictions including the avant-garde stylistics of Stuart Ross, Bob Wakulich and Richard Scarsbrook. Delivering a soupçon of international tastes we present a cluster of Baltic authors including Larissa Kostoff, an emerging Toronto writer with Latvian background who recently guest-edited an issue of Descant devoted to Latvia; the remarkable Latvian poet Juris Kronbergs who resides in Sweden and who recently completed a literary tour of the USA and Canada including readings at Stanford and the University of Toronto; Jűri Talvet, professor at the influential Tartu University in Estonia, and founder and editor of Interlitteraria, the international journal of Comparative Literature; plus the critically acclaimed Antanas Sileika who runs the highly successful summer writing institute at Humber College in Toronto. We also bring to you outstanding visual and intermedia pieces including photographics by Rick Simon (gracing our cover), textual graphics by Carol Stetser, illuminated photo-poetics by George Elliott Clarke and Ricardo Scipio, as well as the remarkable new opera Shadowtime by Charles Bernstein. Bernstein’s intermedia opera is based on the life of Walter Benjamin and features music by the distinguished composer, Brian Ferneyhough. Further, this issue offers a new wave of creations by prize-winning and celebrated poets Roy Miki, Di Brandt, Doug Barbour, Sheila Murphy, Christopher Dewdney, Jeff Gundy, Margaret Christakos, Rachel Zolf, rob mcLennan, and Carla Hartsfield to name only a few. We thank the Canada Council for the Arts for its ongoing support and we especially thank, you, our readers, for your ongoing support and decades of loyalty! Meanwhile, stay tuned for our next special issue featuring contemporary poetics in honour of Frank Davey and his remarkable achievements as a pre-eminent editor, writer and thinker. For now, we invite to you to turn the page, and join our celebration of Rampike’s 25th year in print! – Karl Jirgens (Publisher/Editor-in-Chief). 3 RAMPIKE 14/2 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ TALKING WITH JOYCE CAROL OATES Interview by Karl Jirgens Hilton Hotel, Windsor, Canada Photo by Karl Jirgens This interview with Joyce Carol Oates, happened in conjunction with the University of Windsor HRG (Humanities Research Group) Humanities Week during September of 2005. This year, the HRG, headed by Dr. Kate McCrone, has featured a series of Distinguished Speakers at the University of Windsor, including Joyce Carol Oates, Anton Kuerti, and Linda Hutcheon. Joyce Carol Oates kindly granted permission to publish her talk, and granted an interview to Rampike magazine. She is a prolific author with over thirty novels in print, numerous plays and collections of poetry, nearly two dozen short story collections, and nine collections of essays. Some of her recent novels include Blonde (2000), Middle Age Romance (2001), I’ll Take You There (2002), and Tatooed Girl (2003). In this interview, Joyce Carol Oates talks about her approaches to writing and her latest book of collected essays The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art (Harper Collins, 2003). Between 1968 and 1978, Oates taught at the University of Windsor, in Canada. During this immensely productive decade, she published new books at the rate of two or three per year, all the while maintaining a full-time academic career. Though still in her thirties, Oates had become one of the most respected and honoured writers in the North America. In 1978, Oates moved to Princeton, New Jersey, where she continues to teach in Princeton University's creative writing program. She and her husband, Ray Smith, also operate a small press and publish a literary magazine, The Ontario Review. Joyce Carol Oates has received high critical acclaim for her novels including Missing Mom, The Tattoo Girl, and her latest, The Falls. Her novel Blonde (2000) was a National Book Award nominee and New York Times best-seller. A recipient of the National Book Award and the Pen/Malamud Award for Excellence in Short Fiction, Joyce Carol Oates is the Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University. In 2003 she was a recipient of the Common Wealth Award for Distinguished Service in Literature. 4 RAMPIKE 14/2 _____________________________________________________________________________________________ KJ: I heard a funny story about someone who JCO: Paul’s terrific. He writes in long-hand and applied for a job at the University of Windsor, he writes anywhere. He says writing is very and hesitated to accept the position because they painful and he hates it, but he can do it in a hotel were afraid you would write about them. as well as at home, because he’s toiling away JCO: Well, I might write about them, but only if almost anywhere. I’m sort of like Paul, but I they’re interesting. don’t hate it. KJ: Thanks for writing The Faith of a Writer – I KJ: It’s amazing how many writers work in found it inspiring in many ways and I felt that it long-hand, I know that Alistair MacLeod does, reaches out to aspiring as well as established so do Nino Ricci, Paul Auster, among others. writers. And, thanks for agreeing to do this Can you say more about your own mode of interview for Rampike. composition. JCO: Well thank you. And you know we JCO: When I’m running, I’m thinking of what publish a magazine too, called the Ontario I’m going to write, and I find it very pleasurable. Review. The Ontario Review published one of Do you run? the very first stories by Alistair MacLeod. He KJ: A bit. I used to swim a lot and did bicycling was always a wonderful writer. He writes so too. Then I got into martial arts. slowly, but gradually he accumulated an JCO: I see. I like bicycling too, and I find impressive quantity of great stories, and we were swimming and bicycling are also meditative. publishing them. We’ve published some others What kind of martial arts do you do? from U Windsor including Eugene McNamara, KJ: I do Tae Kwon Do which is similar to Peter Stevens, John Ditsky and Tom Dilworth. Karate or Kung Fu in some ways, except that it KJ: In The Faith of A Writer, you say that if you is of Korean origin. The philosophy behind it are a writer then you must sacrifice yourself to can be partly understood through the “Um- your art. You also say that such a sacrifice to art Yang” or “Yin-Yang” symbol on the Korean has a price on it in terms of the human flag which features a sine wave denoting process relationships one has: family, friends, loved and fluidity, otherwise known as the “path of the ones, and so on. dragon” or the “warrior’s path.” This path JCO: I think people need to understand that denotes a condition of flux and marks a path writers and artists need a lot of time to between two worlds, or between polar opposites. themselves. I have never been sympathetic to the Co-incidentally, this idea of opposites is similar view that, for example, Eugene O’Neill’s family to the concept you raise in “’JCO’ and me (After resented his writing. That’s ridiculous. Eugene Borges),” the interview you do with yourself in O’Neill was a great genius. If you married The Faith of a Writer. Einstein, would you want him to sit around the JCO: In San Francisco you see a lot of people dining room with you and play cards or doing Tai Chi, which I think is similar to Tae something? My husband and I spend a lot of Kwon Do. time working, separately, and then we get KJ: Yes, the fundamental principles are quite together after. It’s just something that is similar. understood. JCO: If I was younger, I think I’d find martial KJ: I have a couple of questions about your arts appealing, it’s kind of like dance, the fluid work habits as a writer. Do you set aside a motions. It’s very beautiful, almost theatrical. number of hours to write per day or per week? KJ: Yes, it can be very dance-like and in a way JCO: Oh, I don’t live my life on those terms. I the moves can tell a story. I’ve worked some compose or “write” when I run, and I do a lot of martial arts into some inter-media performance running.
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