Index Editorial ... p. 2 Robert Zend & Northrop Frye ... p. 3 Claude Beausoleil & Michel Delisle ... p. 6 Michael Winkler ... p. 7 George Bowering ... p. 8 Louis Dudek ... p. 9 Eli Mandel ... p. 10 Karl Kempton ... p. 12 Paul Chamberland ... p. 12 Patrice Beray ... p. 13 Luc Richer ... p. 13 Dominique Drugeon ... p. 13 Ivan Halasz de Beky ... p. 14 Mihaly Ladany ... p. 14 Laszlo Kalnoky ... p. 15 Sandor Csoori ... p. 16 Andrezej Dudek Durer ... p. 16 Janos Pilinszky ... p. 17 David Godfrey ... p. 18 Lary Bremner ... p. 19 G.X. Jupitter-Larsen ... p. 20 Wraclaw Ropiecki ... p. 21 Gerry Gilbert ... p. 22 People's Republic of Poetry ... p. 25 Lars Vilks ... p. 26 Barry Prophet ... p. 27 Herbert Huneke ... p. 28 Vito Acconci ... p. 30 bill bissett ... p. 32 C. Twomey & E. Lefko w/ Bryon Gysin ... p. 34 Irving Weiss ... p. 36 August Franza ... p. 37 Steve Mccaffery ... p. 38 Fred Truck ... p. 41 Negovin Rajic ... p. 41 Guillermo Deister ... p. 44 James Sallis ... p. 45 Robert Morgan ... p. 47 Mara Zibens & Richard Truhlar ... p. 48 Glenn Frew ... p. 50 Karl Jirgens .<. p. 51 Trevor Hancock ... p. 52 Lucy Lippard ... p. 54 Marty Heitner ... p. 54 Andrew J. Paterson ... p. 55 Marino Tuzi ... p. 56 Paul Zelevansky (Crossroads Novelty) ... p. 57 Jonny Silver ... p. 58 Lucien Francoeur ... p. 60 Jean-Luc Bonspiel ... p. 61 Opal Nations ... p. 61 Jean-Paul Daoust ... p. 62 Lary Bremner ... p. 62 3W Group ... p. 63 Claudine Bertrand ... p. 64 Philippe Haeck ... p. 65 Andre Gervais ... p. 65 Victor Coleman & Judy Whalen ... p. 67 George Manupelli ... p. 68 Guillermo Deisler ... p. 68 Lary Bremner ... p. 69 Esiri Dafieware ... p. 69 Melody Sumner ... p. 69 Sparling Mills ... p. 70 W.S. Brown ... p. 72 Barry Mandelker ... p. 73 Ken Hollings ... p. 73 Eugene Dubnov ... p. 74 Karen Mac Cormack ... p. 74 W. Mark Sutherland .. p. 75 Ken Norris ... p. 75 M. Lucchesi ... p. 75 Marshall Hryciuk ... p. 76 Susan Parker ... p. 77 Dennis Cooley ... p. 78 John Grube ... p. 79 Douglas Finlayson .. p. 80 Marty Heitner .. p. 81 P.J. Holdstock ... p. 81 Brian Dedora ... p. 82 Thomas McNeely .. p. 83 Humberto da Silva .. p. 84 Ronald Anthony Cross ... p. 84 Karen Peterson ... p. 85 Ursula Pflug .. p. 85 David McFadden ... p. 86 Holly Anderson ... p. 89 Steve Noyes ... p. 90 Mario Cutajar ... p. 91 Boris Wanowitch ... p. 92 Owen Sound ... p. 94 Charles Bernstein ... p. 96 Paul Art ... p. 98 Vince Chetcutti ... p. 99 Fred Truck .. p. 99 Brian Duren .. p. 100 Audio Arts ... p. 103 Emil Hoffman ... p. 104 George Swede ... p. 106 Noah Zacharin ... p. 106 Christof Migone ... p. 106 John Oughton ... p. 107 Susan Frykberg .. p. 108 Bob Wakulich ... p. 108 Sahara Spracklin ... p. 109 Propaganda ... p. 110 Diane Morrow ... p. 111 Enzo Minarelli ... p. 112 Sorel Etrog ... p. 115 Roy Click ... p. 116 Neil Randall ... p. 124 Richard Gessner ... p. 126 Contributors Notes ... p. 128 EDITORIAL Culture, as intellectual life, the product ofindividual efforts, ultimately La culture en tant que vie de l' esprit.fruit des efforts individuels, Ji.nit par constitutes all the intellectual and spiritual conquest which a given constituer l' ensemble des conquetes intellectuelles et spirituelles qu' une community considers its heritage. communaute determinee considere comme son patrimoine. -WHITE PAPER ON CULTURAL AFFAIRS; Quebec, 1965- -LIVRE BLANC DES AFFAIRES CULTURELLES; Quebec, 1965- Coniue.st~ /€ S lOf')4tlAe.f-f-e. S 1' Y of r't~ noyee). le5 frofifs Culture designates the intellectual and spiritual accomplishements of an individual, his awareness of himself and his world, and his creativity. rno nt-ent. - WHITE PAPER ON A CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT POLICY; Quebec, 1978- La culture designe l' accomplisement intellectuel et spirituel de la personne, son acces a la prise de conscience de soi et du monde, safaculte creatrice. -LA POLITIQUE DU DEVELOPPEMENT CULTUREL; U(\ Cen5ore.q' Quebec, 1978- , e.xrr€J5 i 01) / libr~ / In its broadest sense, culture, today, may be considered as the ensemble of distinctive spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional traits which c.haracteri~e a society or so~ial group. In addition to the arts, languages and literature, LI encompasses lifestyles, fundamental human rights, value systems, traditions and beliefs. Dans son sens Le plus large, la culture peut aujourd' hui etre consideree comme l' ensemble des traits distinctifs, spirituels et materiels, zntellectuels -World Conference on Cultural Policy, MEXICO CITY et affectifs, qui caracterisent une societe ou un groupe social. Elle englobe, DECLARATION ON CULTURAL POLICY; Mexico, 1982 - outre Les arts et Les Lettres, Les modes de vie, les droits fondamentaux de l'etre humain, les systemes de valeurs, Les traditions et Les crqyances. -Conference mondiale sur les politiques culturelles, DECLARATION -\ i € e. s tab Ii s AMefl t DE MEXICO SUR LES POLITIQUES CULTURELLES; Mexico, 1982. - i5 <o "'PI il (eV\t. I+ ~as \e pouvoir~st franilli//~. c..on Sf r C;\ Cf eJ ifs ~a machine -e le<tord fe e. f~<: +ora / h'1ac.n;ne.r-y \ I I.a consfrq/ f e i+s-e f-P. \ t.\ i - n, e nie . The second check ofthe data confirmed that the overall income from artistic an cultural activities falling under the Culture Statistics Program amounted to$8 billion. As for the statistics on the cultural labour force, Notre deuxieme examen confirme que I' ensemble des revenus des these were included in a document issued by Statistics Canada. Finally activites artistiques et culturelles contenus dans le programme de la government expenditures appeared to be more in the region of$2.9 billion statistique de la culture totalisent 8 milliards de dollars. Par ailleurs, Jes rather than 2 .6 billion mentioned previously. statistiques sur la main d'oeuvre culturelle, quanta elles, ontfait l' objet d'une publication de Statistique Canada. Finalement, Jes depenses des We will continue to examine these figures on a yearly basis in order to gouvernements seraient de l' order de 2 ,9 milliards au lieu des 2 ,6 milliards avoid any possibility of error. But we wish to point out here and now that we des dollars mentionnes precedemment. consider the economic importance of cultural activities to be seriously undervalued, since a great many such activities are not taken into account. Nous continuerons a examiner ces chiffres annuellement pour bien -ANNUAL REPORT OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY eviter toute erreur. Mais nous signalons tout de suite qu' a notre avis la COMMITIEE ON CULTURE STATISTICS; Ottawa, 1985- valeur economique des activites culturelles est considerablement sous­ evaluee, car bien des activites ne sont pas encore recensees. -RAPPORT ANNUEL DU COMITE CONSULTIF NATIONAL DE talk ' you. talk, LA STATISQUE CULTURELLE; Ottawa, 1985 - je -paYfe, e w~ aJ/ +a r k ; +(A parf .s, '1 o L( s par Ion s ; +h~ y ~rof&+. i Is rrof it e 11+. +he r~~j le s+ \ a cont i f\qf? .I cont in1-<es. tu++~ J-. ·,v 2 3 OAB AND IRDU T W 0 L E T T E R S By Robert Zend I received two letters today, one from a religious organization, Robert Zend passed away during the summer of 1985. Just before that time the other from an oil company . The former tr i ed to persuade me he had sent us a text titled; TWO LETTERS, which we present following the to save my soul; the latter offered me a credit card . I read introduction by Prof. Northrop Frye. More importantly, he had just com­ pleted a double volume of writing and imagery titled; OAB (Exile Editions both of them at the same time whil e eating my supp er. This was ISBN 0-920428022-3) which features the lives of the characters DAB and IRDU who not only question the reality of their own existence but the the impressi on I've got: existence of their creator. OAB is both a celebration of the creative spirit and a triumph of expression. It is also afondfarewell. The staff of Rampike salute Robert Zend, and his many remarkable accomplishments. He will be sorely missed, not only as a catalyst and inspiration but as a friend and fel­ Your Salvation comes low traveller. from Canada Oil Limited. "'O Salvation is not an expe­ C: ~ N rience of signing some t: ~ liberty of enclosing .D 0 ~ a personal credit ;>, .D card or confirmation, or e~ shaking the minister's - services throughout Canada and the U.S.A. - Quality, heart-felt,God-sent, change of life, heaven-born petroleum products, a complete line of pray, sing, shout, love ... and live a life, free from a 11 the tires, batteries, accessories and repairs on convenient old-time, faith-believing prayers which are offered up to accomodation (lodging, meals and beverages) at Sheraton Master Northrop Frye on Robert Zend: Maker and Keeper of al 1 things. It cannot be bought by s i 1ver and go 1d, Prof. Northrop Frye delivered a memorial speech dedicated to Robert Zend but by a Rent-a-Car service from Avis, at Toronto's Harbourfront as an introduction to the posthumous launch of, Herz and Tilden, National and performance/reading from OAB. Blood of Christ, by fully surren­ I remember reading once about a woman travelling in Tibet and study­ dering at the foot of the ing magic there. She created a human phantom, a monk, who took on an Best-Buy brand-name merchandise independent life and started giving her the eye, in this case a rather at attractive prices on easy unpleasant eye. So, she had to get rid of him, but it was harder to dissolve than to create him in the first place. Yeats said something similar about his humble position, fit to work Crazy Jane.