Fourteenth Series, No. 2: Spring 2010 Why Are You Laughing? Guest-edited by Jonathan Ball and Ryan Fitzpatrick Introduction: The Joke and its Relation to Experimental Poetry. JONATHAN BALL from The Sonnagrams. K. SILEM MOHAMMAD Is There Humour in Experimental Writing? SHARON MESMER A Unicorn Boner for Humanity. SHARON MESMER Evacuated Elmo Head Elmo. SHARON MESMER When Tantric Sex Gets Ugly. SHARON MESMER "At once a gossip and a revolutionary": Brian Joseph Davis's Portable Altamont and the Poetics of Gossip. MIKE ROBERSON Gossip! MIKE ROBERSON / BRIAN JOSEPH DAVIS Calculogue. SUSAN HOLBROOK Avant-Sword: Or ...? COLIN SMITH skank toons. COLIN SMITH Destabilizing Architectures: Sublime Wit in Lisa Robertson's Occasional Work and Seven Walks from the Office for Soft Architecture. COLIN MARTIN Leer Icky Males, or How Lisa Robertson's The Men is Fucking Hilarious. KEVIN MCPHERSON ECKHOFF from Commit. KEVIN MCPHERSON ECKHOFF Language is never funny: A Conversation. VANESSA PLACE / SINA QUEYRAS Passing Between Two Toledos or Desperately Seeking Sampedrín: Some Thoughts on Elisa Sampedrín. NATALEE CAPLE The Last Words in the Dictionary. ELISA SAMPÉDRIN from The Semi-conducting Dictionary: Our Strindberg. NATALEE CAPLE "Oh, I get it. I get jokes": Humour and the Requilting of the Social Field in Jeff Derksen's "But Could I make a Living from it." RYAN FITZPATRICK Contributors Cover image found by Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff |
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