Issue #27: Political Correctness

Contents:

• Editor’s Foreword
• Lucy Jane Bledsoe / “My Censorship Phase: Notes From a Brutally Honest Nice Girl”
• Alain Robbe-Grillet / “Response to Political Correctness Censure” (translated by Ben Stoltzfus)
• Nikita / “Serial/Cereal”
• Forum on Political Correctness: Noel Peattie / Joan Drury / Alien Ginsberg / Rochelle Ratner / Curtis White / Nicole Brossard / Jerry Farber / Joe Napora / Joan Lindgren / John A. Williams / Nina Silver / Fred Moramarco / Sanda Agalidi / Peter Michelson / Stephen-Paul Martin / Jon Carlson / Geoffrey Cook / Gerald J. Butler / Lawrence Ferlinghetti
• Kenneth Bernard / “The Third Kiss, or Cobra Woman Meets the Bag Lady”
• Christy Sheffield Sanford / “Blue Lust Diagrams”
• Richard Grossman / “The Missionary Position in the Odes of Keats”
• Jim Elledge / “Looking at Photographs w/ Krystal Dilithium”
• Stephen D. Gutierrez / “The World Came Crashing Down On My Wife; or, Goodnight, Señorita, Home Again, Being An Exploration Of Certain Intense Emotions Having To Do With Me And My Wife, Culled From An Old Story That Went Bankrupt And Went Like This, Something, A Footnote It Was, Experimental Jive, Horseshit, Mishmash, All Right?”
• Kelly Mayhew / “Controlling Desire: Feminist Constructions of Sexuality”
• Jill St. Jacques / “I Want to Be a Transsexual”
• Stephen-Paul Martin / “The Legal System on Trial”
• Bayard Johnson / “Taking Out The Trash”
• R. Sebastian Bennett / “Alex Unit Four”
• Mira-Lani 0glesby/ “Swift County Homemakers’ Club Contest Submission: Why I Love Glory ® Paper Towels”
• Jerry Farber / “Golden Grove Unweaving (and not a moment too soon)”
• Ted Pelton / “From Combaria”
• Cris Mazza / “Excerpt from Afraid”
• Jim Miller / “Here We Are Now, Entertain Us”
• Jascha Kessler / ‘Two Political Encounters”
• Larry Fondation / “Make-Up”
• Harold Jaffe / “Camo, Dope & Videotape”

Art:

• Joel Lipman / four images
• Joseph T. L. Keenan / “Dick Chair”
• Tuli Kupferberg / two images
• Norman Conquest / “Trick Question No. 4”
• Sheila Pell / “Corrective Perspective”
• Ken Bryan / “Back Door”
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti / “C’est La Guerre”
• Contributors’ Notes