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''o•blék: a journal of language arts'' (pronounced exactly like the word "oblique") was a small literary magazine founded by Peter Gizzi who co-edited it with Connell McGrath. The magazine published a number of poems often not in the mainstream but recognized for their excellence (by, for instance, being selected for The Best American Poetry series). The magazine ran from 1987 to 1993. Published by The Garlic Press in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, the magazine offered readers no mission statement, editor’s notes or biographic notes on contributors. At the beginning of each issue it instead presented different dictionary entries for the word “oblique”. ''o•blék'' focused on publishing poets away from the mainstream and associated with various types and schools of poetry. Poets often associated with Language poetry frequently appeared, including Clark Coolidge, Lyn Hejinian, and Michael Palmer. Other frequent contributors were Fanny Howe, Robert Creeley, Rosmarie Waldrop, Edmond Jabès, and John Wieners, Ben Marcus, Cole Swensen, Roberto Tejada, Mark McMorris, and Elizabeth Willis. Other contributors are associated with the New York School tradition: Ted Berrigan, Kenward Elmslie, Bernadette Mayer, Charles North, Alice Notley, Ron Padgett, David Shapiro, Marjorie Welish, and John Yau. ==History== The first issue of the magazine was dated April 1987.〔() Amazon.com Web site, Web page offering the first issue of "O.Blek" (out of stock), accessed January 27, 2006〕 The publication was put out at a cost of about $4,100 with borrowed money and sold out its run of 1,000 copies after about 18 months. At the end of its first year, the magazine had about 75 subscribers, a number which rose to 275 after six years (not including libraries, which mostly subscribed through jobbers)〔() Bernstein, Charles, "Provisional Institutions: Alternative Presses and Poetic Innovation" a paper "Originally Presented at the Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association on December 29, 1993, in Toronto, at a session of the institutions of poetry, organized by Robert von Hallberg. First published in ''Arizona Quarterly Review'' 51:1 (1995) Revised version in My Way: Speeches and Poems, accessed January 27, 2007〕 Gizzi has written that "in the mid to late 80’s () I was waiting tables and reading books and editing my journal, ''o-blek''".〔() Gizzi, Peter, "Inside / Outside: Poets in the Academy", ''The Modern Review'', Winter 2006, Volume II / Issue 2, accessed January 27, 2007〕 With the sacrifices, Gizzi has said, came success. The journal received numerous grants, is in the permanent collections of major libraries, and continues to be cited in poetry criticism. In 1990 o•blék was the focus of the 7th International Literary Conference at the Fondation Royaumont in France. Poets and critics attended from all over France to discuss the journal and independent literary production. With the publication of the twelfth issue in 1993, the magazine had put out more than 2,500 pages of contemporary poetry from three generations of poets. In 1993, Gizzi left the publication, turning it over to others, although no further issues were published. By early 1995 the magazine was being folded up.〔() Web page titled "Poetics Archives" at "Listserv.buffalo.edu" a Web page maintained by the University of Buffalo, post titled "Re: Up in smoke", dated January 28 at 21:50:55 -0600: "o-blek magazine is out of business and I want to pass on our overstock to interested readers. They are available on a first-come first serve basis at the following rates: o-blek /#'s 1 through 9 & 11 are a $1.50 per book, o-blek/12's are $4 per set while they last. These amounts will cover the cost of mailing materials and postage. Please help me to get these wonderful books into the right hands. Tell all who may be interested, buy as many as you like, do it soon./Respectfully,/Connell McGrath/Send Check made out to o-blek to: () Stockbridge, MA 01262/Please feel free to post this announcement to other lists or to print out and pass on to others./Thanks/Peter Gizzi"〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「O-blek」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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