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About
Pemmican |
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| Pemmican
began as a 36 page saddle-stitched print magazine with a card
stock cover in 1992 and ended as a nearly 100 page magazine
in 1999. Over the course of eight issues Pemmican represented
a broad spectrum of poets, most of them contemporary American
poets, writing a kind of poetry not generally found in the American
mainstream. |
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a two year hiatus, Pemmican was reincarnated on the Web--same
editorial philosophy, different format. Pemmican can
trace its ancestry back to literary magazines such as Masses
and Mainstream, The California Quarterly and Coastlines,
Crazy Horse, Quindaro, The Unrealist, George
Hitchcock's Kayak, Jim Dochniak's Sez Magazine,
Robert Bly's The Sixies and The Seventies, and
The Subversive Agent. Although these magazines (and many
more excellent magazines just like them) are a diverse and eclectic
lot, there are certain elements that unite and link them over
the course of more than 60 years. All of them, to one degree
or another, began by publishing poetry that was outside the
mainstream of its day. That poetry might be characterized as
not only differing from the stylistic and structural conventions
of its time but in its use of imagery and language, its sense
of "place" (or lack of place in some cases), and,
perhaps most important of all, its embrace of the political
as a proper subject for poetry. Or, more precisely, because
these magazines were willing to embrace the political as
a proper subject for poetry, they were able to look beyond the
limits of the conventional and see the poetry of the future
even as it was being written. It is in the footsteps of such
literary magazines that Pemmican has always aspired to
walk. |
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Copyright
© 2008 Pemmican Press and the author/artist represented. |
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