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Magazine. Poetry. Nonfiction. Art. Edited by Rod Smith. This issue includes 75 pages of material from John Cage: "Art is Either a Complaint of Do Something Else," a lecture-poem on Jasper Johns, a lengthy interview by Joan Retallack, macrobiotic recipes, and "Fire XIII," the cover art. Also in this issue a variety of poetic and critical writing, including Charles Bernstein's "A Defense of Poetry and other writings," excerpts from Melanie Neilson's "Civil Noir," the initial Yasusada publication "Renga and the New Sentence," P. Inman interview and poems.