Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
Publisher: W. W. Norton; W. W. Norton & Company
Published: March 2013
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 1040
Description: This revised and expanded edition features 114 poets, 557 poems, and 15 poetics essays, addressing important recent movements such as Newlipo, conceptual poetry, and Flarf. Bringing together foundational postmodern poets like Charles Olson, Denise Levertov, and Allen Ginsberg with new voices like Christian Bok, Kenneth Goldsmith, and Katie Degentesh, this edition of Postmodern American Poetry is the essential collection for a new generation of readers.
Table of contents: title: Contents; title: Preface xxvii; title: Introduction xxix; title: Charles Olson (1910–1970) 3; title: In Cold Hell, in Thicket 4; title: I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You 9; title: Letter 3 13; title: Maxiumus, to himself 16; title: John Cage (1912–1992) 18; title: 25 Mesostics Re and Not Re Mark Tobey 18; title: Writing through the Cantos 22; title: Robert Duncan (1919–1988) 29; title: Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow 30; title: Poetry, a Natural Thing 30; title: Bending the Bow 31; title: The Torso Passages 18 32; title: Songs of an Other 35; title: Close 36; title: Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) 38; title: [In Goya’s greatest scenes we seem to see] 39; title: [In Golden Gate Park that day] 40; title: [Constantly risking absurdity] 41; title: A Dark Portrait 42; title: Barbara Guest (1920–2006) 43; title: Red Lilies 44; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 5 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: vi ■ C o n t e n t s; title: River Road Studio 44; title: Prairie Houses 45; title: Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights 46; title: An Emphasis Falls on Reality 48; title: Valorous Vine 49; title: Freed Color 50; title: Jackson Mac Low (1922–2004) 52; title: from The Pronouns 53; title: 1st Dance—Making Things New—6 February 1964 53; title: 6th Dance—Doing Things with Pencils—17–18 February 1964 53; title: Trope Market 54; title: 59th Light Poem: for La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela—; title: 6 November 1982 55; title: Antic Quatrains 56; title: Twenties 26 57; title: Twenties 27 58; title: Philip Whalen (1923–2002) 60; title: Sourdough Mountain Lookout 61; title: The Chariot 66; title: Denise Levertov (1923–1997) 67; title: Overland to the Islands 68; title: Illustrious Ancestors 68; title: The Ache of Marriage 69; title: The Wings 69; title: Stepping Westward 70; title: Williams: An Essay 72; title: Where Is the Angel? 73; title: James Schuyler (1923–1991) 75; title: A Man in Blue 76; title: The Crystal Lithium 77; title: Letter to a Friend: Who Is Nancy Daum? 81; title: Korean Mums 86; title: Kenneth Koch (1925–2002) 88; title: To You 89; title: Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams 89; title: Alive for an Instant 90; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 6 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: C o n t e n t s ■ vii; title: Aesthetics of a Small Theatre 91; title: Aesthetics of Creating Something 91; title: Aesthetics of Lorca 91; title: Aesthetics of Feeling Fine 91; title: Aesthetics of Being a Mouse 92; title: Aesthetics of Poetry and Prose 92; title: Aesthetics of Comedy Asleep 92; title: Aesthetics of Silence 92; title: Aesthetics of the Aesthetician 92; title: Jack Spicer (1925–1965) 93; title: Song for Bird and Myself 94; title: from The Holy Grail 97; title: The Book of Gawain 97; title: The Book of Percival 100; title: Frank O’Hara (1926–1966) 103; title: Poem (The eager note on my door . . .) 104; title: Meditations in an Emergency 104; title: Ode to Joy 106; title: The Day Lady Died 107; title: Personal Poem 108; title: A Step away from Them 109; title: Ave Maria 110; title: Steps 111; title: Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) 113; title: Why I Am Not a Painter 113; title: Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) 115; title: from Howl (Part I) 116; title: A Supermarket in California 121; title: To Aunt Rose 122; title: First Party at Ken Kesey’s with Hell’s Angels 123; title: On Neal’s Ashes 124; title: Robert Creeley (1926–2005) 125; title: After Lorca 126; title: A Form of Women 126; title: The Rain 127; title: For Love 128; title: The Language 130; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 7 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: viii ■ C o n t e n t s; title: The Window 131; title: The World 132; title: Self-Portrait 133; title: Bresson’s Movies 134; title: When I think 135; title: Paul Blackburn (1926–1971) 136; title: Brooklyn Narcissus 137; title: El Camino Verde 139; title: Park Poem 140; title: John Ashbery (b. 1927) 142; title: The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers 143; title: “How Much Longer Will I Be Able to Inhabit; title: the Divine Sepulcher . . .” 145; title: from The Skaters 147; title: Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape 154; title: The One Thing That Can Save America 156; title: The Other Tradition 157; title: Paradoxes and Oxymorons 158; title: Life Is a Dream 159; title: Involuntary Description 159; title: Feverfew 160; title: Opposition to a Memorial 161; title: Litanies 162; title: The Ecstasy 163; title: Larry Eigner (1927–1996) 164; title: [trees green the quiet sun] 165; title: W h o l e s 165; title: [a temporary language] 166; title: [the sun solid] 167; title: [Out of the wind and leaves] 167; title: June 19–September 9 90 168; title: Kenward Elmslie (b. 1929) 169; title: Shirley Temple Surrounded by Lions 169; title: Feathered Dancers 170; title: Japanese City 172; title: Ed Dorn (1929–1999) 174; title: The Rick of Green Wood 174; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 8 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: C o n t e n t s ■ ix; title: Geranium 175; title: From Gloucester Out 176; title: On the Debt My Mother Owed to Sears Roebuck 181; title: Gregory Corso (1930–2001) 183; title: Italian Extravaganza 184; title: The Mad Yak 184; title: Last Night I Drove a Car 184; title: Dream of a Baseball Star 185; title: I Held a Shelley Manuscript 186; title: Marriage 186; title: Gary Snyder (b. 1930) 190; title: Hay for the Horses 191; title: Riprap 191; title: The Bath 192; title: Avocado 195; title: As for Poets 195; title: Axe Handles 196; title: Right in the Trail 197; title: No Shadow 199; title: Keith Waldrop (b. 1932) 200; title: A Shipwreck in Haven (I) 201; title: Plurality of Worlds 205; title: Competing Depth 207; title: Michael McClure (b. 1932) 209; title: Gray Fox at Solstice 209; title: Mexico Seen from the Moving Car 210; title: The Butterfly 211; title: The Cheetah 212; title: Thoreau’s Eyes 213; title: Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934) 214; title: Duncan Spoke of a Process 215; title: Political Poem 217; title: The New World 217; title: Leadbelly Gives an Autograph 218; title: Ka ’Ba 220; title: Leroy 221; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 9 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: x ■ C o n t e n t s; title: The Rare Birds 221; title: J. said, “Our whole universe is generated by a rhythm” 222; title: Ted Berrigan (1934–1983) 224; title: from The Sonnets 225; title: II (Dear Margie, hello. It is 5:15 a.m.) 225; title: XV (In Joe Brainard’s collage its white arrow) 225; title: XXXVI (It’s 8:54 in Brooklyn it’s the 28th of July and) 225; title: LXXXVIII (How strange to be gone in a minute!) 226; title: Words for Love 227; title: Bean Spasms 228; title: A Certain Slant of Sunlight 234; title: My Autobiography 234; title: In Your Fucking Utopias 235; title: Diane di Prima (b. 1934) 236; title: The Practice of Magical Evocation 237; title: On Sitting Down to Write, I Decide Instead to Go to; title: Fred Herko’s Concert 237; title: For H.D. 239; title: Backyard 241; title: The Loba Addresses the Goddess / or The Poet as Priestess Addresses the; title: Loba-Goddess 242; title: Clayton Eshleman (b. 1935) 243; title: The Lich Gate 244; title: Iraqi Morgue 245; title: In Memory of George Butterick 246; title: Combarelles 247; title: Eternity at Domme 248; title: Ronald Johnson (1935–1998) 249; title: from Ark: The Foundations 250; title: Beam 6, The Musics 250; title: Beam 8 251; title: Beam 33 251; title: from RADI OS 252; title: Gustaf Sobin (1935–2005) 257; title: What the Music Wants 258; title: Eleven Rock Poems 259; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 10 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: C o n t e n t s ■ xi; title: Genesis 261; title: Under the Bright Orchards 262; title: Rosmarie Waldrop (b. 1935) 264; title: from Pre & Con or Positions and Junctions 1–5 265; title: Conversation 1: On the Horizontal 268; title: Conversation 2: On the Vertical 269; title: Conversation 3: On Vertigo 270; title: Object Relations 271; title: We Will Always Ask, What Happened? 271; title: Kathleen Fraser (b. 1937) 273; title: re : searches (fragments, after Anakreon, for Emily Dickinson) 274; title: your back to me inside the black suit 277; title: notebook 5: “in spite of gradual deficits” 278; title: Susan Howe (b. 1937) 280; title: from Taking the Forest 281; title: from Bedhangings: To the Compiler of Memories 286; title: Caroline Knox (b. 1938) 291; title: Freudian Shoes 291; title: Movement Along the Frieze 292; title: Sleepers Wake 293; title: Famous Bigshots 294; title: Quaker Guns 295; title: Dreyken 296; title: Bathrobes 296; title: Bill Berkson (b. 1939) 297; title: Merit 297; title: Goods and Services 298; title: In Costume 298; title: After the Medusa 299; title: Song for Connie 299; title: Clark Coolidge (b. 1939) 301; title: Brill 302; title: Styro 303; title: On Induction of the Hand 303; title: Noon Point 304; title: from This Time We Are Both 305; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 11 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: xii ■ C o n t e n t s; title: Ed Roberson (b. 1939) 308; title: Sit in What City We’re In 309; title: Urban Nature 312; title: Open / Back Up (breadth of field) 313; title: Monk’s Bird Book 313; title: A Sampler 314; title: Psalm 315; title: The Counsel of Birds 316; title: Fanny Howe (b. 1940) 317; title: from Veteran (I don’t believe in ashes; some of the others do.) 318; title: from The Quietist 319; title: [Mad God, mad thought] 319; title: [Two waters—squared] 319; title: [My bedclothes were stuffed with ashes] 320; title: from O’clock 320; title: [Go on out but come back in] 320; title: [Hive-sized creams are on the chestnut tree] 321; title: [I feel like the end / of a long day] 321; title: [Wild garlic flowers] 322; title: [He was a cold-hearted Saxon] 322; title: from Forty Days 322; title: 18 [Because my secret wedding] 322; title: 23 [Hey, afraid] 323; title: Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941) 324; title: from Writing Is an Aid to Memory (I) 325; title: from My Life 325; title: [A pause, a rose, something on paper] 325; title: [As for we who “love to be astonished”] 327; title: [Like plump birds along the shore] 328; title: from Slowly 329; title: from The Beginner 332; title: Joan Retallack (b. 1941) 336; title: Curiosity and the Claim to Happiness 337; title: Present Tense 337; title: Present Tense: Choice 340; title: Present Tense: Still 341; title: Ron Padgett (b. 1942) 343; title: Wonderful Things 343; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 12 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: C o n t e n t s ■ xiii; title: Nothing in That Drawer 345; title: Falling in Love in Spain or Mexico 345; title: Who and Each 346; title: Irish Song by an English Man 347; title: I’ll Get Back to You 348; title: Ann Lauterbach (b. 1942) 349; title: Platonic Subject 350; title: Clamor 350; title: New Brooms 351; title: Instruction 353; title: Constellation in Chalk 354; title: Michael Palmer (b. 1943) 356; title: Notes for Echo Lake (3) 357; title: The Project of Linear Inquiry 359; title: Voice and Address 361; title: I Do Not 362; title: Autobiography 2 (hellogoodby) 364; title: Of 366; title: The Phantom of Liberty 367; title: Leslie Scalapino (1944–2010) 369; title: from Zither 370; title: Marjorie Welish (b. 1944) 380; title: Respected, Feared, and Somehow Loved 380; title: Within This Book, Called Marguerite 381; title: Twenty-three Modern Stories 382; title: The World Map 383; title: Possible Fires 383; title: Norma Cole (b. 1945) 385; title: At the Port 385; title: In Memory of My Future 386; title: Remaining in Light 386; title: The Laws 387; title: The Stationmaster 388; title: Bernadette Mayer (b. 1945) 389; title: from Midwinter Day 390; title: On Sleep 394; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 13 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: xiv ■ C o n t e n t s; title: Alice Notley (b. 1945) 398; title: Poem (You hear that heroic big land music?) 399; title: Jack Would Speak through the Imperfect Medium of Alice 399; title: A California Girlhood 401; title: from Beginning with a Stain 403; title: April Not an Inventory but a Blizzard 404; title: I Must Have Called and So He Comes 405; title: Anne Waldman (b. 1945) 407; title: Makeup on Empty Space 408; title: from The Asian Notebook 411; title: Admonitions of the Boudoir 411; title: In the Room of Never Grieve 412; title: One Inch of Love Is an Inch of Ashes 413; title: Wanda Coleman (b. 1946) 414; title: the ISM 414; title: Brute Strength 415; title: Essay on Language 416; title: Ron Silliman (b. 1946) 419; title: from The Chinese Notebook 420; title: from Tjanting 422; title: from Paradise (A SENTENCE in the evening) 426; title: (G)hosts final passage 427; title: Rae Armantrout (b. 1947) 429; title: Close 430; title: Empty 431; title: Yonder 432; title: Later 433; title: Prayers 434; title: Autobiography: Urn Burial 435; title: Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (b. 1947) 437; title: Alakanak Break-Up 438; title: Texas 443; title: Concordance 443; title: Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) 446; title: Andoumboulouous Brush (“mu” fifteenth part) 447; title: Spectral Escort (“mu” seventeenth part) 452; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 14 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: C o n t e n t s ■ xv; title: Steve McCaffery (b. 1947) 455; title: Apologia Pro Vita Sua 456; title: Suggestion but No Insult 457; title: The Dangers of Poetry 457; title: The Poem as a Thing to See 458; title: Correlata for a Cryptogram 459; title: Digital Poetics 459; title: Bob Perelman (b. 1947) 461; title: Chronic Meanings 462; title: Confession 465; title: Current Poetics 467; title: The Remote 468; title: Bin Ramke (b. 1947) 469; title: The Ruined World 470; title: Aaron Shurin (b. 1947) 478; title: from Involuntary Lyrics 479; title: VIII (I come to café, I sit, I bear) 479; title: XVIII (Those guys with Christmas tree untrimmed) 479; title: XXXVII (It’s a country road forty years ago) 480; title: LXVI (Disabled / by seeing them touch) 480; title: CII (if you would come for days) 481; title: CXLI (Claudio, Steffano, Salo, Jésus) 481; title: CXLII (friends walk; bones begin to creak) 482; title: Will Alexander (b. 1948) 483; title: A Nexus of Phantoms 484; title: Thought as Philosophical Torment 485; title: from The Sri Lankan Loxodrome 486; title: Bruce Andrews (b. 1948) 489; title: Earth 5 489; title: Earth 6 491; title: Earth 9 492; title: Somehow That’s Just the Way It Is and I Just Don’t Really Care 493; title: Devo Habit 494; title: from Factura (ca ja a th an ne sh th wa pe) 495; title: Stephen Ratcliffe (b. 1948) 496; title: from REAL: 10.31 to 11.5 497; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 15 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: xvi ■ C o n t e n t s; title: Eileen Myles (b. 1949) 503; title: December 9th 504; title: The Sadness of Leaving 504; title: Bleeding Hearts 507; title: Immanence 508; title: Each Defeat 509; title: The Frames 510; title: C. D. Wright (b. 1949) 512; title: from One Big Self 513; title: Charles Bernstein (b. 1950) 517; title: The Klupzy Girl 518; title: Dysraphism 521; title: Whose Language 525; title: Virtual Reality 526; title: A Defence of Poetry 528; title: This Line 530; title: Castor Oil 531; title: Cecil S. Giscombe (b. 1950) 532; title: All (Facts, Stories, Chance): 1–3 533; title: Far 538; title: Day Song 539; title: Prairie Style 539; title: John Yau (b. 1950) 540; title: Unpromising Poem 541; title: Screen Name 541; title: Ing Grish 543; title: Maxine Chernoff (b. 1952) 546; title: What It Contains 547; title: Scenes from Ordinary Life 549; title: The Commons 552; title: Carla Harryman (b. 1952) 555; title: Noise for Adorno 556; title: Transparent 557; title: Orgasms 557; title: Laura Moriarty (b. 1952) 561; title: from Spectrum’s Rhetoric 562; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 16 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: C o n t e n t s ■ xvii; title: Elaine Equi (b. 1953) 568; title: A Date with Robbe-Grillet 568; title: Asking for a Raise 569; title: A Quiet Poem 570; title: Locket without a Face 571; title: The Collected 573; title: Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) 575; title: from Muse & Drudge 576; title: Denigration 580; title: Dim Lady 580; title: Elliptical 581; title: Variation on a Theme Park 581; title: Xenophobic Nightmare in a Foreign Language 581; title: Donald Revell (b. 1954) 583; title: The Secessions on Loan 584; title: Why and Why Now 585; title: Ridiculous Winter Flower 586; title: New Colors 587; title: Deluge 588; title: Gillian Conoley (b. 1955) 589; title: Native 590; title: This Land Is My Land 592; title: [My name is the girl with one glass eye said bitterly] 594; title: Andrew Joron (b. 1955) 597; title: First Drift 598; title: Le Nombre des Ombres 598; title: Dolphy at Delphi 599; title: Skymap under Skin 600; title: The Person 601; title: Illocutionary Reels 601; title: Cole Swensen (b. 1955) 603; title: Trine (Cove, Dove, Woven) 604; title: The Girl Who Never Rained 606; title: Five Landscapes 607; title: A Garden as Between 608; title: If a Garden of Numbers 609; title: Labyrinths and Mazes 610; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 17 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: xviii ■ C o n t e n t s; title: Susan Wheeler (b. 1955) 611; title: The Belle 612; title: Bankruptcy & Exile 612; title: The Privilege of Feet 613; title: He or She That’s Got the Limb, That Holds Me Out on It 613; title: Possessive Case 614; title: Anthem 615; title: Forrest Gander (b. 1956) 616; title: To Eurydice 617; title: To Virginia 619; title: from Late Summer Entry: The Landscapes of Sally Mann 620; title: River and Trees 620; title: Ghost Sonata 620; title: Ivy Brick Wall 621; title: Late Summer Entry 621; title: Rusty Morrison (b. 1956) 623; title: please advise stop (I was dragging a ladder) 623; title: please advise stop (only gray rocks with drifting) 624; title: please advise stop (basin of hills polished) 624; title: please advise stop (the chainlink fence holds) 625; title: please advise stop (like water-spiders on a pond) 625; title: please advise stop (any object inclines away) 625; title: Myung Mi Kim (b. 1957) 626; title: Into Such Assembly 627; title: from Penury 629; title: Wang Ping (b. 1957) 634; title: Syntax 634; title: Of Flesh & Spirit 635; title: Female Marriage 636; title: Tan Lin (b. 1957) 641; title: from “A Dictionary of Systems Theory” 642; title: Preface (1978) 642; title: Second Preface (1986) 643; title: Third Preface (1998) 645; title: Fourth Preface 2000 646; title: Fourth Preface Revised 2000 647; title: Pur 648; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 18 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: C o n t e n t s ■ xix; title: Laura Mullen (b. 1958) 649; title: Autumn 650; title: After I Was Dead 651; title: In the Space between Words Begin 652; title: I Wandered Networks like a Cloud 653; title: Code 654; title: The White Box of Mirror Dissolved Is Not Singular 655; title: Robert Fitterman (b. 1959) 656; title: from A Hemingway Reader: The Sun Also Also Rises, Book I 656; title: LIT 659; title: Peter Gizzi (b. 1959) 665; title: Creeley Madrigal 666; title: Revival 667; title: In Defense of Nothing 671; title: A Panic That Can Still Come upon Me 671; title: Hypostasis & New Year 673; title: Basement Song 675; title: Claudia Keelan (b. 1959) 676; title: Something to Keep 677; title: Spring 678; title: Critical Essay 678; title: Sun Going Down 679; title: Pity Boat 681; title: Joseph Lease (b. 1960) 683; title: ”Broken World” (For James Assatly) 684; title: Send My Roots Rain 687; title: Mark McMorris (b. 1960) 690; title: (a poem) (When the combat finally stops, then I will come to you) 691; title: from Letters to Michael 692; title: Dear Michael (2) 692; title: Dear Michael (8) 692; title: Dear Michael (12) 693; title: Inescapable Country 694; title: Sharon Mesmer (b. 1960) 696; title: I Wanna Make Love to You on Mission Accomplished Day 696; title: I Don’t Wanna Lose Yer Wholesome Lovefest Forever 697; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 19 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: xx ■ C o n t e n t s; title: I Never Knew an Orgy Could Be So Much Work 697; title: When the Platypus Kicks Back 698; title: Kenneth Goldsmith (b. 1961) 700; title: from Day 701; title: from Seven American Deaths and Disasters 705; title: Part 4: (Death of John Lennon reported on; title: Monday Night Football) 705; title: Elizabeth Robinson (b. 1961) 707; title: Apollo 708; title: Experience 708; title: Doorway 709; title: Stained Syllogism 710; title: Mary and No Savior 711; title: Having Words 712; title: A Stitch in the Side 713; title: Elizabeth Willis (b. 1961) 714; title: Autographeme 715; title: A Woman’s Face 716; title: Clash by Night 717; title: A Species Is an Idea (2) 717; title: The Witch 718; title: Stacy Doris (1962–2012) 721; title: Synopsis of KILDARE 722; title: Love Letter (Lament) 723; title: As SEQUEL: Second Slogan Poem: A Song for Twins 724; title: from Knot 725; title: [Are collisions entrances?] 725; title: [Into some distance, everything empties] 725; title: [Is there a dalliance that stops] 726; title: [Detail, a sip of tea] 726; title: K. Silem Mohammad (b. 1962) 727; title: Spooked 728; title: Cosmic Deer Head Freakout 729; title: from Sonnagrams 730; title: H.D., H.D., Tetchy H.D.! Why Punch “Punchy,” BBW Spy? 730; title: Vac-U-Cash Devo Vogue 731; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 20 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: C o n t e n t s ■ xxi; title: The the the the the the the the the the Death (Hey Hey) 731; title: Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, J.M.L.: Flit Flit Flit, Fold Fold Fold,; title: My Violent DDT DollTM 732; title: Linh Dinh (b. 1963) 733; title: Continuous Bullets Over Flattened Earth 734; title: Fifteen Rounds With A Nobody 734; title: The Death Of English 735; title: Vocab Lab 735; title: Body Eats 736; title: Claudia Rankine (b. 1963) 739; title: from Plot 740; title: Coherence in Consequence 740; title: Proximity of Inner to In Her 740; title: Intermission in Four Acts 741; title: The thing in play (Act I) 741; title: Still in play (Act II) 742; title: Musical interlude (Act III) 742; title: In mortal theater (Act IV) 743; title: Nada Gordon (b. 1964) and Gary Sullivan (b. 1962) 744; title: from Swoon 745; title: Gary Sullivan: Among the Living (Date: November 2) 745; title: Nada Gordon: Moonscape with Earthlings (Date: December 18) 749; title: Jennifer Moxley (b. 1964) 754; title: Wreath of a Similar Year 755; title: The Price of Silence 756; title: Eleni Sikelianos (b. 1965) 759; title: Campo santo 759; title: Of the True Human Fold 760; title: Essay: Delicately 761; title: Essay: Seven Aspects of Milking Time 761; title: Be Honeyed Bush 762; title: A Radiant Countess of What’s It 763; title: Edwin Torres (b. 1965) 764; title: Slipped Curve 765; title: Sorry, I Don’t Talk Poetry 766; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 21 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: xxii ■ C o n t e n t s; title: The Intermission Clown 767; title: Lunar Shift 768; title: Of Natural Disasters and Love 769; title: Christian Bök (b. 1966) 770; title: Vowels 771; title: from Chapter A (for Hans Arp) 771; title: [Awkward grammar appals a craftsman] 771; title: [Hassan Abd al-Hassad, an Agha Khan] 772; title: from Chapter E (for René Crevel) 772; title: [Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech] 772; title: [Relentless, the rebel peddles these theses] 773; title: from Chapter U (for Zhu Yu) 773; title: [Kultur spurns Ubu — thus Ubu pulls stunts] 773; title: [Ubu gulps up brunch] 773; title: Kalokagathia 774; title: Laynie Browne (b. 1966) 775; title: from Possession 775; title: Crown of Larks 777; title: Sentencing 778; title: The Girl of Wax 779; title: Julie Carr (b. 1966) 780; title: Equivocal (If that bird in my hand and that bear in the trees) 781; title: House / Boat 781; title: Of Sarah (Years having passed, the foliage is wet) 782; title: Of Sarah (Decay to the lemon) 782; title: from 100 Notes on Violence 783; title: 83. Note on Vengeance 783; title: 84 (But what was I up to?) 784; title: Lisa Jarnot (b. 1967) 785; title: They Loved the Sea 786; title: Gang Angles 786; title: Manx Kippers 787; title: Husband Sonnet One 788; title: Right Poem 788; title: Drew Gardner (b. 1968) 789; title: Chicks Dig War 790; title: The Mayim Bialik-Kruschev Fig Rearrangement 792; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 22 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: C o n t e n t s ■ xxiii; title: Superstar 793; title: Why Do I Hate Flarf So Much? 794; title: Vanessa Place (b. 1968) 795; title: from Dies: A Sentence 795; title: G. C. Waldrep (b. 1968) 800; title: Pharisee’s Lament 800; title: Goldbeater’s Skin 801; title: Wunderkammern 802; title: On the Seventh Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan 803; title: discrete series: Selinsgrove 804; title: Craig Dworkin (b. 1969) 806; title: Chapter One: Tectonic Grammar 807; title: from Legion 809; title: from Parse 812; title: Brian Kim Stefans (b. 1969) 815; title: Elementary Buddhism 816; title: Searchbot 816; title: Bishop Bedlam’s Entreaties 819; title: Catherine Wagner (b. 1969) 821; title: Fraction Anthem8 822; title: Fraction Anthem15 823; title: Exercise 34 (1/3/02 pm) 823; title: Exercise 38 (1/7/02 pm) 824; title: For the Boys 825; title: Song 826; title: Graham Foust (b. 1970) 828; title: 1984 829; title: Of What Seems Like My Father 829; title: Interstate Eighty 830; title: Panama 831; title: from To Anacreon in Heaven 831; title: [Like the docent who would suck] 831; title: [I could break into slavery] 832; title: Noelle Kocot (b. 1970) 833; title: Love Poem on the Anniversary of Nowhere 833; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 23 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: xxiv ■ C o n t e n t s; title: Abortion Elegy 834; title: For My Father the Poet 835; title: Passing Over Water 835; title: Over, Under, Through, With 836; title: Lithium 837; title: Katie Degentesh (b. 1974) 838; title: I Sometimes Tease Animals 839; title: I Feel Uneasy Indoors 840; title: At Times I Have Fits of Laughing and Crying That I Cannot Control 841; title: Noah Eli Gordon (b. 1975) 843; title: The book of forgetting 844; title: The book of signs 844; title: An approximation of the actual letter 845; title: Dove song 845; title: from The Source 846; title: [The Source sits atop an alp as if it were a throne.] 846; title: [On what account are we not condemned to servitude?] 846; title: Joshua Marie Wilkinson (b. 1977) 848; title: Wolf Dust 849; title: Ben Lerner (b. 1979) 855; title: from The Lichtenberg Figures 856; title: [The dark collects our empties, empties our ashtrays] 856; title: [I had meant to apologize in advance] 856; title: [In my day, we knew how to drown plausibly] 857; title: from The Doppler Elegies 857; title: [I want to finish the book in time] 857; title: [I’m worried about a friend] 858; title: [The passengers are asked to clap] 859; title: [A flowering no one attends] 860; title: [They are passing quickly, those] 860; title: [Somewhere in this book I broke] 861; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 24 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: C o n t e n t s ■ xxv; title: POETICS; title: Charles Olson; title: Projective Verse 863; title: Barbara Guest; title: A Reason for Poetics 872; title: Frank O’Hara; title: Personism: A Manifesto 875; title: Allen Ginsberg; title: Notes for Howl and Other Poems 877; title: Robert Creeley; title: To Define 880; title: Form 881; title: Susan Howe; title: There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to Cover to; title: Crown to Cover 883; title: Fanny Howe; title: from Bewilderment 887; title: Lyn Hejinian; title: from The Rejection of Closure 894; title: Will Alexander; title: My Interior Vita 901; title: Leslie Scalapino; title: Note on My Writing, 1985 904; title: Nathaniel Mackey; title: from Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol 907; title: Steve McCaffery; title: Language Writing: from Productive to Libidinal Economy 913; title: Charles Bernstein; title: from Artifice of Absorption 922; title: Introjective Verse 926; title: K. Silem Mohammad; title: Excessivism 929; title: Kenneth Goldsmith; title: Conceptual Poetics 933; title: Drew Gardner; title: Why Flarf Is Better Than Conceptualism 944; title: Permissions Acknowledgments 947; title: Index 967; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 25 1/28/13 10:12 AM; title: PstMdrnPoetry.06FM.indd 26 1/28/13 10:12 AM