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lvii, 982 pages ; 24 cm |
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Contents note continued: 59th Light Poem: for La Monte Young and Marian Zazeela---6 November 1982 -- Antic Quatrains -- Twenties 26 -- Twenties 27 -- Philip Whalen (1923--2002) -- Sourdough Mountain Lookout -- The Chariot -- Denise Levertov (1923--1997) -- Overland to the Islands -- Illustrious Ancestors -- The Ache of Marriage -- The Wings -- Stepping Westward -- Williams: An Essay -- Where Is the Angel? -- James Schuyler (1923--1991) -- A Man in Blue -- The Crystal Lithium -- Letter to a Friend: Who Is Nancy Daum? -- Korean Mums -- Kenneth Koch (1925--2002) -- To You -- Variations on a Theme by William Carlos Williams -- Alive for an Instant -- Aesthetics of a Small Theatre -- Aesthetics of Creating Something -- Aesthetics of Lorca -- Aesthetics of Feeling Fine -- Aesthetics of Being a Mouse -- Aesthetics of Poetry and Prose -- Aesthetics of Comedy Asleep -- Aesthetics of Silence -- Aesthetics of the Aesthetician -- Jack Spicer (1925--1965) -- Song for Bird and Myself -- |
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Contents note continued: Craig Dworkin (b. 1969) -- ch. One Tectonic Grammar -- From Legion -- From Parse -- Brian Kim Stefans (b. 1969) -- Elementary Buddhism -- Searchbot -- Bishop Bedlam's Entreaties -- Catherine Wagner (b. 1969) -- Fraction Anthem8 -- Fraction Anthem15 -- Exercise 34 (1/3/02 PM) -- Exercise 38 (1/7/02 PM) -- For the Boys -- Song -- Graham Foust (b. 1970) -- 1984 -- Of What Seems Like My Father -- Interstate Eighty -- Panama -- From To Anacreon in Heaven -- [Like the docent who would suck] -- [I could break into slavery] -- Noelle Kocot (b. 1970) -- Love Poem on the Anniversary of Nowhere -- Abortion Elegy -- For My Father the Poet -- Passing Over Water -- Over, Under, Through, With -- Lithium -- Katie Degentesh (b. 1974) -- I Sometimes Tease Animals -- I Feel Uneasy Indoors -- At Times I Have Fits of Laughing and Crying That I Cannot Control -- Noah Eli Gordon (b. 1975) -- The book of forgetting -- The book of signs -- An approximation of the actual letter -- |
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Contents note continued: Dove song -- From The Source -- [The Source sits atop an alp as if it were a throne] -- [On what account are we not condemned to servitude?] -- Joshua Marie Wilkinson (b. 1977) -- Wolf Dust -- Ben Lerner (b. 1979) -- From The Lichtenberg Figures -- [The dark collects our empties, empties our ashtrays] -- [I had meant to apologize in advance] -- [In my day, we knew how to drown plausibly] -- From The Doppler Elegies -- [I want to finish the book in time] -- [I'm worried about a friend] -- [The passengers are asked to clap] -- [A flowering no one attends] -- [They are passing quickly, those] -- [Somewhere in this book I broke] -- POETICS -- Projective Verse / Charles Olson -- A Reason for Poetics / Barbara Guest -- Personism: A Manifesto / Frank O'Hara -- Notes for Howl and Other Poems / Allen Ginsberg -- To Define / Robert Creeley -- Form / Robert Creeley -- There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to Cover to Crown to Cover / Susan Howe -- |
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Contents note continued: FROM The Holy Grail -- The Book of Gawain -- The Book of Percival -- Frank O'Hara (1926--1966) -- Poem (The eager note on my door...) -- Meditations in an Emergency -- Ode to Joy -- The Day Lady Died -- Personal Poem -- A Step away from Them -- Ave Maria -- Steps -- Poem (Lana Turner has collapsed!) -- Why I Am Not a Painter -- Allen Ginsberg (1926--1997) -- From Howl (Part I) -- A Supermarket in California -- To Aunt Rose -- First Party at Ken Kesey's with Hell's Angels -- On Neal's Ashes -- Robert Creeley (1926--2005) -- After Lorca -- A Form of Women -- The Rain -- For Love -- The Language -- The Window -- The World -- Self-Portrait -- Bresson's Movies -- When I think -- Paul Blackburn (1926--1971) -- Brooklyn Narcissus -- El Camino Verde -- Park Poem -- John Ashbery (b. 1927) -- The Picture of Little J. A. in a Prospect of Flowers -- "How Much Longer Will I Be Able to Inhabit the Divine Sepulcher..." -- From The Skaters -- |
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Contents note continued: Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape -- The One Thing That Can Save America -- The Other Tradition -- Paradoxes and Oxymorons -- Life Is a Dream -- Involuntary Description -- Feverfew -- Opposition to a Memorial -- Litanies -- The Ecstasy -- Larry Eigner (1927--1996) -- [trees green the quiet sun] -- Wholes -- [a temporary language] -- [the sun solid] -- [Out of the wind and leaves] -- June 19-September 9 90 -- Kenward Elmslie (b. 1929) -- Shirley Temple Surrounded by Lions -- Feathered Dancers -- Japanese City -- Ed Dorn (1929--1999) -- The Rick of Green Wood -- Geranium -- From Gloucester Out -- On the Debt My Mother Owed to Sears Roebuck -- Gregory Corso (1930--2001) -- Italian Extravaganza -- The Mad Yak -- Last Night I Drove a Car -- Dream of a Baseball Star -- I Held a Shelley Manuscript -- Marriage -- Gary Snyder (b. 1930) -- Hay for the Horses -- Riprap -- The Bath -- Avocado -- As for Poets -- Axe Handles -- Right in the Trail -- |
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Contents note continued: From Bewilderment / Fanny Howe -- From The Rejection of Closure / Lyn Hejinian -- My Interior Vita / Will Alexander -- Note on My Writing, 1985 / Leslie Scalapino -- From Sound and Sentiment, Sound and Symbol / Nathaniel Mackey -- Language Writing: from Productive to Libidinal Economy / Steve McCaffery -- From Artifice of Absorption / Charles Bernstein -- Introjective Verse / Charles Bernstein -- Excessivism / K. Silem Mohammad -- Conceptual Poetics / Kenneth Goldsmith -- Why Flarf Is Better Than Conceptualism / Drew Gardner |
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Contents note continued: In mortal theater (Act IV) -- Nada Gordon (b. 1964) and Gary Sullivan (b. 1962) -- From Swoon -- Gary Sullivan: Among the Living (Date: November 2) -- Nada Gordon: Moonscape with Earthlings (Date: December 18) -- Jennifer Moxley (b. 1964) -- Wreath of a Similar Year -- The Price of Silence -- Eleni Sikelianos (b. 1965) -- Campo santo -- Of the True Human Fold -- Essay: Delicately -- Essay: Seven Aspects of Milking Time -- Be Honeyed Bush -- A Radiant Countess of What's It -- Edwin Torres (b. 1965) -- Slipped Curve -- Sorry, I Don't Talk Poetry -- The Intermission Clown -- Lunar Shift -- Of Natural Disasters and Love -- Christian Bok (b. 1966) -- Vowels -- From Chapter A (for Hans Arp) -- [Awkward grammar appals a craftsman] -- [Hassan Abd al-Hassad, an Agha Khan] -- From Chapter E (for Rene Crevel) -- [Enfettered, these sentences repress free speech] -- [Relentless, the rebel peddles these theses] -- From Chapter U (for Zhu Yu) -- |
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Contents note continued: No Shadow -- Keith Waldrop (b. 1932) -- A Shipwreck in Haven (I) -- Plurality of Worlds -- Competing Depth -- Michael McClure (b. 1932) -- Gray Fox at Solstice -- Mexico Seen from the Moving Car -- The Butterfly -- The Cheetah -- Thoreau's Eyes -- Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) (b. 1934) -- Duncan Spoke of a Process -- Political Poem -- The New World -- Leadbelly Gives an Autograph -- Ka 'Ba -- Leroy -- The Rare Birds -- J. said, "Our whole universe is generated by a rhythm" -- Ted Berrigan (1934--1983) -- From The Sonnets -- II (Dear Margie, hello. It is 5:15 a.m.) -- XV (In Joe Brainard's collage its white arrow) -- XXXVI (It's 8:54 in Brooklyn it's the 28th of July and) -- LXXXVIII (How strange to be gone in a minute!) -- Words for Love -- Bean Spasms -- A Certain Slant of Sunlight -- My Autobiography -- In Your Fucking Utopias -- Diane di Prima (b. 1934) -- The Practice of Magical Evocation -- |
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Contents note continued: Notebook 5: "in spite of gradual deficits" -- Susan Howe (b. 1937) -- From Taking the Forest -- From Bedhangings: To the Compiler of Memories -- Caroline Knox (b. 1938) -- Freudian Shoes -- Movement Along the Frieze -- Sleepers Wake -- Famous Bigshots -- Quaker Guns -- Dreyken -- Bathrobes -- Bill Berkson (b. 1939) -- Merit -- Goods and Services -- In Costume -- After the Medusa -- Song for Connie -- Clark Coolidge (b. 1939) -- Brill -- Styro -- On Induction of the Hand -- Noon Point -- From This Time We Are Both -- Ed Roberson (b. 1939) -- Sit in What City We're In -- Urban Nature -- Open / Back Up (breadth of field) -- Monk's Bird Book -- A Sampler -- Psalm -- The Counsel of Birds -- Fanny Howe (b. 1940) -- From Veteran (I don't believe in ashes; some of the others do) -- From The Quietist -- [Mad God, mad thought] -- [Two waters---squared] -- [My bedclothes were stuffed with ashes] -- From O'clock -- [Go on out but come back in] -- |
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Contents note continued: On Sitting Down to Write, I Decide Instead to Go to Fred Herko's Concert -- For H.D. -- Backyard -- The Loba Addresses the Goddess / or The Poet as Priestess Addresses the Loba-Goddess -- Clayton Eshleman (b. 1935) -- The Lich Gate -- Iraqi Morgue -- In Memory of George Butterick -- Combarelles -- Eternity at Domme -- Ronald Johnson (1935--1998) -- From Ark: The Foundations -- Beam 6, The Musics -- Beam 8 -- Beam 33 -- From Radi Os -- Gustaf Sobin (1935--2005) -- What the Music Wants -- Eleven Rock Poems -- Genesis -- Under the Bright Orchards -- Rosmarie Waldrop (b. 1935) -- From Pre & Con or Positions and Junctions 1--5 -- Conversation 1 On the Horizontal -- Conversation 2 On the Vertical -- Conversation 3 On Vertigo -- Object Relations -- We Will Always Ask, What Happened? -- Kathleen Fraser (b. 1937) -- re: searches (fragments, after Anakreon, for Emily Dickinson) -- Your back to me inside the black suit -- |
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Contents note continued: One Inch of Love Is an Inch of Ashes -- Wanda Coleman (b. 1946) -- The ISM -- Brute Strength -- Essay on Language -- Ron Silliman (b. 1946) -- From The Chinese Notebook -- From Tjanting -- From Paradise (A SENTENCE in the evening) -- (G)hosts final passage -- Rae Armantrout (b. 1947) -- Close -- Empty -- Yonder -- Later -- Prayers -- Autobiography: Urn Burial -- Mei-mei Berssenbrugge (b. 1947) -- Alakanak Break-Up -- Texas -- Concordance -- Nathaniel Mackey (b. 1947) -- Andoumboulouous Brush ("mu" fifteenth part) -- Spectral Escort ("mu" seventeenth part) -- Steve McCaffery (b. 1947) -- Apologia Pro Vita Sua -- Suggestion but No Insult -- The Dangers of Poetry -- The Poem as a Thing to See -- Correlata for a Cryptogram -- Digital Poetics -- Bob Perelman (b. 1947) -- Chronic Meanings -- Confession -- Current Poetics -- The Remote -- Bin Ramke (b. 1947) -- The Ruined World -- Aaron Shurin (b. 1947) -- From Involuntary Lyrics -- |
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Contents note continued: Please advise stop (like water-spiders on a pond) -- Please advise stop (any object inclines away) -- Myung Mi Kim (b. 1957) -- Into Such Assembly -- From Penury -- Wang Ping (b. 1957) -- Syntax -- Of Flesh & Spirit -- Female Marriage -- Tan Lin (b. 1957) -- From "A Dictionary of Systems Theory" -- Preface (1978) -- Second Preface (1986) -- Third Preface (1998) -- Fourth Preface 2000 -- Fourth Preface Revised 2000 -- Pur -- Laura Mullen (b. 1958) -- Autumn -- After I Was Dead -- In the Space between Words Begin -- I Wandered Networks like a Cloud -- Code -- The White Box of Mirror Dissolved Is Not Singular -- Robert Fitterman (b. 1959) -- From A Hemingway Reader: The Sun Also Also Rises, Book I -- LIT -- Peter Gizzi (b. 1959) -- Creeley Madrigal -- Revival -- In Defense of Nothing -- A Panic That Can Still Come upon Me -- Hypostasis & New Year -- Basement Song -- Claudia Keelan (b. 1959) -- Something to Keep -- Spring -- Critical Essay -- |
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Contents note continued: Sun Going Down -- Pity Boat -- Joseph Lease (b. 1960) -- "Broken World" (For James Assatly) -- Send My Roots Rain -- Mark McMorris (b. 1960) -- (a poem) (When the combat finally stops, then I will come to you) -- From Letters to Michael -- Dear Michael (2) -- Dear Michael (8) -- Dear Michael (12) -- Inescapable Country -- Sharon Mesmer (b. 1960) -- I Wanna Make Love to You on Mission Accomplished Day -- I Don't Wanna Lose Yer Wholesome Lovefest Forever -- I Never Knew an Orgy Could Be So Much Work -- When the Platypus Kicks Back -- Kenneth Goldsmith (b. 1961) -- From Day -- From Seven American Deaths and Disasters -- pt. 4 (Death of John Lennon reported on Monday Night Football) -- Elizabeth Robinson (b. 1961) -- Apollo -- Experience -- Doorway -- Stained Syllogism -- Mary and No Savior -- Having Words -- A Stitch in the Side -- Elizabeth Willis (b. 1961) -- Autographeme -- A Woman's Face -- Clash by Night -- A Species Is an Idea (2) -- The Witch -- |
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Contents note continued: The Project of Linear Inquiry -- Voice and Address -- I Do Not -- Autobiography 2 (hellogoodby) -- Of -- The Phantom of Liberty -- Leslie Scalapino (1944--2010) -- From Zither -- Marjorie Welish (b. 1944) -- Respected, Feared, and Somehow Loved -- Within This Book, Called Marguerite -- Twenty-three Modern Stories -- The World Map -- Possible Fires -- Norma Cole (b. 1945) -- At the Port -- In Memory of My Future -- Remaining in Light -- The Laws -- The Stationmaster -- Bernadette Mayer (b. 1945) -- From Midwinter Day -- On Sleep -- Alice Notley (b. 1945) -- Poem (You hear that heroic big land music?) -- Jack Would Speak through the Imperfect Medium of Alice -- A California Girlhood -- From Beginning with a Stain -- April Not an Inventory but a Blizzard -- I Must Have Called and So He Comes -- Anne Waldman (b. 1945) -- Makeup on Empty Space -- From The Asian Notebook -- Admonitions of the Boudoir -- In the Room of Never Grieve -- |
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Contents note continued: This Line -- Castor Oil -- Cecil S. Giscombe (b. 1950) -- All (Facts, Stories, Chance): 1--3 -- Far -- Day Song -- Prairie Style -- John Yau (b. 1950) -- Unpromising Poem -- Screen Name -- Ing Grish -- Maxine Chernoff (b. 1952) -- What It Contains -- Scenes from Ordinary Life -- The Commons -- Carla Harryman (b. 1952) -- Noise for Adorno -- Transparent -- Orgasms -- Laura Moriarty (b. 1952) -- From Spectrum's Rhetoric -- Elaine Equi (b. 1953) -- A Date with Robbe-Grillet -- Asking for a Raise -- A Quiet Poem -- Locket without a Face -- The Collected -- Harryette Mullen (b. 1953) -- From Muse & Drudge -- Denigration -- Dim Lady -- Elliptical -- Variation on a Theme Park -- Xenophobic Nightmare in a Foreign Language -- Donald Revell (b. 1954) -- The Secessions on Loan -- Why and Why Now -- Ridiculous Winter Flower -- New Colors -- Deluge -- Gillian Conoley (b. 1955) -- Native -- This Land Is My Land -- |
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Contents note continued: VIII (I come to cafe, I sit, I bear) -- XVIII (Those guys with Christmas tree untrimmed) -- XXXVII (It's a country road forty years ago) -- LXVI (Disabled by seeing them touch) -- CII (if you would come for days) -- CXLI (Claudio, Steffano, Salo, Jesus) -- CXLII (friends walk; bones begin to creak) -- Will Alexander (b. 1948) -- A Nexus of Phantoms -- Thought as Philosophical Torment -- From The Sri Lankan Loxodrome -- Bruce Andrews (b. 1948) -- Earth 5 -- Earth 6 -- Earth 9 -- Somehow That's Just the Way It Is and I Just Don't Really Care -- Devo Habit -- From Factura (ca ja a th an ne sh th wa pe) -- Stephen Ratcliffe (b. 1948) -- From REAL: 10.31 to 11.5 -- Eileen Myles (b. 1949) -- December 9th -- The Sadness of Leaving -- Bleeding Hearts -- Immanence -- Each Defeat -- The Frames -- C. D. Wright (b. 1949) -- From One Big Self -- Charles Bernstein (b. 1950) -- The Klupzy Girl -- Dysraphism -- Whose Language -- Virtual Reality -- A Defence of Poetry -- |
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Contents note continued: [Hive-sized creams are on the chestnut tree] -- [I feel like the end / of a long day] -- [Wild garlic flowers] -- [He was a cold-hearted Saxon] -- From Forty Days -- 18 [Because my secret wedding] -- 23 [Hey, afraid] -- Lyn Hejinian (b. 1941) -- From Writing Is an Aid to Memory (I) -- From My Life -- [A pause, a rose, something on paper] -- [As for we who "love to be astonished"] -- [Like plump birds along the shore] -- From Slowly -- From The Beginner -- Joan Retallack (b. 1941) -- Curiosity and the Claim to Happiness -- Present Tense -- Present Tense: Choice -- Present Tense: Still -- Ron Padgett (b. 1942) -- Wonderful Things -- Nothing in That Drawer -- Falling in Love in Spain or Mexico -- Who and Each -- Irish Song by an English Man -- I'll Get Back to You -- Ann Lauterbach (b. 1942) -- Platonic Subject -- Clamor -- New Brooms -- Instruction -- Constellation in Chalk -- Michael Palmer (b. 1943) -- Notes for Echo Lake (3) -- |
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Contents note continued: [Kultur spurns Ubu --- thus Ubu pulls stunts] -- [Ubu gulps up brunch] -- Kalokagathia -- Laynie Browne (b. 1966) -- From Possession -- Crown of Larks -- Sentencing -- The Girl of Wax -- Julie Carr (b. 1966) -- Equivocal (If that bird in my hand and that bear in the trees) -- House / Boat -- Of Sarah (Years having passed, the foliage is wet) -- Of Sarah (Decay to the lemon) -- From 100 Notes on Violence -- 83. Note on Vengeance -- 84 (But what was I up to?) -- Lisa Jarnot (b. 1967) -- They Loved the Sea -- Gang Angles -- Manx Kippers -- Husband Sonnet One -- Right Poem -- Drew Gardner (b. 1968) -- Chicks Dig War -- The Mayim Bialik-Kruschev Fig Rearrangement -- Superstar -- Why Do I Hate Flarf So Much? -- Vanessa Place (b. 1968) -- From Dies: A Sentence -- G. C. Waldrep (b. 1968) -- Pharisee's Lament -- Goldbeater's Skin -- Wunderkammern -- On the Seventh Anniversary of the U.S. Invasion of Afghanistan -- Discrete series: Selinsgrove -- |
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Contents note continued: Stacy Doris (1962--2012) -- Synopsis of KILDARE -- Love Letter (Lament) -- As SEQUEL: Second Slogan Poem: A Song for Twins -- From Knot -- [Are collisions entrances?] -- [Into some distance, everything empties] -- [Is there a dalliance that stops] -- [Detail, a sip of tea] -- K. Silem Mohammad (b. 1962) -- Spooked -- Cosmic Deer Head Freakout -- From Sonnagrams -- H.D., H.D., Tetchy H.D.! Why Punch "Punchy," BBW Spy? -- Vac-U-Cash Devo Vogue -- The the the the the the the the the the Death (Hey Hey) -- Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, J.M.L.: Flit Flit Flit, Fold Fold Fold, My Violent DDT Doll[™] -- Linh Dinh (b. 1963) -- Continuous Bullets Over Flattened Earth -- Fifteen Rounds with a Nobody -- The Death of English -- Vocab Lab -- Body Eats -- Claudia Rankine (b. 1963) -- From PLOT -- Coherence in Consequence -- Proximity of Inner to In Her -- Intermission in Four Acts -- The thing in play (Act I) -- Still in play (Act II) -- Musical interlude (Act III) -- |
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Contents note continued: [My name is the girl with one glass eye said bitterly] -- Andrew Joron (b. 1955) -- First Drift -- Le Nombre des Ombres -- Dolphy at Delphi -- Skymap under Skin -- The Person -- Illocutionary Reels -- Cole Swensen (b. 1955) -- Trine (Cove, Dove, Woven) -- The Girl Who Never Rained -- Five Landscapes -- A Garden as Between -- If a Garden of Numbers -- Labyrinths and Mazes -- Susan Wheeler (b. 1955) -- The Belle -- Bankruptcy & Exile -- The Privilege of Feet -- He or She That's Got the Limb, That Holds Me Out on It -- Possessive Case -- Anthem -- Forrest Gander (b. 1956) -- To Eurydice -- To Virginia -- From Late Summer Entry: The Landscapes of Sally Mann -- River and Trees -- Ghost Sonata -- Ivy Brick Wall -- Late Summer Entry -- Rusty Morrison (b. 1956) -- Please advise stop (I was dragging a ladder) -- Please advise stop (only gray rocks with drifting) -- Please advise stop (basin of hills polished) -- Please advise stop (the chainlink fence holds) -- |
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Machine generated contents note: Charles Olson (1910--1970) -- In Cold Hell, in Thicket -- I, Maximus of Gloucester, to You -- Letter 3 -- Maxiumus, to himself -- John Cage (1912--1992) -- 25 Mesostics Re and Not Re Mark Tobey -- Writing through the Cantos -- Robert Duncan (1919--1988) -- Often I Am Permitted to Return to a Meadow -- Poetry, a Natural Thing -- Bending the Bow -- The Torso Passages 18 -- Songs of an Other -- Close -- Lawrence Ferlinghetti (b. 1919) -- [In Goya's greatest scenes we seem to see] -- [In Golden Gate Park that day] -- [Constantly risking absurdity] -- A Dark Portrait -- Barbara Guest (1920--2006) -- Red Lilies -- River Road Studio -- Prairie Houses -- Wild Gardens Overlooked by Night Lights -- An Emphasis Falls on Reality -- Valorous Vine -- Freed Color -- Jackson Mac Low (1922--2004) -- FROM The Pronouns -- 1st Dance---Making Things New---6 February 1964 -- 6th Dance---Doing Things with Pencils---17--18 February 1964 -- Trope Market -- |
| Summary |
This anthology generated great interest on its publication in 1994, bringing together experimental poets and movements from 1950 to the present in one groundbreaking volume. Now, two decades later, Paul Hoover has revised and updated it for twenty-first century readers. His revised introduction argues that new technologies have given postmodern poets a fresh field of play for longstanding practices such as "harvesting" and playing with "found text." The updated contents feature 114 poets, 583 poems, and selections from 19 poetics essays. Representing the full historical sweep--from the Beat movement, the New York School, and the language movements to 21st-century developments like cyberpoetry and Flarf, this anthology makes "the avant-garde accessible" (Chicago Tribune) for a new generation of readers.--From publisher description |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
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Previous edition: 1994 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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American poetry -- 21st century.
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Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.
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| Author |
Hoover, Paul, 1946- editor of compilation
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| LC no. |
2012039473 |
| ISBN |
9780393341867 (paperback) |
