My Way: Speeches and Poems Book

	Preface
	A Defense of Poetry	1
	The Revenge of the Poet-Critic, or The Parts Are Greater Than the Sum of the Whole	3
	Thelonious Monk and the Performance of Poetry	18
	An Interview with Manuel Brito	25
	Solidarity Is the Name We Give to What We Cannot Hold	33
	What's Art Got to Do with It?: The Status of the Subject of the Humanities in an Age of Cultural Studies	36
	A Test of Poetry	52
	The Book as Architecture	56
	Dear Mr. Fanelli	58
	An Interview with Hannah Mockel-Rieke	63
	I Don't Take Voice Mail: The Object of Art in the Age of Electronic Technology	73
	Weak Links (on Hannah Weiner)	81
	Claire-in-the-Building	83
	Again Eigner	86
	Frame Lock	98
	"Passed by Examination": Paragraphs for Susan Howe	100
	The Value of Sulfur	104
	Shaker Show	108
	Gertrude and Ludwig's Bogus Adventure	109
	Introjective Verse	110
	Poetics of the Americas	113
	Unzip Bleed	130
	Lachrymose Encaustic / Abrasive Tear	140
	Stein's Identity	141
	Provisional Institutions: Alternative Presses and Poetic Innovation	145
	Pound and the Poetry of Today	155
	Inappropriate Touching	166
	Robin on His Own (on Robin Blaser)	168
	Water Images of The New Yorker	175
	The Response as Such: Words in Visibility	178
	From an Ongoing Interview with Tom Beckett	186
	Explicit Version Number Required	191
	Hinge Picture (on George Oppen)	192
	Reznikoff's Nearness	197
	An Autobiographical Interview	229
	Beyond Emaciation	253
	Riding's Reason	255
	Whose He Kidding	268
	Unrepresentative Verse (on Ginsberg and Eliot)	270
	Poetry and [Male?] Sex	273
	Close Listening: Poetry and the Performed Word	279
	Taps [In memoriam Eric Mottram]	302
	Warning - Poetry Area: Publics under Construction	304
	The Republic of Reality	312
	Notes and Acknowledgments	317