American Poets in the 21st Century: The New Poetics Book

Acknowledgments     xi
Introduction     1
Poems     16
Work Song     16
Sculpture Garden     17
John Keats     19
Light Years     21
Ontario     22
Document     23
Then     24
Willow     26
Poetics Statement     27
Recording Devices: Mark Levine's Poetics of Evidence   Sabrina Orah Mark     29
Poems     43
I won't go in today     43
There comes a time to rusticate the numbers     43
I never wish to sing again as I used to     44
O verb, o void     44
No noise subtracts it     45
It could be a bird that says summer     45
The first greeting on a bright sift     46
Brown is the flat gestation of a maze     46
What is this witness, the watching ages     47
Grey airs, grey stirs     48
Reticulation of a premise     48
Bitter seed-scarred semblance-psyche     49
The thing you do you keep or claim     49
Lifting whither, cycle of the sift     50
One might start here     51
PoeticsStatement     54
A Space for Desire and the Mutable Self: Karen Volkman's Experimentations with the Lyric   Paul Otremha     55
Poems     71
[Chapt. ex ex ex eye vee: in which scott has a birthday]     71
[When you touch down upon this earth, little reindeers]     72
[My lover my phlebotomist. his elastic fingers encircle my arm]     72
[You'd want to go to the reunion: see]     73
[So the theatre dimmed and reclined. cramped balcony rubbed against my leg]     74
[Strange flower in my hands. porphyry shell. clipped wool]     76
[Listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]     77
[Darling can you kill me: with your mickeymouse pillows]     77
[When dementia begins: almost makes sense like hambuger translations]     78
[Autumn set us heavily to task: unrooted the dahlias]     78
[Between scott's asshole and his mouth I could not say which I preferred: perfect similes]     79
[Ode]     80
[Who won't praise green. each minute to caress each minute blade of spring. green slice us open]     80
Poetics Statement: The Flesh Failures     81
Here Is the Door Marked heaven: D. A. Powell   Stephen Burt     83
Poems     97
Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil     97
Revival     98
To Be Written in No Other Country     102
Plain Song     103
Chateau If     105
In Defense of Nothing     105
Untitled Amherst Specter     106
Last Century Thoughts in Snow Tonight     106
Poetics Statement: Extract from a Letter to Steve Farmer     107
Peter Gizzi's City: The Political Quotidian   Cole Swensen     108
Poem     124
Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache     124
Poetics Statement     131
All Together/Now: Writing the Space of Collectivities in the Poetry of Juliana Spahr   Kimberly Lamm     133
Poems     151
Baader Meinhof Three-Person'd God     152
At the Atelier Teleology     153
Poem (We always send it to the wrong address)     156
Chreia     157
Whiteread Walk     158
Whiteread Walk     159
Ceriserie     159
Year Zero     161
Poetics Statement: Once Against (Into the Poetics of Superinformation)     163
The Pleasures of not Merely Circulating: Joshua Clover's Political Imagination   Charles Altieri      164
Poems     180
Defacement     180
Famous Negro Athletes     182
Fish Story     184
Nocturne     185
Night Cap     186
The Hideout     188
Poetics Statement     190
Mixed-up Medium: Kevin Young's Turn-of-the-Century American Triptych   Rick Benjamin     193
Poems     210
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Poetics Statement: Sound Making Notes     210
Improvisational Insurrection: The Sound Poetry of Tracie Morris   Christine Hume     215
Poems     236
From Commons     236
From "Lamenta"     236
From "Works"     245
Poetics Statement: Convolutions: the Precision, the Wild     251
Making Common the Commons: Myung Mi Kim's Ideal Subject   Warren Liu     252
Poems     267
From Conference     267
From Paramour: "A Month of Valentines"     270
From Knot     272
Poetics Statement: I Have to Check My e-mail     274
The Poetics of Radical Constraint and Unhooked Bedazzlement in the Writing of Stacy Doris   Caroline Crumpacker     278
Poem     290
The Debtor in the Convex Mirror     290
Poetics Statement     303
Susan Wheeler's Open Source Poetics   Lynn Keller     304
Poems     320
From {dollar}00/Line/Steel/Train     320
From Capitalization     324
From Hoyt Lakes / Shut Down     329
Poetics Statement: Notes toward an Anti-capitalist Poetics II     332
Mark Nowak: Radical Documentary Praxis [Redux]   David Ray Vance     336
Poem     353
"Page One" from The Day     353
Poetics Statement: Being Boring     361
Affect and Autism: Kenneth Goldsmith's Reconstitution of Signal and Noise   Raymond McDaniel     367
Contributors     383
Index     389
Audio CD Track List     402