American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction	1
	Rae Armantrout	18
	As We're Told	18
	The Plan	18
	View	20
	Up to Speed	20
	Manufacturing	22
	Cheshire Poetics	24
	The Poetry of Rae Armantrout	27
	Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge	53
	From Four Year Old Girl	53
	From Kali	56
	From The Retired Architect	60
	By Correspondence	61
	Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations	68
	Lucie Brock-Broido	94
	The One Thousand Days	94
	Soul Keeping Company	95
	Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements	96
	Am Moor	98
	Carrowmore	99
	Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties	100
	The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido	103
	Jorie Graham	127
	Exit Wound	127
	Covenant	131
	Prayer	134
	Gulls	135
	The Complex Mechanism of the Break	138
	In/Silence	140
	Philosopher's Stone	142
	At the Border	146
	Singing to Use the Waiting	148
	Barbara Guest	178
	Valorous Vine	178
	If So, Tell Me	179
	Confession of My Images	180
	Defensive Rapture	181
	An Emphasis Falls on Reality	183
	The Farewell Stairway	185
	Words	188
	The Forces of the Imagination	189
	The Work of Barbara Guest	191
	Lyn Hejinian	222
	From Writing Is an Aid to Memory	222
	From Happily	229
	Some Notes toward a Poetics	235
	Parting with Description	242
	Brenda Hillman	267
	A Geology	268
	Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy, Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California Geological Syntax	276
	Expressive Experimentalism in the Work of Brenda Hillman	281
	Susan Howe	308
	From Chair	308
	There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to Cover to Crown to Cover	325
	Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan Howe	329
	Ann Lauterbach	353
	In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse)	353
	STONES (Istanbul, Robert Smithson)	358
	As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment	363
	"Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments	367
	Harryette Mullen	400
	Wino Rhino	400
	Fancy Cortex	400
	Music for Homemade Instruments	401
	The Anthropic Principle	401
	Sleeping with the Dictionary	402
	Imagining the Unimagined Reader	403
	Harryette Mullen's "Recyclopedia,"	405
	Contributors	427