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