American Women Poets in the 21st Century
Where Lyric Meets Language
Claudia Rankine

Wesleyan University Press
distributed by
University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• INTRODUCTION
• MARK LEVINE - Poems
• Work Song
• Sculpture Garden
• John Keats
• Light Years
• Ontario
• Document
• Then
• Willow
Poetics Statement
• Recording Devices - 
Mark Levine’s Poetics of Evidence, by Sabrina Orah Mark
• KAREN VOLKMAN
Poems
I won’t go in today
• There comes a time to rusticate the numbers
• I never wish to sing again as I used to
• O verb, o void

• No noise subtracts it
• It could be a bird that says summer
• The first greeting on a bright sift
• Brown is the flat gestation of a maze
• What is this witness, the watching ages
• Grey airs, grey stirs
• Reticulation of a premise
• Bitter seed—scarred semblance—psyche
• The thing you do you keep or claim
• Lifting whither, cycle of the sift
• One might start here
Poetics Statement
A Space for Desire and the Mutable Self - Karen Volkman’s Experimentations with the Lyric, by Paul Otremba
• D. A. POWELL
Poems
[chapt. ex ex ex eye vee: in which scott has a birthday]
• [when you touch down upon this earth. little reindeers]
• [my lover my phlebotomist. his elastic fingers encircle my arm]
• [you’d want to go to the reunion: see]
• [so the theatre dimmed and reclined. cramped balcony rubbed against my leg]
• [strange flower in my hands. porphyry shell. clipped wool]
• [listen mother, he punched the air: I am not your son dying]
• [darling can you kill me: with your mickeymouse pillows]
• [when dementia begins: almost makes sense like hamburger translations]
• [autumn set us heavily to task: unrooted the dahlias]
• [between scott’s asshole and his mouth I could not say which I preferred: perfect similes]
• [ode]
• [who won’t praise green. each minute to caress each minute blade of spring. green slice us open]
Poetics Statement - The Flesh Failures
Here Is the Door Marked Heaven
• D. A. Powell, by Stephen Burt
• PETER GIZZI
Poems
Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil
• Revival
• To Be Written in No Other Country
• Plain Song
• Château If
• In Defense of Nothing
• Untitled Amherst Specter
• Last Century Thoughts in Snow Tonight
Poetics Statement - Extract from a Letter to Steve Farmer
Peter Gizzi’s City - The Political Quotidian, by Cole Swensen
• JULIANA SPAHR

Poem
Gentle Now, Don’t Add to Heartache
Poetics Statement
• All Together/Now -
Writing the Space of Collectivities in the Poetry of Juliana Spahr, by Kimberly Lamm
• JOSHUA CLOVER
Poems
Baader Meinhof Three-Person’d God
• At the Atelier Teleology
• Poem (We always send it to the wrong address)
• Chreia
• Whiteread Walk
• Whiteread Walk
• Ceriserie
• Year Zero
Poetics Statement - Once Against (Into the Poetics of Superinformation)
The Pleasures of not Merely Circulating - Joshua Clover’s Political Imagination, by Charles Altieri
• KEVIN YOUNG
Poems
Defacement
• Famous Negro Athletes
• Fish Story
• Nocturne
• Night Cap
• The Hideout
Poetics Statement
• Mixed-up Medium -
Kevin Young’s Turn-of-the-Century American Triptych, by Rick Benjamin
• TRACIE MORRIS
Poems
a little
• Untitled
Poetics Statement - Sound Making Notes
Improvisational Insurrection - The Sound Poetry of Tracie Morris, by Christine Hume
• MYUNG MI KIM
Poems
From Commons
• From “Lamenta”
• From “Works”
Poetics Statement - Convolutions: the Precision, the Wild
Making Common the Commons - Myung Mi Kim’s Ideal Subject, by Warren Liu
• STACY DORIS
Poems
• From Conference
• From Paramour
• “A Month of Valentines”
• From Knot
Poetics Statement
I Have to Check My e-mail
The Poetics of Radical Constraint and Unhooked Bedazzlement in the Writing of Stacy Doris by Caroline Crumpacker
• SUSAN WHEELER
Poem
The Debtor in the Convex Mirror
Poetics Statement
Susan Wheeler’s Open Source Poetics by Lynn Keller
• MARK NOWAK
Poems
From $00/Line/Steel/Train
• From Capitalization
• From Hoyt Lakes / Shut Down
Poetics Statement - Notes toward an Anti-capitalist Poetics II
Mark Nowak - Radical Documentary Praxis [Redux], by David Ray Vance
• KENNETH GOLDSMITH
Poem
“Page One” from The Day
Poetics Statement - Being Boring
Affect and Autism
• - Kenneth Goldsmith’s Reconstitution of Signal and Noise, by Raymond McDaniel
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX
• AUDIO CD TRACK LIST

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