ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
MARK LEVINE
Poems: "Work Song" (text and audio) - "Sculpture Garden" - "John Keats" - "Light Years" - "Ontario" - "Document" - "Then" - "Willow" (text and audio)
Poetics Statement
Critical Essay: 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" - "I never wish to sing again as I used to" (text and audio) - "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" (text and audio) - "Bitter seed-scarred semblance-psyche" - "The thing you do keep or claim" - "Lifting whither, cycle of the sift" (text and audio) - "One might start here"
Poetics Statement
Critical Essay: 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]" (text and audio) - " [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]" (text and audio) - "[when dementia begins: almost makes sense like hamburger translations]" - "[autumn set us heavily to task: unrooted the dahlias]" - "[between scott's asshole and his nmouth 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]" (text and audio)
Poetics Statement: The Flesh Failures
Critical Essay: Here Is the Door Marked heaven: D. A. Powell, by Stephen Burt
PETER GIZZI
Poems: "Beginning with a Phrase from Simone Weil" - "Revival" (text and audio) - "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
Critical Essay: Peter Gizzi's City: The Political Quotidian, by Cole Swensen
JULIANA SPAHR
Poem: "Gentle Now, Don't Add to Heartache" (text and audio)
Poetics Statement
Critical Essay: All Together/Now: Writing the Space of Collectivities in the Poetry of Juliana Spahr, by Kimberly Lamm
JOSHUA COLVER
Poems: "Baader Meinhof Three-Person'd God" - "At the Atelier Teleology" - "Poem (We always send it to the wrong address)" - "Chreia" (text and audio) - "Whiteread Walk" (text and audio) - "Whiteread Walk" (text and audio) - "Ceriserie" - "Year Zero" (text and audio)
Poetics Statement: Once Against (Into the Poetics of Superinformation)
Critical Essay: 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
Critical Essay: Mixed-up Medium: Kevin Young's Turn-of-the-Century American Triptych, by Rick Benjamin
TRACIE MORRIS
Poems: "a little" (text and audio) - "Untitled" (text and audio)
Poetics Statement: Sound Making Notes
Critical Essay: Improvisational Insurrection: The Sound Poetry of Tracie Morris, by Christine Hume
MYUNG MI KIM
Poems: From Commons: From "Lamenta" (text and audio) - From "Works"
Poetics Statement: Convolutions : the Precision, the Wild
Critical Essay: 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 (text and audio)
Poetics Statement: I Have to Check My e-mail
Critical Essay: 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" (text and audio)
Poetics Statement
Critical Essay: Susan Wheeler's Open Source Poetics, by Lynn Keller
MARK NOWAK
Poems: From "$00/Line/Steel/Train" - From "Capitalization" (text and audio) - From "Hoyt Lakes / Shut Down"
Poetics Statement: Notes toward an Anti-capitalist Poetics II
Critical Essay: Mark Nowak: Radical Documentary Praxis [Redux], by David Ray Vance
KENNETH GOLDSMITH
Poem: "Page One" from The Day (text and audio)
Poetics Statement: Being Boring
Critical Essay: Affect and Autism: Kenneth Goldsmith's Reconstitution of Signal and Noise, by Raymond McDaniel
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