• 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
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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