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Contents
An Introduction
Look Again: Redirecting the Gaze
Victoria Chang's Poetics of Female Spectacle
Anne Barngrover's Brazen Creature: Southern Masculinities and the Violence of Spectacle
Surveillance, Metanarrative, & the Female Gaze: Solmaz Sharif, Andrew Seguin, & Jessica Baran
The Literary Text as Performance & Spectacle: Writing by Virginia Konchan, Barbara Tomash, & Julie Doxsee
"Spare This Body, Set Fire to Another": Silence as Performance & Sociopolitical Empowerment

The Aesthetics of Silence: Ilya Kaminsky's Deaf Republic & Donna Stonecipher's Transaction Histories
"My Heart Was Clean": On the Politically Charged Work of Silence in Poetry
"Let Her Balance on Nothing": Notes on Victimization, Complicity, and the Gaze
The Experimental Feminist Text as Event
The Page as a Visual Field: Asiya Wadud, Gracie Leavitt, & Eve L. Ewing
Modernism & the Question of Genre: On Julie Carr's REAL LIFE: an Installation
The Poetics of Ephemera: Kate Greenstreet, Karla Kelsey, & Sarah Ann Winn

The Violence of Collision: Notes on Collage, Precarity, and the Archive
The Generative Violence of the Experiment
"It Takes What Light It Wants": Authority and Rebellion in Feminist Poetry
Unruly Language:Towards a Poetics of Disruption
Beyond Metaphor: On Prose by Chris Campanioni & Elizabeth A.I. Powell
On Secrets, Light, & the Lyric Imagination: Henry Hoke, Kirsten Kaschock, & Matthew Rohrer
On Collective Acts of Forgetting: Elizabeth Lyons, Lisa Olstein, & Carolina Ebeid
Textual Difficulty as a Feminist Gesture: Laurie Sheck, Sarah Vap, & Julia Story

Textual Difficulty: A Performance of Otherness & Difference
The Poetics of Disbelief
An Afterword
On Being the Spectacle: The Sexualization of Women's Labor in the Small Press
Textual Violence & the Workshop: Responding to Difficult Poetry by Women
Readerly Privilege & Textual Violence: Towards an Ethics of Engagement
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