Machine generated contents note: RAE ARMANTROUT
POEMS
As We're Told 8
The Plan 8
View zo
Up to Speed zo
Manufacturing zz
POETIC STATEMENT
Cheshire Poetics 24
LYRICISM OF THE SWERVE
The Poetry of Rae Armantrout, by Hank Lazer 27
MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE
POEMS
From Four Year Old Girl 53
From Kali 56
From The Retired Architect 60
POETIC STATEMENT
By Correspondence 6i
A "SENSITIVE EMPIRICISM"
Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations,
by Linda Voris 68
LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO
POEMS
The One Thousand Days 94
Soul Keeping Company 95
Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements 96
Am Moor 98
Carrowmore 99
POETIC STATEMENT
Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties oo
"SUBJECT, SUBJUGATE, INTHRALLED"
The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido, by Stephen Burt I03
JORIE GRAHAM
POEMS
Exit Wound I27
Covenant 131
Prayer I34
Gulls 135
The Complex Mechanism of the Break 138
In/Silence I40
Philosopher's Stone 142
POETIC STATEMENT
At the Border 146
JORIE GRAHAM AND EMILY DICKINSON
Singing to Use the Waiting, by Thomas Gardner 148
BARBARA GUEST
POEMS
Valorous Vine 178
If So, Tell Me I79
Confession of My Images i8o
Defensive Rapture 81
An Emphasis Falls on Reality 183
The Farewell Stairway 85
Words 88
POETIC STATEMENT
The Forces of the Imagination 89
IMPLACABLE POET, PURPLE BIRDS
The Work of Barbara Guest, by Sara Lundquist I9I
LYN HEJINIAN
POEMS
From Writing Is an Aid to Memory zzz
From Happily 229
POETIC STATEMENT
Some Notes toward a Poetics 235
Parting with Description, by Craig Dworkin 242
BRENDA HILLMAN
POEMS
A Geology z68
POETIC STATEMENT
Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy,
Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California
Geological Syntax 276
"NEEDING SYNTAX TO LOVE"
Expressive Experimentalism in the Work of
Brenda Hillman, by Lisa Sewell z28
SUSAN HOWE
POEMS
From Chair 308
POETIC STATEMENT
There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to
Cover to Crown to Cover 325
ARTICULATING THE INARTICULATE
Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan Howe,
by Ming-Qian Ma 329
ANN LAUTERBACH
POEMS
In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse) 353
STONES (Istanbul, Robert Smithson) 3 5 8
POETIC STATEMENT
As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment 363
"Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in
Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments, by Christine Hume
HARRYETTE MULLEN
POEMS
Wino Rhino 400
Fancy Cortex 400
Music for Homemade Instruments 401
The Anthropic Principle 40I
Sleeping with the Dictionary 402
POETIC STATEMENT
Imagining the Unimagined Reader 403
"SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY"
Harryette Mullen's "Recyclopedia,"
by Elisabeth A. Frost 405.