Intro; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Feminist Poetics as Cultural Critique, or, Why Poetry Matters; Part One: Economies of Flesh and Word: Biopolitics and Writing the (Posthuman) Body in Late Capitalism; Chapter One: Strategic Embodiment: Materiality, Proceduralism, and Biopolitics in Jennifer Scappettone's From Dame Quickly, Margaret Christakos's What Stirs, and Larissa Lai and Rita Wong's sybil unrest; Chapter Two: The Affective Politics of Disgust: Nikki Reimer's [sic] and Rachel Zolf's Human Resources

Part Two: Poetic Matterings: New Materialist and Posthuman Feminist EcopoeticsChapter Three: De/Anthropomorphizing Language: Posthuman Poetics in Yedda Morrison's Darkness and Marcella Durand's ""The Anatomy of Oil; Chapter Four: Water and Plastic: Trans-Corporeality in Rita Wong's undercurrent and Evelyn Reilly's Styrofoam; Part Three: Geopolitics, Nationhood, Poetry; Chapter Five: Not in Our Name: Intimacy, Affect, and Witnessing in Juliana Spahr's This Connection of Everyone with Lungs, Claudia Rankine's Don't Let Me Be Lonely, and Dionne Brand's Inventory

Chapter Six: Post/National Feminist Poetics in Rachel Zolf's Janey's Arcadia, Jena Osman's Corporate Relations, and Jen Benka's A Box of Longing with Fifty DrawersCoda; Permissions; Notes; Bibliography; Index