American Women Poets in the 21st Century : Where Lyric Meets Language.

Cover -- AMERICAN WOMEN POETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- RAE ARMANTROUT -- POEMS -- As We're Told -- The Plan -- View -- Up to Speed -- Manufacturing -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Cheshire Poetics -- LYRICISM OF THE SWERVE -- The Poetry of Rae Armantrout -- MEI-MEI BERSSENBRUGGE -- POEMS -- From Four Year Old Girl -- From Kali -- From The Retired Architect -- POETIC STATEMENT -- By Correspondence -- A "SENSITIVE EMPIRICISM" -- Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations -- LUCIE BROCK-BROIDO -- POEMS -- The One Thousand Days -- Soul Keeping Company -- Periodic Table of Ethereal Elements -- Am Moor -- Carrowmore -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Myself a Kangaroo Among the Beauties -- "SUBJECT, SUBJUGATE, INTHRALLED" -- The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido -- JORIE GRAHAM -- POEMS -- Exit Wound -- Covenant -- Prayer -- Gulls -- The Complex Mechanism of the Break -- In/Silence -- Philosopher's Stone -- POETIC STATEMENT -- At the Border -- JORIE GRAHAM AND EMILY DICKINSON -- Singing to Use the Waiting -- BARBARA GUEST -- POEMS -- Valorous Vine -- If So, Tell Me -- Confession of My Images -- Defensive Rapture -- An Emphasis Falls on Reality -- The Farewell Stairway -- Words -- POETIC STATEMENT -- The Forces of the Imagination -- IMPLACABLE POET, PURPLE BIRDS -- The Work of Barbara Guest -- LYN HEJINIAN -- POEMS -- From Writing Is an Aid to Memory -- From Happily -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Some Notes toward a Poetics -- Parting with Description -- BRENDA HILLMAN -- POEMS -- A Geology -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy, Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California Geological Syntax -- "NEEDING SYNTAX TO LOVE" -- Expressive Experimentalism in the Work of Brenda Hillman -- SUSAN HOWE -- POEMS -- From Chair -- POETIC STATEMENT.

There Are Not Leaves Enough to Crown to Cover to Crown to Cover -- ARTICULATING THE INARTICULATE -- Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan Howe -- ANN LAUTERBACH -- POEMS -- In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse) -- STONES (Istanbul, Robert Smithson) -- POETIC STATEMENT -- As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment -- "Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments -- HARRYETTE MULLEN -- POEMS -- Wino Rhino -- Fancy Cortex -- Music for Homemade Instruments -- The Anthropic Principle -- Sleeping with the Dictionary -- POETIC STATEMENT -- Imagining the Unimagined Reader -- "SLEEPING WITH THE DICTIONARY" -- Harryette Mullen's "Recyclopedia," -- CONTRIBUTORS.

A thought-provoking mix of poetry, creative manifesto and criticism.

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