Direction of fall ; A parking lot just outside the ruins of Babylon ; The tendency of dropped objects to fall ; Turandot ; You also, nightingale / Reginald Shepherd -- Thus, speak the chromograph ; Essay : at night the autoportrait ; from The California poem ; World is weird / Eleni Sikelianos -- from The good house ; Ted's head ; The strength / Rod Smith -- Le Dejeuner ; Gallery ; Bowl / Carol Snow -- We arrived and everything was interconnected ; We arrived ; New world sonnet ; December 8, 2002 / Juliana Spahr -- The forest ; Awaken ; Variations on The dream of the road / Susan Stewart -- Henry David Thoreau/Sonny Rollins ; Pastorelle 9 ; Pastorelle 10 ; Parmenides/fragments 3 and 15A ; Pastorelle 12 ; Why trees weep / John Taggart -- The family ; The family II ; Komodo ; Mother's first airplane / Arthur Vogelsang -- from Iovis 3 : Oculist wit : book of light ; Without stitching closed the eye of the falcon / Anne Waldman -- First draw of the sea ; Singular / Keith Waldrop -- Evening sun ; Song ; Meditation on understanding ; Song ; Steps in integration / Rosmarie Waldrop -- from Art & language writes an epitaph ; Look, look! ; For four violins ; False Isle ; The glove ; Textile 5 / Marjorie Welish -- Beavis' day off ; White exiles ; Loss Lieder ; Each's cot an altar then ; Toward Autumn / Susan Wheeler -- Double sonnet ; Attitude of rags ; Independence Day ; Those generals' eyes ; Faux self-portrait of you ; It wasn't exactly like being left standing at the altar ; Eye cages / Dara Wier -- The tree of personal effort ; Three apples ; Arthur in Egypt ; Constable's day off ; A fisher king ; The similitude of this great flower ; On the resemblance of some flowers to insects ; Verses omitted by mistake ; Oil and water ; Ancient subterranean fires ; Nocturne ; The oldest garden in the world ; Bohemian rhapsody / Elizabeth Willis -- Animism ; Like peaches ; Why leave you so soon gone ; Bienvenu en Louisiane / C.D. Wright -- Body and soul II ; The secret of poetry ; '54 Chevy ; Singing lesson ; Waking up after the storm ; Hawksbane ; from Littlefoot / Charles Wright -- The late tale ; Unpromising poem ; Egyptian sonnets (7) ; Egyptian sonnets (11) ; Robert Desnos writes / John Yau -- With hidden noise ; Yawn ; Bathed in dust and ashes ; Speck ; Homage to Richard Tuttle ; Man in red / Dean Young.
Summary, etc.:
This anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem, the hybrid, a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles. As one of the editors argues in the introduction to this anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration. The focus of this work is on the blend; the more than seventy poets featured here, including Jorie Graham, Albert Goldbarth, and Lyn Hejinian, have found new and often unique ways to reconfigure the innumerable and sometimes conflicting voices of the past thirty years. The editors have crafted short introductory essays on each of the poets in the anthology, providing biographical backgrounds and positioning them within the current of contemporary poetry. This anthology is essential reading for those who care about the present moment and the future, of American verse.
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