Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cole Swensen -- Introduction : David St John -- Indian never had a horse -- In/somnia -- To be in a time of war / Etel Adnan -- Inside a world the world fits into -- You think it's a secret, but it never was one -- Exceptions and melancholies -- Soft and pretty -- Sampling -- Sometimes an image -- Unveiling -- Vertigo / Ralph Angel -- Special theory of relativity -- Generation -- Fit -- Police business -- Turn of events -- What we mean -- Scumble -- Yonder -- Translation / Rae Armantrout -- Well-lit places -- What to do with milk -- Taken -- Obsidian House -- Others shied away -- Haibun -- Garden of false civility -- Of linnets and dull time / John Ashbery -- February elegy -- P equals pie -- Mystery at manor -- Close -- Alice in Wonderland -- Man and woman / Mary Jo Bang -- Now begins our immaculate summer -- Birds know -- In the days of famous want -- This is what's been done to flesh -- Your time has come / Joshua Beckman -- Insatiability -- Clouds of willing seen in the bird day -- White letter -- Green letter -- Banana peaks get snowfall / Cal Bedient -- Conservation with Evan Hesse -- Sail -- Justnowland -- Vanish nearby -- Shoots and pulps -- Pirate keep / Molly Bendall -- Chinese space -- Four year old girl -- Parallel lines / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge -- Sideways suicide -- Ruby for grief -- My sister is not a dollar -- Eyeglasses -- We have to talk about another book -- Rearranger / Michael Burkard -- Before the birds awaken -- It's what I'm afraid of -- My whispered song -- I'm sorry I brought it up -- There is no way to know -- Words I did not say -- There should've been rabbits -- She falls in love -- Note I taped up -- You have put the cup -- In the story -- Through a panel of controls -- When you step from the entry hall -- I have no say / Killarney Clary -- Floating by -- Units for tomorrow -- Dear Robert -- Sarabande -- My operatives -- Conditions maritimes / Norma Cole -- Sky drank in -- Careful -- Little more red sun on the human -- Plot genie / Gillian Conoley -- Works of Thos Swan -- On my brother William falling from his horse -- Acts / Martin Corless-Smith -- Conference -- Cheerleader's guide to the world: council book -- Paramour / Stacy Doris -- Apocrypha of Jacques Derrida -- At sunset -- After sky X -- Of politics, & art -- Blue -- City of snow -- Two stanzas for Timothy Deshaies / Norman Dubie -- Ellipses -- Obscure room & my inexplicable weeping -- Elegy for the poetry of her personal experiences -- In English in a poem -- Then, suddenly -- Book's speech / Lynn Emanuel -- Cue or starting point -- Disappeared -- Hotel classic / Kathleen Fraser -- Warmth sculpture -- Permeable past tense of feel / Alice Fulton -- Leap year -- Nature averts her eyes -- Earthquake -- Apollinaire's cane -- Mastermind asks some questions -- Stop whimpering and speak / James Galvin -- Time and the hour -- Exhaustible appearance -- Coda -- Hugeness of that which is missing -- Poem -- Road and tree -- Collodion -- Ivy brick wall -- Argosy for rock and grass -- Moon and Page Ghazal / Forrest Gander -- Giscome road -- Prairie style / C S Giscombe -- Tous les Matins du Monde -- In defense of nothing -- Plain song -- Beginning with a phrase from Simone Weil -- Human memory is organic -- That's life / Peter Gizzi --
Parking lot just outside the ruins of Babylon
Tendency of dropped objects to fall
You also, nightingale / Reginald Shepherd
Thus, speak the chromograph
Essay: at night the autoportrait
World is weird / Eleni Sikelianos
We arrived and everything was interconnected
December 8, 2002 / Juliana Spahr
Variations on the dream of the road / Susan Stewart
Henry David Thoreau/Sonny Rollins
Parmenides/fragments 3 and 15A
Why trees weep / John Taggart
Mother's first airplane / Arthur Vogelsang
Lovis 3: oculist wit: book of light
Without stitching closed the eye of the falcon / Anne Waldman
Meditation on understanding
Steps in integration / Rosmarie Waldrop
Art & language writes an epitaph
Textile 5 / Marjorie Welish
Toward Autumn / Susan Wheeler
Faux self-portrait of you
It wasn't exactly like being left standing at the altar
Similitude of this great flower
On the resemblance of some
Verses omitted by mistake
Ancient subterranean fires
Oldest garden in the world
Bohemian rhapsody / Elizabeth Willis
Why leave you so soon gone
Bienvenu en Louisiane / C D Wright
Waking up after the storm
Littlefoot / Charles Wright
Robert Desnos writes / John Yau
Permissions acknowledgments
Etymologically work work / Albert Goldbarth -- Dawn day one -- Little exercise -- Dusk shore prayer -- Ebbtide / Jorie Graham -- Dissonace royal traveller -- Medieval hollow from stripped tales -- Imagined room -- Short narrative -- Alteration / Barbara Guest -- Time and materials -- White of forgetfulness, white of safety -- Rusia en 1931 -- Yellow bicycle -- Garden of delight / Robert Hass -- Beginner -- Composition of the cell -- Book of a thousand eyes / Lye Hejinian -- Black series -- Sediments of Santa Monica -- Styrofoam cup -- Left eye -- String theory sutra -- Oddness / Brenda Hillman -- Presence -- Childhood and its double -- Edge and fold -- Haikuisation of Shakespeare's sonnet 56 / Paul Hoover -- 9/11 -- 2002 -- Splinter -- Descent -- Let it snow -- Is knowing / Fanny Howe -- Bed hangings II -- Kidnapped / Susan Howe -- Removes -- Eclipse calling -- Home unknown stone -- Breath, bring nothing to term -- Evening of chances / Andrew Joron -- Freely adapted -- Representation without taxation -- Critical essay -- Via negativa -- Sybil's afterlife -- Noumenon / Claudia Keelan -- Exordium -- Penury / Myung Mi Kim -- After Mahler -- Interleavings (Paul Celan) -- Hum -- Impossible blue / Ann Lauterbach -- Chimney song -- Event -- Wilds / Mark Levine -- Song of the Andoumboulou: 64 -- Double staccato -- Blue Anuncia's bird lute / Nathaniel Mackey -- Green flame -- Antennae -- Choices -- Occur -- Creek -- Sfumato -- Twist --Thwart -- Dangerous Archipelagos -- Green card, blue shoes -- Dear elegy -- Phoenix elegy / Stefanie Marlis -- Reef: shadow of green -- Fauve harmonics -- Letter for K & poems for someone else / Mark McMorris -- Palace of pearls / Jane Miller -- Nude memoir -- Laura de Sade -- Spicer's city / Laura Moriarty -- Wreath of a similar year -- Difficult of access -- Critique -- Enlightenment evidence -- State -- Promise -- In one body and one soul -- Awake -- Milky way -- Burning peony / Jennifer Moxley -- Muse & drudge -- Lunar Lutheran -- Sleeping with the dictionary -- Why you and I -- Zombie hat / Harryette Mullen -- Refuge -- Plans -- Noun's meant / Laura Mullen -- Poem -- After Tsang Chih -- Poem -- Descent of Alette -- I must have called and so he comes -- Lady Poverty / Alice Notley -- Sighs again (autobiography) -- Stone -- Una noche -- Tongue asleep -- Theory of the flower / Michael Palmer -- California poppy -- Crematorium at sierra view cemetery -- Clutch and pumps -- My lot to spin the purple -- Listen mother, he punched the air -- Robe and pajamas, steadfast -- Darling can you kill me / D A Powell -- Birds fly through us -- Mercy -- All Saints / Bin Ramke -- Don't let me be lonely / Claudia Rankine -- Human/nature -- Present tense -- Where late the sweet birds sang / Stephen Ratcliffe -- My trip -- My Mojave -- Picnic -- Zion -- Conquest -- Landscape with Tityrus in Vermont / Donald Revell -- Hovenweep -- Little matchgirl -- Snow window / Elizabeth Robinson -- Vertigo -- In a landscape of having to repeat -- You couldn't read a book about it -- In the house / Martha Ronk -- Naked ladies -- Where letters go -- Penciled -- Concerning essential existence -- Impresario -- Go verbatim -- World as I left it -- Minor ninth chord / Mary Ruefle --
