American women poets in the 21st century : : where lyric meets language / / edited by Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr.

• Superior document: Wesleyan poetry
• TeilnehmendeR: Rankine, Claudia, 1963-; Spahr, Juliana,
• Place / Publishing House: Middletown, Connecticut : : Wesleyan University Press,, [2002]; 2002
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Wesleyan poetry.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xii, 439 pages).

Table of Contents

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.