American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Where Lyric Meets Language (Paperback)

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
RAE ARMANTROUT
Poems: "As We're Told" ? "The Plan" ? "View" ? "Up to Speed" ? "Manufacturing"
Poetic Statement: Cheshire Poetics
Critical Essay: Lyricism of the Swerve: The Poetry of Rae Armantrout, by Hank Lazer
MEI-MEI BRUSSENBRUGE
Poems: From "Four Year Old Girl" ? From "Kali" ? From "The Retired Architect"
Poetic Statement: By Correspondence
Critical Essay: A "Sensitive Empiricism": Berssenbrugge's Phenomenological Investigations, by Linda Voris
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
Critical Essay: "Subject, Subjugate, Inthralled": The Selves of Lucie Brock-Broido, by Stephen Burt
JORIE GRAHAM
Poems: "Exit Wound" ? "Covenant" ? "Prayer" ? "Gulls" ? "The Complex Mechanism of the Break" ? "In/Silence" ? "Philosopher's Stone"
Poetic Statement: At the Border
Critical Essay: Jorie Graham and Emily Dickinson: Singing to Use the Waiting, by Thomas Gardner
BARBARA GUEST
Poems: "Valorous Time" ? "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
Critical Essay: Implacable Poet, Purple Birds: The Work of Barbara Guest, by Sara Lundquist
LYN HEJINIAN
Poems: From "Writing Is an Aid to Memory" ? From "Happily"
Poetic Statement: Some Notes toward a Poetics ? Critical Essay: Parting with Description, by Craig Dworkin
BRENDA HILLMAN
Poems: "A Geology"
Poetic Statement: Twelve Writings toward a Poetics of Alchemy, Dread, Inconsistency, Betweenness, and California's Geological Syntax
Critical Essay: "Needing Syntax to Love": Expressive Experientialism in the Work of Brenda Hillman, by Lisa Sewell
SUSAN HOWE
Poems: "From Chair"
Poetic Statement: The Leaves Are Not Enough to Crown to Cover to Crown to Cover
Critical Essay: Articulating the Inarticulate: Singularities and the Countermethod in Susan Howe, by Ming-Qian Ma
ANN LAUTERBACH
Poems: "In the Museum of the Word (Henri Matisse)" ? "S T O N E S (Istanbul, Robert Smithson)"
Poetic Statement: As (It) Is: Toward a Poetics of the Whole Fragment ? Critical Essay: "Enlarging the Last Lexicon of Perception" in Ann Lauterbach's Framed Fragments, by Christine Hume
HARRYETTE MULLEN
Poems: "Wino Rhino" ? "Fancy Cortex" ? "Music for Homemade Instruments" ? "The Anthropic Principle" ? "Sleeping with the Dictionary"
Poetic Statement: Imagining the Unimagined Reader
Critical Essay: "Sleeping with the Dictionary": Harryette Mullen's "Recylopedia," by Elizabeth A. Frost
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