Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century (eBook)

amp;lt;P>CLAUDIA RANKINE is the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College and author of Don't Let Me Be Lonely. LISA SEWELL is a professor of English at Villanova University and the author of Name Withheld.</P>

<P>Acknowledgments<BR>Introduction<BR>MARY JO BANG<BR>Poems<BR>From The Eye Like A Strange Balloon: High Art – Mrs. Autumn and Her Two Daughters – Untitled # 70 (Or, The Question of Remains)<BR>From Elegy: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus – Words; From The Bride of E: And as in Alice – B Is for Beckett – C Is for Cher – In the Present and Probable Future<BR>From the Mrs. Dalloway series: Opened and Shut<BR>Poetics Statement<BR>Articulations Of Artifice In The Work Of Mary Jo Bang – Karla Kelsey<BR>LUCILLE CLIFTON<BR>Poems<BR>From Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969 – 1980: [the light that came to Lucille Clifton]<BR>From Quilting, Poems 1987 – 1990: eve's version – lucifer speaks in his own voice<BR>From The Book of Light: daughters – [won't you celebrate with me] – leda 1 – leda 3<BR>From The Terrible Stories: telling our stories<BR>From Voices: sorrows<BR>Poetics Statement: Excerpts from an Interview with Charles Rowell<BR>Lucille Clifton's Communal "i" – Adrienne McCormick<BR>KIMIKO HAHN<BR>Poems<BR>From Mosquito and Ant: Orchid Root – Garnet<BR> From The Narrow Road to the Interior: Utica Station Dep.10:07 A.M. to N.Y. Penn Station<BR>From The Artist's Daughter: In Childhood – Like Lavrinia<BR>Poetics Statement: Still Writing the Body<BR>"I Want To Go Where The Hysteric Resides": Kimiko Hahn's Re-articulation of the Feminine in Poetry – Zhou Xiaojing<BR>CARLA HARRYMAN<BR>Poems<BR>From Baby: [Now. Word. Technology.] – [Dark. Swat. Land.] – [The. Open. Box.] – [Baby. N. Baseball. Song.] – [Wartime Surroundings.]<BR>From Adorno's Noise: [consents to a few statements one knows ultimately to implicate murder] – [it is difficult to write satire]<BR>From the opposite of slackness: Orgasms<BR>Poetics Statement: Siren<BR> Listening In On Carla Harryman's Baby – Christine Hume<BR>ERÍN MOURE<BR>Poems<BR>From O Cidadán: document32 (inviolable) – document33 (arena)<BR>Eleventh Impermeable of the Carthage of Harms<BR>From Little Theatres: Theatre of the Confluence (A Carixa) – Theatre of the Stones that Ran (Fontao, 1943) – Theatre of the Millo Seco (Botos)<BR>From O Cadoiro: [[T]he best woman i ever saw.] – [This night of liquid storms, high noon s dwelling]<BR>Poetics Statement: A Practice of Possibility, a Life in Languages<BR>Moure's Abrasions – Aaron Kunin<BR>LAURA MULLEN<BR>Poems<BR>From The Surface<BR>From The Tales of Horror: (A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody<BR>From After I Was Dead: Secrets – 35 <BR>From Murmur<BR>From Subject: Circles<BR>Poetics Statement<BR>Lauren Mullen: Threatened As Threat: Rethinking Gender and Genre – Kass Fleisher<BR>EILEEN MYLES<BR>Poems<BR>Transitions<BR>Snowflake<BR>To My Class<BR>Questions<BR>Hi<BR>Poetics Statement<BR>When We're Alone In Public: The Poetry of Eileen Myles – Maggie Nelson<BR>M. NOURBESE PHILIP<BR>Poems<BR>From She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks: Discourse on the Logic of Language<BR>From Universal Grammar<BR>From Zong!: Os, Zong! #2 – Zong! #4<BR>Ferrum (excerpt)<BR>Poetics Statement: Ignoring Poetry (a work in progress)<BR>The Language Of Trauma: Faith and Atheism in M. NourbeSe Philip's Poetry – Dawn Lundy Martin<BR>JOAN RETALLACK<BR>Poems<BR>From Errata 5uite<BR>From How to Do Things with Words: The Woman in the Chinese Room<BR>From MONGRELISME<BR>From MEMNOIR: Curiosity and the Claim to Happiness – Lost Brief Case Conjecture<BR>Poetics Statement: Procedural Elegies: N Plus Zero<BR>The Method "In Medias Mess" – Jena Osman<BR>LISA ROBERTSON<BR>Poems<BR>From The Weather: Residence at C__ – Tuesday – Residence at C__ – Saturday<BR>From Utopia (R's Boat): [In the spring of 1979]<BR>Poetics Statement: Soft Architecture: A Manifesto<BR>About Surface: Lisa Robertson's Poetics of Elegance – Sina Queyras<BR>C. D. WRIGHT<BR>Poems<BR>From Steal Away: Floating Trees – Privacy<BR>From Cooling Time: [only the crossing counts] – [elation washed over our absence toward everything in the increasing darkness]<BR>From One Big Self: An Investigation: Dear Prisoner, – My Dear Conflicted Reader, – Dear Child of God, – [Mack trapped a spider]<BR>From Rising, Falling, Hovering: Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof – Like Having a Light at Your Back You Can't See But You Can Still Feel – Like a Prisoner of Soft Words – Like Something in His Handwriting – Like Something Flying Backwards<BR>Poetics Statement: My American Scrawl<BR>The Border Crossing: Relational Poetry Of C. D. Wright – Suzanne Wise<BR>Contributors<BR>Index</P>