North American Women Poets in the 21st Century (eBook)

amp;lt;P>Lisa Sewell is a professor of creative writing at Villanova University in Pennsylvania. Kazim Ali is a professor of literature and writing at the University of California, San Diego. Kazim Ali is</P>

<P>Introduction, Kazim Ali and Lisa Sewell • MARILYN CHIN • Poems: From The Phoenix Gone, The Terrace Empty: "So You Fucked John Donne"; From Rhapsody in Plain Yellow: "Blues on Yellow" - "Rhapsody in Plain Yellow"; From Hard Love Country: "Twenty-five Haiku" - "Brown Girl Manifesto (Too)" - "Black President" -"Beautiful Boyfriend" – "Formosan Elegy" • Poetics Statement: A Manifesto/ One Amongst Many • Essay: MARILYN CHIN'S HARD LOVE PROVINCE: An Erotics of Grief, Catherine Cucinella • FANNY HOWE • Poems: From The Lyrics: from "Forty Days": "8." – "12." – "13."; From Come and See: "A Hymn"; From Second Childhood: "For the Book" – "The Garden" – "Parkside" – "Evening" – "The Ninth Hour" • Poetics Statement • Essay: A PLACE APART: Sound, Silence, and Play in the Poetry of Fanny Howe, Meg Tyler • ALICE NOTLEY • Poems: From Grave of Light: "Dear Dark Continent" – "I the People"; From The Descent of Alette; From Mysteries of Small Houses: "Flowers"; From Reason and Other Women: "Growth of the Light Flat upon Her"; From Culture of One: "Carp Shoals and Tules"; From Songs and Stories of the Ghouls: "City of Ghostly Festivals" • Poetics Statement: The Responsibilities of Poetry • Essay: RESIST, REFRAME, INSIST: Alice Notley's Poetics of Inclusion, Elline Lipkin • CLAUDIA RANKINE • Poems: From Citizen • Poetics Statement • Essay: THE ATLANTIC OCEAN BREAKING ON OUR HEADS: Claudia Rankine and the Whiteness of the Lyric Subject, Kamran Javadizadeh • MARTHA RONK • Poems: From In a Landscape of Having to Repeat: "In a Landscape of Having to Repeat" – "Trying" – "A Photograph of a Plate Glass Window"; From Vertigo: "I cannot remember anything about this journey other than this" – "It is only a question of discovering how we can get ourselves attached to it again," Vija Celmins – "The shadows of clouds scudded across the steep slopes and through the ravines"; From Partially Kept: "The" – "Remembrance"; From Transfer of Qualities: "a glass bowl" – "corroded metal" – "the window" – "the book"; From Ocular Proof: "A blurry photograph" – "No Sky (after Robert Adams's California: Views)" – "As I understand my job, it is, while suggesting order, to make things appear as much as possible to be the way they are in normal vision" – "Elegy (and a photograph by Robert Adams)" • Poetics Statement • Essay: MARTHA RONK'S DISTRESSED LYRICS, Brian Tear • LESLIE SCALAPINO • Poems: From Way: "Floating Series 1"; From Defoe: "Notes to Waking Life"; From Day Ocean State of Stars' Life: "DeLay Rose"; From The Front Matter, Dead Souls: "Dead Souls" • Poetics Statement: Poetics • Essay: LESLIE SCALAPINO'S ANARCHIC MOMENT, Michael Cross • COLE SWENSEN • Poems: From Such Rich Hour: "May 21, 1420: The Signing of the Treaty of Troyes" – "December 25, 1456: Je Françoys Villon escollier"; From The Book of a Hundred Hands: "Shadow Puppets": "The First Movies" – "Birds" – "Advances in the Form"; From The Glass Age; From Ours: "A Garden is a Start"; From Gravesend: "A Ghost" – "Kent" – "One No" – "Gravesend" – "Who Walked"; From Landscapes on a Train; From Art in Time: Soutine: "Paysage à Céret, 1920" – "Paysage à Céret, 1921"; From On Walking On: "Wordsworth" – "George Sand: Promenades autour d'un village" – "Debord" • Poetics Statement • Essay: TRUTHS SURPASSING FACT: Cole Swensen's Research-Based Poetics, Lynn Keller • NATASHA TRETHEWEY • Poems: From Bellocq's Ophelia: "Bellocq"; From Native Guard: "Theories of Time and Space" – "Myth" – "Elegy for the Native Guard" – "Incident"; From Beyond Katrina: "Before Katrina"; From Thrall: "Elegy" – "Miracle of the Black Leg" – "Calling" – "Enlightenment" • Poetics Statement: From "Necessary Utterance: Poetry as a Cultural Force" • Essay: NATASHA TRETHEWEY'S PALIMPSESTIC POETICS, Khadijah Queen • JEAN VALENTINE • Poems: From Dream Barker: "First Love"; From Pilgrims: "The Child and the Terrorist, The Terrorist and the Child" – "Pilgrims"; From Home, Deep, Blue: "Trust Me" – "The First Station" – "The River at Wolf" – "World-light" – "Home" – "Little Map" – "The Blue Dory, The Soul"; From Break the Glass: "In prison"; From Shirt in Heaven: "A Child's Drawing, 1941" – "[The ship] is slowing giving up her sentient life. I cannot write about it." – "Song" – "Icebergs, Ilulissat" • Poetics Statement: Excerpt from "Interview of Jean Valentine," Michael Klein • Essay: SKIRTING HEAVEN: Jean Valentine's Late Dream-Work in Shirt in Heaven, Lisa Russ Spaar • CECILIA VICUÑA • Poems: "K'isa, alangó"; From Sabor a Mí: "Solitude" – "Mastaba" – "Mawida" – "Teresa the Idiot" – "Librarian Expedition"; From La WiK'una: "Unuy, The Water Sequence" – "Thirst" – "Unuy Quita" – "The Round Spring" – "Foggy Little Fog"; From Instan: "fables of the beginning and remains of the origin"; From Spit Temple: "The Quasar" – "The Undoer Doing (Muhammad Ali); From NEW AND SELECTED POEMS OF CECILIA VICUÑA: "Clepsydra" • Poetics Statement: Three Notes • Essay: RETURN OF THE DISAPPEARED: Cecilia Vinuna's Saboramis, Julie Brown • ROSMARIE WALDROP • Poems: From Blindsight: "Evening Sun"; From Love Like Pronouns: "Initial Conditions" – "Intentionalities"; From The Reproduction of Profiles: "The Feverish Propositions"; From Driven to Distraction: "Time Ravel"; From A Little Useless Geometry and Other Matters: "Point" – "Line"; From Figure to Proposition • Poetics Statement: Composition With With • Essay: ROSMARIE WALDROP: Attending to Absence, Driven to Distraction, Richard Greenfield</P>