Contents -- The New Millenium: Fifty Statements on Literature and Culture -- Murder and Closure: On the Impression of Reality in American Poetry -- Pair of Figures for Eshu: Doubling of Consciousness in the Work of Kerry James Marshall and Nathaniel Mackey -- Stark Strangled Banjos: Linguistic Doubleness in the Work of David Hammons, Harryette Mullen, and Al Hibbler -- The Postmodern Era: A Final Exam -- Fables of Representation: Poetry of the New York School -- Upper Limit Music (Counted Verse) -- The New Modernism -- A Score for Undetermined Moments -- The Poet in His Skin: Remembering Paul Carroll -- Last Chicago Days: In Memory of Ted Berrigan -- Journals of Addiction.