Contents -- Foreword -- I -- Novices: A Study of Poetic Apprenticeship -- II -- The Gull Wall -- Remarks to a Poetry Workshop -- The Lorca Working -- Companion Spider -- III -- At the Locks of the Void: Cotranslating Aimé Césaire -- A Tribute to Américo Ferrari -- A Translational Understanding of Trilce #I -- Introduction to Watchfiends & Rack Screams -- Artaud's True Family, Glimpsed at Pompidou -- IV -- A Note on the Death of Paul Celan -- Two Introductions: Gary Snyder and Michael Palmer -- Padgett the Collaborator -- Spider Sibyls -- V -- The Gospel According to Norton -- Complexities of Witness -- "What Is American About American Poetry?" -- The Lawless Germinal Element -- Introduction to the Final Issue of Sulfur Magazine -- VI -- From an Interview with Duane Davis for Waste Paper (1993) -- From an Interview with William Harmer for Agenda (1994) -- From an Interview with Keith Tuma for Contemporary Literature (1996) -- Medusa Dossier: Clayton Eshleman (1999).