Side/lines -- introduction: rob mclennan -- Notes and Slips Retrieved from Various of My Works, with Reference to My Poetics -- four poems -- A Garish Simulacrum of Being Alive -- Bottle Episode -- poetics statement: problems in composition -- theory does people: Letter to Pierre Garnier 1963 -- an object in vision: Pilot Plan for Concrete Poetry (1958) -- A Prose is a Prose is a Prose is a -- from flicker -- Poetics Statement -- from Arcadian Suite -- from Elabouration -- from GAS-FOOD-LODGING -- from Double Helix -- Into the Ocean -- from A More Tender Ocean -- Company -- en train de: (his little fraught patriation of forms -- Self-Interview -- from The Reinventing Wheel: A Turntable Poem -- Bluer Blues -- "because capitalism makes the nouns / and burns the connections": Notes Towards an Articulatory Poetics -- Happy Locally, Sad Geopolitically -- Damsel in Da Dress -- Soul Man -- Notes Towards an Operational Poetics -- from Centences -- Ambit. Ardour. Orders: A Poetics of Polymedial Pasties -- Happy the Ghost-Boy -- PULP GIMP: A POETICS -- five stories -- Poser -- (The Function & Field) Of Speech & Language -- two poems -- from The Book of Knowledge -- Sweet Poetry or Mystery Meat? -- three poems -- Ottawa snapshot: a quick poetics -- Juliet is the name of a wound -- from stone, book one -- from the other side of the mouth -- Holding Pattern -- two poems -- Good Golly Miss Molly: An Autobiographical Poetics -- from Heroes -- Poem as Collage of the Real -- two poems -- COPPING: The Double Voice and Jazz Ethics -- Centens by JC Wilcke -- Berlin -- M'ore -- A poem is not (meant to be) a pretty thing -- First Person Plural -- Polysémique -- from Clutch -- Writing the Eye (a game of cat's cradle) -- from The Tourniquet Vanish -- Uses, Not Muses -- from Survivial: A Strobic Guide.

My Meteoric Rise to Obscurity-A Treatise On the Merits of Lexiconjury, Deliriomancy and Icelandic Breakfast Foods -- Secrets of the Occult Science of Torpor Vigilism (A Brief Lexical Introduction) -- from Spiral Agitator -- The Gated Now (Three Excerpts) -- FIRST WORDS -- author bios -- related (and recommended) reading -- acknowledgements.