Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- How to Use This Archive -- Kathy Acker -- Ugly -- Pierre Alferi, Seeking a Sentence -- Michael Amnasan, The Eclipsing Function of Full Comprehension -- Joe Liar, Chapter 4 -- Mike Anderson, Framing the Construals -- Bruce Andrews, Total Equals What: Poetics and Praxis -- Rae Armantrout, Chains -- Mainstream Marginality -- On "Pythagorean Silence" -- The Person in My Work -- Silence -- Dennis Barone, A Note on John Smith and "Philadelphia Newspapers Read Crossways" -- John Smith, Philadelphia Newspapers Read Crossways -- Susan [Laufer] Bee, Kahlo's Gaze -- Dodie Bellamy, Can't We Just Call It Sex?: In Memory of David Wojnarowicz -- Days Without Someone -- Franco Beltrametti, Normal Deep Person -- David Benedetti, Fear of Poetic (Social) Knowledge: Why Some People Don't Like (Language) Poetry -- Andrew Benjamin, The Body of Writing: Notes on the Poetry of Glenda George -- Steve Benson, Close Reading: Leavings and Cleavings -- Mediations in an Emergency -- Personal as Social History: Three Fictions -- Steve Benson and Carla Harryman, Dialogue: Museo de antropología, Mexico -- Bill Berkson, Stick -- Alan Bernheimer, The Simulacrum of Narrative -- Charles Bernstein, Professing Stein / Stein Professing -- Writing and Method -- Richard Blevins, "The Single Intelligence": The Formation of Robert Creeley's Epistemology -- Bruce Boone, Kathy Acker's "Great Expectations" -- A Narrative Like a Punk Picture: Shocking Pinks, Lavenders, Magentas, Sickly Greens -- David Bromige, Alternatives of Exposition -- Philosophy and Poetry: A Note -- Carolyn Burke, Without Commas: Gertrude Stein and Mina Loy -- Bruce Campbell, "But What Is an Adequate Vice to Limit the Liquid of This Voice" -- "Elsewhere"?: "Beyond" Artaud, "Beside" Barthes -- cris cheek -- Maxine Chernoff, The Fence of Character.

Abigail Child, The Exhibit and the Circulation -- Outside Topographies: Three Moments in Film -- Abigail Child and Sally Silvers, Rewire / / Speak in Disagreement -- William Corbett, Harwood / Walker and Raworth -- Margaret Crane and John Winet, From "This Is Your Life" -- Beverly Dahlen, Forbidden Knowledge -- In Re "Person" -- From "The Tradition of Marginality" -- Daniel Davidson, Bureaucrat, my love. -- Michael Davidson, Framed by Story -- "Hey Man, My Wave!": The Authority of Private Language -- Poetics of Everyday Life -- Seven Poems -- Alan Davies, Close Reading Close Reading -- Language/Mind/Writing -- Motor Mouth -- Or How Shall We Yet Catch Each Unmindful Eye Awake -- Strong Language -- Lydia Davis, Coolidge's "Mine" -- Some Notes on Armantrout's "Precedence" -- Jean Day, Moving Object -- Ron Day, Form and the Dialogic -- Françoise de Laroque, What Is the Sex of the Poets? -- Jeff Derksen, North Of -- Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, The Eroticism of Forgetting -- I(s) -- Syn / opsis / tax -- Johanna Drucker, Close Reading: A Billboard -- Hypergraphy: A Note on Maurice Lemaître's "Roman hypergraphique" -- Women and Language -- Mikhail Dziubenko, "New Poetry" and Perspectives for Philology -- Jerry Estrin, Cold Heaven: The Uses of Monumentality -- Penultimate Witness: The Work of Emmanuel Hocquard -- Steve Evans, Gizzi's "No Both" -- Steven Farmer [Roberts], Reading Eye Lets -- Norman Finkelstein, The Problem of the Self in Recent American Poetry -- Norman Fischer, Corbett's "Collected Poems" and Dahlen's "A Reading" -- Modernism, Postmodernism, and Values -- The Old City -- The Poetics of Lived Experience and the Concept of the Person -- Allen Fisher, Poetics, Philosophy, and Difference -- Postmodernism as Package -- Connie Fitzsimons, The Oath -- Kathleen Fraser, Overheard -- Howard Fried, The Museum Reaction Piece.

Benjamin Friedlander, Laura Riding / Some Difficulties -- Lyrical Interference -- Ed Friedman, How "Space Stations" Gets Written -- Fred Frith, Helter Skelter -- Kathleen Frumkin, From "Some Strokes" -- Robert Glück, Baucis and Philemon -- Fame -- His Heart Is a Lute Held Up: Poe and Bataille -- Truth's Mirror Is No Mirror -- Lanie Goodman, Georges Perec: Life Directions for Use -- Michael Gottlieb, Five Poems -- Paul Green, Literate Tones: The Recent Poetry of John Wilkinson -- Paul A. Green, Elsewhere -- Félix Guattari, Language, Consciousness, and Society -- Text for the Russians -- Barbara Guest, Shifting Persona -- Doug Hall, Forgotten Tyrant -- Carla Harryman, Toy Boats -- What in Fact Was Originally Improvised -- Carla Harryman and Chris Tysh, Interview with Carla Harryman -- Carla Harryman and Steve Benson, Dialogue: Museo de antropología, Mexico -- George Hartley, Althusser Metonymy China Wall -- Jameson's Perelman: Reification and the Material Signifier -- Lyn Hejinian, An American Opener -- La Faustienne -- Hard Hearts -- The Person and Description -- The Rejection of Closure -- Strangeness -- Emmanuel Hocquard, From "The Cape of Good Hope" -- Paul Hoover, Domination: Public and Private Language -- Fanny Howe, Purgatory: All from Nothing -- Silliman's "Paradise" -- Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson: Part One -- Robert Creeley and the Politics of the Person -- Erica Hunt, Beginning at "Bottom" -- Inagawa Masato, For a Biography of the Redeemed: 1974-1976 -- Edie Jarolim, Ideas of Order -- Ilya Kutik, The Tormentor of Life -- George Lakoff, Continuous Reframing -- The Public Aspect of the Language of Love -- Yulia Latinina, Folklore and "Novoyaz" -- David Lloyd, Limits of the Language of Desire -- Pamela Lu, From "Intermusement" -- Bill Luoma, Astrophysics and You -- Jackson Mac Low, "Persia" / "Sixteen" / "Code Poems".

Pieces o' Six-XII and XXIII -- Sketch Toward a Close Reading of Three Poems from Bob Perelman's "Primer" -- Some Ways Philosophy Has Helped to Shape My Work -- Tom Mandel, Codes/Texts: Reading "S/Z" -- Steve McCaffery, And Who Remembers Bobby Sands -- The. -- Duncan McNaughton, From the Empty Quarter -- William McPheron, Remaking Narrative -- Peter Middleton, The Knowledge of Narratives -- Laura Moriarty, The Modern Lyric -- Sex and Language -- Harryette Mullen, Miscegenated Texts and Media Cyborgs: Technologies of Body and Soul -- Kofi Natambu, The Multicultural Aesthetic: Language, "Art," and Politics in the United States Today -- Bernard Noël, Poetry and Experience -- Alice Notley, Narrative -- Travis Ortiz, From variously, not then -- Robin Palanker -- Alexei Parshchikov, New Poetry -- Ted Pearson, The Force of Even Intervals: Toward a Reading of "Vernal Aspects" -- "A Form of Assumptions" -- Some Remarks on Method -- Things Made Known -- Unit Structures -- Bob Perelman, Exchangeable Frames -- Good and Bad / Good and Evil: Pound, Céline, and Fascism -- Plotless Prose -- Three Case Histories: Ross's "Failure of Modernism" -- Delphine Perret, Irony -- Claire Phillips, Violent Acts Within Public Discourse -- Nick Piombino, Towards an Experiential Syntax -- David Plotke, Language and Politics Today -- Harry Polkinhorn, The Failure of a Postmodern Aesthetic -- Larry Price, Aggressively Private: Contingency as Explanation -- The Contingency Caper -- Harryman's Balzac -- Dmitrii Prigov, Conceptualism and the West -- Herman Rapaport, Poetic Rests: Ashbery, Coolidge, Scalapino -- John Rapko, Of Persons as Persons -- What Will Postmodernity Be? -- Jed Rasula, On Rothenberg's Revised "Technicians of the Sacred" -- Rodefer's "Lectures" -- What Does This Do with You Reading? -- Stephen Ratcliffe, How to Reading -- Joan Retallack, Blue Notes on the Know Ledge.

Kit Robinson, Bob Cobbing's Blade -- Hayward -- Pleasanton and Embassy Suite -- Raising "Collateral" -- Time and Materials: The Workplace, Dreams, and Writing -- Nick Robinson, Subtext in "Collateral" -- Jim Rosenberg, Openings-The Connection Direct: Personal Notes on Poetics -- Andrew Ross, The Death of Lady Day -- The Oxygen of Publicity -- Haj Ross, Poems as Holograms -- Lev Rubinshtein, Momma Was Washing the Window Frame -- Lisa Samuels, Two Poems -- Leslie Scalapino, Aaron Shurin's "Elsewhere" -- Pattern-and the 'Simulacral' -- Poetic Diaries -- Re-Living -- War / Poverty / Writing -- Leslie Scalapino and Ron Silliman, What/Person: From an Exchange -- Andrew Schelling, Antin's "Tuning" -- Peter Seaton, An Example from the Literature -- Gavin Selerie, From "Roxy" -- Lytle Shaw, Language Acquisition as Poetics: Notes on New Educational Writing -- James Sherry, Dreyer's "Step Work" -- Viktor Shklovsky, Plotless Literature: Vasily Rozanov -- Aaron Shurin, As Known -- The Irruptive Text -- Orphée: The Kiss of Death -- Ron Silliman, Composition as Action -- The Dysfunction of Criticism: Poets and the Critical Tradition of the Anti-Academy -- Migratory Meaning: The Parsimony Principle in the Poem -- "Postmodernism": Sign for a Struggle, the Struggle for the Sign -- Joseph Simas, Bernstein's "Content's Dream" -- Rod Smith, CIA Sentences -- Warren Sonbert, Narrative Concerns -- Nathaniel Tarn, Exile out of Silence into Cunning: Being Notes on Elsewhere and the Myths of Presence -- Télégrammes: Recent Quebécois Writing -- denis aubin, fuzzyworld -- Claude Beausoleil, On the Edge of the Infinite -- Nicole Brossard, Like Number in the Distance -- Paul Chamberland -- François Charron, The World as Obstacle -- Michael Delisle, From "Vast Illuminations" -- michel gay, detachment -- André Gervais -- Philippe Haeck, Space Is Life.

Renaud Longchamps, The Scale of Beings.