What are poets for? -- Should poetry be ethical or otherwise? -- Voices of construction: on Susan Howe's poetry and poetics (a citational ghost story) -- A poem about laughter and forgetting: Lyn Hejinian's A border comedy -- Among the pagans: the polyvocal poetry of Karen MacCormack -- The rogue poet's return: on John Matthias's poetic anecdotes -- Adding garbage to language: on J.H. Prynne's Not-you -- Anomalies of duration in contemporary poetry -- Nomad poetry: a ludic miscellany from Steve McCaffery -- On the conundrum of form and material: Adorno's aesthetic theory.