| Edition |
First edition. |
| Description |
xxviii, 529 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cole Swensen -- Introduction : David St John -- Indian never had a horse -- In/somnia -- To be in a time of war / Etel Adnan -- Inside a world the world fits into -- You think it's a secret, but it never was one -- Exceptions and melancholies -- Soft and pretty -- Sampling -- Sometimes an image -- Unveiling -- Vertigo / Ralph Angel -- Special theory of relativity -- Generation -- Fit -- Police business -- Turn of events -- What we mean -- Scumble -- Yonder -- Translation / Rae Armantrout -- Well-lit places -- What to do with milk -- Taken -- Obsidian House -- Others shied away -- Haibun -- Garden of false civility -- Of linnets and dull time / John Ashbery -- February elegy -- P equals pie -- Mystery at manor -- Close -- Alice in Wonderland -- Man and woman / Mary Jo Bang -- Now begins our immaculate summer -- Birds know -- In the days of famous want -- This is what's been done to flesh -- Your time has come / Joshua Beckman -- Insatiability -- Clouds of willing seen in the bird day -- White letter -- Green letter -- Banana peaks get snowfall / Cal Bedient -- Conservation with Evan Hesse -- Sail -- Justnowland -- Vanish nearby -- Shoots and pulps -- Pirate keep / Molly Bendall -- Chinese space -- Four year old girl -- Parallel lines / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge -- Sideways suicide -- Ruby for grief -- My sister is not a dollar -- Eyeglasses -- We have to talk about another book -- Rearranger / Michael Burkard -- Before the birds awaken -- It's what I'm afraid of -- My whispered song -- I'm sorry I brought it up -- There is no way to know -- Words I did not say -- There should've been rabbits -- She falls in love -- Note I taped up -- You have put the cup -- In the story -- Through a panel of controls -- When you step from the entry hall -- I have no say / Killarney Clary -- Floating by -- Units for tomorrow -- Dear Robert -- Sarabande -- My operatives -- Conditions maritimes / Norma Cole -- Sky drank in -- Careful -- Little more red sun on the human -- Plot genie / Gillian Conoley -- Works of Thos Swan -- On my brother William falling from his horse -- Acts / Martin Corless-Smith -- Conference -- Cheerleader's guide to the world: council book -- Paramour / Stacy Doris -- Apocrypha of Jacques Derrida -- At sunset -- After sky X -- Of politics, & art -- Blue -- City of snow -- Two stanzas for Timothy Deshaies / Norman Dubie -- Ellipses -- Obscure room & my inexplicable weeping -- Elegy for the poetry of her personal experiences -- In English in a poem -- Then, suddenly -- Book's speech / Lynn Emanuel -- Cue or starting point -- Disappeared -- Hotel classic / Kathleen Fraser -- Warmth sculpture -- Permeable past tense of feel / Alice Fulton -- Leap year -- Nature averts her eyes -- Earthquake -- Apollinaire's cane -- Mastermind asks some questions -- Stop whimpering and speak / James Galvin -- Time and the hour -- Exhaustible appearance -- Coda -- Hugeness of that which is missing -- Poem -- Road and tree -- Collodion -- Ivy brick wall -- Argosy for rock and grass -- Moon and Page Ghazal / Forrest Gander -- Giscome road -- Prairie style / C S Giscombe -- Tous les Matins du Monde -- In defense of nothing -- Plain song -- Beginning with a phrase from Simone Weil -- Human memory is organic -- That's life / Peter Gizzi -- |
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Etymologically work work / Albert Goldbarth -- Dawn day one -- Little exercise -- Dusk shore prayer -- Ebbtide / Jorie Graham -- Dissonace royal traveller -- Medieval hollow from stripped tales -- Imagined room -- Short narrative -- Alteration / Barbara Guest -- Time and materials -- White of forgetfulness, white of safety -- Rusia en 1931 -- Yellow bicycle -- Garden of delight / Robert Hass -- Beginner -- Composition of the cell -- Book of a thousand eyes / Lye Hejinian -- Black series -- Sediments of Santa Monica -- Styrofoam cup -- Left eye -- String theory sutra -- Oddness / Brenda Hillman -- Presence -- Childhood and its double -- Edge and fold -- Haikuisation of Shakespeare's sonnet 56 / Paul Hoover -- 9/11 -- 2002 -- Splinter -- Descent -- Let it snow -- Is knowing / Fanny Howe -- Bed hangings II -- Kidnapped / Susan Howe -- Removes -- Eclipse calling -- Home unknown stone -- Breath, bring nothing to term -- Evening of chances / Andrew Joron -- Freely adapted -- Representation without taxation -- Critical essay -- Via negativa -- Sybil's afterlife -- Noumenon / Claudia Keelan -- Exordium -- Penury / Myung Mi Kim -- After Mahler -- Interleavings (Paul Celan) -- Hum -- Impossible blue / Ann Lauterbach -- Chimney song -- Event -- Wilds / Mark Levine -- Song of the Andoumboulou: 64 -- Double staccato -- Blue Anuncia's bird lute / Nathaniel Mackey -- Green flame -- Antennae -- Choices -- Occur -- Creek -- Sfumato -- Twist --Thwart -- Dangerous Archipelagos -- Green card, blue shoes -- Dear elegy -- Phoenix elegy / Stefanie Marlis -- Reef: shadow of green -- Fauve harmonics -- Letter for K & poems for someone else / Mark McMorris -- Palace of pearls / Jane Miller -- Nude memoir -- Laura de Sade -- Spicer's city / Laura Moriarty -- Wreath of a similar year -- Difficult of access -- Critique -- Enlightenment evidence -- State -- Promise -- In one body and one soul -- Awake -- Milky way -- Burning peony / Jennifer Moxley -- Muse & drudge -- Lunar Lutheran -- Sleeping with the dictionary -- Why you and I -- Zombie hat / Harryette Mullen -- Refuge -- Plans -- Noun's meant / Laura Mullen -- Poem -- After Tsang Chih -- Poem -- Descent of Alette -- I must have called and so he comes -- Lady Poverty / Alice Notley -- Sighs again (autobiography) -- Stone -- Una noche -- Tongue asleep -- Theory of the flower / Michael Palmer -- California poppy -- Crematorium at sierra view cemetery -- Clutch and pumps -- My lot to spin the purple -- Listen mother, he punched the air -- Robe and pajamas, steadfast -- Darling can you kill me / D A Powell -- Birds fly through us -- Mercy -- All Saints / Bin Ramke -- Don't let me be lonely / Claudia Rankine -- Human/nature -- Present tense -- Where late the sweet birds sang / Stephen Ratcliffe -- My trip -- My Mojave -- Picnic -- Zion -- Conquest -- Landscape with Tityrus in Vermont / Donald Revell -- Hovenweep -- Little matchgirl -- Snow window / Elizabeth Robinson -- Vertigo -- In a landscape of having to repeat -- You couldn't read a book about it -- In the house / Martha Ronk -- Naked ladies -- Where letters go -- Penciled -- Concerning essential existence -- Impresario -- Go verbatim -- World as I left it -- Minor ninth chord / Mary Ruefle -- |
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Direction of fall -- Parking lot just outside the ruins of Babylon -- Tendency of dropped objects to fall -- Turandot -- You also, nightingale / Reginald Shepherd -- Thus, speak the chromograph -- Essay: at night the autoportrait -- California poem -- World is weird / Eleni Sikelianos -- Good house -- Ted's head -- Strength / Rod Smith -- Le Dejeuner -- Gallery -- Bowl / Carol Snow -- We arrived and everything was interconnected -- We arrived -- New world sonnet -- December 8, 2002 / Juliana Spahr -- Forest -- Awaken -- Variations on the dream of the road / Susan Stewart -- Henry David Thoreau/Sonny Rollins -- Pastorelle 9 -- Pastorelle 10 -- Parmenides/fragments 3 and 15A -- Pastorelle 12 -- Why trees weep / John Taggart -- Family -- Family II -- Komodo -- Mother's first airplane / Arthur Vogelsang -- Lovis 3: oculist wit: book of light -- Without stitching closed the eye of the falcon / Anne Waldman -- First draw of the sea -- Singular / Keith Waldrop -- Evening sun -- Song -- Meditation on understanding -- Song -- Steps in integration / Rosmarie Waldrop -- Art & language writes an epitaph -- Look, look! -- For four violins -- False Isle -- Glove -- Textile 5 / Marjorie Welish -- Beavis' day off -- White exiles -- Loss Lieder -- Each's cat an altar then -- Toward Autumn / Susan Wheeler -- Double sonnet -- Attitude of rags -- Independence Day -- Those generals' eyes -- Faux self-portrait of you -- It wasn't exactly like being left standing at the altar -- Eye cages / Dara Wier -- Tree of personal effort -- Three apples -- Arthur in Egypt -- Constable's day off -- Fisher king -- Similitude of this great flower -- On the resemblance of some -- Flowers to insects -- Verses omitted by mistake -- Oil and water -- Ancient subterranean fires -- Nocturne -- Oldest garden in the world -- Bohemian rhapsody / Elizabeth Willis -- Animism -- Like peaches -- Why leave you so soon gone -- Bienvenu en Louisiane / C D Wright -- Body and soul II -- Secret of poetry -- 54 Chevy -- Singing lesson -- Waking up after the storm -- Hawksbane -- Littlefoot / Charles Wright -- Late tale -- Unpromising poem -- Eqyptian sonnets (7) -- Egyptian sonnets (11) -- Robert Desnos writes / John Yau -- With hidden noise -- Yawn -- Bathed in dust and ashes -- Speck -- Homage to Richard Tuttle -- Man in red / Dean Young -- Permissions acknowledgments -- Index. |
| Summary |
From the Publisher: This spirited anthology of contemporary American poetry focuses on the new poem-the hybrid-a synthesis of traditional and experimental styles. As Cole Swensen argues in the introduction to this comprehensive new anthology, the long-acknowledged "fundamental division" between experimental and traditional is disappearing in American poetry in favor of hybrid approaches that blend trends from accessible lyricism to linguistic exploration. The focus in American Hybrid is on the blend; the more than seventy poets featured here-including Jorie Graham, Albert Goldbarth, and LynHejinian-have found new and often unique ways to reconfigure the innumerable and sometimes conflicting voices of the past thirty years. The editors have crafted short introductory essays on each of the poets in the anthology, providing biographical backgrounds and positioning them within the current of contemporary poetry. This new anthology is essential reading for those who care about the present moment-and the future-of American verse. |
| Subject |
American poetry -- 21st century.
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American poetry -- 20th century.
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| Added Author |
Swensen, Cole, 1955-
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St. John, David, 1949-
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| ISBN |
9780393333756 paperback |
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0393333752 paperback |
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