• Another antipastoral
• White Mountain
• Happy?
• Altruism
• Cracks along the Outer Banks
• Emancipation
• Taking it
• A flight of swiftlets made their way in
• The accountant
• Approaching fifty
• Shall we gather & what
• Like Jesus to the crows
• Fallen
• Keys
• Skinned
• Salt
• Epicurean
• How delicious to say it
• The ledge
• Imprint
• Visiting the house on Long Island
• Cake baby
• Break
• Circe after the feast of kine
• Waterfire
• A song on the ridge
• All the fuss over a rose
• Wolf
• Lightnin' over fir
• Bluster
• Grasp
• Seen through
• Paradise
• Tintype
• She whose brothers turned to swans pleads her case
• Still life with dead game
• The old master
• On the last day
• Inevitability
• To another
• Apologia
• Nightjar
• Her mouth
• Consider the prince as he considered her mouth
• Having never told the tarot reader my question, she answers it
• Gutted
• Black river
• Join
• Flying over pigeon river
• All kinds of howlin'
• Beast & beauty
• Husband fair
• A small poem
• Chimera.

Another Anti-Pastoral, " the opening poem of Forest Primeval, confesses that sometimes "words fail." With a "bleat in [her] throat, " the poet identifies with the voiceless and wild things in the composed, imposed peace of the Romantic poets with whom she is in dialogue. Vievee Francis's poems engage many of the same concerns as her poetic predecessors-faith in a secular age, the city and nature, aging, and beauty. Words certainly do not fail as Francis sets off into the wild world promised in the title. The wild here is not chaotic but rather free and finely attuned to its surroundings. The reader who joins her will emerge sensitized and changed by the enduring power of her work.
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• Joseph Stroud
• Kay Ryan
• Gary Young
• Martha Ronk
• Michael Hannon.

• Joseph Stroud: Lodestone
• The room above the white rose
• Walking
• Death in the Tehachapis
• City
• First law of thermodynamics
• A winter's tale.

• Kat Ryan: Tune
• Things shouldn't be so hard
• The best of it
• The edges of time
• Bitter pill
• Doubt
• Spiderweb.

• Gary Young: It's a joy to be subtracted
• When I was a young man
• The roads were closed
• We'd been talking about the limits
• When I step from the deck
• The skunks and deer
• The earth submits.

• Martha Ronk: "I cannot remember anything about this journey other than this"
• "This sense of numbness soon came over me"
• "The sounds in and of themselves were less like the sounds of anyone"
• "I sat at the window and watched it cover everything by nightfall"
• "I was astonished at the mysterious slow motion quality of the sound"
• "It was a photograph of a house quite like any other I had inhabited"
• "It seemed to all of us as remarkably like suspension in time."

• Michael Hannon: At the crossroad
• Thanksgiving
• Beyond freedom
• Pure luck
• Solstice --Divided self
• Aftermath.

A selection of Bill Knott's life work--testimony of his enduring "thorny genius" (Robert Pinsky).

Emanuel's version of a "new and selected poems" turns convention on its head. Whether writing in the comedic drag of the cartoon strip, or investigating the Mobius strip relationship between reader and writer, or exposing the humor and hurt that accompany visitations from Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein, The Nerve of It both stings and pleases with its intelligence, wit and vivacity.
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How far are we from the Lake District? How far from the garden? Eric Linsker's first book scrolls down the Anthropocene, tracking our passage through a technophilic pastoral where work and play are both forms of making others suffer in order to exist. In La Far, the world is faraway near, a hell conveniently elsewhere in which workers bundle Foxconn's "rare earths" into the "frosty kits" that return us our content, but also the sea meeting land as it always has. Both are singable conditions and lead, irreversibly, to odes equally comfortable with praise and lament. The poems in La Far hope that by making the abstract concrete and the concrete abstract, "literalizing / a nightingale beyond / knowledge, " we might construct what Wordsworth called a "Common Day, " a communised life partaken of by all.
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• Up to speed / Rae Armantrout
• The pearl fishers / John Ashenbery
• The Golgotha local / Amiri Baraka
• 12² / Charles Bernstein
• from Zero Star Hotel / Anselm Berrigan
• Injunction / Frank Bidart
• The body / Jenny Boully
• Ballad of the comely woman / T. Alan Broughton
• What I threw into the grave / Michael Burkard
• Opposed glimpse of Alice James, Garth James, Henry James, Robertson James and William James / Anne Carson --On the screened porch / Elizabeth Biller Chapman
• Lullaby for cuckoo / Tom Clark --Corpus delicti / Peter Cooley
• Traced red dot / Clark Coolidge --Long after (Mallarmé) / Ruth Danon
• Midsummer / Diane di Prima
• Moon cornering / Theodore Enslin
• O Patriarchy / Elaine Equi
• Animals out of the snow / Clayton Eshleman
• Drones and chants / Norman Finkelstein
• To a student who reads "The second coming" as sexual autobiography / Jeffrey Franklin
• Independence Day / Benjamin Friedlander
• Surreal love life / Gene Framkin ---

• Carried across / Forrest Gander
• Beginning with a phrase from Simone Weil / Peter Gizzi
• Reunion / Louise Glück
• The gold star / Albert Goldbarth
• Affirmation / Donald Hall
• TCAT serenade: 4 4 98 (New Haven) / Michael S. Harper
• you: should e shoo be / Everett Hoagland
• 9-11-01 / Fanny Howe
• Poem (across dark stream) / Ronald Johnson
• Flying (Maxine Kumin
• Great / Bill Kushner
• Broken world (for James Assatly) / Joseph Lease
• Felix culpa / Timothy Liu
• On Antiphon Island / Nathaniel Mackey
• And even you elephants? (Stein 139/Titles 35) / Jackson Mac Low
• Perfect front door / Steve Malmud
• Address to Winnie in Paris / Sarah Manguso
• Butter & eggs / Harry Mathews
• The quarry (1-13) / Duncan McNaughton --To my father's houses / W.S. Merwin
• Ashberries: letters / Philip Metres
• Trail /Mong-Lan
• Behind the orbits / Jennifer Moxley
• Sympathy / Eileen Myles
• Sunday night / Maggie Nelson
• Sonnet / Charles North
• Haunt / Alice Notley ---

• Snapshot from Niagara / D. Nurkse
• Frontis nulla fides / Sharon Olds
• Twenty-six fragments / George Oppen
• Starred together / Jena Osman
• Fretwork / Carl Phillips
• A roof is no guarantee / Pam Rehm
• Ends of the earth / Adrienne Rich
• Les demoisells dÁvignon / Corinne Robins
• Tenets of roots and trouble / Eliabeth Robinson
• Self-Portrait with critic / Ira Sadoff
• I do not know myself / Hugh Seidman
• You also, nightingale / Reginald Shepherd
• For Larry Eigner, Silent / Ron Silliman
• Poem after Haniel Long / Dale Smith
• In way of introduction / Gustaf Sobin
• Some of we and the land that was never ours / Juliana Spahr
• Call / John Taggart
• from Raton Rex, part I / Sam Truitt
• Do flies remember us / Jean Valentine
• Eye contact / Lewis Warsh
• Return to Saint Odilienberg, Easter 2000 / Claire Nicolas White
• In charge / Nathan Whiting
• Illumined with the light of fitfully burning censers / Dara Wier
• Nostalgia II / Charles Wright ---

New Poets: An Anthology brings together representative selections from thirty-five young American writers (all of them under forty and the majority still in their twenties and early thirties) who are among the finest and most promising working today. Experimenting with form, the revitalization of the lyric, and an undogmatic approach to the fundamental questions of language and writing, they offer a panoramic view of the revolution that is overtaking American poetry at the end of the century. This is the cutting edge, the avant-garde as it exists now. Subordinating their work to no precedents and no expectations, they stand at the dividing line between postmodernist aesthetics and the future. Painting, philosophy, cross-cultural myth, and the critique of popular culture all are implicated in the energies of these new poetries, which might, over-all, be described as Maximalism, conscious of tradition but not beholden to it. Perhaps what is most remarkable is that, in the market-driven nineties, with its cut-throat economics and diminished support for the arts, such a poetry has come into existence at all. One can only be impressed by the range and verve of this underground commitment to the fire of the written word. The anthology includes an introduction by Lisa Jarnot and an afterword by Christopher Stroffolino.
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