Steve Benson, Close Reading: Leavings and Cleavings 37
Charles Bernstein, Writing and Method 46
Beverly Dahlen, Forbidden Knowledge 55
Alan Davies, Language/Mind/Writing 72
Robert Glück, His Heart Is a Lute Held Up: Poe and Bataille 79
Lyn Hejinian, The Rejection of Closure 87
Susan Howe, My Emily Dickinson: Part One 98
George Lakoff, Continuous Reframing 111
Jackson Mac Low, Some Ways Philosophy Has Helped to Shape My Work 119
Viktor Shklovsky, Plotless Literature: Vasily Rozanov 126
Ron Silliman, Migratory Meaning: The Parsimony Principle in the Poem 141
Barrett Watten, The Politics of Style 158
CONSTELLATION I: PRACTICES OF POETICS 169
Bruce Andrews, Total Equals What: Poetics and Praxis 185
Rae Armantrout, Mainstream Marginality 197
Michael Davidson, “Hey, Man, My Wave!”: The Authority of Private Language 202
Johanna Drucker, Hypergraphy: A Note on Maurice Lemaître’s Roman Hypergraphique 215
George Hartley, Jameson’s Perelman: Reification and the Material Signifier 229
Bob Perelman, Good and Bad/Good and Evil: Pound, Céline, and Fascism 240
Poets Theater: Two Versions of Collateral
Kit Robinson: Raising Collateral 257
Nick Robinson: Subtext in Collateral 260
Leslie Scalapino, Pattern—and the ‘Simulacral’ 270
Peter Seaton, An Example from the Literature 282
Warren Sonbert, Narrative Concerns 289
CONSTELLATION II: NEW METHODS AND TEXTS 294
Pierre Alferi, Seeking a Sentence 303
Dodie Bellamy, Can’t We Just Call It Sex?: In Memory of David Wojnarowicz 313
Arkadii Dragomoshchenko, I(s) 320
Jerry Estrin, Cold Heaven: The Uses of Monumentality 326
Harryette Mullen, Miscegenated Texts and Media Cyborgs: Technologies of Body and Soul 335
Ted Pearson, “A Form of Assumptions” 345
Kit Robinson, Time and Materials: The Workplace, Dreams, and Writing 353
Andrew Ross, The Death of Lady Day 367
Leslie Scalapino and Ron Silliman, What/Person: From an Exchange 378
Lorenzo Thomas, The Marks Are Waiting 393
Reva Wolf, Thinking You Know 397
John Zorn, Memory and Immorality in Musical Composition 414
CONSTELLATION III: THE EXPANDED FIELD 420