In this Book
- Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century: Poetics Across North America
- Book
- 2012
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: American Poets in the 21st Century
Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century is an exciting sequel to its predecessors in the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like the earlier anthologies, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of our time as well as illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays on their work. This unique organization makes these books invaluable teaching tools. Broadening the lens through which we look at contemporary poetry, this new volume extends its geographical net by including Caribbean and Canadian poets. Representing three generations of women writers, among the insightful pieces included in this volume are essays by Karla Kelsey on Mary Jo Bang's modes of artifice, Christine Hume on Carla Harryman's kinds of listening, Dawn Lundy Martin on M. NourbeSe Phillip (for whom "english / is a foreign anguish"), and Sina Queyras on Lisa Robertson's confoundingly beautiful surfaces. A companion web site will present audio of each poet's work.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xiv
- Introduction
- pp. 1-18
- Mary Jo Bang
- And as in Alice
- p. 25
- B Is for Beckett
- p. 26
- C Is for Cher
- pp. 26-27
- In the Present and Probable Future
- pp. 27-29
- Opened and Shut
- pp. 29-30
- Poetics Statement
- pp. 30-33
- Lucille Clifton
- eve’s version
- p. 61
- lucifer speaks in his own voice
- pp. 61-62
- telling our stories
- p. 65
- the river between us
- pp. 65-66
- Lucille Clifton’s Communal “i”
- pp. 68-95
- Kimiko Hahn
- Orchid Root
- pp. 96-98
- In Childhood
- p. 104
- Like Lavrinia
- pp. 104-106
- Poetics Statement: Still Writing the Body
- pp. 107-110
- Carla Harryman
- Now. Word. Technology.
- p. 127
- Dark. Swat. Land.
- p. 128
- The. Open. Box.
- p. 129
- Baby. N. Baseball. Song.
- p. 130
- Wartime Surroundings.
- p. 131
- the opposite of slackness
- pp. 135-136
- Poetics Statement: Siren
- pp. 136-142
- Listening in on Carla Harryman’s Baby
- pp. 142-160
- Erín Moure
- document32 (inviolable)
- p. 161
- document33 (arena)
- p. 162
- Moure’s Abrasions
- pp. 171-188
- Laura Mullen
- Sudden cold
- pp. 189-190
- (“A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody”)
- pp. 191-193
- I removed the plot.
- pp. 197-198
- Poetics Statement
- pp. 200-203
- Eileen Myles
- Transitions
- pp. 229-232
- To My Class
- pp. 234-237
- Poetics Statement
- pp. 241-242
- M. Nourbese Philip
- Discourse on the Logic of Language
- pp. 262-265
- from Universal Grammar
- pp. 266-271
- Ferrum (excerpt)
- pp. 274-278
- Joan Retallack
- read read for real...
- pp. 308-309
- The Woman in the Chinese Room
- pp. 310-313
- If all the type in a printing-press...
- pp. 313-315
- Curiosity and the Claim to Happiness
- pp. 316-319
- The Method “In Medias Mess”
- pp. 326-351
- Lisa Robertson
- Residence at C__
- pp. 352-353
- Residence at C__
- p. 356
- from Utopia (R’s Boat)
- pp. 358-361
- C. D. Wright
- Floating Trees
- pp. 386-388
- from Cooling Time
- pp. 389-390
- Dear Prisoner
- p. 390
- Dear Child of God
- pp. 391-392
- Poetics Statement: My American Scrawl
- pp. 397-398
- Contributors
- pp. 425-429