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- BAX 2015: Best American Experimental Writing
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: Wesleyan University Press
- Series: Best American Experimental Writing
summary
BAX 2015 is the second volume of an annual literary anthology compiling the best experimental writing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. This year's volume, guest edited by Douglas Kearney, features seventy-five works by some of the most exciting American poets and writers today, including established authors—like Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Cathy Park Hong, Bhanu Kapil, Aaron Kunin, Joyelle McSweeney, and Fred Moten—as well as emerging voices. Best American Experimental Writing is also an important literary anthology for classroom settings, as individual selections are intended to provoke lively conversation and debate. The series coeditors are Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani.
Hardcover is un-jacketed.
Table of Contents
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- Guest Editor’s Introduction
- pp. ix-xi
- Series Editors’ Introduction
- pp. xiii-xvi
- from “Three Little Novels”
- pp. 8-14
- rectangle 71
- p. 22
- Mack Daddy Manifesto
- pp. 25-28
- Body as a Juncture of Almost
- pp. 29-30
- Everyone’s a Poet
- pp. 31-36
- Sanford, Florida
- pp. 37-39
- from Titanic
- pp. 42-44
- Twitter Feed
- pp. 46-47
- The Ambidextrous
- p. 48
- from Liberation Music Orchestra
- pp. 49-51
- Incisor / Canine
- pp. 52-58
- from “You Are My Ducati”
- pp. 59-63
- The Panthera tigris
- pp. 76-78
- “Time After Time”
- pp. 79-80
- Movie Version: “Hell to Eternity”
- pp. 81-82
- 4 and 5 from “Early Evening”
- pp. 83-85
- Number Two of the Eleven Calamities
- pp. 86-87
- Email Exchange
- p. 88
- Like a Flock of Tiny Birds
- pp. 88-95
- The Art of Plumbing
- pp. 100-109
- Simulacra: American Counting Rhyme
- pp. 110-114
- email personas
- pp. 115-118
- from Hummeltopia
- pp. 119-120
- Trouble in Mind
- p. 121
- “TITLE! JILLWRITES CURATES MAPS!”
- pp. 122-127
- I didn’t want to go so I didn’t go
- pp. 128-139
- Between Chou and the Butterfly
- pp. 142-144
- Monster Checklist
- pp. 145-147
- Insomnia Cycle 44
- p. 148
- from “An Essay on Tickling”
- pp. 149-150
- from I RL, YOU RL
- pp. 152-161
- Product Warning
- pp. 163-174
- Trial of MUSE from Dead Youth, or, The Leaks
- pp. 181-186
- Alienated Labor
- pp. 187-193
- Through the Park
- pp. 198-202
- harriot harriott sound
- p. 203
- from “The Lacunae”
- pp. 204-208
- The Old Man and the Peach Tree
- pp. 209-215
- The Wash House
- pp. 220-222
- dreamlives of debris: an excerpt
- pp. 223-231
- Doubloon Oath
- p. 232
- Museum Maps
- pp. 233-235
- Camera and Knife
- p. 238
- fukushima blues
- pp. 244-246
- [Dear Emiel]
- pp. 247-249
- from “Mediation in Steam”
- pp. 251-252
- Now, Now Rahm Emmanuel
- pp. 253-254
- MicroGod Schism Song
- p. 255
- Binary Fusion Crab Canon
- p. 256
- from Explosion Rocks Springfield
- pp. 257-264
- [13 untitled poems]
- pp. 266-268
- Color: A Sequence of Unbearable Happenings
- pp. 269-271
- Unisex One–Seat♥er
- pp. 272-274
- Coterie Chair
- p. 276
- Lucy, Finally
- p. 277
- from Bribery
- pp. 278-280
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 281-284
- Contributors
- pp. 285-302
Additional Information
ISBN
9780819576095
Related ISBN(s)
9780819576071
MARC Record
OCLC
931806043
Pages
320
Launched on MUSE
2016-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No