Free Radicals: American Poets Before Their First Books

by Davis, Jordan; Manguso, Sarah

• ISBN13: 9781930068230
• ISBN10: 1930068239
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2004-06-01
• Publisher: Subpress

Summary

Poetry. This anthology of not-yet household names, edited by Jordan Davis and Sarah Manguso, features work by Max Winter, Michael Savitz, Jeni Olin, Amy Lingafelter, Tanya Larkin, Jennifer Knox, Cole Heinowitz, Tim Griffin, Johannes Goransson, Greta Goetz, Alan Gilbert, Tonya Foster, Katie Degentesh, Del Ray Cross, Chris O. Cook, Carson Cistulli, Jim Behrle, and B.J. Atwood-Fukuda. "What excites me about these poets is that, beside their talent, they are all blessed with the terrible freedom of not yet having published books. I take special joy in reading work by these poets who, while already setting their new stars into the poetical firmament, are not mired in the stability-enforcing, niche-assigning public consciousness"--Sarah Manguso.

Table of Contents

Editors' Introductions	v
B.J. Atwood-Fukuda
The Wreck of the Platonic	1	(2)
Ballybunion	3	(1)
Jim Behrle
White Album	4	(2)
Beacon Arms	6	(1)
Good Night, All You Ships at Sea, You	7	(1)
The Charm of the Highway Strip	8	(1)
Carson Cistulli
34.57: from Twenty-Six Friends, That's the Same as Your Age	9	(3)
42.24	12	(1)
47.57	13	(2)
Chris O. Cook
Will Run Like Rabbits for Food	15	(1)
Anthelmintic	16	(1)
8 O'Clock Defeat, Approximately	17	(1)
It's Just As Well About Heather	18	(1)
Del Ray Cross
Sterling Park	19	(1)
the bus poems	20	(4)
big words	24	(1)
turn-on (with most of a line by Spicer)	25	(1)
All the flutterlings gone	26	(1)
Ceci n'est pas une pipe	27	(2)
trilogy	29	(4)
let's try something	33	(1)
Rothko	34	(1)
Office Depot parking lot	35	(2)
The Vote	37	(1)
Cinema Yosemite	38	(6)
II Massimo del Pannino	44	(1)
The Painted Ladies	45	(1)
Can't Oh	46	(1)
Katie Degentesh
Seeds	47	(1)
5-Year-Old Girls Encountered	48	(2)
Tonya Foster
A Folktale	50	(2)
A Grammar of Waking	52	(4)
Alan Gilbert
Relative Heat Index	56	(23)
Greta Goetz
from Construction Papers	79	(3)
Johannes Goransson
The Last Instrument	82	(1)
Tim Griffin
Imitation	83	(1)
Observation	84	(1)
I Have Folded This Letter in Ten Places	85	(1)
Closed Discussion about the Future	86	(5)
Cole Heinowitz
Five Men	91	(1)
Jennifer Knox
Chicken Bucket	92	(2)
God Gave Safe Passage to the Animals through His Forest of Bright Spectrums	94	(1)
Pastoral with Internet Porn	95	(1)
My Big German Bra	96	(1)
Cruising for Prostitutes	97	(1)
Son of the House of a Thousand Chandeliers	98	(1)
Tanya Larkin
Cho-Fu-Sa	99	(2)
With Cheerful Speed	101	(1)
Amy Lingafelter
The Candy Poem	102	(2)
The Grandmothers	104	(1)
Jeni Olin
My Boyfriend, the Infidel	105	(1)
Blue Collar Holiday	106	(1)
The Para-Olympic Legacy	107	(1)
Wu Gambinos	108	(1)
Stick-up	109	(1)
Like Beatrix Potter	110	(1)
Warner Bros. Newest Thriller Valentine	111	(1)
``Larry Kept Saying Primo Levi Was an Accident''	112	(1)
The Shark Wrangler Goes to Church	113	(1)
Don't Let Me Eat Dinner	114	(1)
No Matter What Sign You Are	115	(1)
Vanishing Point	116	(1)
Tom Brokaw	117	(1)
``Colors'' starring Patti, Grandma, & me at twenty-five	118	(1)
Michael Savitz
Stations of the Crux	119	(1)
Massive Stoner	120	(1)
To the Horizon	121	(1)
The Bird	122	(1)
Sweetness	123	(2)
Max Winter
That Is the Way	125	(1)
As If I Knew	126	(2)
Here and There	128	(1)
The Ascent	129	(4)
Biographies and Acknowledgments	133