Introduction | |
Pre-Face | |
Poetics & Polemics | |
Prelude. The Times Are Never Right (poem) | p. 3 |
The Poetics of the Sacred: A Range of Topics for a Keynote Speech | p. 5 |
The Anthology as a Manifesto & as an Epic Including Poetry | p. 14 |
Symposium of the Whole: A Pre-Face | p. 18 |
The Poet as Native: An Aspect of Contemporary Poetry & Art | p. 25 |
Poets & Tricksters: Innovation & Disruption in Ritual & Myth | p. 29 |
The Poetics & Ethnopoetics of the Book & Writing | p. 45 |
"Secular Jewish Culture/Radical Poetic Practice" | p. 54 |
Harold Bloom: The Critic as Exterminating Angel | p. 63 |
Poems for the Millennium: Two Pre-Faces | p. 82 |
Three Modernist Movements: Dadaism, Futurism, Surrealism | p. 105 |
The History/Prehistory of the Poetry Project | p. 114 |
A Secret Location on the Lower East Side | p. 117 |
How We Came into Performance: A Personal Accounting | p. 122 |
Ethnopoetics & (Human) Poetics | p. 131 |
A Gallery of Poets | |
Prelude. I Come into the New World (poem) | p. 141 |
A Range of Commentaries (from Poems for the Millennium and Revolution of the Word) | p. 143 |
William Blake's Visionary Forms Dramatic | p. 143 |
Friedrich Holderlin's Palimpsests | p. 144 |
Walt Whitman's New Line & Lineage | p. 144 |
Gerard Manley Hopkins's Inscapes | p. 145 |
Gertrude Stein's Cubism | p. 146 |
Rainer Maria Rilke's In-Seeing | p. 147 |
Marcel Duchamp's Ready-Mades | p. 148 |
Mina Loy's Futurism | p. 149 |
Ezra Pound's Vortices | p. 150 |
William Carlos Williams's New Measure | p. 150 |
Federico Garcia Lorca's Duende | p. 151 |
Laura Riding's Breaking of the Spell | p. 152 |
Edmond Jabes's Return to the Book | p. 153 |
John Cage's Silence & Nothing | p. 154 |
Pablo Picasso: A Pre-Face | p. 156 |
Kurt Schwitters: A Pre-Face | p. 167 |
Maria Sabina: A Pre-Face | p. 176 |
Vitezslav Nezval: A Post-Face | p. 183 |
Louis Zukofsky: A Reminiscence | p. 189 |
Robert Duncan: A Memorial | p. 196 |
Reading Celan: 19591 1995 | p. 200 |
Jackson Mac Low: A Pre-Face | p. 208 |
A Pre-Face for Paul Blackburn | p. 215 |
Gary Snyder: The Poet Was Always Foremost | p. 220 |
David Antin: The Works before Talking | p. 223 |
David Meltzer: A Pre-Face | p. 230 |
Alison Knowles's Footnotes: A Pre-Face | p. 237 |
Carolee Schneemann: A Tribute | p. 239 |
Ian & Me - A Collaboration | p. 241 |
Dialogues & Interviews | |
Prelude. In the Way Words Rhyme (poem) | p. 251 |
Performance Artists Talking: Ritual/Death (with Linda Montano) | p. 253 |
The Samizdat Interview (with Robert Archambeau) | p. 260 |
The Medusa Interview (with Rodrigo Garcia Lopes) | p. 271 |
The Sibila Interview (with Charles Bernstein, Regis Bonvicino, Marjorie Perloff Cecilia Vicuna) | p. 285 |
Index of Names | p. 303 |
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