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"Elaine Equi's narrow lines are like the rungs of a ladder that one ascends while one is descending them. It's a motion like that in Wang Wei's lines, 'Stars / float up / toward dawn, ' which she quotes in her cento, 'Wang Wei's Moon.' Or, as she beautifully puts it, 'Discreetly a breeze enters the room.'"-John Ashbery Ripple Effect showcases thirty years of Elaine Equi's investigations into our cultural obsessions. Vivid, savvy, and accessible, her poems can transform almost anything-a list, a diary entry, advertising speak-into sophisticated, germane elixirs of pop culture and high art. Widely published, these poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The American Poetry Review, and numerous volumes of The Best American Poetry.

Elaine Equi teaches at New York University and in the MFA programs at The New School and City College.

Today is the first day of the rest of your life	p. 17
Heigh-ho, heigh-ho	p. 18
Epic mountain hoax	p. 19
Mountain to mountain	p. 20
Mono-polytheism	p. 21
Invocation	p. 23
A perfect shadow	p. 24
$1 exceptional coffee	p. 25
Ultra-confessional	p. 26
1 + 1 = 3	p. 27
Calcium rush	p. 29
Gradually, gills	p. 30
Ambien	p. 32
The pill's oval portrait	p. 33
Etudes	p. 34
To do	p. 35
John Coltrane's central park west	p. 36
Astor Piazzolla	p. 37
Gone but not forgiven	p. 39
Competing lists	p. 40
Word and sentence	p. 41
Found in translation	p. 43
A poetics of optics	p. 45
A laminated lament	p. 47
Vaya con Dios	p. 48
Perversely patriotic	p. 49
Bad folk song	p. 50
Two dozen roses for Jackson Mac Low : a cento	p. 51
The fragrance grifters	p. 52
Unisex colognes	p. 54
Echo	p. 55
Legacy	p. 56
Almonds	p. 57
Ciao Bella chocolate sorbet	p. 58
Pre-Raphaelite pinups	p. 59
Conversations with fountains	p. 62
The sheep of days	p. 68
Bent orbit	p. 69
Tao	p. 73
Invoice	p. 74
A date with Robbe-Grillet	p. 75
My illustrious Gargoyle ancestors	p. 77
Folk dance	p. 78
Maria Callas	p. 79
Another form of suicidal behavior	p. 81
Lesbian Corn	p. 82
Approaching orgasm	p. 83
Martha Graham	p. 85
Crusade	p. 87
At the end of summer	p. 88
At the mall	p. 89
Crickets crush woman	p. 90
In a monotonous dream	p. 92
Puritans	p. 93
Being sick together	p. 95
Surface tension	p. 96
The foreign legion	p. 99
After a promising youth	p. 100
Things to do in the Bible	p. 101
Breakfast with Jerome	p. 103
You go to my head	p. 104
Escape from women's prison	p. 105
Aleister Crowley slept here	p. 107
A Bouquet of objects	p. 109
Pale yellow	p. 110
For David Hockney	p. 111
Brand X	p. 115
Men in camisoles	p. 116
Dear Michael	p. 118
In the mail today	p. 120
After Herrick	p. 122
Destinations	p. 124
Art about fear	p. 126
Up the ladder of enlightenment	p. 133
My father sees a UFO	p. 134
Ninety percent of all serial killers	p. 135
Mulberry street	p. 136
Prescription	p. 137
A lemon	p. 138
Decoy	p. 139
After Bacon	p. 144
Ah!	p. 145
To Harry Crosby at the Hotel Des Artistes	p. 146
Sometimes I get distracted	p. 147
Detail	p. 151
Self portrait as you	p. 153
Pink shutters	p. 156
Thesis sentence	p. 157
Beauty secret	p. 158
Monologue : Frank O'Hara	p. 161
Table of contents for an imaginary book	p. 162
Second thoughts	p. 163
Armani weather	p. 167
Remorse after shopping	p. 168
Wang Wei's moon	p. 169
Almost transparent	p. 171
Cupboard/shrine	p. 173
From Lorine	p. 174
Fennel	p. 176
Starting to Rain	p. 177
Letter of recommendation	p. 178
Voice-over	p. 179
The origami of time	p. 185
Jerome meditating	p. 186
National poetry month	p. 191
Autobiographical poem	p. 193
The banal	p. 194
The seven veils of spring	p. 195
Negative capabilities	p. 196
Asking for a raise	p. 197
I interview Elaine Equi on the four elements	p. 198
Opaque saints	p. 199
A quiet poem	p. 200
The sensuous reader	p. 202
The objects in catalogs	p. 204
The objects in Japanese novels	p. 205
The objects in fairy tales	p. 206
Wittgenstein's colors	p. 209
The burden of bad objects	p. 210
My taste	p. 211
Everywhere today we see a lack of commitment	p. 212
"Your Purple Arrives"	p. 213
O patriarchy	p. 214
The killers inside me	p. 215
Women and magic	p. 216
Early influence	p. 217
Furniture fantasy	p. 218
Take-out fantasy	p. 219
Alien fantasy	p. 221
Out of the cloud chamber	p. 222
The lost poems	p. 223
A bend in the light	p. 224
Intersections	p. 225
A sentimental song	p. 226
Trenton local	p. 228
Dessert	p. 233
For August in April	p. 234
Return of the sensuous reader	p. 235
After and in keeping with H.D.	p. 237
Career	p. 238
Reset	p. 239
Variations on the horizon	p. 246
Okay	p. 249
The monster dances	p. 250
Cannibals in space	p. 251
Poem beginning with a line by James Wright	p. 252
The most beautiful blonde in the world	p. 253
Ode to Chicago	p. 254
Clown	p. 255
Then I became the weathergirl	p. 256
For Hollis Sigler	p. 257
Waiting on you	p. 258
Yes or no	p. 260
Hi-fashion girl	p. 261
Arranged affair	p. 262
Amber street	p. 263
Poem	p. 264
Dolor	p. 265
A plan	p. 266
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