Contents
List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Essays
A Potential Intelligence: The Case of the Disappearing Poets
From Corset to Podcast: Or, the Condition of Poetry When Everybody Is a Poet
Bringing in the Trash: The Cultural Ecology of Dada
Deep Image
Flesh Dream Books
Panorama, Sentence by Sentence: The Alphabet by Ron Silliman
Anarchy in an Environment That Works
From Verse Narratives to Documentary Poetry: Enhancements—and Enchantments—of the Poetry Book
Exchanges
Global Scale and Transient Occasions: An Interview with Evelyn Reilly on This Compost
At Work on the Incalculable: A Radio Interview with Leonard Schwartz on This Compost
From Ripley’s Believe It or Not to Finnegans Wake: An Interview with Tony Tost on Imagining Language
Glut Reactions: An Exchange with Mike Chasar on the Demographics of American Poetry
Serendipities: An Interview with Joel Bettridge on Critical Practices
An Ocean—a Notion—of Poetry: An Interview with Ming-Qian Ma
Standing Bare to the Blast: An Exchange with Nathan Brown on Modernism
Notes
Works Cited
Index