American hybrid: a Norton anthology of new poetry

Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Cole Swensen -- Introduction : David St John -- Indian never had a horse -- In/somnia -- To be in a time of war / Etel Adnan -- Inside a world the world fits into -- You think it's a secret, but it never was one -- Exceptions and melancholies -- Soft and pretty -- Sampling -- Sometimes an image -- Unveiling -- Vertigo / Ralph Angel -- Special theory of relativity -- Generation -- Fit -- Police business -- Turn of events -- What we mean -- Scumble -- Yonder -- Translation / Rae Armantrout -- Well-lit places -- What to do with milk -- Taken -- Obsidian House -- Others shied away -- Haibun -- Garden of false civility -- Of linnets and dull time / John Ashbery -- February elegy -- P equals pie -- Mystery at manor -- Close -- Alice in Wonderland -- Man and woman / Mary Jo Bang -- Now begins our immaculate summer -- Birds know -- In the days of famous want -- This is what's been done to flesh -- Your time has come / Joshua Beckman -- Insatiability -- Clouds of willing seen in the bird day -- White letter -- Green letter -- Banana peaks get snowfall / Cal Bedient -- Conservation with Evan Hesse -- Sail -- Justnowland -- Vanish nearby -- Shoots and pulps -- Pirate keep / Molly Bendall -- Chinese space -- Four year old girl -- Parallel lines / Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge -- Sideways suicide -- Ruby for grief -- My sister is not a dollar -- Eyeglasses -- We have to talk about another book -- Rearranger / Michael Burkard -- Before the birds awaken -- It's what I'm afraid of -- My whispered song -- I'm sorry I brought it up -- There is no way to know -- Words I did not say -- There should've been rabbits -- She falls in love -- Note I taped up -- You have put the cup -- In the story -- Through a panel of controls -- When you step from the entry hall -- I have no say / Killarney Clary -- Floating by -- Units for tomorrow -- Dear Robert -- Sarabande -- My operatives -- Conditions maritimes / Norma Cole -- Sky drank in -- Careful -- Little more red sun on the human -- Plot genie / Gillian Conoley -- Works of Thos Swan -- On my brother William falling from his horse -- Acts / Martin Corless-Smith -- Conference -- Cheerleader's guide to the world: council book -- Paramour / Stacy Doris -- Apocrypha of Jacques Derrida -- At sunset -- After sky X -- Of politics, & art -- Blue -- City of snow -- Two stanzas for Timothy Deshaies / Norman Dubie -- Ellipses -- Obscure room & my inexplicable weeping -- Elegy for the poetry of her personal experiences -- In English in a poem -- Then, suddenly -- Book's speech / Lynn Emanuel -- Cue or starting point -- Disappeared -- Hotel classic / Kathleen Fraser -- Warmth sculpture -- Permeable past tense of feel / Alice Fulton -- Leap year -- Nature averts her eyes -- Earthquake -- Apollinaire's cane -- Mastermind asks some questions -- Stop whimpering and speak / James Galvin -- Time and the hour -- Exhaustible appearance -- Coda -- Hugeness of that which is missing -- Poem -- Road and tree -- Collodion -- Ivy brick wall -- Argosy for rock and grass -- Moon and Page Ghazal / Forrest Gander -- Giscome road -- Prairie style / C S Giscombe -- Tous les Matins du Monde -- In defense of nothing -- Plain song -- Beginning with a phrase from Simone Weil -- Human memory is organic -- That's life / Peter Gizzi --

Etymologically work work / Albert Goldbarth -- Dawn day one -- Little exercise -- Dusk shore prayer -- Ebbtide / Jorie Graham -- Dissonace royal traveller -- Medieval hollow from stripped tales -- Imagined room -- Short narrative -- Alteration / Barbara Guest -- Time and materials -- White of forgetfulness, white of safety -- Rusia en 1931 -- Yellow bicycle -- Garden of delight / Robert Hass -- Beginner -- Composition of the cell -- Book of a thousand eyes / Lye Hejinian -- Black series -- Sediments of Santa Monica -- Styrofoam cup -- Left eye -- String theory sutra -- Oddness / Brenda Hillman -- Presence -- Childhood and its double -- Edge and fold -- Haikuisation of Shakespeare's sonnet 56 / Paul Hoover -- 9/11 -- 2002 -- Splinter -- Descent -- Let it snow -- Is knowing / Fanny Howe -- Bed hangings II -- Kidnapped / Susan Howe -- Removes -- Eclipse calling -- Home unknown stone -- Breath, bring nothing to term -- Evening of chances / Andrew Joron -- Freely adapted -- Representation without taxation -- Critical essay -- Via negativa -- Sybil's afterlife -- Noumenon / Claudia Keelan -- Exordium -- Penury / Myung Mi Kim -- After Mahler -- Interleavings (Paul Celan) -- Hum -- Impossible blue / Ann Lauterbach -- Chimney song -- Event -- Wilds / Mark Levine -- Song of the Andoumboulou: 64 -- Double staccato -- Blue Anuncia's bird lute / Nathaniel Mackey -- Green flame -- Antennae -- Choices -- Occur -- Creek -- Sfumato -- Twist --Thwart -- Dangerous Archipelagos -- Green card, blue shoes -- Dear elegy -- Phoenix elegy / Stefanie Marlis -- Reef: shadow of green -- Fauve harmonics -- Letter for K & poems for someone else / Mark McMorris -- Palace of pearls / Jane Miller -- Nude memoir -- Laura de Sade -- Spicer's city / Laura Moriarty -- Wreath of a similar year -- Difficult of access -- Critique -- Enlightenment evidence -- State -- Promise -- In one body and one soul -- Awake -- Milky way -- Burning peony / Jennifer Moxley -- Muse & drudge -- Lunar Lutheran -- Sleeping with the dictionary -- Why you and I -- Zombie hat / Harryette Mullen -- Refuge -- Plans -- Noun's meant / Laura Mullen -- Poem -- After Tsang Chih -- Poem -- Descent of Alette -- I must have called and so he comes -- Lady Poverty / Alice Notley -- Sighs again (autobiography) -- Stone -- Una noche -- Tongue asleep -- Theory of the flower / Michael Palmer -- California poppy -- Crematorium at sierra view cemetery -- Clutch and pumps -- My lot to spin the purple -- Listen mother, he punched the air -- Robe and pajamas, steadfast -- Darling can you kill me / D A Powell -- Birds fly through us -- Mercy -- All Saints / Bin Ramke -- Don't let me be lonely / Claudia Rankine -- Human/nature -- Present tense -- Where late the sweet birds sang / Stephen Ratcliffe -- My trip -- My Mojave -- Picnic -- Zion -- Conquest -- Landscape with Tityrus in Vermont / Donald Revell -- Hovenweep -- Little matchgirl -- Snow window / Elizabeth Robinson -- Vertigo -- In a landscape of having to repeat -- You couldn't read a book about it -- In the house / Martha Ronk -- Naked ladies -- Where letters go -- Penciled -- Concerning essential existence -- Impresario -- Go verbatim -- World as I left it -- Minor ninth chord / Mary Ruefle --

Direction of fall

Parking lot just outside the ruins of Babylon

Tendency of dropped objects to fall

Turandot

You also, nightingale / Reginald Shepherd

Thus, speak the chromograph

Essay: at night the autoportrait

California poem

World is weird / Eleni Sikelianos

Good house

Ted's head

Strength / Rod Smith

Le Dejeuner

Gallery

Bowl / Carol Snow

We arrived and everything was interconnected

We arrived

New world sonnet

December 8, 2002 / Juliana Spahr

Forest

Awaken

Variations on the dream of the road / Susan Stewart

Henry David Thoreau/Sonny Rollins

Pastorelle 9

Pastorelle 10

Parmenides/fragments 3 and 15A

Pastorelle 12

Why trees weep / John Taggart

Family

Family II

Komodo

Mother's first airplane / Arthur Vogelsang

Lovis 3: oculist wit: book of light

Without stitching closed the eye of the falcon / Anne Waldman

First draw of the sea

Singular / Keith Waldrop

Evening sun

Song

Meditation on understanding

Song

Steps in integration / Rosmarie Waldrop

Art & language writes an epitaph

Look, look!

For four violins

False Isle

Glove

Textile 5 / Marjorie Welish

Beavis' day off

White exiles

Loss Lieder

Each's cat an altar then

Toward Autumn / Susan Wheeler

Double sonnet

Attitude of rags

Independence Day

Those generals' eyes

Faux self-portrait of you

It wasn't exactly like being left standing at the altar

Eye cages / Dara Wier

Tree of personal effort

Three apples

Arthur in Egypt

Constable's day off

Fisher king

Similitude of this great flower

On the resemblance of some

Flowers to insects

Verses omitted by mistake

Oil and water

Ancient subterranean fires

Nocturne

Oldest garden in the world

Bohemian rhapsody / Elizabeth Willis

Animism

Like peaches

Why leave you so soon gone

Bienvenu en Louisiane / C D Wright

Body and soul II

Secret of poetry

54 Chevy

Singing lesson

Waking up after the storm

Hawksbane

Littlefoot / Charles Wright

Late tale

Unpromising poem

Eqyptian sonnets (7)

Egyptian sonnets (11)

Robert Desnos writes / John Yau

With hidden noise

Yawn

Bathed in dust and ashes

Speck

Homage to Richard Tuttle

Man in red / Dean Young

Permissions acknowledgments

Index.