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Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century
Poetics Across North America
Edited Claudia Rankine , Lisa Sewell
Series: American Poets in the 21st Century
Sales Date: 2012-02-21
The ideal introduction to eleven of today's most engaging women poets
Eleven More American Women Poets in the 21st Century is an exciting sequel to its predecessors in the American Poets in the 21st Century series. Like the earlier anthologies, this volume includes generous selections of poetry by some of the best poets of our time as well as illuminating poetics statements and incisive essays on their work. This unique organization makes these books invaluable teaching tools. Broadening the lens through which we look at contemporary poetry, this new volume extends its geographical net by including Caribbean and Canadian poets. Representing three generations of women writers, among the insightful pieces included in this volume are essays by Karla Kelsey on Mary Jo Bang's modes of artifice, Christine Hume on Carla Harryman's kinds of listening, Dawn Lundy Martin on M. NourbeSe Phillip (for whom "english / is a foreign anguish"), and Sina Queyras on Lisa Robertson's confoundingly beautiful surfaces. A companion web site will present audio of each poet's work.
Acknowledgments
Introduction
MARY JO BANG
Poems
From The Eye Like A Strange Balloon: High Art – Mrs. Autumn and Her Two Daughters – Untitled # 70 (Or, The Question of Remains)
From Elegy: Landscape with the Fall of Icarus – Words; From The Bride of E: And as in Alice – B Is for Beckett – C Is for Cher – In the Present and Probable Future
From the Mrs. Dalloway series: Opened and Shut
Poetics Statement
Articulations Of Artifice In The Work Of Mary Jo Bang – Karla Kelsey
LUCILLE CLIFTON
Poems
From Good Woman: Poems and a Memoir 1969 – 1980: [the light that came to Lucille Clifton]
From Quilting, Poems 1987 – 1990: eve's version – lucifer speaks in his own voice
From The Book of Light: daughters – [won't you celebrate with me] – leda 1 – leda 3
From The Terrible Stories: telling our stories
From Voices: sorrows
Poetics Statement: Excerpts from an Interview with Charles Rowell
Lucille Clifton's Communal "i" – Adrienne McCormick
KIMIKO HAHN
Poems
From Mosquito and Ant: Orchid Root – Garnet
From The Narrow Road to the Interior: Utica Station Dep.10:07 A.M. to N.Y. Penn Station
From The Artist's Daughter: In Childhood – Like Lavrinia
Poetics Statement: Still Writing the Body
"I Want To Go Where The Hysteric Resides": Kimiko Hahn's Re-articulation of the Feminine in Poetry – Zhou Xiaojing
CARLA HARRYMAN
Poems
From Baby: [Now. Word. Technology.] – [Dark. Swat. Land.] – [The. Open. Box.] – [Baby. N. Baseball. Song.] – [Wartime Surroundings.]
From Adorno's Noise: [consents to a few statements one knows ultimately to implicate murder] – [it is difficult to write satire]
From the opposite of slackness: Orgasms
Poetics Statement: Siren
Listening In On Carla Harryman's Baby – Christine Hume
ERÍN MOURE
Poems
From O Cidadán: document32 (inviolable) – document33 (arena)
Eleventh Impermeable of the Carthage of Harms
From Little Theatres: Theatre of the Confluence (A Carixa) – Theatre of the Stones that Ran (Fontao, 1943) – Theatre of the Millo Seco (Botos)
From O Cadoiro: [[T]he best woman i ever saw.] – [This night of liquid storms, high noon s dwelling]
Poetics Statement: A Practice of Possibility, a Life in Languages
Moure's Abrasions – Aaron Kunin
LAURA MULLEN
Poems
From The Surface
From The Tales of Horror: (A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody
From After I Was Dead: Secrets – 35
From Murmur
From Subject: Circles
Poetics Statement
Lauren Mullen: Threatened As Threat: Rethinking Gender and Genre – Kass Fleisher
EILEEN MYLES
Poems
Transitions
Snowflake
To My Class
Questions
Hi
Poetics Statement
When We're Alone In Public: The Poetry of Eileen Myles – Maggie Nelson
M. NOURBESE PHILIP
Poems
From She Tries Her Tongue; Her Silence Softly Breaks: Discourse on the Logic of Language
From Universal Grammar
From Zong!: Os, Zong! #2 – Zong! #4
Ferrum (excerpt)
Poetics Statement: Ignoring Poetry (a work in progress)
The Language Of Trauma: Faith and Atheism in M. NourbeSe Philip's Poetry – Dawn Lundy Martin
JOAN RETALLACK
Poems
From Errata 5uite
From How to Do Things with Words: The Woman in the Chinese Room
From MONGRELISME
From MEMNOIR: Curiosity and the Claim to Happiness – Lost Brief Case Conjecture
Poetics Statement: Procedural Elegies: N Plus Zero
The Method "In Medias Mess" – Jena Osman
LISA ROBERTSON
Poems
From The Weather: Residence at C__ – Tuesday – Residence at C__ – Saturday
From Utopia (R's Boat): [In the spring of 1979]
Poetics Statement: Soft Architecture: A Manifesto
About Surface: Lisa Robertson's Poetics of Elegance – Sina Queyras
C. D. WRIGHT
Poems
From Steal Away: Floating Trees – Privacy
From Cooling Time: [only the crossing counts] – [elation washed over our absence toward everything in the increasing darkness]
From One Big Self: An Investigation: Dear Prisoner, – My Dear Conflicted Reader, – Dear Child of God, – [Mack trapped a spider]
From Rising, Falling, Hovering: Re: Happiness, in pursuit thereof – Like Having a Light at Your Back You Can't See But You Can Still Feel – Like a Prisoner of Soft Words – Like Something in His Handwriting – Like Something Flying Backwards
Poetics Statement: My American Scrawl
The Border Crossing: Relational Poetry Of C. D. Wright – Suzanne Wise
Contributors
Index
CLAUDIA RANKINE is the Henry G. Lee Professor of English at Pomona College and author of Don't Let Me Be Lonely. LISA SEWELL is a professor of English at Villanova University and the author of Name Withheld.
"This book gives us two outstanding works in one: a fine and selective anthology that's also a critical introduction to some of the most provocative, and some of the most original, poetry out there (in several senses of 'out there') today."
~Stephen Burt
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