Cover; AMERICAN POETS IN THE 21ST CENTURY; Title; Copyright; CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction; ROSA ALCALÁ; POEMS; From Undocumentaries; Everybody's Authenticity; Job #6; Autobiography; From The Lust of Unsentimental Waters; Rita Hayworth: Double Agent; Patria; From MyOTHER TONGUE; Paramour; Voice Activation; Dear María; POETICS STATEMENT; Poetics of Not-Mother Tongue; ROSA ALCALÁ'S AESTHETICS OF ALIENATION; BRIAN BLANCHFIELD; POEMS; From Not Even Then; One First Try and Then Another; If the Blank Outcome in Dominoes Adds a Seventh Side to Dice; From A Several World
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According to HerodotusEdge of Water, Nimrod Falls, Montana; Pferd; Eclogue Onto an Idea; The History of Ideas, 1973-2012: Education; The History of Ideas, 1973-2012: Ut Pictura Poesis; Eclogue in Line to View The Clock by Christian Marclay; Open House; Edge of Water, Moiese, Montana; POETICS STATEMENT; from "On Abstraction, Permitting Shame, Error and Guilt, Myself the Single Source"; IN THE DARK WITH BRIAN BLANCHFIELD; DANIEL BORZUTZKY; POEMS; From The Book of Interfering Bodies; The Book of Interfering Bodies; From In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy; Decomposition as Explanation
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ALLISON ADELLE HEDGE COKEPOEMS; From Off-Season City Pipe; The Change; From Blood Run; Skeletons; Ghosts; Skeletons; From Streaming; We Were in a World; America, I Sing You Back; POETICS STATEMENT; Quipu: a poetic; RESURRECTING THE SERPENT, REACTIVATING GOOD EARTH; Allison Hedge Coke's Blood Run; CATHY PARK HONG; POEMS; From Dance Dance Revolution; Roles; From series "St. Petersburg Hotel," Dance, Dance Revolution; 1. Services; Song That Breaks the World Record; From Engine Empire; Ballad in O; Ballad in A; Market Forces Are Brighter Than the Sun; Notorious; POETICS STATEMENT
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BUILDING INHERITANCECathy Park Hong's Social Engagement in the Speculative Age; CHRISTINE HUME; POEMS; From Musca Domestica; A Million Futures of Late; From Alaskaphrenia; Comprehension Questions; Hume's Suicide of the External World; From Shot; I Exhume Myself; Induction; POETICS STATEMENT; Hum; UTTER WILDERNESS; The Poetry of Christine Hume; BHANU KAPIL; POEMS; From The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers; From Incubation: A Space for Monsters; From Humanimal, a Project for Future Children; From Schizophrene; From Ban en Banlieue; POETICS STATEMENT
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IllinoisFrom The Performance of Becoming Human; Let Light Shine Out of Darkness; The Performance of Becoming Human; POETICS STATEMENT; the continuum: a broken introduction; PARDON ME MR. BORZUTZKY / IF; CARMEN GIMÉNEZ SMITH; POEMS; From Odalisque in Pieces; Prepartum; from Goodbye, Flicker; Hungry Office; Hans Hated Girls; From Milk & Filth; (Llorona Soliloquy); (And the Mouth Lies Open); from "Parts of an Autobiography"; From Be Recorder; from "Be Recorder"; POETICS STATEMENT; "THE CALL FOR REVERSAL IS NATIVE"; The Paradox of the Mother Tongue in the Work of Carmen Giménez Smith
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"Emphasizes the ways in which innovative American poets have blended art and activism, focusing on aesthetic experiments and investigations of ethnic, racial, and gender subjectivities. Rather than consider poetry as a thing apart, or as a tool for asserting identity, this volume's poets create spaces, forms, and modes for entering the public sphere, contesting injustices, and reimagining the contemporary"--