Clayton Eshleman: Introduction
Will Alexander: Two Poems from The Sri Lankan Loxodrome
Bruce Andrews: Snowpony
Guillaume Apollinaire: Across Europe (Tr. from the French by Ron Padgett)
Rae Armantrout: Systemic
Antonin Artaud: Revolt Against Poetry (Tr. from the French by Clayton Eshleman)
Jean-Paul Auxemery: Flame in the Desert (Tr. from the French by Nathaniel Tarn)
Amiri Baraka: Saturday School
Susan Bee: Two Paintings
Stephen Barber: The Devilishness of the Human Body: August Walla
Bei Dao: Two Poems (Tr. from the Chinese by Eliot Weinberger and lona Man-Cheong)
Charles Berstein: from New Angels / Transient Failures
Robin Blaser: pentimento
Rachel Blau DuPlessis: Draft 47: Printed Matter
Lorna Bieber: Two Photographs
André Breton: Three Dreams (Tr. from the French by Mark Polizzotti)
Mary Caponegro: Odradrek
Hayden Carruth: The Afterlife: Cats
Paul Celan: Four Poems from Lightduress (Tr. from the German by Pierre Joris)
Aime Césaire: Laughable (Tr. from the French by Annette Smith and Clayton Eshleman)
Rene Char: Three Poems (Tr. from the French by Gustaf Sobin)
Maxine Cheroff: Chorale
Paul Christensen: Another Song Before the Nightmare Starts
James Clifford: Emphysema Diary (Extracts)
Norma Cole: Q
Clark Coolidge: Two Poems
William Corbett: Nearing September
Jayne Cortez: Three Poems
Michael Davidson: Panopticon Placebo
Lydia Davis: Two Stories
Michel Deguy: from At Rush Hours (Tr. from the French by Wilson Baldridge)
Rikki Ducornet: Naturalia and Artificialia
Robert Duncan: A Poem and Notebook Entries (Transcribed and Edited by Robert J. Bertholf)
George Economou: "Kassandra's Story"
Melvin Edwards: A Lynch Fragment
Kenward Elmslie: Night Soul
Clayton Eshleman: Sparks We Trail
Dan Featherston: Oaxacan Masks
Allen Fisher: Shorty George
Phillip Foss: the luthier's animal
Kathleen Fraser: Horologic
Gene Frumkin: Bad Dream and the Friend
Wolfgang Giegrich: The Lesson of the Mask
Allen Ginsberg: "Makes very little difference what happens"
Barbara Guest: Glimpses of Toledo
Leon Golub: So, Bark!
Bernard Heidsieck: Two Poems from Meetings (Tr. from the French by Armand Schwerner)
Lindsay Hill: Two Poems
Benjamin Hollander: from Onome
Anselm Hollo: from Where If Not Here
Paul Hoover: Volunteer Bodies
Kenneth Irby: (tulip études)
Michael Ives: Plunged
Edmond Jabés: Faces for Antonio Saura (Tr. from the French by Rosmarie Waldrop)
Nora Jaffe: Two Drawings
Pierre Joris: The Exaltation of Inanna
Andrew Joron: The Book Is an Abstract Candle
Janet Kauffman: On Eliminating Characters from Fiction
Karen Kelley: Inside Karen Kelley
Robert Kelly: The Sound of the Center
Milton Kessler: New Month
R. B. Kitaj: Two Paintings
Paul Laffoley: Two Works
Gerrit Lansing: The Joint Is Jumping
Karin Lessing: Dune Light
José Lezama Lima: Pavillion of Nothingness (Tr. from the Spanish by Roberto Tejada)
Linh Dinh: Two Poems
Nathaniel Mackey: Go Left Out of Shantiville
Matsutani: Two Drawings
Jackson Mac Low: Threre a Different Time-Sense is Simply Non-Competitive (Stein 77)
Michael McClure: Thinking of Su Tung-P'o
Gwen McVay: Two Poems
Ana Mendieta: from Silueta Series
Paul Metcalf: The End
Henri Michaux: from The Ravaged Ones (Tr. from the French by James Wanless)
Christopher Middleston : Magdalena, Her Shadow
Michael Nedjar: Two Paintings
Brian Nissen: Two Sculptures
Lorine Niedecker: Notes from the Trip (Edited by Jenny Penberthy)
Valere Novarina: Time's Animal (end) (Tr. from the French by Allen S. Weiss)
Charles Olson: Poems for Bet (Edited and Introduced by Ralph Maud)
John Olson: How Do You Do
Rochelle Owens: Starkness The Eyesockets
Ron Padgett: Morning
Irving Petlin: Two Drawings
Michael Palmer: Of
Marjorie Perloff: For Jackson Mac Low
Anna Rabinowitz: Good Night, Good Day: Wherein a Song
Jed Rasula: Last Words
Peter Redgrove: Stepped Verses at Twilight
Adrienne Rich: Two Poems
Tina Rotenberg: Northern Gate
Jerome Rothenberg: A Book of Witness (1-3)
Andrew Schelling: Tyger Tyger
Spencer Selby: Last Lines of Sulfur
Richard Sieburth: Tibetan Grammar
Gary Snyder: What to Tell, Still
Gustaf Sobin: Towards a Grammar of Exceptions
Charles Stein: Heart Lake
Nancy Spero: Alchemy
John Taggart: "Matchless Body / Arrow Beer"
Roberto Tejada: Esemplastic Negativity
Keith Tuma: A Moon for Sulfur
David True: Two Paintings
César Vallejo: "The three hundred womanly states of the Eiffel Tower"
Kikuli Verlarde: Two Isichapuitus
Cecilia Vicuña: Bloodskirt
Paul Violi: Stranger on a Train
Diane Wakoski: The Tango Lesson
Anne Waldman: from Marriage: A Sentence
Keith Waldrop: Natural Bridge
Rosmarie Waldrop: Tool Box
Wang Ping: Second Chance
Eliot Weinberger: Salaam Sulfur
Allen S. Weiss: Wounds
Terry Winters: Two Drawings
Marjorie Welish: Two Poems
C. D. Wright: elation washed over our absence...
Joel-Peter Witkin: Two Photographs
Contributor Notes
Cover Art: William Paden, "Cave V", hanga wood cut, 1999; 3 x 3"