Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: oppositions and astonishing continguities / by Laura Hinton and Cynthia Hogue
  • Part I. Formal thresholds
  • "A poetics of emerging evidence": experiment in Kathleen Fraser's poetry / by Eileen Gregory
  • Asterisk: separation at the threshold of meaning in the poetry of Rae Armantrout / by Ron Silliman
  • Alice Notley's experimental epic: "an ecstasy of finding another way of being" / by Susan McCabe
  • Intimacy and experiment in Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge's Empathy / by Charles Altieri
  • Part II. In the margins of form
  • Towards a new politics of representation? absence and desire in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls / by AnaLouise Keating
  • Beyond the frame of whiteness: Harryette Mullen's revisionary border work / by Cynthia Hogue
  • Untranslatable communities, productive translation, and public transport: Rosmarie Waldrop's A key into the language of America and Joy Harjo's The woman who fell from the sky / by Jonathan Monroe
  • "Nothing, for a woman, is worth trying": a key into the rules of Rosmarie Waldrop's experimentalism / by Lynn Keller
  • Rules and restraints in women's experimental writing / by Carla Harryman
  • Part III. The visual referent/visual page
  • Im.age ... dis.solve: the linguistic image in the critical lyric of Norma Cole and Ann Lauterbach / by Charles Borkhuis
  • Postmodern romance and the descriptive fetish of vision in Fanny Howe's The lives of a spirit and Lyn Hejinian's My life / by Laura Hinton
  • "Drawings with words": Susan Howe's visual poetics / by Alan Golding
  • "Bodies written off": economies of race and gender in the visual/verbal collaborative clash of Erica Hunt's and Alison Saar's Arcade / by Linda A. Kinnahan
  • Part IV. Performative bodies
  • "In another tongue": body, image, text in Theresa Hak Kyung Cha's Dictée / by Elisabeth A. Frost
  • Painful bodies: Kathy Acker's last texts / by Nicole Cooley
  • "Eyes in all heads": Anne Waldman's performance of bigendered imagination in Iovis 1 / by Heather Thomas
  • "Sonic revolutionaries": voice and experiment in the spoken-word poetry of Tracie Morris / by Kathleen Crown
  • Capillary currents: Jayne Cortez / by Aldon Lynn Nielsen
  • Afterword: "Draft 48: being astonished" / by Rachel Blau DuPlessis.