1. Poems:

Curiouser and Curiouser Realities
Mei-mei Berssnbrugge (6) 
Timothy Donnelly (11)
Angie Mazakis (19)
Zoë Hitzig (22)
Rae Armantrout (25)
Josh Bell (30)
Terri Witek (33)
Richard Geenfield (36)

2. Art

Leslie Dill, Color-Plates (41)
Commentary on Leslie Dill:
Calvin Bedient (49)
Molly Bendall (56)
Karen Garthe (60)
Karen Garthe, Letter from Paris on Dance (62)
Cole Swensen, Poem/Essay on the Pastels of Oscar Petlin (66)

3. Poems:

Toward and Beyond Asperity
Douglas Kearney (83)
Daniel Borzutzky (86)
Tongo Eisen-Martin (90)
Shane Book (94)
Marcelo Morales (104)
Tyrone Williams (107)
Barrett Watten (109)
Brenda Hillman (124)
Evie Shockley (132)
Karen Garthe (138)
Andrew Zawacki (141)
Jacob Kahn (144)
Amy De’Ath (150)
Jeanine Webb (153)
Sandra Simondss (156)
Drew Milne (159)
Olivier Cadiot (164)

4. Prose Essays and Reviews

Section one:
Mostly on Poetry and the Criticism of Poetry
Oren Izenberg on the Poetry Genome (169)
Laura Martin on Social Photos (180)
David Lau on Drew Milne (186)
Adrienne Raphel on Stephanie Young (195)
Calvin Bedient on Hyesoon, Pizarnik, Prikryl, and Laser (200)
Lindsay Turner on Anne Boyer (210)
Joan Retallack on Mina Loy (213)
Kenneth Fields on Much in Little, the Part and the Whole (215)
Robert von Hallberg on Poetry Criticism (220)

Section two:
Essays on the Prose Poem
Bonnie Costello (227)
Cole Swensem (235)
Donna Stonecipher (240)

Section three:
Poems Accompanied by Reviews of the Poets
Andrew Zawacki and Anne Portugal, poems,prose by Portugal (250)
Stephanie Strickland, poems, prose by Stefania Heim (260)
Farid Matuk, poems, prose by Siward Masannat (273)

5. Roberto Tejada
Three Essays and translations of Leguma Lima poems (283)

6. Poems on the Outskirts of Language, Slithy Toves

John Wilkinson (315)
Molly Bendall (323)
Paolo Javier (326)
Anca Roncea (331)
Jamie Green (335)
Ekaterina Zakharkiv (338)
Michael Farrell (341)
Lee Young-ju (343)
Marjorie Welish (345)
Anne Morrison (350)

7. Assorted Poems

Lucie Brock-Broido (356)
Robert Hass (363)
Joan Retallack (372)
Sawnie Morris (374)
Arthur Sze (376)
Martine Thomas (379)
Jake Fournier (380)
Mars Tekovky (384)
Nathan Rosenthalis (389)
Liz Countryman (392)
Kit Robinson (394)
Nicole Zdeb (401)

8. Georg Lukács, Excerpt from an early book on Aesthetic Theory (404)

Aknowledgements
Black and white art by Valyntina Grenier (106, 354) and Brian Shields(81). A detail from this last is reproduced on the masthead.The image on the front cover, The Thrill Came Slowly Skirt, is drawn fromLeslie Dill’s chamber opera Divide Light. Courtesy of Leslie Dill andthe Nohra Haime Gallery.The two small images on the back cover are from Lesley Dill’sEarly American wilderness clothing series: on the left, NorthernBlast (Edward Taylor); on the right Unredeemed Regions (NathanielHawthorne). Courtesy of Leslie Dill and the Nohra Haime Gallery.