1. Poems Introduction: Writing the Between (6) Aditi Machado, 11 Andrew Zawacki, 17 Jamie Green, 21 Douglas Kearney, 26 Susan McCabe, 31 Mars Tekosky, 34 Kevin Holden, 40 Mark Anthony Cayanan, 47 Mark Francis Johnson, 53 Jacek Gutorow (Piotr Florczyk, translator), 60 Mary Cisper, 68 Paul Eluard (Carlos Lara, translator), 72 Karleigh Frisbie, 77 Michael Farrell, 82 C L Young, 85 Felicia Zamora, 90 Peter Eirich, 94 Jonathan Stout, 96 Engram Wilkinson, 98 Joseph Noble, 100
2. Essay-Reviews Joyelle McSweeney, “Sandra, Dorothea, and Me” (Sandra Simond’s Orlando, Dorothea Lasky’s Milk),104 Andrew Joron, “The Ruin of Rules: On a Potential Mash-Up of Oulipo and Surrealism” (Michael Leong, Words on Edge), 113 Calvin Bedient, “Description as Endless Payment” (Richard Greenfield, Subterranean), 120 David Lau, “Picking up the Radical Signal” (Daniel Borzutzky’s Lake Michigan, Tongo Eisen-Martin’s Heaven Is All Goodbye), 126 Ange Mlinko, “James Merril’s The Book of Ephraim” (Stephen Yenser’s new edition), 139 Cole Swensen, “Brenda Hillman and the Ampersand” (Brenda Hillman’s Extra Hidden Life, among the Days), 146 Calvin Bedient, “Writing as Predation” (Mary Hickman’s Rayfish), 153 Calvin Bedient, “The Art of Flitting” (Mark Francis Johnson’s How to Flit), 157
3. Art Ashwini Bhat: Ceramic Sculptures, 161 Emily Wilson, “Ashwini Bhat’s Art in Clay,”168 Judith Belzer: Recent Oil Paintings, 173 Calvin Bedient, “Judith Belzer,” 181
4. Poems Reina María Rodríguez (Kristin Dykstra, translator), 187 Elena Byrne, 193 Rae Armantrout , 195 Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, 200 Devon Walker-Figueroa, 210 Sherko Faiq, Yousif al-Saigh, Saadi Yusuf (Azfar Hussain, translator), 221 Daniel Borzutzky, 224 Mark Levine, 232 Sawnie Morris, 235 Kyle Booten, 240 Rodrigo Toscano, 246 Brian Kim Stefans, 253 Rusty Morrison, 257 Daniel Moolten, 260 Lily Brown, 261 Peter Eirich, 263 Thibault Raoult, 265 Rajnesh Chakrapani, 267 Jorie Graham, 269 Rowan Ricardo Phillips, 275 Brenda Hillman, 277
5. Politics, Discourse, Poetry Alain Badiou, “Lacan and Politics as a Hole,” 279 Kevin Holden, “Utopian Language,” 284 Farid Matuk, Shane McCrae, Sandra Simonds: Responses to the question, “Is Poetry Still in the Game?” 298
6. Film Tisa Bryant and Douglas Kearney, “The Syncretic Hinge: A Conversation about the Film Black Panther,” 305
7. Reviews Amaranth Borsuk (Diana Khoi Nguyen, Ghost of), 325 Andrew Joron (Rodney Koeneke, Body & Glass), 329 Cole Swensen (Evie Shockley, Semiautomatic), 332 Lindsay Turner (Anne Kawaka, Screwball), 335 Adrienne Raphel (Emily Sieu Liebowitz, National Park), 338 Matt Longabucco (David Buuck, Noise in the Face of), 340 Calvin Bedient (Graham Foust, Nightingalessness, Carmen Giménez Smith, Cruel Futures, and Doreen Gildroy, Trilogy) 342
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