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A cross-section of small press publications from France, guest edited by Norma Cole
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German poetry, guest edited by Rosmarie Waldrop
Issue # 3
Mexican poetry, guest edited by Jen Hofer
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Japanese poetry, guest edited by Sawako Nakayasu
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Moroccan poetry, guest edited by Guy Bennett and Jalal El Hakmaoui
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Brazilian poetry, guest edited by Ray Bianchi
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Italian poetry, guest edited by Jennifer Scappettone

Aufgabe # 2 | Table of Contents

Editor's Note

Translations from the German: Edited by Rosmarie Waldrop
Translated by Rosmarie Waldrop & Andrew Joron

Preface by Rosmarie Waldrop
Carlfriedrich Claus Attempt to Impregnate Affective Processes with Language-Thought: Subliminal Landscape
Michael Donhauser, Four Poems
Barbara Köhler, Seven Poems
Waltraud Seidlhofer, from Facade Texts
Ulf Stolterfoht, from Jargons IV
Gundi Feyer, Sitting
Elke Erb, Twelve Poems
Dieter Gräf, Four Poems
Richard Anders, Four Poems and collage
Walter Thümler, Crumbs
Elfriede Czurda, Five Poems
Bruno Steiger, Three Poems
Birgit Kempker, from Mike and Jane

Poetry

Lisa Samuels, An American classic
Mark Tardi, from Euclid Shudders
Paul Foster Johnson, love letter to a critic
Hung Q. Tu, from Bananas or Brace Yourself
Cynthia Sailers, Three Poems
Amy Catanzano, from Document (Mending)
Guy Bennett, from 32 Places in Marseilles
Macgregor Card, from Souvenir Winner
Cole Swensen, Future White
Standard Schaefer, Socratic Monologues: Concerning Certain Dispensations
Nick Moudry, Two Poems
Marcelin Pleynet (trans. David Harrison Horton), from The Native Cave
Anett Jessop, Three Poems
Martha Ronk, Five Poems
Stephen Ratcliffe, from Portraits & Repetition
Heather Akerberg, Three Poems
Amy King, Three Poems
John Latta, Two Poems
Jason Lynn, Two Poems
Brandon Downing, from Lake Antiquity
)ohn Lowther, and they is called crimes against literature
Kari Edwards, Five Poems
Veronica Corpuz, Two Poems
Catherine Kasper, Two Poems
Sarah Mangold, Destinations
Keri Sonnenberg, from Aspect Ratios
Patrick Durgin & Jen Hofer, from Routine Knew
Sawako Nakayasu, from so we have been given so we AND following, the true

Essays/Notes/Reviews

Sarah Mangold, Collage
Rick Snyder, Imaginary Essays
Nick Moudry, Two Reviews: Such Rich Hour by Cole Swensen
Self and Simulacra by Liz Waldner
Guy Bennett, Translation of Poetry?Poetry of Translation: Some Thoughts on Transpoiesis
Cole Swensen, Conference by Stacy Doris
Stephen Ratcliffe, A Note on Robert Duncan
Mark Tardi, The Chachie Investigations
)ohn Lowther, Poetry Against Poems or, care contra form? doors against chairs?

Contributor's Notes

Cover Art

Rachel Bers, Schoolgirl, Savior/Pouvoir