Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Editors’ Foreword
Table of Contents
From Emissaries / Geoffrey Nutter
(Make Of Yourself) An Instrument Of Day / Tracy K. Smith
Spider / Alice Oswald
Chart Account 58 / Rosaire Appel
Chart Account 69
Reclining Woman / Victoria Chang
Blue Territory
Grafts I, III, IV, I / Margaux Crump
[notes for a dance w/jug] / Aracelis Girmay
Seeing Double / Jackie Wang
open/close / Catherine Lamb
The Stolen Note / Rowan Ricardo Phillips
Fake Flowers / Cole Swensen
Blue-Collar Beauty / Denise Duhamel
Father’s Day
An Interview with Sam Messer
An Interview with Sam Messer / Sam Bailey
Stills from Red Darkness / Sam Messer
Meeting a Stranger / Sam Messer and Sharon Olds
Inside Blue / Maisie Luo
Letter to My Future Self as a Previously Incarcerated Writer / PM Dunne
From Les formes qu’illes habitent entemps de crise / Chloé Milos Azzopardi
Sacramento Adoptionis
The Silence of Those Who Cannot Speak
On the Limits of Empathy, Which May in Themselves Be Transcendent / Daniel Kraft
The Wages of Mysticism
An Aching of Earth / Vincent Katz
For John
The Salesman / Louis Harnett O’Meara
Dois Poemas De Amor À Morte / Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna
Two Mineiro Poems on the Love of Death / Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna (translation by Lloyd Schwartz)
Preparando A Casa / Affonso Romano de Sant’Anna
Getting Ready the House
Eles Estão Se Adiantando
They Are Moving Along
Na casa de Elizabeth Bishop
At Bishop’s House
The Wall Follower / Daniel John Pilkington
Trembling Stone / Jan Hogan
River Attachments
Tracing Place I / Jessie Hobeck
Drawing 73 / Pedro Barbeito
Drawing 85
2301(i), 2301 (ii), 2301(iii) / Elisha Enfield
Haunt, or, In the Atelier / Jo Langdon
An Ice-skating Rink in the Crater of Vesuvius
One Day Elsa These Verses / Louis Aragon (translation by Peter Brown)
Agnus Dei / Kenneth Baron
In the Borrowed Room / Jennifer Barber
A List Resurfaces on My Desk
Navajo Mountain / Kinsale Drake
Chalice / Carolyn Oliver
The Wickedness of God / Brionne Janae
File me between your lovers, maybe, please? / olivier
Looper-er
Collages / Sam Weinberg
Moonrise / Meghan Brady
Novas
Swarm
Antoine Fauchery Leads Mirka Mora to Melbourne: A Mosaic / Jessica L. Wilkinson
Jackals and Owls, from The Four Winds / Laura Steenberge
V., from Lucretius My Lucretius
A Year Without Bodies / Abigail Levine
Tutuguri, Le rite du soleil noir / Dina Sioufi
Hieroglyphics / Maria Zervos
Video stills from "My Half of the Sky, My Half of the Earth"
Virtue
Blackhearted Lover / Sage Vousé
Blue
Abandoned Love Sonnet #7 / Sean Cho A
Broken Sonnet #13
Flemish Primitivism / Seth Lobis
From Les formes qu’illes habitent en temps de crise / Chloé Milos Azzopardi
A Slice of Sardine and Bury Mush Flounder / John DeWitt
Memoir / Catherine Noonan
An Interview with Qianxun Chen and Mariana Roa Oliva for Seedlings_: Walk in Time / Edwin Alanís-García
Seven Clouds / Ed Steck
Dash Dot Dash / Ian Ganassi
Secret Growing / Madelyn Kellum
Leafy Screen / Susan Metrican
A Hole is a Home (Komodo)
Layers of Days / Sam Oh
Today’s Word Is Invisible: On Peter Gizzi’s Fierce Elegy / Timothy Leo
‘Carry Me There, Bright, Burning and Alive’: A Review of Deep Are These Distances Between Us by Susan Atefat-Peckham / Tawanda Mulalu
Haramkhor / Rajiv Mohabir
UCP 003 / Benjamin Keating
Mouth open to her
A Visit to Merwin’s Garden / J.P. White
From Radii / Tessa Bolsover
Me and My Sister in Hats at the Top of the Temple / Alex Baskin
Bob, En Français / Bin Ramke
Clatter
You Had Me at Premier Cru, / Angie Estes
Come, No Longer Unthinkable / Jennifer Grotz
Thoughts on Joy / Joanna Klink
Folio: Anti-letters
Editors’ Foreword
Letter to Master, [If you saw a bullet hit a bird/ No rose, yet felt myself a’bloom] / Emily Dickinson
Note
(Untitled)
The Elusive Pursuit of Happiness (I)
The Elusive Pursuit of Happiness (II)
Note / James Davis May
Stand
My Parents Debate the Afterlife
Absences
Shark in the Pool
Note / Susan Howe and David Grubbs
from Concordance
Note / Amy Hollywood
From “Love and the Heretic: An Anti-Lecture”
Note / Jill Magi
“The Open Stone”: Literacy, Transcription, and Poetry by way of Paulo Freire, Akilah Oliver, and Tim Ingold
Note / Nicholas Regiacorte
A.M. says it sibboleth
SIGRID of the brick wall trick
A.M. dreams himself the Common Horse
SIGRID of being repurposed
A.M. Safety drill in the underground laboratory
Note / Cody-Rose Clevidence
From This Household of Earthly Nature (I)
From This Household of Earthly Nature (II)
THISISLANDEARTH from The Grimace of Eden, Now
Note: Stacy Szymaszek
Essay
Essay (II)
Essay (III)
Essay / Stephanie Young
Essay / Bernadette Mayer
Acknowledgements
Contributors
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