I. APPRENTICESHIP AND AFFINITIES
The Urge to Abstraction
Helmut Heissenbüttel, Poet of Contexts
Marat/Sade: A Ritual of the Intellect
A Basis of Concrete Poetry
Charles Olson: Process and Relationship
Mirrors and Paradoxes
Palmer’s First Figure
Chinese Windmills Turn Horizontally
Shall We Escape Analogy
Sebald’s Vertigo
Guests’s Rocks on a Platter and Miniatures
From White Page to Natural Gaits:
Notes on Recent French Poetry
Scalapino’s New Time
Zukofsky’s Le Style Apollinaire
II. TRANSLATION
The Joy of the Demiurge
Silence, the Devil, and Jabès
Irreducible Strangeness
III. POETICS
Alarms and Excursions
Split Infinite
A Key into the Key
Form and Discontent
Thinking of Follows
The Ground in the Only Figure:
Notebook Spring 1996
Why Do I Write Prose Poems
Between, Always
Nothing to Say and Saying It