Attention Span — 15 July 2003

Introductory Note

In June of 2003, I invited readers of Third Factory / Notes to Poetry to submit constellations of up to eleven titles representing something of their own present interests. While an emphasis on poetry titles published after 2000 was encouraged, other items of literary, cultural, and political interest were also welcomed. I am grateful to everyone who made time to participate in this provisional (and indeed radically incomplete) attempt at charting the shifting field of our singular and collective attentions. —Steve Evans

§ 29 Contributors

§ 297 Mentions in all

§ 252 Separate titles mentioned

§ • = number of mentions when greater than 1 (••• = three mentions)

§ Publication information is sometimes partial: online author / title searches will in most cases provide further information. A great many of the titles mentioned here are carried by Small Press Distribution.

Participants (in reverse order received): Brian Kim Stefans, Bill Berkson, Stephanie Young, Jordan Davis, Kasey Silem Mohammad, Kit Robinson, Robert Fitterman, Gary Sullivan, John Latta, Jennifer Moxley, Lisa Robertson, Andrew Joron, Jerrold Shiroma, Aaron Kunin, Jennifer Scappettone, Kevin Killian, Craig Watson, Peter Gizzi, Benjamin Friedlander, Eileen Tabios, Alan Gilbert, Noah Eli Gordon, Juliana Spahr, Michael Scharf, Rae Armantrout, Joshua Clover, Pam Brown, kari edwards, and Robert Creeley.

Individually signed lists, many of which include commentary, can be found here.


Full List of Titles Mentioned

Aaron Kunin | The Mandarin | unpublished novel

Abdellatif Laâbi | The World's Embrace | City Lights, 2003

Adrienne Kennedy | The Adrienne Kennedy Reader | U of Minnesota, 2001

Albert Mobilio | Me with Animal Towering | Black Square / Hammer, 2002

Alexei Kruchenykh | Suicide Circus: Selected Poems | Green Integer

Alice Notley | Disobedience | Penguin, 2001

Allen Grossman | How to Do Things with Tears | New Directions, 2001

Ammiel Alcalay | From the Warring Factions | Beyond Baroque, 2002 | ••

Andrea Zanzotto | Sovrimpressioni (Superimpressions) | Mondadori, 2001

Andreas Gursky | SF Moma exhibition, 2003

Ange Mlinko | A Book Called Odile | ms.

Ann Lauterbach | If in Time: Selected Poems, 1975-2000 | Penguin, 2001

Anne Tardos | The Dik-dik's Solitude | Granary

Anne Waldman and Lewis Warsh, eds. | The Angel Hair Anthology | Granary, 2001

Anselm Berrigan | Zero Star Hotel | Edge, 2002 | •••

Aphex Twin | 26 Mixes for Crash | 2003

Barbara Guest | Forces of Imagination | Kelsey St., 2003

Barbara Guest | Miniatures | Wesleyan, 2002 | ••

Barbara J. Pulmano Reyes | Gravities of Center | Arkipelago, 2003

Barry Schwabsky | Opera: Poems 1981-2002 | Meritage, 2003

Bill Blackbeard, ed. | Ignatz & Krazy 1929-30

Bob Perelman | "The Revenge of the Bathwater" | ms

Bowery Poetry Club | New York City since 2002

Brenda Coultas | A Handmade Museum | Coffee House, 2003

Brent Hayes Edwards | The Practice of Diaspora: Literature, Translation, and the Rise of Black Internationalism | Harvard, 2003

Brian Kim Stefans | Fashionable Noise: On Digital Poetics | Atelos, 2003 | •••

Brian Massumi | Parables for the Virtual | Duke, 2002

Bruce Dawe | Towards a War: Twelve Reflections | Picaro

Bruce Naumann | Pay Attention Please | MIT, 2003

Buck Downs | Marijuana Soft Drink | Edge

C.D. Wright | Steal Away: Selected and New Poems | Copper Canyon, 2002

Carl Andre | Complete Poems | doesn't exist but should

Carol Mirakove | Temporary Tattoos | BabySelf, 2002

Caroline Knox | A Beaker | Verse, 2002

Carolyn Forché | Blue Hour | HarperCollins, 2003

Cedar Sigo | Selected Writings | Ugly Duckling Presse, 2003 | ••

Christian Bök | Pataphysics: The Poetics of an Imaginary Science | Northwestern UP, 2002

Christine Hume | Musca Domestica | Beacon, 2000

Clark Coolidge | On the Slates | Tougher Disguises, 2002

Claudia Rankine and Juliana Spahr, eds. | American Women Poets in the 21st Century | UPNE, 2002

Cole Heinowitz | Stunning in Muscle Hospital | Detour

Craig Watson | True News | Instance, 2002 | ••

Cynthia Sailers | A New Season | Duration e-book

Dan Beachy Quick | North True South Bright | Alice James, 2003

Dan Farrell | The Inkblot Record | Coach House, 2001

Daniel Kane | All Poets Welcome: The Lower East Side Poetry Scene of the 1960s | U of California

Darren O'Donnel | pppeeeaaaccceee | Coach House, 2003

Darren Wershler-Henry | The Tapeworm Foundry | House of Anansi, 2000 | ••

David Batchelor | Chromophobia | Reaktion, 2000

David Buuck | "Stanzas in Mediation" | ms.

David Hadbawnik | Ovid in Exile | 2002

David Kennedy | President of Earth | Salt

David Larsen | Freaky if You Got This Far | LRSN, 2003

David Larsen | Skips 'n' Scrips | LRSN, 2001

David Mura | Songs for Uncle Tom, Tonto, and Mr. Motto | U of Michigan, 2002

David Perry | Range Finder | Adventures in Poetry

David Rees | Get Your War On | Soft Skull, 2002

David Shapiro | A Burning Interior | Overlook, 2002

Denise Riley | The Words of Selves: Identification, Solidarity, Irony | Stanford, 2000

Derek McCormack | The Haunted Hillbilly | ECW

Devin Johnston | Telepathy | Paper Bark, 2001

Diane DiPrima | Pieces of Song | City Lights, 1990

Dinh Q. Le | Photoweavings | Venice Biennale, 2003

Dionne Brand | thirsty | McClelland and Stewart, 2002

DJ/rupture | Minesweeper Suite | Tigerbeat 6, 2002

Drew Gardner | Sugar Pill | Krupskaya, 2002 | ••

Durs Grunbein | Various poems | Trans. Rosmarie Waldrop

E. Tracy Grinnell | Music or Forgetting | O, 2002

Ed Barrett | Rub Out | Pressed Wafer, 2003

Ed Roberson | Atmospheric Conditions | Sun & Moon, 2000

Edward Foster and Joseph Donahue, eds. | The World in Time & Space: Towards a History of Innovative American Poetry in Our Time | Talisman, 2001

Edwin Torres | The All-Union Day of the Shock Worker | Roof, 2002

Eileen Tabios | "Gabriela Couple(t)s with the 21st Century" | ms.

Eileen Tabios | Reproductions of the Empty Flagpole | Marsh Hawk

Elaine Equi | The Cloud of Knowable Things | Coffee House, 2003 | ••

Elizabeth Robinson | Pure Descent | Sun & Moon, 2003 | ••

Elizabeth Willis | Turneresque | Burning Deck, 2003 | ••••

Erica Hunt | Piece Logic | Carolina Wren, 2003

Erin Moure | O Cidadan | House of Anansi, 2002

Ernesto Cardenal | Zero Hour | New Directions, 1980

Eugenio De Signoribus | Principio del giorno (Principle of the Day) | Garzanti, 2001

Fanny Howe | Economics | Flood, 2003

Fanny Howe | Gone | ••

Fanny Howe | Selected Poems | U of California, 2000

Fiona Banner | The Nam | Frith Street books 1997 | Printed Matter

Friedrich Hölderlin | Selected Poems & Fragments | Penguin

Gabriela Mistral | Selected Prose and Prose-Poems | Ed. and trans. Stephen Tabscott | U of Texas, 2002

Gennady Aygil | Child & Rose | Trans. Peter France | New Directions, 2003

Geoffrey O'Brien | A View of Buildings and Water | Salt, 2002

Geoffrey Young | Lights Out | The Figures, 2003 | ••

George Oppen | New Collected Poems | New Directions, 2002

George Stanley | A Tall, Serious Girl | Qua, 2003 | •••

Giorgio Agamben | Stato d'eccezione (State of Exception) | Bollati Boringhieri, 2003

Guillaume Apollinaire | "Zone" | Trans. Samuel Beckett

Harry Polkinhorn & Mark Weiss, eds. | Across the Line / Al otro lado: The Poetry of Baja California | Junction, 2002

Harryette Mullen | Sleeping with the Dictionary | U of California

Harun Farocki | Imprint | Ram, 2001

Heather Fuller | Dovecote | Edge, 2002 | ••

Heriberto Yepez | Babellebab | Duration, 2003

Hoa Nguyen | Your Ancient See Through | Subpress, 2002

Jack Kimball | Frosted | Potes & Poets

Jacqueline Waters | A Minute Without Danger | Adventures in Poetry

Jaime Saenz | Immanent Visitor: Selected Poems | Trans. Kent Johnson and Forrest Gander | U of California, 2002

James Merrill | Collected Poems | Knopf, 2001

James Thomas Stevens | Combing the Snakes from His Hair | U of Michigan, 2002 | ••

Janet Cardiff | A Large Slow River | Oakville Galleries, 2000

Jason Rhoades | Volume: A Rhoades Referenz | 1998

Jen Hofer | Slide Rule | Subpress, 2002

Jen Hofer, ed. and trans. | Sin Puertas Visibles | U of Pittsburgh, 2003

Jennifer Moxley | The Sense Record | Edge, 2002 | •••••

Jim Behrle and Fred Moten | Poems | Pressed Wafer, 2002

Joanna Fuhrman | Ugh Ugh Ocean | Hanging Loose, 2003

Joanne Kyger | As Ever: Selected Poems | Penguin, 2002 | ••

Jocelyn Saidenberg | Cusp | Kelsey St., 2001

John Caputo | On Religion | Routledge, 2001

John Godfrey | Push the Mule | The Figures, 2000

John James | Collected Poems | Salt, 2002

John Ruskin | Fors Clavigera

John Temple | Collected Poems | Salt, 2003

John Wilkinson | Contrivances | Salt, 2003

John Yau | Borrowed Love Poems | Penguin, 2002

Jonathan Bepler | Music for Matthew Barney's Cremaster 3 | 2003

Jordan Davis | Million Poems Journal | Faux | ••

Josely Vianna Baptista | On the Shining Screen of the Eyelids | Trans. Chris Daniels | Manifest, 2003

Joseph Donahue | Incidental Eclipse | Talisman, 2003 | ••

Joy Katz | Fabulae | Crab Orchard, 2002

Judith Goldman | Vocoder | Roof, 2001

Julian LaVerdiere | Lost Cornerstone | Lehmann Maupin, 2003

Juliana Spahr | as yet uncollected poems dated 11/30/02 - 03/20/03 | various magazines

Juliana Spahr | Fuck You, Aloha, I Love You | Wesleyan, 2001 | ••

Julie Kalendek | Our Fortunes | Burning Deck, 2003

Juliette Valéry | Format Américain

K. Silem Mohammad | Deer Head Nation | Tougher Disguises, forthcoming

Kamau Braithwaite | Ancestors | New Directions, 2001

Karen Weiser | Eight Positive Trees | Pressed Wafer, 2002

kari edwards | a day in the life of p. | subpress, 2002

Kate Lilley | Versary | Salt

Keith Shein | Rumors of Buildings to Live In | O, 2002

Keith Waldrop | The House Seen from Nowhere | Litmus, 2002

Kenneth Goldsmith | Day | The Figures, 2003

Kenneth Goldsmith | Soliloquy | Granary Books 2001

Kenneth Koch | A Possible World

Kenneth Koch | Sun Out

Kenneth Koch | Making Your Own Days

Kenneth Rexroth | The Complete Poems | Copper Canyon

Kevin Davies | Comp. | Edge, 2000

Kevin Davies | "Lateral Argument" | Alterran Poetry Assemblage 7 | December 2002 | ••

Kevin Killian | Argento Series | Krupskaya, 2001

Kevin Young | To Repel Ghosts | Zoland

Kim Rosenfield | Good Morning—Midnight | Roof

Kiosk 2 | 2003 | Ed. Gordon Hatfield and others in Buffalo

Laura Moriarty | Spicer's City | Poetry New York / Meeting Eyes, 1998

Laynie Browne | Pollen Memory | Tender Buttons, 2003 | ••

Led Zeppelin | DVD

Lee Ann Brown | The Sleep That Changed Everything | Wesleyan, 2003 | ••

Lee Tonouchi | Living Pidgin | Tinfish, 2002

Leza Lowitz | Yoga Poems | Stone Bridge, 2000

Leslie Scalapino | Zither & Autobiography | Wesleyan, 2003

Lisa Jarnot | Ring of Fire | Zoland, 2001 |••

Lisa Kanae | Sista Tongue | Tinfish, 2002

Lisa Robertson | The Weather | New Star, 2001

Lorine Niedecker | Collected Works | Ed. Jenny Penberthy | U California, 2002 | ••

Lydia Davis | Samuel Johnson Is Indignant | McSweeney's, 2001

Lyn Hejinian | Slowly | Tuumba, 2002 | ••

Lytle Shaw | The Lobe | Roof, 2001

Mahmoud Darwish | Unfortunately, It Was Paradise | U of California, 2002

Mamma Andersson | Devil May Care | Venice Biennale, 2003

Marcel Proust | Swann's Way | Trans. Lydia Davis | Penguin, 2003

Marianne Moore | Becoming Marianne Moore: Early Poems 1907-1924 | Ed. Robin G. Schulze | U of California, 2002

Mark McMorris | The Blaze of the Poui | Georgia UP, 2003

Martin Corless-Smith | Nota | Fence, 2003

Martin Espada | Alabanza: New & Selected Poems, 1982-2002 | Norton, 2003

Mei-mei Berssenbrugge | Nest | Kelsey St., 2003

Merrill Gilfillan | The Seasons | Adventures in Poetry, 2002

Michael Cross | in felt treeling | Soft, 2003

Michael Friedman | Species | The Figures, 2000

Michael Haslam | The Music Laid Her Songs in Language | Arc, 2001

Mike Magee | MS | Sputen Duyvil, 2003

Michael Magee | My Angie Dickinson | blogspot

Michael Palmer | The Promises of Glass | New Directions, 2000

Michael Scharf | Vérité | Slash Ubu, 2002

Michael Taussig | The Nervous System | Routledge, 1992

Missy Elliott | Under Construction

Monkey Puzzle | Ed. by Kreg Hasegawa and Daniel Comiskey in Seattle

Muhammad Said al-Sahaf (Iraqi Information Minister) | various proclamations | Baghdad, Spring 2003

Muslimgauze | Hummus | Soleilmoon, 2002

Nada Gordon | V. Imp | Faux

Nada Gordon and Gary Sullivan | Swoon | Granary, 2001

Nathan Austin | Glost | Handwritten, 2002

Nathaniel Mackey | ATET A.D. | City Lights, 2001

Noël Coward | Future Imperfect

Norma Cole | Spinoza in Her Youth | Omnidawn, 2002

Pam Rehm | Saving Bonds | Culture Society, 2002

Patrick Durgin | Color Music | Cuneiform, 2002

Paul Celan | Romanian Poems | Trans. Julian Semilian and Sanda Agalidi | Green Integer, 2003

Paul Celan | Selected Poems and Prose | Trans. John Felstiner | Norton, 2001

Paula Bennett | Poets and the Public Sphere: The Emancipatory Project of American Women's Poetry, 1800-1900 | Princeton UP, 2003

Paulo Leminski | Meta (/other) Poems | Trans. Chris Daniels | Grand Quiskadee, 2003

Pierre Guyotat | Eden Eden Eden | Creation Books, 1995

Poetry blogs

Queer as Folk | Showtime, 2001-present

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Drafts 1-38, Toll | Wesleyan, 2001

Rae Armantrout | The Pretext | Green Integer, 2001

Rae Armantrout | Veil | Wesleyan

Rem Koolhaas | "Junkspace" | October 100 | Spring 2002

Richard Caddell | Magpie Words | West House, 2002

Richard Greenfield | A Carnage in the Love Trees | U of California, 2003

Rick Snyder | This Charming New Chapbook | Situations, 2003

Robert Sullivan | Captain Cook in the Underworld | Aukland U, 2003

Rod Mengham and Glen Phillips, eds. | Fairly Obsessive: Essays on the Works of John Kinsella | Fremantle Arts Centre Press

Rod Smith | Music or Honesty | Roof, 2003

Rod Smith | The Good House | Spectacular, 2001

Rodrigo Toscano | Platform | Atelos, 2003 | ••••••••

Rodrigo Toscano | Postcard Poems | ms.

Romana Huk, ed. | Assembling Alternatives: Reading Postmodern Poetries Transnationally | Wesleyan, 2003

Ron Padgett | You Never Know

Ron Silliman | Tjanting | Salt (rpt.)

Ronald Johnson | The Shrubberies | Flood

Rosmarie Waldrop | Lavish Absence: Recalling and Rereading Edmond Jabes | Wesleyan, 2002 | ••

Ruth Kluger | Still Alive: Holocaust Girlhood Remembered | Feminist, 2001

Sal Mimeo 3 (2003) | Ed. Larry Fagin

Sam Truitt | Vertical Elegies 5 The Section | U of Georgia, 2003 | ••

Sarah Manguso | The Captain Lands in Paradise | Alice James, 2002

Sharon Dolin | Serious Pink | Marsh Hawk, 2003

Sophie Aster Prevallet | born 18 April 2003

Sotere Torregian | " I Must Go (She Said) Because My Pizza's Cold" | Skanky Possum, 2002

Stacy Doris | Conference | Potes and Poets, 2001

Stacy Doris | Paramour | Krupskaya | ••

Stephanie Young | a blueberry pie (very nearly burned) | 15 July 2003

Stephanie Young | Telling the Future Off | ms.

Stephen Burt | Randall Jarrell and His Age | Columbia UP, 2003

Stephen Ratcliffe | Sound / (system) | Green Integer, 2002

Stephen Venright | Spiral Agitator

Steve McCaffery | Seven Pages Missing | Coach House

Steve McCaffery and Jed Rasula, eds. | Imagining Language: An Anthology | 2001

Susan Howe | The Midnight | New Directions, 2003 | ••

Susan M. Schultz | No guns, no durian | Tinfish, 2003

Taylor Brady | Production Notes for Occupation: Location Scouting | Duration e-book

Ted Pearson | Songs Aside | Past Tents, 2003

Thomas Carlyle | The French Revolution: A History | Modern Library, 2002

Tina Celona Brown | The Real Moon of Poetry and Other Poems | Fence, 2002

Tom Raworth | Collected Poems | Carcanet

Tony Towle | The History of the Invitation | Hanging Loose, 2000

Truong Tran | Dust and Conscience | Apogee, 2002

Walid Ra'ad | The Atlas Group | Whitney Biennial, Documenta 11 (2002), Venice Biennale (2003)

Walter Lew | Treadwinds | Wesleyan, 2002

W.H. Auden & Louis MacNiece | Letters from Iceland

William Fuller | Sadly | Flood, 2002

World Bank, WTO, IMF, G8, and anti-war protests | Various locations, ongoing

W.S. Graham | Selected Poems | Ecco, 1979 + Uncollected Poems | Greville
Press Pamphlets, 1990

Yedda Morrison | Crop | Kelsey St.

Yusef Komunyakaa | Talking Dirty to the Gods | Farrar, 2000

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