ATTENTION SPAN 2010

A product of Third Factory

The fifty-five contributors to Attention Span 2010 referred to some six hundred cultural artefacts in all. The majority of references are singular, but as in previous years there are some patterns of overlap: one title was mentioned by eight contibutors, another was mentioned by five, seven books were mentioned four times each, fourteen were mentioned three times, and forty-five were mentioned twice. More than twenty presses were mentioned four times or more.

Few of the works of poetry mentioned here circulate in the big box economy. They are best ordered directly from the publishers themselves or from Bridge Street or SPD.

Publishers by frequency of mention (contributor key here)

Farrar (4)
Charles Bernstein | All the Whiskey in Heaven | Farrar | 2010 | NG
James Schuyler | Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems | Farrar | 2010 | PB
Mahmoud Darwish, trans. Fady Joudah | If I Were Another | FSG | 2009 | GCW
Pablo Neruda | The Poetry of Pablo Neruda | FSG | 2003 | PM

Hot Whiskey (4)
Hoa Nguyen | Hecate Lochia | 2009 | AB CW KT PaMc

Slack Buddha (4)
K. Silem Mohammad | Sonnagrams 1-20 | 2009 | NG BF JW KT

Canarium (3)
Ish Klein | Union! | 2009 | MY TD
Paul Killebrew | Flowers | 2010 | EB

Combo (3)
Clark Coolidge | The Act of Providence | 2010 | CD KT PS

Cypher (3)
Rachel McKibbens | Pink Elephant | 2009 | BJR TB
John Murillo | Up Jump the Boogie | 2010 | BJR

Futurepoem (3)
Ara Shirinyan | Your Country is Great: Afghanistan–Guyana | 2008 | MH CW
Tonya Foster | mss in progress including “A Swarm of Bees in High Court” (forthcoming from Belladonna/Futurepoem in 2010), “Monkey Talk,” and “A Mathematics of Chaos: Pay Attention to Where You At/From” | ongoing/forthcoming | JeSc

Letter Machine (3)
Sawako Nakayasu | Texture Notes | Letter Machine | 2010 | JE KK JS

Litmus (3)
Ayane Kawata, trans. Sawako Nakayasu | Time of Sky & Castles in the Air | 2010 | PD JE
Jeffrey Jullich | Portrait of Colon Dash Parenthesis | 2010 | MS

MIT (3)
Eduardo Kac | Signs of Life: Bio Art and Beyond | 2007 | PD
Marquard Smith and Joanne Morra, eds. | The Prosthetic Impulse: From a Posthuman Present to a Biocultural Future | MIT | 2006 | PD
Simony Morley, ed. | The Sublime (Documents of Contemporary Art) | 2010 | VP

New Issues (3)
Khaled Mattawa | Tocqueville | 2010 | PM BC
Jericho Brown | Please | 2008 | TB

Penguin (3)
Ann Lauterbach | Or To Begin Again | 2009 | AB TD
Tony Judt | Ill Fares the Land | 2010 | JP

Summer BF (3)
Dana Ward | Typing “Wild Speech” | 2010 | SS RK NG

Zasterle (3)
Tan Lin | Heath (Plagiarism/Outsource) | 2009 | BC JW MS

Alabama (2)
Jerome Rothenberg | Poetics & Polemics 1980-2005 | 2008 | AS
Ron Silliman | The Alphabet | 2008 | AS

Alice James (2)
Joanna Fuhrman | Pageant | 2009 | TD
Reginald Dwayne Betts | Shahid Reads His Own Palm | 2010 | BJR

Anchor (2)
Fritjof Capra | The Web of Life: A New Scientific Understanding of Living Systems |1996 | ML
Simon Singh | Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World’s Greatest Mathematical Problem | 1997 | ML

Apogee (2)
Pattie McCarthy | Table Alphabetical of Hard Words | 2010 | TD AB

Black Radish (2)
David Wolach | Occultations | 2010 | KK SG

Burning Deck (2)
Jane Unrue | Life of a Star | 2010 | DB
Peter Gizzi | Artificial Heart | 1998 | SR

Cambridge (2)
Douglass C. North, John Joseph Wallis, Barry R. Weingast | Violence and Social Orders: A Conceptual Framework for Interpreting Recorded Human History | 2009 | MS
Immanuel Kant | Religion within the Boundaries of Mere Reason | 1999 | VP

Columbia (2)
Gianni Vattimo with Piergiorgio Paterlini, , trans. William McCuaig | Not Being God: A Collaborative Autobiography | 2009 | BF
Helene Cixous | Three Steps of the Ladder of Writing | 1993 | DW

Cuneiform (2)
Michael Cross, Thom Donovan, Kyle Schlesinger, eds. | ON: Contemporary Practice, Issue #2 | 2010 | BC
Ted Greenwald | 3 | 2008 | CW

Duke (2)
Fred Moten | B Jenkins | 2010 | AB EB

Fulcrum (2)
Vine Deloria, Jr. | Spirit & Reason | 1999 | ET
Larry Eigner | another time in fragments | 1967 | CEP

Galaxia (2)
Chus Pato | Fascinio | 2010 | EM
Chus Pato | Secesión | 2009 | EM

Harcourt (2)
Stuart Chase | The Tyranny of Words | 1938 | ML
T. S. Eliot, Valerie Eliot, ed. | The Wasteland, Facsimile & Transcript | 1971 | BB

Harvard (2)
Emily Dickinson | Selected Letters | 1986 | MD
T. D. Rice, ed. W. T. Lhamon Jr. | Jim Crow, American: Selected Songs and Plays | 2009 | BF

Kelsey St. (2)
Bhanu Kapil | Humanimal: A Project For Future Children | 2009 | EB JeSc

Krupskaya (2)
Andrea Brady | Wildfire: A Verse Essay on Obscurity and Illumination | 2010 | RS CW

Make Now (2)
Robert Fitterman | SPRAWL | 2009 | MY
Steven Zultanski | Pad | 2010 | VP

Metropolitan (2)
Frances Stoner Saunders | The Woman Who Shot Mussolini | 2010 | JP
Ruth Harris | Dreyfus: Politics, Emotion and the Scandal of the Century | 2010 | JP

Nebraska (2)
Robert Bringhurst | A Story Sharp as a Knife: The Classical Haida Mythtellers and Their World | 1999 | AS
Diane Glancy | The Cold and Hunger Dance | 1998 | AS

North Atlantic (2)
Kenneth Irby | The Intent On: Collected Poems, 1962-2006 | 2009 | PP CD

Octopus (2)
Heather Christle | A Difficult Farm| 2009 | JS
Matvei Yankelevich | Boris By the Sea | 2009 | TD

Omnidawn (2)
Lyn Hejinian | Saga/Circus | 2008 | DBQ
Myung Mi Kim | Penury | 2009 | EM

Palm (2)
Eleni Stecopoulos | Armies of Compassion | 2010 | AB
Wendy S. Walters| Longer I Wait, More You Love Me | 2009 | HA

Pressed Wafer (2)
Laurie Duggan | The Epigrams of Martial | 2010 | PB
Maged Zaher | Portrait of the Poet As an Engineer | 2009 | MY

Routledge (2)
Luce Irigaray | Elemental Passions | 1992 | AW
Gemma Corradi Fiumara | The Other Side of Language: A Philosophy of Listening | 1990 | SR

Saturnalia (2)
Lara Glenum and Arielle Greenberg, eds. | Gurlesque: the new grrly, grotesque burlesque poetics | 2010 | ET KK

Siglio (2)
Danielle Dutton | Sprawl | 2010 | MY
Keith Waldrop | Several Gravities | 2009 | GCW

Stanford (2)
Larry Eigner, ed. Curtis Faville and Robert Grenier | The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner | 2010 | PS CD

Station Hill (2)
Lissa Wolsak | Squeezed Light | 2010 | DD SC

Subpress (2)
Douglas Rothschild | Theogony | 2009 | BC MY

The Gig (2)
cris cheek | part: short life housing | 2009 | KR
Frederick Farryl Goodwin | Buber’s Bag Man | 2010 | KT

Alberta (2)
Robert Kroetsch | Completed Field Notes | 2000 | SH
Robert Kroetsch | Too Bad | 2010 | SH

Pittsburgh (2)
G.W. Leibniz, ed. Nicholas Rescher | Monadology | 1991 | DBQ
Lyrae Van Clief Stefanon | ]Open Interval[ | 2009 | TB