ATTENTION SPAN 2011

A product of Third Factory

The seventy-five contributors to Attention Span 2011 referred to 856 works in all. Single mentions constitute fully three-quarters of the total list, but as in previous years there are some patterns of overlap: one title was mentioned by seven contibutors, another was mentioned by six, three books were cited five times, four four times, twenty-three three times, and fifty-three were mentioned twice.

Direct links to publishers for individual titles forthcoming; in the meantime, consider ordering via Bridge Street or SPD.

Titles by frequency of mention (click contributor initials for individual lists)

[7]

Susan Howe | That This | New Directions | 2010 | DBQ DD JE MP MS PaMc RD

[6]

Robert Duncan, ed. Michael Boughn and Victor Coleman | The HD Book | California | 2011 | DBQ DD LS PQ RD TC

[5]

Caroline Bergvall | Meddle English | Nightboat | 2011 | DD EM MP PaMc RL

Jennifer Moxley | Coastal | The Song Cave | 2011 | DB JC JP KK RS <note

Cedar Sigo | Stranger in Town | City Lights | 2010 | DB EB JE JS JW

[4]

Craig Dworkin and Kenneth Goldsmith, eds. | Against Expression: An Anthology of Conceptual Writing | Northwestern | 2011 | BKS PS RL VP

Eileen Myles | The Inferno | O/R Books | 2010 | JC MQ SW TS

Christopher Nealon | The Matter of Capital | Harvard | 2011 | CW FB JoCl SB

Alice Notley | Culture of One | Penguin | 2011 | AB DD JG MSH

[3]

Amanda Ackerman | The Seasons Cemented | Hex | 2010 | AC HA MaTi

Charles Bernstein | Attack of the Difficult Poems | Chicago | 2011 | AL MSH RL

Michael Boughn | Cosmographia: A Post-Lucretian Faux Micro-Epic | BookThug | 2010 | DD MQ PQ

Norma Cole | To Be at Music: Essays & Talks | Omnidawn | 2010 | BF PQ SN

Tim Dlugos, ed. David Trinidad | A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos | Nightboat | 2011 | EB NO SiSc

William Fuller | Hallucination | Flood | 2011 | CW DD KT

Christian Hawkey | Ventrakl | Ugly Duckling | 2010 | EM MP PP

Uyen Hua | a / s / l (age / sex / location) | ingirumimusnocteetsonsumimurigni | 2011 | JMW JoCl MS

Frances Kruk | Down You Go, or, Négation de Bruit | Punch | 2011 | KT NO SG

Joseph Lease | Testify | Coffee House | 2011 | DTG GM JC

Donato Mancini | Buffet World | New Star | 2011 | BF MT SC

Peter O’Leary | Luminous Epinoia | Cultural Society | 2010 | GCW PP RD

Jena Osman | The Network | Fence | 2010 | JW MD PaMc

Ron Padgett | How Long | Coffee House | 2011 | BB MSH RD

Srikanth Reddy | Voyager | California | 2011 | DBQ JE MP

Arthur Rimbaud, trans. John Ashbery | Illuminations | Norton | 2011 | DT JePe JoCl

Andrew Schelling | From the Arapaho Songbook | La Alameda | 2011 | BF JR PP

Juliana Spahr | Well Then There Now | Black Sparrow | 2011 | CW DTG RL

Elizabeth Willis | Address | Wesleyan | 2011 | PaMc PP RD

Ronaldo Wilson | Poems of the Black Object | Futurepoem | 2009 | AC JG JS

Uljana Wolf, trans. Susan Bernofksy | Falsche Freunde / False Friends | Ugly Duckling | 2011 | MP NO RL

Lissa Wolsak | Squeezed Light: Collected Poems 1994-2005 | Station Hill | 2010 | JW PP PQ

Steven Zultanski | Cop Kisser | BookThug | 2010 | KT MaTi NO

[2]

Brian Ang | Paradise Now | Grey Book | 2011 | DTG JMW

Stan Apps | The World as Phone Bill | Combo | 2010 | HA MaTi

Rae Armantrout | Money Shot | Wesleyan | 2011 | KT RS

Gregg Biglieri | Little Richard the Second | Ugly Duckling | 2011 | CD KK

Daniel Borzutzky | The Book of Interfering Bodies | Nightboat | 2011 | JG JoSt

George Bowering | My Darling Nellie Gray | Talonbooks | 2010 | MQ PQ

Brandon Brown | The Persians by Aeschylus | Displaced | 2011 | KK NO

Louis Cabri | Poetryworld | Cue | 2010 | MQ SC

Joshua Clover, trans. into French by Abigail Lang | Fragment on the Machine | na | 2011 | BA JMW

William Corbett | The Whalen Poem | Hanging Loose | 2010 | PP SiSc

Michael Cross | Haecceities | Cuneiform | 2010 | DTG JePe

Kieran Daly | Plays/ For Theater | bas-books | 2011 | AL CD

Amy De’Ath | Erec & Enide | Salt | 2010 | SC SG

Timothy Donnelly | The Cloud Corporation | Wave | 2010 | FB SB

Patrick James Dunagan | There Are People Who Think That Painters Shouldn’t Talk: A Gustonbook | Post-Apollo | 2011 | NO JS

Craig Dworkin | The Perverse Library | Information as Material | 2010 | KD PS

Elaine Equi | Click and Clone | Coffee House | 2011 | DT TPT

Michael Farrell | thempark | BookThug | 2010 | AL PB

Robert Fitterman | Now We Are Friends | Truck | 2010 | LC PS

Benjamin Friedlander | Citizen Cain | Salt | 2011 | DB FB

Forrest Gander | Core Samples from the World | New Directions | 2011 | DBQ PP RD

Renee Gladman | Event Factory | Dorothy | 2010 | EB NO

Lawrence Giffin | Sorties | Tea Party Republicans | 2011 | MB MS

Marosa di Giorgio, trans. Jeannine Marie Pitas | The History of Violets | Ugly Duckling | 2010 | HA RL

Peter Gizzi | Threshold Songs | Wesleyan | 2011 | JP MP

Rachel B. Glaser | Pee on Water | Publishing Genius | 2010 | NO JoSt

Carla Harryman & Lyn Hejinian | The Wide Road | Belladonna | 2011 | CW DD

Jennifer Homans | Apollo’s Angels: A History of Ballet | Random | 2010 | BB SB

Paolo Javier | The Feeling Is Actual | Marsh Hawk | 2011 | NO TPT

Tony Judt | Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 | Penguin | 2005 | BB JP

Mark Leidner | Beauty Was the Case That They Gave Me | Factory Hollow | 2011 | JoSt NO

Astrid Lorange | Eating and Speaking | Tea Party Republicans | 2011 | KD PB

Farid Matuk | This Isa Nice Neighborhood | Letter Machine | 2010 | EB RD

Bernadette Mayer | Studying Hunger Journal | Station Hill | 2011 | AB MS

Deborah Meadows | Saccade Patterns | BlazeVOX | 2011 | KK MD

Lorine Niedecker, ed. Jenny Penberthy | Collected Works | California | 2002 | JP MSH

Linda Norton | The Public Gardens | Pressed Wafer | 2011 | JC PaMc

Michael Palmer | Thread | New Directions | 2011 | PP RL

Marjorie Perloff | Unoriginal Genius | Chicago | 2010 | RL VP

Tom Pickard | More Pricks Than Prizes | Pressed Wafer | 2010 | KT SG

Meredith Quartermain, drawings by Susan Bee | Recipes From the Red Planet | Book Thug | 2010 | EM PQ

Evie Shockley | The New Black | Wesleyan | 2011 | CW LS

Patti Smith | Just Kids | Ecco | 2010 | GM MTF

Juliana Spahr & Stephanie Young, authors and eds. | A Megaphone | ChainLinks | 2011 | JW JMW

John Taggart | Is Music: Selected Poems | Copper Canyon | 2010 | GCW LS

Mathew Timmons | The New Poetics | Les Figues | 2010 | HA LC

Cecilia Vicuña and Ernesto Livon Grosman, eds. | The Oxford Book of Latin American Poetry | Oxford | 2009 | CW RL

Dana Ward | The Squeakquel | The Song Cave | 2011 | CW DTG

Dana Ward | This Can’t Be Life | Edge | 2011 | AB NO

McKenzie Wark | The Beach Beneath the Street | Verso | 2011 | BKS JoCl

Philip Whalen, ed. Michael Rothenberg | The Collected Poems | Wesleyan | 2007 | CEP MeNe

Christian Wiman | Every Riven Thing | Farrar | 2010 | PM RS

Raúl Zurita, trans. Anna Deeny | Purgatory | California | 2009 | LS RL