Herbert Tucker

• –The Fix of Form: an Open Letter

Mariana Dan

• –The Gate
• –Triangle
• –After Pompeii

Bruce Weigl

• –Ode to Cabeza De Vaca

Pablo Tanguay

• –The Translator

Michael Peterson

• –“By morning you quarreled...”
• –“What you like is a story...”
• –“Repeater— / who teachest you...”
• –“You could talk more...”

Geoffrey Nutter

• –Samuel Pepys
• –Apology
• –The Strange Lives of Others
• –Ivory Images, Amethyst Eyes

Donna Stonecipher

• –The Postcard-Collector’s Address
• –I-Am-Tatjana Explains

Lisa Robertson

• –Rubus Armeniacus

Peter Filkins

• –Shell

Will Heinrich

• –How to Be an American

Jonathan Ball

• –The Audience Is Called
• –Clockfire
• –Untitled
• –Any Animal

Robert Shuster

• –A Solution to the Barber Paradox

acknowledgments