Cette anthologie de poésie américaine contemporaine se concentre sur le nouveau poème, l’hybride, synthèse de styles traditionnels et expérimentaux. Comme l’affirme l’un des éditeurs dans l’introduction de cette anthologie, la division fondamentale entre poésie expérimentale et poésie traditionnelle, longtemps reconnue, disparaît au profit d’approches hybrides qui mêlent des tendances allant du lyrisme accessible à l’exploration linguistique. Cet ouvrage met l’accent sur ce mélange : les plus de soixante-dix poètes qui y figurent, dont Jorie Graham, Albert Goldbarth et Lyn Hejinian, ont trouvé de nouvelles manières, souvent singulières, de recomposer les innombrables voix, parfois contradictoires, des trente dernières années. Les éditeurs ont rédigé de courts essais introductifs sur chacun des poètes de l’anthologie, présentant leur parcours biographique et les situant dans le courant de la poésie contemporaine. Cette anthologie est une lecture essentielle pour quiconque s’intéresse au présent et à l’avenir de la poésie américaine. De l’Indian never had a horse ; De In/somnia ; De To be in a time of war / Etel Adnan -- Dans un monde dans lequel le monde s’insère ; Vous pensez que c’est un secret, mais ça n’en a jamais été un ; Exceptions and melancholies ; Soft and pretty ; Sampling ; Sometimes an image ; The unveiling ; Vertigo / Ralph Angel -- Special theory of relativity ; Generation ; The fit ; Police business ; Turn of events ; What we mean ; Scumble ; Yonder ; Translation / Rae Armantrout -- Well-lit places ; What to do with milk ; The taken ; Obsidian house ; Others shied away ; Haibun ; The garden of false civility ; Of linnets and dull time / John Ashbery -- February elegy ; P equals pie ; Mystery at manor ; Close ; Alice in Wonderland ; Man and woman / Mary Jo Bang -- Now begins our immaculate summer ; The birds know ; In the days of famous want ; This is what’s been done to flesh ; From your time has come / Joshua Beckman -- Insatiability ; Clouds of willing seen in the bird day ; The white letter ; The green letter ; Banana peaks get snowfall / Cal Bedient -- Conservation with Evan Hesse ; Sail ; Justnowland ; Vanish nearby ; Shoots and pulps ; Pirate keep / Molly Bendall -- Chinese space ; From four-year-old girl ; Parallel lines / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge -- A sideways suicide ; Ruby for grief ; My sister is not a dollar ; The eyeglasses ; We have to talk about another book ; The rearranger / Michael Burkard -- Before the birds awaken ; It’s what I’m afraid of ; My whispered song ; I’m sorry I brought it up ; There is no way to know ; The words I did not say ; There should’ve been rabbits ; She falls in love ; The note I taped up ; You have put the cup ; In the story ; Through a panel of controls ; When you step from the entry hall ; I have no say / Killarney Clary -- Floating by ; Units for tomorrow ; Dear Robert ; Sarabande ; My operatives ; Conditions maritimes / Norma Cole -- The sky drank in ; Careful ; Little more red sun on the human ; From the plot genie / Gillian Conoley -- Works of Thos. Swan ; On my brother W[illiam] falling from his horse ; The acts / Martin Corless-smith -- From conference ; From cheerleader’s guide to the world : Council book ; From paramour / Stacy Doris -- The apocrypha of Jacques Derrida ; At sunset ; After sky X ; Of politics, & art ; Blue ; The city of snow ; Two stanzas for Timothy Deshaies / Norman Dubie -- Ellipses ; The obscure room & my inexplicable weeping ; Elegy for the poetry of her personal experiences ; In English in a poem ; Then, suddenly ; The book’s speech / Lynn Emanuel -- Cue or starting point ; The disappeared ; Hotel Classic / Kathleen Fraser -- Warmth sculpture ; The permeable past tense of feel / Alice Fulton -- Leap year ; Nature averts her eyes ; Earthquake ; Apollinaire’s cane ; The mastermind asks some questions ; Stop whimpering and speak / James Galvin -- Time and the hour ; Exhaustible appearance ; Coda ; From the hugeness of that which is missing ; Poem ; Road and tree ; Collodion ; Ivy brick wall ; Argosy for rock and grass ; Moon and page ghazal / Forrest Gander -- From Giscome Road ; From prairie style / C.S. Giscombe -- Tous les matins du monde ; In defense of nothing ; Plain song ; Beginning with a phrase from Simone Weil ; Human memory is organic ; That’s life / Peter Gizzi. Étymologiquement work work / Albert Goldbarth -- Dawn day one ; Little exercise ; Dusk shore prayer ; Ebbtide / Jorie Graham -- Dissonance royal traveller ; A medieval hollow from stripped tales ; The imagined room ; A short narrative ; Alteration / Barbara Guest -- Time and materials ; White of forgetfulness, white of safety ; Rusia en 1931 ; The yellow bicycle ; The garden of delight / Robert Hass -- From the beginner ; From the composition of the cell ; From the book of a thousand eyes / Lyn Hejinian -- Black series ; Sediments of Santa Monica ; Styrofoam cup ; Left eye ; String theory sutra ; An oddness / Brenda Hillman -- The presence ; Childhood and its double ; From edge and fold ; Haikuisation of Shakespeare’s sonnet 56 / Paul Hoover -- 9/11 ; 2002 ; The splinter ; The descent ; Let it snow ; Is knowing / Fanny Howe -- From bed hangings II ; From kidnapped / Susan Howe -- The removes ; Eclipse calling ; Home unknown stone ; Breath, bring nothing to term ; The evening of chances / Andrew Joron -- Freely adapted ; Representation without taxation ; Critical essay ; Via negativa ; The Sybil’s afterlife ; Noumenon / Claudia Keelan -- Exordium ; From penury / Myung Mi Kim -- After Mahler ; Interleavings (Paul Celan) ; Hum ; Impossible blue / Ann Lauterbach -- Chimney song ; Event ; The wilds / Mark Levine -- Song of the andoumboulou : 64 ; Double staccato ; Blue Anuncia’s bird lute / Nathaniel Mackey -- Green flame ; Antennae ; Choices ; Occur ; Creek ; Sfumato ; Twist ; Thwart ; Dangerous archipelagos ; Green card, blue shoes ; Dear elegy ; Phoenix elegy / Stefanie Marlis -- From reef : Shadow of green ; Fauve harmonics ; Letter for K & poems for someone else / Mark McMorris -- From a palace of pearls / Jane Miller -- From nude memoir ; Laura de Sade ; Spicer’s city / Laura Moriarty ; Wreath of a similar year ; Difficult of access ; The critique ; From enlightenment evidence ; The state ; The promise ; In one body and one soul ; Awake ; The Milky Way ; The burning peony / Jennifer Moxley -- From muse & drudge ; The lunar Lutheran ; Sleeping with the dictionary ; Why you and I ; Zombie hat / Harryette Mullen -- Refuge ; Plans ; From a noun’s meant / Laura Mullen -- Poem ; After Tsang Chih ; Poem ; From the descent of Alette ; I must have called and so he comes ; Lady Poverty / Alice Notley -- And sighs again (autobiography) ; Stone ; Una noche ; Tongue asleep ; The theory of the flower / Michael Palmer -- California poppy ; Crematorium at Sierra View Cemetery ; Clutch and pumps ; My lot to spin the purple ; Listen mother, he punched the air ; Robe and pajamas, steadfast ; Darling can you kill me / D.A. Powell -- Birds fly through us ; Mercy ; All Saints / Bin Ramke -- From don’t let me be lonely / Claudia Rankine -- From human/nature ; From present tense ; From where late the sweet birds sang / Stephen Ratcliffe -- My trip ; My Mojave ; Picnic ; Zion ; Conquest ; Landscape with Tityrus in Vermont / Donald Revell -- From Hovenweep ; The little matchgirl ; The snow window / Elizabeth Robinson -- From vertigo ; In a landscape of having to repeat ; You couldn’t read a book about it ; In the house / Martha Ronk -- Naked ladies ; Where letters go ; Penciled ; Concerning essential existence ; Impresario ; Go verbatim ; The world as I left it ; Minor ninth chord / Mary Ruefle. Direction of fall ; A parking lot just outside the ruins of Babylon ; The tendency of dropped objects to fall ; Turandot ; You also, nightingale / Reginald Shepherd -- Thus, speak the chromograph ; Essay : At night the autoportrait ; From the California poem ; World is weird / Eleni Sikelianos -- From the good house ; Ted’s head ; The strength / Rod Smith -- Le déjeuner ; Gallery ; Bowl / Carol Snow -- We arrived and everything was interconnected ; We arrived ; New World sonnet ; December 8, 2002 / Juliana Spahr -- The forest ; Awaken ; Variations on the dream of the road / Susan Stewart -- Henry David Thoreau/Sonny Rollins ; Pastorelle 9 ; Pastorelle 10 ; Parmenides/fragments 3 and 15a ; Pastorelle 12 ; Why trees weep / John Taggart -- The family ; The family II ; Komodo ; Mother’s first airplane / Arthur Vogelsang -- From Iovis 3 : Oculist wit : Book of light ; Without stitching closed the eye of the falcon / Anne Waldman -- First draw of the sea ; Singular / Keith Waldrop -- Evening sun ; Song ; Meditation on understanding ; Song ; Steps in integration / Rosmarie Waldrop -- From art & language writes an epitaph ; Look, look! ; For four violins ; False isle ; The glove ; Textile 5 / Marjorie Welish -- Beavis’ day off ; White exiles ; Loss Lieder ; Each’s cot an altar then ; Toward autumn / Susan Wheeler -- Double sonnet ; Attitude of rags ; Independence Day ; Those generals’ eyes ; Faux self-portrait of you ; It wasn’t exactly like being left standing at the altar ; Eye cages / Dara Wier -- The tree of personal effort ; Three apples ; Arthur in Egypt ; Constable’s day off ; A fisher king ; The similitude of this great flower ; On the resemblance of some flowers to insects ; Verses omitted by mistake ; Oil and water ; Ancient subterranean fires ; Nocturne ; The oldest garden in the world ; Bohemian rhapsody / Elizabeth Willis -- Animism ; Like peaches ; Why leave you so soon gone ; Bienvenu en Louisiane / C.D. Wright -- Body and soul II ; The secret of poetry ; ’54 Chevy ; Singing lesson ; Waking up after the storm ; Hawksbane ; From Littlefoot / Charles Wright -- The late tale ; Unpromising poem ; Egyptian sonnets (7) ; Egyptian sonnets (11) ; Robert Desnos writes / John Yau -- With hidden noise ; Yawn ; Bathed in dust and ashes ; Speck ; Homage to Richard Tuttle ; Man in red / Dean Young. Édité par Cole Swensen et David St. John. Comprend un index.

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