Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight »

Alan Gilbert is an independent scholar and poet. He lives in Brooklyn, New York

What's next for contemporary poetry?

Introduction CONSIDERING HOW MATERIAL DOCUMENTS CAN BE The Present Versus (the) Now Sound Mappings: free103point9's Constructive Engagement Anne Waldman Changing the Frequency The Information of Art: A Martha Rosler Retrospective Fade to Black: Kevin Killian's Argento Series The Costs of Style: Harryette Mullen and Freestyle Adding Up to Plural: On the Work of Roberto Tejada Poetry As Document, or The Y2K Problem Is the Illusion of Starting at Zero Form and Culture TERRITORIES AND OTHER FORMS OF KNOWING re:Reading the Active Reader Theory Poetic Ethnography: Mark Nowak's Revenants
"There's no center where / similarity would begin": C.S. Giscombe's Giscome Road and Here A Global View: Andreas Gursky at Matthew Marks Gallery Ghost Stories: Renee Gladman's Juice Poetry and Reportage: Andrew Schelling's The Road to Ocosingo What Are the Alternatives?—Lorenzo Thomas' Extraordinary Measures, for Example MEANING POLITICS WITHOUT REGRETS
"Startling and Effective": Writing Art and Politics after 9/11
Countercultural Studies: Edward Sanders' 1968: A History in Verse Shine a Dark Light on It: Benjamin Friedlander's A Knot Is Not a Tangle Picking Up the Diasporic Pieces: Keith Piper at the New Museum
"How Soon Is Now?": Anselm Berrigan, Prageeta Sharma, Greg Fuchs, Magdalena Zurawski, and the New Independents Building Locations: Recent Work by Ben Polsky Musical Chairs in Public Spaces: Brenda Coultas' The Bowery Project Acknowledgments Bibliography Index