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The issue begins with Thorow by Susan Howe, and gives the reader an immediate way into the issue. From there, Sin Tactics and The Screen of Distance & other poems widen its range of voices and approaches. The fiction supplies a narrative counterweight to the poems and criticism, giving the issue a shape as well as a roster. Long projects are the governing unit: The Screen of Distance & other poems and the other excerpts or poem groups let serial form, accumulation, and return displace the self-contained magazine lyric. Taken together, the issue offers a cross-section of ongoing experimental practices—poetry, prose, translation, and performance sharing space without being reduced to a single school.

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  • Thorow — Susan Howe [Contribution, p. 3]
  • Sin Tactics — David C. D. Gansz [Contribution, p. 22]
  • The Screen of Distance & other poems — Barbara Guest [Contribution, p. 33]
  • 20 poems from Literal Landscapes — Clark Coolidge [Contribution, p. 41]
  • 3 sections from Black Pig — Denis Mahoney [Contribution, p. 51]
  • The Fireworks Spires — Ronald Johnson [Contribution, p. 60]
  • from Transcendental Studies — Keith Waldrop [Contribution, p. 69]
  • Torn Parts: A Novel — Fanny Howe [Fiction, p. 72]
  • 7 pieces from A World — Dennis Phillips [Contribution, p. 76]
  • Recitatif — Mei-mei Berssenbrugge [Contribution, p. 83]
  • Plumbing the Abyss with Eshleman — Paul Christensen [Contribution, p. 84]
  • The Sisters’ secret [interfering] child — Rachel Blau DuPlessis [Contribution, p. 94]
  • Magic in Verse — Some Distinctions — Gerald Burns [Contribution, p. 98]
  • Behind the Iron Grillwork — James Hillman [Contribution, p. 100]
  • The Bill — Karin Lessing [Contribution, p. 101]
  • To Moisten the Atmosphere — Jed Rasula [Contribution, p. 103]
  • Golub The Axolotl — Clayton Eshleman [Contribution, p. 109]
  • “Incomplete” from Guilty — Georges Bataille [Contribution, p. 114]
  • 5 poems from Face Value — Bob Perelman [Contribution, p. 117]
  • Be Careful Now & other texts — Bruce Andrews [Contribution, p. 122]
  • 4 poems from Concept Lyrics — Diane Ward [Contribution, p. 128]
  • On Steve McCaffery — Marjorie Perloff [Contribution, p. 130]
  • On Jed Rasula — Michael Blitz [Contribution, p. 135]
  • On “In the American Tree” — George Hartley [Contribution, p. 137]
  • On Susan Howe — Linda Reinfeld [Contribution, p. 139]
  • Two Hejinian Talks — Stephen Ratcliffe [Contribution, p. 141]
  • Winter Insect, Summer Grass — Pasquale Verdicchio [Contribution, p. 148]
  • A Form / Of Taking / It All — Rosmarie Waldrop [Contribution, p. 152]
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*Temblor*, no. 6, 1987. Text/Tech Journals, reader’s edition.