Enheduanna: “Something never before created . . .”
Omar Khayyam: “‘Tis nothing but a Magic Shadow-show . . .”
The last poems of Miklós Radnóti (1909-1944)
Clark Coolidge: “The moon perhaps is a solvent.”
Adam Zagajewski: “I know how great it is / to run with others . . .”
Mina Loy: “The fossil virgin of the skies . . .”
Silver Flower Coo: word collages by Charles Henri Ford
“We mega champions” (inspired by Charles Henri Ford)
Alberta Turner: “I heard you, MEAN!”
Rae Armantrout: “one way / to placate matter”
Lyn Hejinian: “in tatters of disorder / order waves”
Besmilr Brigham’s “Run Through Rock”
Ancient Greek poets of war and maiden-songs
Emil Cioran’s collapse of belief
Hilda Morley’s poetics of loss
Gilbert Sorrentino, Prince of Orange
Ken Babstock’s “Beached Squid and Ideas of Order”