From the Book - First edition.
INTRODUCTION / Anne Waldman and Laura Wright
WOLF SONG TRANSMISSIONS / Daniel Staniforth
SPONTANEOUS POETICS: AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINAL SONG STICKS / Allen Ginsberg
BASIL BUNTING: AN INTRODUCTION / Tom Pickard
INFILTRATING THE MASS MEDIA: ROMANIA, 1989 / Andrei Codrescu
PLOUGHING THE CLOUDS / Peter Lamborn Wilson
BORDER ZONES: OTHER PARADIGMS OF LANGUAGE / Wang Ping, Christian Ide Hintze, Elsa Cross, Ilya Kutik, Lyn Hejinian
PARALLEL VERSE, TRANSLATION, THE POPOL VUH / Dennis Tedlock
HIDDEN FEMALE SHAMANIC TRADITIONS / Barbara Tedlock
NOTHING I WITHHOLD: A SOCRATIC RAP / Cid Corman
TALKING BACK TO WHITMAN / Lorenzo Thomas
GEOGRAPHIC DISTORTIONS: CULTURE, POLITICS, AND DIVERSITY / Victor Hernandez Cruz
SOME QUESTIONS FOR JEROME ROTHENBERG / Anne Waldman, Laura Wright
HORIZONS OF EXPECTATION: PANEL ON PROSE TRANSLA℗ʺTION / Samuel R. Delany, Karen Tei Yamashita, Nina Zivancevic
CHORALIZING CULTURES / Eileen Myles
HIP-HOP CULTURE / Alexs Pate
ARABIC POETICS & THE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY SCENE / Pierre Joris
THE EVENT OF THE BORDER / Bhanu Kapil
CULTURAL ACTIVISM: WRITING UNDER THE NEW WORLD ORDER / Akilah Oliver, Joanne Kyger, Anne Waldman, Eleni Sikelianos
PUT FIRE ON THIS CRAZY WORLD: AN INTERVIEW WITH NICOLE BROSSARD / Melissa Buzzeo, Anne Waldman, Soma Feldmar
WHAT IS THE LIGHT?: REFLECTIONS ON OTHER WORLDS / Monica de la Torre
THE DELUGE: CONTEMPORARY VIETNAMESE POETRY / Linh Dinh
LOVE AND POLITICS / Judith Malina and Hanon Reznikov
WHAT'S POETRY TO YOU? / Cecilia Vicuna
TELLING STORIES / Samuel R. Delany, Hoa Nguyen, Meredith Q],lartermain, James Thomas Stevens
MOVING ACROSS LANGUAGES, BORDERS, AND CULTURES / Heriberto Yepez, Myung Mi Kim, C. S. Giscombe, Sherwin Bitsui
I AM BOTH. I AM NEITHER. / Michelle Naka Pierce
POEMAAZU (POEMERS) AND TORANRANRANZUREESHONZU (TRANSLATIONS) / Sawako Nakayasu
PIERCING THE WALLS / Margaret Randall
SAVORING DEATH IN MEXICO / Alberto Ruy,Sanchez (translated by Rhonda Dahl Buchanan)
ABOUT TODAY / Bei Dao (translated by Perry Link)
GREAT DIVIDES AND COMMON GROUND / Dolores Dorantes, Jen Hofer
HOW TO BE AN EASTERN EUROPEAN POET IN AMERIKA / Ana Bozicevic
THE QUESTION IS HOW TO INTERROGATE THE REMAINS / Eleni Sikelianos
WORDS, QUOTES, QUESTIONS, IN AND AROUND AND ALLOVER "THE FIELD" / Anselm Hollo
PO/ETHICS / Anne Waldman, Daisy Zamora, Jack Collom, Harryette Mullen, David Henderson.