Contents
Preface
I.
Like a Book
Narrativity
A Thing unto Myself: The unRomantic Self and Gender in the Third Person
The Complexities of Measure
The Irruptive Text
Noumenous Men: On David Melnick’s Men in Aida
Involuntary Lyrics: A Foot Note
Prosody Now
Note to a Student
II.
Active Form: Toward a Gay/Lesbian Poetics
Writing into the Twenty-First Century
Queerly: AIDS and the Queer Imagination
Lo How I Vanysshe: Afterword to Codex
Binding Unbound: An Introduction to Unbound: A Book of AIDS
Preface
Full Circle: Postscript to “City of Men”
Notes from Under
Further Under
Orphée: The Kiss of Death
A Lull in the Void: Postscript to “Turn Around”
My Memorial
Some Haunting
Inscribing AIDS: A Reflexive Poetics
Shifting Paradise
July
Generation
III.
After Genet: Jean Genet 1910–1986
Smoke
Synching in Tongues
At the Pulling of Invisible Strings: On John Wieners’s “A Poem for Trapped Things”
The Gaze of Julie
Real Questions: On Robert Glück’s Elements of a Coffee Service
Reclaiming Eden: On Robert Duncan’s Faust Foutu
A Restoration: On Beverly Dahlen’s The Egyptian Poems
Reading/Writing: An Introduction to Derivations
Among way: On Leslie Scalapino’s way
The People’s P***k: A Dialectical Tale
IV.
Inhabiting Both Sides: Aaron Shurin’s Correspondences