Attention Span 2008 – Frequently Mentioned Titles

Listed below are the titles that received more than a single mention by contributors to Attention Span 2008. The initials to the right refer to individual contributors and will in time be linked to their posts; for now, a key to contributors can be found here.

Alice Notley | In the Pines | Penguin | 2007 | 7 • DD AW KSM SS ET GCW EM

Kevin Davies | The Golden Age of Paraphernalia | Edge | 2008 | 7 • DD JC DW RS SZ MS DMB

Susan Howe | Souls of the Labadie Tract | New Directions | 2007 | 6 •  DD MK KP MQ RD BF

George Oppen, ed. and introd. Stephen Cope | Selected Prose, Daybooks, and Papers | California | 2008 | 5 • JP GCW MS TD BF

Hannah Weiner, ed. Patrick Durgin | Hannah Weiner’s Open House | Kenning | 2006 | 5 • SN RK MB BrFl JS

Roberto Bolaño, trans. Natasha Wimmer | The Savage Detectives | FSG | 2007 | 5 • AW GM SA MK KP

Rod Smith | Deed | Iowa | 2007 | 5 • KT TO MB SZ PP

Sharon Mesmer | Annoying Diabetic Bitch | Combo | 2007 | 5 • KSM RS SA RK BF

Jennifer Moxley | The Middle Room | Subpress | 2007 | 4 • SA DD AW JoWi

Juliana Spahr | The Transformation | Atelos | 2007 | 4 • RA ML MK SZ

Mark Scroggins | The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky | Shoemaker & Hoard | 2007 | 4 • JB KR BF TC

Trevor Joyce | What’s in Store | The Gig/New Writers’ Press | 2007 | 4 • KT DD MT JL

Joe Brainard | The Nancy Book | Siglio | 2008 | 4 • GM KSM RD CEP

Benjamin Friedlander | The Missing Occasion of Saying Yes | Subpress | 2007 | 3 • SS TO RK

Gary Sullivan | PPL in a Depot | Roof | 2008 | 3 • SA MK RK

Joseph Lease | Broken World | Coffee House | 2007 | 3 • RA GCW DMB

Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand | Landscapes of Dissent: Guerilla Poetry and Public Space | Palm | 2007 | 3 • RK TO JB

Naomi Klein | The Shock Doctrine | Metropolitan / Picador | 2008 | 3 | RA JC TO

Peter Culley | The Age of Briggs & Stratton | New Star | 2008 | 3 • MS BF JL

Rachel Zolf | Human Resources | Coach House | 2007 | 3 • BP JP SZ

Richard Deming | Let’s Not Call It Consequence | Shearsman | 2008 | 3 • JB MK PP

Tyrone Williams | On Spec | Omnidawn | 2008 | 3 • KT MK MD

Andrew Joron | The Cry at Zero | Counterpath | 2007 | 2 | PP MD

Anne Boyer | Art is War | Mitzvah | 2008 | 2 | GM BF

Ara Shirinyan | Your Country is Great: Afghanistan-Guyana | Futurepoem | 2008 | 2 | KSM SA

bpNichol, ed. Darren Wershler-Henry | The Alphabet Game: a bpNichol Reader | Coach House | 2007 | 2 | SA MK

Brandon Downing | Dark Brandon | Grievous Pictures | 2007 | 2 | TD MS

C.D. Wright | Rising, Falling, Hovering | Copper Canyon | 2008 | 2 | EM JL

César Vallejo, trans. Clayton Eshleman | The Complete Poetry | California | 2007 | 2 | MK EM

Colin Browne | The Shovel | Talonbooks | 2007 | 2 | MQ PQ

Daniil Kharms, ed. and trans. Matvei Yankelevich | Today I Wrote Nothing: Selected Poems | Overlook | 2007 | 2 | PM GCW

Dolores Dorantes, trans. Jen Hofer | sexoPUROsexoVELOZ and Septiembre | Kenning/Counterpath | 2007 | 2 | JS SN

Elisabeth Workman | Opolis | tÿpøgrafika | 2007 | 2 | AW JL

Gennady Aygi, trans. Peter France | Field—Russia | New Directions | 2007 | 2 | MS GCW

K. Silem Mohammad | Breathalyzer | Edge | 2008 | 2 | MB RK

Katie Degentesh | The Anger Scale | Combo | 2006 | 2 | PM RA

Keston Sutherland | Hot White Andy | Barque | 2007 | 2 | KT JoWi

Laura Moriarty | A Semblance: Selected and New Poems, 1975-2006 | Omnidawn | 2007 | 2 | KR TO

Linda Russo | Mirth | Chax | 2007 | 2 | JB MK

Martha Dandridge Custis | Comment is Free, v1: Participatory Politics for a New Age  | Lil Norton | 2 | MB SA

M.I.A. | Kala | Interscope | 2007 | 2 | JC JoWi

Maggie Nelson | Women, The New York School, and Other True Abstractions | Iowa | 2007 | 2 | PB TO

Marcel Proust  | Swann’s Way | Random & Penguin | 1934 & 2002 | 2 | JB KR

Marjorie Welish | Isle of the Signatories | Coffee House | 2008 | 2 | KT PP

Nathaniel Mackey | Bass Cathedral | New Directions | 2008 | 2 | DD JP

Peter Gizzi | The Outernationale | Wesleyan | 2007 | 2 | RS SZ

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Torques: Drafts 58-76 | Salt | 2007 | 2 | PB EM

Rob Halpern | Rumored Place | Krupskaya | 2004 | 2 | BrFl JoWi

Rosmarie Waldrop | Curves to the Apples | New Directions | 2006 | 2 | SN GCW

Susan Landers | Covers | O Books | 2007 | 2 | SN CEPT

Ted Greenwald | 3 | Cuneiform | 2008 | 2 | BrFl SZ

Tom Raworth | Let Baby Fall | Critical Documents | 2008 | 2 | KT RS