Attention Span 2010 – Anselm Berrigan

Thomas Bernhard, trans. Sophie Wilkins | Correction | Vintage | 1975

Thomas Bernhard, trans. Ewald Osers | Old Masters | Chicago | 1985

Hoa Nguyen | Hecate Lochia | Hot Whiskey | 2009

Allison Cobb | Green-Wood | Heretical Texts | 2010

Murat Nemet-Nejat | The Structure of Escape | Talisman | forthcoming

David Markson | Reader’s Block | Dalkey Archive | 1996

Ralph Waldo Emerson | “Experience” | various | 1844

Robert Bresson, trans. Jonathan Griffin | Notes on the Cinematographer | Green Integer | 1975

Eleni Stecopoulos | Armies of Compassion | Palm | 2010

Lorine Niedecker | “Wintergreen Ridge,” in Collected Works, ed. Jenny Penberthy | California | 2002

Fred Moten | B Jenkins | Duke | 2010

Pattie McCarthy | Table Alphabetical of Hard Words | Apogee | 2010

Jean Fremon | The Paradoxes of Robert Ryman | Burning Square/Brooklyn Rail | 2008

Jess Mynes | Sky Brightly Picked | Skysill | 2009

Alice Notley | Reason & Other Women | Chax | 2010

Karen Weiser | To Light Out | Ugly Duckling | 2010

Stanislaw Lem | Fiasco | Harvest/HBJ | 1987

Ann Lauterbach | “Or To Begin Again” | Penguin | 2009

Robert Fitterman | “This Window Makes Me Feel,” in Rob the Plagiarist | Roof | 2009

More Anselm Berrigan here. His Attention Span for 2009, 2007, 2004. Back to directory.

Attention Span 2010 – Thomas Devaney

L.S. Asekoff | The Gate of Horn | TriQuarterly / Northwestern | 2010

Macgregor Card | Duties of An English Foreign Secretary | Fence | 2010

Allison Cobb | Green-Wood | Factory School | 2010

Joanna Fuhrman | Pageant | Alice James | 2009

Ish Klein | Union! | Canarium | 2009

Dorothea Lasky | Black Life | Wave | 2010

Ann Lauterbach | Or To Begin Again | Penguin | 2009

Pattie McCarthy | Table Alphabetical of Hard Words | Apogee | 2010

Gabriela Mistral, trans. Randall Couch) | Madwomen | Chicago | 2009

Geoffrey O’ Brien | Early Autumn | Salt | 2010

Matvei Yankelevich | Boris By the Sea | Octopus | 2009

Catherine Wagner | My New Job | Fence | 2010

Dara Wier | Selected Poems | Wave | 2009

More on Thomas Devaney here. His Attention Span for 2009, 2008. Back to directory.

Attention Span 2009 – Patrick Pritchett

George Bowering | Kerrisdale Elegies | Talonbooks | 2008

Joseph Ceravolo | Spring in This World of Poor Mutts | Columbia UP | 1968

William Corbett | Opening Day | Hanging Loose | 2009

Rachel Blau DuPlessis | Drafts | various websites

Ted Enslin | Nine | NPF | 2004

Barbara Guest | Collected Poems | Wesleyan | 2008

Michael Heller | Eschaton | Talisman | 2009

Fanny Howe | The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation | Grey Wolf | 2009

Andrew Joron | The Sound Mirror | Flood | 2009

Ann Lauterbach | Or To Begin Again | Penguin | 2009

David Mutschlecner | Sign | Ahsahta | 2007

Gustaf Sobin | The Earth as Air | 1982 | New Directions

More Patrick Pritchett here.

Awkward and Luminous

Ann Lauterbach – The French Girl (2’29”). Recorded December 4, 2006 for Charles Bernstein’s Close Listening radio program on WPS1. Text here. First collected in Clamor, 1991. More about Lauterbach here. Selection inspired by Wordsalad’s playlist from June 11, 2009, which features this track.