Featured Title – The Nancy Book by Joe Brainard

Joe Brainard | The Nancy Book | Siglio | 2008 | Goodreads | LibraryThing | 4 mentions in Attention Span 2008

A much-anticipated event, heightened even further for me by getting to see the exhibit at Colby College, Maine, at which many of these works were on display, earlier this summer. (K. Silem Mohammad)

“I have burned down the sky.” (C.E. Putnam)

Also mentioned by Richard Deming and Gina Myers,

Attention Span – Michael Kelleher

Roberto Bolaño, trans. Natasha Wimmer | The Savage Detectives | Picador | 2008

Juliana Spahr | The Transformation | Atelos | 2007

Tyrone Williams | On Spec | Omnidawn | 2008

Richard Deming | Let’s Not Call It Consequence | Shearsman | 2008

Susan Howe | Souls of the Labadie Tract| New Directions | 2007

Thomas Mann | The Magic Mountain, trans. John E. Woods | Everyman’s Library | 2005

César Vallejo, trans. Clayton Eshleman | The Complete Poetry: A Bilingual Edition |  California | 2007

bpNichol, ed. Darren Wershler-Henry and Lori Emerson | The Alphabet Game: A bpNichol Reader | Coach House | 2007

Gary Sullivan | PPL In A Depot | Roof | 2008

Linda Russo | Mirth | Chax | 2007

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More Michael Kelleher here.

Attention Span – Patrick Pritchett

Rod Smith | Deed | Iowa | 2007

“The Good House” is a poem that is never less than itself, continually reinventing the topos of dwelling through the tropos of surprise.

Marjorie Welish | Isle of Signatories | Coffee House | 2008

Every sign is always already a form of annotation.

Joshua Clover | The Totality for Kids | California | 2006

The Romantic crisis poem cold-filtered for your drinking pleasure through the radical tradition of the Denkbild. Dude, it will make you weep.

Andrew Joron | The Cry at Zero| Counterpath | 2007

Who, if they cried, would utter zero, hallowed, forever?

Hank Lazer | The New Spirit | Singing Horse | 2005
Hank Lazer | Lyric & Spirit: Selected Essays, 1996-2008 | Omnidawn | 2008

The letter liveth so that the spirit might too.

Richard Deming | Let’s Not Call It Consequence | Shearsman | 2008

Incommensurate space between the verb and the noun. Whatever we dream, whatever we group by words.

Ed Barrett | Bosston | Pressed Wafer | 2008

The radioactive ghosts of Yeats and Whitey Bulger clash by night in the abandoned remnants of Scolley Square.

Amy Catanzano |  iEpiphany | Erudite Fangs | 2008

Cellular constellations, bright with fractal intelligence.

Julie Carr | Equivocal | Alice James | 2007

The work of the work of mourning in “Iliadic.” Stop this endless war.

Jay Wright | The Presentable Art of Reading Absence | Dalkey Archive | 2008

Intelligence as a dying art. Promise of the garden and the smoke that is sweetness.

Philip Lamantia | Tau | City Lights | 2008

Vatic American nerve tree.

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More Patrick Pritchett here.

Attention Span – Joel Bettridge

Richard Deming | Let’s Not Call It Consequence | Shearsman Books | 2008

Rachel Zolf | Human Resources  | Coach House | 2007

Sophocles, trans. John Tipton | Ajax  | Flood | 2008

Mark Scroggins | The Poem of a Life: A Biography of Louis Zukofsky | Shoemaker & Hoard | 2007

Jonathan Edwards | “A Treatise Concerning Religious Affections” | in A Jonathan Edwards Reader |Yale | 2003

Marcel Proust | Swann’s Way | Random House | 1934

Ted Pearson | Encryptions |Singing Horse | 2007

Jules Boykoff and Kaia Sand | Landscapes of Dissent: Guerrilla Poetry and Public Space  | Palm Press | 2008

Ulf Stolterfoht, trans. by Rosmarie Waldrop | Lingos | Cuneiform Press | 2007

Linda Russo | Mirth | Chax | 2007

Elizabeth Arnold | Civilization | Flood | 2006