BAX 2016

Best American Experimental Writing

Seth Abramson, Charles Bernstein, Tracie Morris, Jesse Damiani, Seth Abramson, Charles Bernstein, Tracie Morris, Jesse Damiani

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN: 9780819576736
• eBook ISBN: 9780819576750
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: North American Literary Collections
• Index: Literature

BAX 2016: Best American Experimental Writing is the third volume of this annual literary anthology compiling the best experimental writing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. This year's volume, guest-edited by Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris, features seventy-five works by some of the most exciting American poets and writers today, including established authors—like Sina Queyras, Tan Lin, Christian Bök, Myung Mi Kim, Juliana Spahr, Samuel R. Delany, and even Barack Obama—as well as emerging voices. Intended to provoke lively conversation and debate, Best American Experimental Writing is an ideal literary anthology for contemporary classroom settings.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Charles Bernstein and Tracie Morris: Guest Editors’ Introduction
• Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani: Series Editors’ Introduction
• Samuel Ace: Private Prisons
• Diana Adams: from Oulipo-Pied Poems
• Steven Alvarez: tupontu
• Mark Amerika: from Locus Solus
• Jennifer Bartlett: from The Hindrances of a Householder
• Lesley Battler: Peak Oil Exile
• Christian BöK: The Nocturne of Orpheus
• Anne Boyer: The Animal Model of Inescapable Shock
• M.K. Brake: Taxidermy for Dummies
• Brandon Brown: Zedd ft. Foxes, “Clarity”
• Lonely Christopher: Christmas Day
• Lonely Christopher: Mother’s Day
• Lonely Christopher: Return to Fire Island
• Maxwell Owen Clark: Prosodic Retardation
• Mark Z. Danielewski: from The Familiar
• Kevin Davies: from FPO
• Nathaniel Davis: from “This Is When I’m Speaking”
• Samuel R. Delany: Email to Tracie Morris, November 21, 2015
• Erik Didriksen: [My mem’ry gazes back on young romance]
• Erik Didriksen: [I notice my belovèd on thy arm]
• Craig Dworkin: from In Quire, March 27, 2015
• Tim Fielder: from Matty’s Rocket
• Richard Foreman: The Roper’s Daughter
• Tonya M. Foster: In Tongues
• Peter Gizzi: Song
• Jody Gladding: Five Poems
• Mira Gonzalez: from Selected Tweets
• Jean Grae: Crux
• E. Tracy Grinnell: from “death / is an / innumerable / accuracy”
• Gabriel Gudding: from “Amnicola”
• Joseph Harrington: Cotton Still Tops in Area Economy
• Jen Hofer: from “Interventions: Notes on Translating Intervenir”
• Erica Hunt: Should You Find Me
• Darius James and TâN Khánh Cao: Light Headed
• Patricia Spears Jones: Self-Portrait as Shop Window
• Erica Kaufman: [how speech might help]
• Jake Kennedy: Elegy for Harold Ramis
• Myung Mi Kim: from Civil Bound
• Michael Kirby: from Glossary
• Sonnet L’Abbé: XXIII
• Sonnet L’Abbé: XXXIII
• Sonnet L’Abbé: LVII
• Monroe Lawrence: No modernism
• George E. Lewis: Soprano Part for Impromptu
• Tan Lin: 621B
• Corbin Louis: Buck Moon
• Corbin Louis: Hooves
• Corbin Louis: Claim Number 1468981
• Janice A. Lowe: Boy Flower Tamir
• Chris Mann: from www.theuse.info
• D. S. Marriott: The Bunker
• Jimmy Mcinnes: Begin Speech With
• Kevin Mcpherson Eckhoff: from Their Biography: An Organism of Relationships
• K. Silem Mohammad: from The Sonnagrams
• Wangechi Mutu: from The End of Eating Everything
• A. L. Nielsen: from Tray
• Jenn Marie Nunes And Mel Coyle: from SAGEN
• Barack Obama: from “Remarks by the President at the 50th Anniversary of the Selma to Montgomery Marches”
• Shelagh Patterson: )-(
• Julie Ezelle Patton: from “Do Process”
• Trace Peterson: After Before and After
• Sina Queyras: The Jailor
• Aoife Roberts: from the fact-check of Valeria Luiselli’s The Story of My Teeth
• Lisa Robertson: from “Notes on Form and Belief”
• Metta Sáma: there is no flash
• James Sanders: from “Plants (Mistakes)”
• James Sanders: Mesoscape
• James Sanders: Plants (Jimmy Connors)
• Jennifer Scappettone: Imagine a Cinder-Wench
• Richard Schechner: The Humane Society
• Carolee Schneemann: from “A Response to Maura Reilly’s ‘Taking the Measure of Sexism: Facts, Figures, and Fixes’”
• Sarah Schulman, Jack Waters, And Stephen Winter: from Jason and Shirley
• Dread Scott: Runaway Shot
• Dread Scott: If White People Didn’t Invent Air
• Rod Smith: Poem
• Juliana Spahr: Went Looking and Found Coyotes
• Fakhair Spence: [The last writing of me]
• Moez Surani: from “عملية Operación Opération Operation 行动 Oперация”
• Ko Ko Thett: the burden of being bama
• Edwin Torres: Of Worship and Flight
• Edwin Torres: Bang Bawl Bocconi Birds Unspaced
• Richard Tuttle: Pain and Construction of Envy
• Imani Uzuri: no denial
• Elizabeth Willis: Plot
• Matvei Yankelevich: from Some Worlds for Dr. Vogt
• Young Paris: Kaké!
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors