What Is Poetry? (Just Kidding, I Know You Know): Interviews from the Poetry Project Newsletter (1983 - 2009)The Poetry Project was founded in 1966 for the overlapping circles of poets in the Lower East Side of New York. These interviews from The Poetry Project Newsletter form a kind of conversation over time between some of the late 20th century's most influential poets and artists, who have come together in this legendary venue over the past 50 years

" comes into being and Blackness on the page

of lexical variation and sonic beauty

with additional gold ink to the outside

“My vocabulary did this to me

Mark Duggan and others

Nomenclature: New and Collected Poems features the searching and centering cantos of Primitive Offensive

' A tribute to the Congo forms the bridge and brisé vole of the book: the Congo as 'charged aural colony' and 'primal interconnection

The baby will feed

forgetfulness

With resignation and austerity

This volume includes the full text of the 1958 edition of his influential and scarce The Hotel Wentley Poems

are a fascinating window into an evolving practice