Introduction / Eileen Myles --
“Untitled” / Alice Notley --
“we’re the only colored people here” / Gwendolyn Brooks --
“People Without Names” / The Friend --
“Loveland” / Kevin Killian --
“Yesterday I Was” / Ama Birch --
“Afterword: The Great Punctuation Typography Struggle” / Andrea Dworkin --
“Truth or Consequences” / Ariana Reines --
Excerpt from The Pain Journal / Bob Flanagan --
“A Description of the Camp” / Baha’ Ebdeir --
“Would You Wear My Eyes?” / Bob Kaufman --
“August 6, 2011” / Brandon Shimoda --
Excerpt from The Romanian: Story of an Obsession / Bruce Benderson --
“My Faggot Kansas Blood Confessions to the Earth” and “MyFaggot Blood on His Fist” / CAConrad --
“Reading My Catastrophe” / Camille Roy --
“Soap Bubbles in the Dirty Water” / Can Xue --
Excerpt from Texas: The Great Theft / Carmen Boullosa --
Excerpt from My Mother Laughs / Chantal Akerman --
“Before You Go” / Charles Bernstein --
Excerpt from If He Hollers, Let Him Go / Chester Himes --
Excerpt from I Love Dick / Chris Kraus --
Excerpt from “Some Other Deaths of Bas Jan Ader” / Dana Ward --
“Being Close to Data” / Dara Barrois/Dixon --
Excerpt from God Jr. / Dennis Cooper --
Excerpt from “Fat Chance” / Dodie Bellamy --
Excerpts from Nightwood / Djuna Barnes --
“Campaign Letter for President of the United States, 1991” / Eileen Myles --
“that flaming brand” and “Boulder/Meteor” / essa mayranapiri --
Excerpts from Sitt Marie Rose / Etel Adnan --
“A Child in Old Age” and “A Vision” / Fanny Howe --
“there is religious tattooing” / Fred Moten --
“Play It Again, S” / Gail Scott --
Excerpt from Letter to His Father / Franz Kafka --
Excerpt from Lenz / Georg Büchner --
Excerpt from My Dog Tulip / J. R. Ackerley --
“My Struggle” / Jack Halberstam --
“This Dark Apartment” / James Schuyler --
“Chronicle” / Frank B. Wilderson III --
Excerpt from Winter in the Blood / James Welch --
“An Obituary” / Joe Proulx --
“The Merry Widow and The Rubber Husband (or How I Caught HIV:Version 4; Fall 1983)” / Joe Westmoreland --
“The Copyists” / Jocelyn Saidenberg --
“Catullus Tells Me Not to Write the Rant Against the Poem ‘Good Bones’ / Maggie Smith” / The Cyborg Jillian Weise --
Selections from The Hotel Wentley Poems / JohnWieners --
“The Cult of the Phoenix” / Jorge Luis Borges --
“A Woman Is Talking to Death” / Judy Grahn --
“You Better Come” / Justin Torres --
“New Haven” / Karla Cornejo Villavicencio --
“SMALL/MEDIUM/LUST” / Andrea Abi-Karam --
Excerpt from Great Expectations / Kathy Acker --
“38” / Layli Long Soldier --
Excerpt from Light While There Is Light / Keith Waldrop --
“Shadow Janitor” / Kim Hyesoon --
Excerpt from Children in Reindeer Woods / Kristín Ómarsdóttir --
“In Case I Don’t Notice,” “God Gives You What You CanHandle,” and “The Only Good” / Laura Henriksen --
Excerpt from The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman / Laurence Sterne --
Excerpt from Wigger / Lawrence Braithwaite --
“Worms Make Heaven” / Laurie Weeks --
“the mother’s story” and “slave cabin, sotterly plantation, maryland, 1989” / Lucille Clifton --
Excerpt from No Lease on Life / Lynne Tillman --
Excerpt from All the Battles / Maan Abu Taleb --
Selections from Bluets / Maggie Nelson --
“East River Park Oak Tree” / Marcella Durand --
Excerpt from “Potatoes or Rice?” / Matthew Stadler --
“For the Death of 100 Whales,” “Flower Garland Froth,” and“Fleshy Nave” / Michael McClure --
“Polishness” / Michelle Tea --
“haiku,” “untitled 8,” “5 years old,” and “untitled 2” / Mira Gonzalez --
“Sum,” “People Like Monsters,” “How to,” and “Great” / Morgan Võ --
“Wedding Loop” / Moyra Davey --
“My Brother, My Wound” / Natalie Diaz --
Excerpts from Goner / Nate Lippens --
“it doesn’t matter how you fall into light, she said” and “think of the words as angels singing in your vagina, she said” / Akilah Oliver --
“Los Angeles” / Porochista Khakpour --
“NIIZH” / Nicole Wallace --
“Letter Three” / Qiu Miaojin --
“Intercepts” / Rae Armantrout --
“The Gift of Sight” / Rebecca Brown --
Selection from The Activist / Renee Gladman --
“April 4 Friday” / Rose “Rosebud” Feliu-Pettet --
“Kleist in Thun” / Robert Walser --
“Ed and the Movies” / Robert Glück --
“Four times over,” “I see you and I am getting closer,” and “Strain”/ Sallie Fullerton --
“Yesterday I went to him full of dismay” / Rumi --
“Manual for General Housework” / Saidiya Hartman --
Excerpt from Molloy / Samuel Beckett --
Excerpt from Times Square Red, Times Square Blue / Samuel R. Delany --
Selections from The Pillow Book / Sei Shōnagon --
Excerpt from Notes Toward a Pamphlet / Sergio Chejfec --
“Letter I: Hesitations Concerning Baptism” / Simone Weil --
“Stingray” / Simone White --
“it’s dissociation season” / Precious Okoyomon --
“TOTAL LOL” / Sophie Robinson --
"The Slow Read Movement” and “Lincoln’s Lost Speech” / Sparrow --
“Inez, I Have to Gloat: You’re Gorgeous” and “Inez, When Someone Tells You You’re a Bitch” / Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz --
“Where I Left Off” / Susie Timmons --
“Falling for You” / Tim Johnson and Mark So --
“Email to Mark Tim” / Eileen Myles --
Selection from Up Your Ass / Valerie Solanas --
“Goodbye Forever” / Steve Carey --
Excerpt from La Bâtarde / Violette Leduc --
Selection from The Tyranny of Structurelessness / Tom Cole --
“Time” / Victoria Chang --
“A Story that the United States is Made of” and “Pass” / Tongo Eisen-Martin --
Excerpts from The Man Who Laughs / Victor Hugo --
“MW Duet,” “Awake,” “Body,” and “Orlando” / Will Farris --
After Words / Eileen Myles.
