BAX 2015

Best American Experimental Writing

Seth Abramson, Jesse Damiani, Douglas Kearney

• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• ISBN:
  9780819576095
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Poetry
• Index: Literature

BAX 2015 is the second volume of an annual literary anthology compiling the best experimental writing in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. This year’s volume, guest edited by Douglas Kearney, features seventy-five works by some of the most exciting American poets and writers today, including established authors—like Dodie Bellamy, Anselm Berrigan, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Cathy Park Hong, Bhanu Kapil, Aaron Kunin, Joyelle McSweeney, and Fred Moten—as well as emerging voices. Best American Experimental Writing is also an important literary anthology for classroom settings, as individual selections are intended to provoke lively conversation and debate. The series coeditors are Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Guest Editor’s Introduction
• Series Editors’ Introduction
• [ To electrify the abyss ] from The General Scatterings and Comment
• tape 3
• from “Three Little Novels”
• The Formation of This Grotesque Fatty Figure
• Cunt Wordsworth from Cunt Norton
• rectangle 71
• Rejected Submissions to “The Complete Baby Name Wizard”
• Mack Daddy Manifesto
• Body as a Juncture of Almost
• Everyone’s a Poet
• Sanford, Florida
• bhanu feeds soham a concession
• [XYLO]
• from Titanic
• This is How I Will Sell More Poetry Than Any Poet in the History of the Poetry
• The Ambidextrous
• from Liberation Music Orchestra
• Incisor / Canine
• from “You Are My Ducati”
• Conspiracy Simile [A Poet’s Guide to the Assassination of JFK and the Assassination of Poetry]
• The Panthera tigris
• “Time After Time”
• Movie Version: “Hell to Eternity”
• 4 and 5 from “Early Evening”
• Number Two of the Eleven Calamities
• Email Exchange
• “Black Studies” and all its children
• from “I Have Devoted My Life to the Clitoris: A History of Small Things”
• The Art of Plumbing
• Simulacra: American Counting Rhyme
• email personas
• from Hummeltopia
• Trouble in Mind
• “Title! Jillwrites Curates Maps!”
• I didn’t want to go so I didn’t go.
• The overlap of three translations of Kafka’s “Imperial Message”
• Between Chou and the Butterfly
• Monster Checklist
• Insomnia Cycle 44
• from “An Essay on Tickling”
• In the Lower World’s Tiniest Grains
• from I RL, YOU RL
• [G calls] from Juliette and the Boys
• Product Warning
• Mo[dern] [Frame] or a Philosophical Treatise on What Remains between History and the Living Breathing Black Human Female
• Trial of MUSE from Dead Youth, or, The Leaks
• Alienated Labor
• H-Bomb
• rrs FEED
• Through the Park
• harriot + harriott + sound +
• from “The Lacunae”
• The Old Man and the Peach Tree
• Inkling
• The Wash House
• dreamlives of debris: an excerpt
• Doubloon Oath
• Museum Maps
• Deep Sea Divers and Whaleboats
• Cantica
• fukushima blues
• [Dear Emiel]
• illustrated equation no. 1
• from “Mediation in Steam”
• Now, Now Rahm Emmanuel
• MicroGod Schism Song
• from Explosion Rocks Springfield
• Part 2/ 21/ 6 from Study for 14 Pieces for Charles Curtis
• [13 untitled poems]
• Color: A Sequence of Unbearable Happenings
• Unisex One – Seat♥er
• Notice
• Coterie Chair
• Lucy, Finally
• from Bribery
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors