Listed on Silliman's blog today, July 2/05

Wave Books is publisher of Laynie Browne's The Scented Fox.











State of the Union
50 Political Poems

Edited by Wave Books
Release Date: September 1, 2008


Blurb from Wave Books website:

From the front lines of American poetics

William Carlos Williams wrote, It is difficult/to get the news from poems/ yet men die miserably every day/ for lack/ of what is found there. State of the Union brings together 50 American poets whose work boldly illustrates the urgency of Williams?s forewarning.

Contributors Include:
John Ashbery, James Tate, Fanny Howe, Anselm Berrigan, Eileen Myles, Terrance Hayes, Albert Goldbarth, Cathy Wagner, Tao Lin, Michael Palmer, Lucille Clifton, Joe Wenderoth, John Yau, Richard Siken, CAConrad, Rebecca Wolff, Peter Gizzi, Juliana Spahr, Wang Ping and many more.


ISBN #9781933517339
Poetry Anthology, $14.00 paper (5.75x7.5 144pp)