ATTENTION SPAN 2006

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The forty-six contributors to Attention Span 2006 referred to a total of 480 books, chapbooks, songs, films, magazines, websites, exhibits, and various other cultural phenomena in their lists (the number goes up if you count titles embedded in comments).

The forty-four book titles mentioned more than once in the roundup are listed below in order of frequency of mention. (Clicking on a contributor's initials will take you to his or her full list.)

Drew Gardner | Petroleum Hat | Roof | 2005 | AB BF JF MS GS RK RS
Lisa Robertson | The Men | BookThug | 2006 | JM DD FW JL MQ TO RS
Elizabeth Willis | Meteoric Flowers | Wesleyan | GCW JL JP MP NEG NK
Joshua Clover | The Totality for Kids | 2006 | DW JP LC MP JF NEG
Stephanie Young, ed. | Bay Poetics | Faux | 2006 | AB DW JM JC
Michael Magee | Mainstream | BlazeVox | 2006 | AB GS KK RK
Nathaniel Mackey | Splay Anthem | New Directions | 2006 | DD JP PG SC
Brent Cunningham | Bird & Forest | Ugly Duckling | 2005 | JM RK GCW
Caroline Bergvall | Fig | Salt | 2005 | DD JS MP
Alice Notley | Grave of Light | Wesleyan | 2006 | RS PG TO
Mei-mei Berssenbrugg | I Love Artists | California | 2006 | JF GCW JC
Stacy Doris | Knot | Georgia | 2006 | JW MS CT
Rodney Koeneke | Musee Mechanique | BlazeVox | 2006 | AB DW GS
Robert Creeley | On Earth | California | 2006 | RS JT PQ
Rob Halpern | Rumored Place | Krupskaya | 2004 | CT NEG SC
Anselm Berrigan | Some Notes on My Programming | Edge | 2006 | MN MS RS
Stephanie Young | Telling the Future Off | Tougher Disguises | 2005 | AB RK MN
Lara Glenum | The Hounds of No | Action | 2005 | AB LC FB
Juliana Spahr | This Connection of Everyone with Lungs | California | 2005 | JH MD FW
Charles C. Mann | 1491 | Knopf | 2005 | MQ PQ
Paolo Javier | 60 lv bo(e)mbs | O | 2005 | PQ JS
Peter Gizzi | A Panic That Can Still Come Upon Me | Ugly Duckling | 2006 | MP JP
Arkadii Dragomoschenko | Chinese Sun | Ugly Duckling | 2005 | LS DD
Leslie Bumstead | Cipher/Civilian | Edge | 2005 | SC CT
David Mitchell | Cloud Atlas | Vintage Canada | 2004 | MQ PQ
Geraldine Monk | Escafeld Hangings | West House | 2005 | DD JL
Anna Moschovakis | I Have Not Been Able To Get Through To Everyone | Turtle Point | DW PG
Eugene Ostachevsky | Iterature | Ugly Duckling | 2005 | JL JM
Shanxing Wang | Mad Science in Imperial City | Futurepoem | 2005 | NEG JS
Brandon Brown | Memoirs of My Nervous Illness | Cy Press | 2006 | JoSa MN
Joanna Fuhrman | Moraine | Hanging Loose | 2005 | KK RK
Bernadette Mayer | Scarlet Tanager | New Directions | 2005 | TO RS
Pam Rehm | Small Works | Flood | 2005 | GF PG
Ange Mlinko | Starred Wire | Coffee House | 2005 | LC JL
Heather Fuller | Startle Response | O | 2005 | TO RS
Kathryn L. Pringle | Temper and Felicity Are Loves | Taxt | 2006 | KK JoSa
Walter Benjamin | The Arcades Project | Harvard | 2002 | LC JR
Cole Swensen | The Book Of A Hundred Hands | Iowa | 2005 | JR MP
Ted Berrigan | The Collected Poems | California | 2005 | RS JP
Daniel Bouchard | The Filaments | Zasterle | 2006 | PG KK
Charles Baudelaire, trans. Keith Waldrop | Flowers of Evil | Wesleyan | 2006 | PQ PG
Lisa Jarnot | The Iliad: Book XXII | Atticus/Finch | 2006 | RS JeHa
Kenneth Goldsmith | The Weather | Make Now | 2005 | MP SC