ATTENTION SPAN 2009

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The sixty contributors to Attention Span 2009 referred to a total of 663 books, chapbooks, songs, films, magazines, websites, exhibits, and other cultural phenomena (the number increases significantly if titles embedded in comments are counted).

The seventy-eight titles mentioned more than once in the roundup are listed below in order of frequency of mention.

Few of the works mentioned here circulate in the big box economy. They are best ordered directly from the publishers themselves or from Bridge Street Books and SPD.

Titles by frequency of mention

Jennifer Moxley | Clampdown | Flood | 2009 | AB CH DD JP JuSp MG PB RA SA ST <note

Rachel Loden | Dick of the Dead | Ahsahta | 2009 | BF DB PB PM RA JF JK
Lisa Robertson | Lisa Robertson's Magenta Soul Whip | Coach House | 2009 | CH GCW KK MQ RA DD PB

Mel Nichols | Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon | Edge | 2009 | BF CAC CEP CH RK KSM
David Brazil & Sara Larsen, eds. | Try! Magazine | ongoing | AlWa BrBr CS ET RK SS

al-Husayn ibn Ahmad ibn Khalawayh, trans. and ed. David Larsen | Names of the Lion | Atticus/Finch | 2009 | AlWa DaBu JeSc KSM RK
Roberto Bolaño, trans. Natasha Wimmer | 2666 | Farrar | 2008 | CH GCW JK JuSp RA
Fanny Howe | The Winter Sun: Notes on a Vocation | Graywolf | 2009 | DB GCW JP PP SC
Barbara Guest, ed. Hadley Haden Guest | The Collected Poems | Wesleyan | 2008 | CA CH RK LS PP

David Buuck | The Shunt | Palm | 2009 | CAC JuSp KK SA
CA Conrad | The Book of Frank | Chax | 2009 | AB CA EM MH
Lawrence Giffin | Get the Fuck Back into That Burning Plane | Ugly Duckling | 2009 | AB CD SA JM
Renee Gladman | To After That (TOAF) | Atelos | 2008 | AB CH JuSp SA
Rob Halpern | Disaster Suites | Palm | 2009 | BF BrBr CAC JeSc
Kevin Killian | Action Kylie | ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni | 2008 | BrBr JK KSM MS
Stephanie Young | Picture Palace | ingirumimusnocteetconsumimurigni | 2008 | CH KSM RK SA

Dodie Bellamy | Barf Manifesto | Ugly Duckling | 2008 | CS DaBu JM
Norma Cole | Natural Light | Libellum | 2009 | DD KK KT
Kevin Davies | The Golden Age of Paraphernalia | Edge | 2008 | KSM JL RA
Robert Fitterman | Rob the Plagiarist | Roof | 2009 | AlWa KSM MN
Michael Gizzi | New Depths of Deadpan | Burning Deck | 2009 | KR RK SS
K. Lorraine Graham | Terminal Humming | Edge | 2009 | HA JM KSM
Lyn Hejinian | Saga/Circus | Omnidawn | 2008 | CA JB KR
Devin Johnston | Sources | Turtle Point | 2008 | DB JB JP
Andrew Joron | The Sound Mirror | Flood | 2009 | DD KR PP
Tan Lin | Heath (Plagiarism / Outsource) | Zasterle | 2009 | DaBu JK JM
Eileen Myles | The Importance of Being Iceland | Semiotext(e) | 2009 | ER PB TP
Chris Nealon | Plummet | Edge | 2009 | JL JF KSM
Vanessa Place & Robert Fitterman | Notes on Conceptualism | Ugly Duckling | 2009 | BrBr JeSc KSM
Kit Robinson | The Messianic Trees: Selected Poems 1976-2003 | Adventures in Poetry | BF RA RK
Douglas Rothschild | Theogony | Subpress | 2009 | AB JF MS
Jack Spicer, ed. Peter Gizzi and Kevin Killian | My Vocabulary Did This to Me | Wesleyan | 2008 | AE CAGCW
Suzanne Stein | Hole in Space | OMG! | 2009 | AlWa CS KK
Stacy Szymaszek | Hyperglossia | Litmus | 2009 | AB CAC LS
Anne Tardos | I Am You | Salt | 2008 | BrBr KR SS

John Ashbery | Collected Poems 1956-1987 | Library of America | 2008 | BB MS
Micah Ballard | Parish Krewes | Bootstrap | 2009 | CS SA
Bill Berkson | Portrait and Dream | Coffee House | 2009 | JF TD
Anne Boyer | Art is War | Mitzvah | 2008 | AlWa DaBu
Anne Boyer | Odali$qued | Blogspot | ongoing | BrBr JK
CA Conrad | (Soma)tic Midge | Faux | 2008 | AB DaBu
Clark Coolidge & Bernadette Mayer | The Cave | Adventures in Poetry | 2008 | CD KR
Peter Cully | The Age of Briggs & Stratton | New Star | 2008 | CEP MQ
Joseph Donahue | Terra Lucida | Talisman | 2009 | LS SC
Brad Flis | Peasants | Patrick Lovelace | 2009 | JK JM
Barbara Guest | Forces of Imagination | Kelsey | 2003 | CH ER
Carla Harryman | Adorno's Noise | Essay | 2008 | GCW KR
Daniel Heller-Roazen | Echolalias: On the Forgetting of Language | Zone | 2005 | OB SN
Lisa Jarnot | Night Scenes | Flood | 2008 | MG TC
Kent Johnson | Homage to the Last Avant-Garde | Shearsman | 2008 | JL PM
Myung Mi Kim | Penury | Omnidawn | 2009 | CA ER
Dana Teen Lomax | Disclosure | Dusie / Ubu | 2009 | CD DaBu
Karen Mac Cormack | Implexures (Complete Edition) | Chax / West House | CA ST
Filip Marinovich | Zero Readership | Ugly Duckling | 2008 | CS KK
Joseph Massey | Areas of Fog | Shearsman | 2009 | CAC RA
Sharon Mesmer | Annoying Diabetic Bitch | Combo / Zasterle | 2007 | JW PM
Yedda Morrison | Darkness | Little Red Leaves | 2009 | CD DaBu
Yedda Morrison | Girl Scout Nation | Displaced | 2008 | DaBu JM
Hoa Nguyen | Hecate Lochia | Hot Whiskey | 2009 | JL CAC
Mark Nowak | Coal Mountain Elementary | Coffee House | 2009 | JuSp PM
Vanessa Place | Statement of Facts | manuscript | 2009 | AW CD
Kathryn L. Pringle | Right New Biology | Factory School | 2009 | CAC JS
Kim Rosenfield | re:evolution | Les Figues | 2008 | MN HA
Michael Scharf | For Kid Rock / Total Freedom | Spectacular | 2007 | JK SS
Jordan Scott | Blert | Coach House | 2008 | KSM TC
Susan Schultz | Dementia Blog | Singing Horse | 2008 | BF PM
Frank Sherlock | Over Here | Factory School | 2009 | CAC GM MH
Ron Silliman | The Age of Huts (Compleat) | California | 2007 | AE DB RBDP
Ron Silliman | The Alphabet | Alabama | 2008 | AE CA
Laura Sims | Stanger | Fence | 2009 | ER JW
George Stanley | Vancouver: A Poem | New Star | 2008 | MQ PB
Cole Swensen | Ours | California | 2008 | JB TD
Rodrigo Toscano | Collapsible Poetics Theater | Fence | 2008 | DaBu JB KT
Anne Waldman | Manatee/Humanity | Penguin | 2009 | LS RBDP
Keith Waldrop | Transcendental Studies | California | 2009 | ER MG
Jeffrey Yang | An Aquarium | Graywold | JL JP
Andrew Zawacki | Petals of Zero, Petals of One | Talisman | 2009 | JB LS

Most contributors to Attention Span are aware of the fact that Jennifer Moxley and I are partners of long-standing, but since not all visitors to this page will have reason to know that, I mention it by way of disclosure.

Contributor Key

Leonard Schwartz (LS)
Bill Berkson (BB)
Meredith Quartermain (MQ)
Allyssa Wolf (AW)
Cedar Sigo (CS)
Rae Armantrout (RA)
Elizabeth Treadwell (ET)
Jessica Smith (JS)
Stephen Cope (SC)
G.C. Waldrep (GCW)
Brandon Brown (BrBr)
Philip Metres (PM)
Michael Scharf (MS)
Stan Apps (SA)
Charles Alexander (CA)
Don Share (DS)
Joel Bettridge (JB)
John Palattella (JP)
Suzanne Stein (SS)
Patrick Pritchett (PP)
Thomas Devaney (TD)
Pam Brown (PB)
Keith Tuma (KT)
Dan Bouchard (DB)
Rodney Koeneke (RK)
CA Conrad (CAC)
Joshua Edwards (JE)
Chris Hosea (CH)
Elizabeth Robinson (ER)
David Dowker (DD)
Eileen Myles (EM)
Gina Myers (GM)
Joanna Fuhrman (JF)
Scott Thurston (ST)
Alli Warren (AlWa)
Jennifer Scappettone (JeSc)
Andrew Epstein (AE)
David Buuck (DaBu)
Kevin Killian (KK)
Melanie Neilson (MN)
James Wagner (JW)
Josef Kaplan (JK)
Tim Conley (TC)
Rachel Blau DuPlessis (RBDP)
CE Putnam (CEP)
Craig Dworkin (CD)
Joseph Mosconi (JM)
Omar Berrada (OB)
Sawako Nakayasu (SN)
Kit Robinson (KR)
Michael Hennessey (MH)
John Latta (JL)
Benjamin Friedlander (BF)
Barbara Janes Reyes (BJR)
Juliana Spahr (JuSp)
Anselm Berrigan (AB)
Harold Abramowitz (HA)
K. Silem Mohammad (KSM)
Michael Gizzi (MG)
Tim Peterson (TP)