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Charles Bernstein provides a foreword to the edition. You can read the essay on which this is based here. You can also listen to Maggie reading from this book, as well as to an interview with Charles Bernstein at the University of Pennsylvania, here.
For more about Maggie O'Sullivan, go to her website.
2006, 1-874400-36-9, price £15, 330pp
Linguistically innovative poetry by women in North America & the UK
Edited and with an introduction by Maggie O’Sullivan Afterword by Wendy Mulford
Linguistically innovative poetry, language-centred poetry, call it what you will, is often thought of as a male preserve. This anthology paints a very different picture. It demonstrates that some of the most challenging and exciting new work over recent years is being made by women.
The 30 poets included in this anthology are: Rae Armantrout, Caroline Bergvall, Nicole Brossard, Paula Claire, Tina Darragh, Deanna Ferguson, Kathleen Fraser, Barbara Guest, Carla Harryman, Lyn Hejinian, Fanny Howe, Susan Howe, Grace Lake, Karen MacCormack, Bernadette Mayer, Geraldine Monk, Wendy Mulford, Melanie Neilson, Maggie O’Sullivan, Carlyle Reedy, Joan Retallack, Denise Riley, Lisa Robertson, Leslie Scalapino, Catriona Strang, Fiona Templeton, Rosmarie Waldrop, Diane Ward, Hannah Weiner, Marjorie Welish.
Funding from London Arts Board/Eastern Arts gratefully acknowledged.
1996, reprinted 2006, 1-874400-08-3, price £12.50, 256pp
Maggie O’Sullivan is an artist and poet whose work consciously exploits and realises the full potential of language. This, her ninth book, is a summation of the theme of shamanism which has run through much of her poetry, painting, assemblages and performances.
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Maggie O'Sullivan was one of the first poets to be published by Reality Street, and was the editor of the press's bestselling anthology 
Maggie O’Sullivan