BAX 2020 : best American experimental writing / guest editors, Carmen Maria Machado and Joyelle McSweeney ; series editors, Seth Abramson and Jesse Damiani ; managing editor, Michael Martin Shea.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Machado, Carmen Maria, editor.

McSweeney, Joyelle, 1976- editor.

Abramson, Seth, 1976- editor.

Damiani, Jesse, editor.

Shea, Michael Martin, editor.

Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Series:

Best American experimental writing.

Best American experimental writing

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Literature, Experimental--United States--21st century.

Literature, Experimental.

Experimental poetry, American--21st century.

Experimental poetry, American.

United States.

Physical Description:

xiv, 462 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Best American experimental writing 2020

Place of Publication:

Middletown, Connecticut : Wesleyan University Press, [2020]

Summary:

"A collection of exceptionally inventive and exploratory American writing from 2018 to 2020"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: From Okazaki Fragments / Kanika Agrawal

Cowboy Confusion / Alejandro Albarran Polanco

From I Lick Everything at Target: Meditations for Making Peace with the Moral Ambiguities of Consumerism and Reconciling Your Need for Things with the Ravages of Global Capitalism / Emily Anderson

Do Not Believe Me Were I to Talk to You of War I Didn't Believe I Would Ever Learn to Die / Asmaa Azaizeh

From Nympholepsy / Alyssa Morharot-Golostein

Death and the Maiden / Anne Boyer

Little Skin Bag / Bridget Brewer

From Kids of the Black Hole / Marty Cain

From "A Refuge for Jae-in Doe: Fugues in the Key of English Major" / Sed-Ydung Chu

From Airport Novella / Tom Cdmitta

Forced Center / Rdbert C.L. Crawford

The Lovers / Deuyn Defoe

Girls, Monsters / Jaquira Diaz

Agents Orange, Yellow, and Red It Turns Out the Starting Material for the Earliest Forms of Life is a Carcinogen Hormone / Adam Dickinson

From Venus Edamame Bronze Glitches Thy Shade Shines So / Donald Dunbar

From "Shigeko, Let's Hitchhike to Japan" / Anai's Duplan

The Enormous Radio / Leah Sophia Dworkin

Anabasis / Amal El-Mohtar

Understory / Ethan Feuer

Engendered:: Non[fiction] / Sarah Gallien

From Fortune / Adam Greenberg

From Think of Lampedusa / Josue Guebo

Battery / Jane Eaton Hamilton

Memoirs of an Imaginary Country / Maria Dahuana Headley

About the Poem I Feel Most Black Error 404: Binaries Not Rendered / Kamden Hilliard

For the treatment of ear-ache / Aua Hofmann

Crisis Actor / Harmony Holiday

From Sky Wri Teings / Nasser Hussain

From frequency modulations / Oliuia Ingram

For Your Pleasure / Negesti Kaudo

Injsaour Flat Heimurinn Petal / Aaron Kent

One Hour, Every Seven Years / Alice Sola Kim

Construction Contractor The Aria from the Rice Chest / Kim Yideum

From Sonnet Infiniteismal n°3 / Material Girln°8 / Aris-Justine Kirby

Unfurl/ed / Matthias Klein

You've Seriously Considered This / Samantha Lamph/Len

As sunlight as watercolor / Saoe Lanay

From The Green Record / Carlos Lara

Byzantium / Lisa Locascio

Their Green Going / Carole Maso

It all melts down to this: a novel in timelines (chapter 12) / Dale Williams

Colon |KoLeN| / Vi Khi Nad

Days of Broken Lead / Nathanael

Schrodinger's Ovaries / E.M. North

Malorum Sanatio / Alice Notley

I dwell in the road to the sea everyone travels and dwell in your house preparing to haunt you if I'm not doing much later and dwell on your face and if you don't aggrieve me I or my daughters might could come back / Danielle Pafunda

Sick in "America" / Alan C. Pelaez Lopez

From Force Drift / Jeffrey Pethybridge

Anarcha and I Negotiate Trauma Edmonia Lewis and I on Academic Leave / Xandria Phillips

From Celestine / Olga Raun

Fragmentos de "la cinta" / fragments from "the ribbon" / Raduel Salas Riuera

Walking along the Avenue of the Suicides, the Cockroach While the Two Slugs Take Turns Drinking Shots of Vodka / Kit Schluter

Path Dependency / Eric Schmaltz

Revenge Porn / Aurui Sharma

Ecdysis / German Sierra

Like Stride Thrones Suspended Sentence / Cedar Sigd

Au Black Blue Moon / Kyra Simone

Test Group 4: Womanhood and Other Failures / S.J. Sindu

[YSL] Haute Couture Maybe The Cubicle // Is Another Incarceration / Christopher Soto

Odette / Joseph Spece

From "War of the Beasts and the Animals" / Maria Stepanoua

Foreign Body Ear / Amital Stern

Black Dog / Alex Terrell

[Untitled Tweet] / Jia Tolentino

Videoteca Fin del Mundo / Aua Tomasula Y. Garcia

On the Problem of Replacement Children / Debbie Urbanski

Christmas Genital Self-Examination / Sarah Uap

From "Assimilation Rooms" / Uanessa Angelica Uillarreal

Cleeve Abbey Suite / G.C. Waldrep

Shock box / Canoice Wuehle

Bijoux in the Dark Shipboard Entertainment / John Yau.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Laura Jan Meyerson Poetry Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: BAX 2020.

ISBN:

9780819579577

0819579572

9780819579584

0819579580

OCLC:

1140698260

Publisher Number:

99986139767