A Forest on Many Stems: Essays on the Poet's Novel provides a unique entrance to the rare prose of many remarkable modern and contemporary poets including Etel Adnan, Renee Gladman, Langston Hughes, Kevin Killian, Alice Notley, Fernando Pessoa, Rainer Maria Rilke, Leslie Scalapino, Jack Spicer, and Jean Toomer, whose approaches to the novel defy conventions of plot, character, setting, and action.
Contributors: Brian Blanchfield, Anne Boyer, John Keene, Mónica de la Torre, Cedar Sigo, and C. D. Wright bring a variety of insights, approaches, and writing styles to the subject with creative and often surprising
results.
Kazim Ali on Fanny Howe
Dan Beachy-Quick on W.G. Sebald
Edmund Berrigan on Ted Berrigan
Brian Blanchfield on Aaron Kunin
Rachel Blau DuPlessis on Gertrude Stein
Julia Bloch on Gwendolyn Brooks
Anne Boyer on Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Traci Brimhall on Hilda Hilst
Vincent Broqua on Stacy Doris
Brandon Brown on Kevin Killian
Lee Ann Brown on Carla Harryman
Angela Carr on Nicole Brossard
Julie Carr on Lyn Hejinian
Norma Cole on Emmanuel Hocquard
Brent Cunningham on Laura Moriarty
Mónica de la Torre on Martín Adán
Marcella Durand on Robert Creeley
Patrick Durgin on Tan Lin & Pamela Lu
Norman Fischer on Phillip Whalen
C.S. Giscombe on Audre Lorde
Judith Goldman on Leslie Scalapino
Carla Harryman on Gail Scott
Jeanne Heuving on Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
Laura Hinton on Alice Notley
Daniel Katz on Jack Spicer
John Keene on Fernando Pessoa
Karla Kelsey on Barbara Guest
Aaron Kunin on Lewis Carroll
Sonnet L'Abbé on M. NourbeSe Philip
Abigail Lang on Jacques Roubaud
Kimberly Lyons on Mina Loy
W. Jason Miller on Langston Hughes
Mette Moestrup on Ingeborg Bachmann
Laura Moriarty on Keith Waldrop
Laura Mullen on Bhanu Kapil
Denise Newman on Inger Christensen
Aldon Lynn Nielsen on Amiri Baraka
Geoffrey G. O'Brien on John Ashbery & James Schuyler
Jena Osman on Thalia Field
Julie Patton on Jean Toomer
Elizabeth Robinson on Rosmarie Waldrop
Jennifer Scappettone on H.D.
Susan Scarlata on Forrest Gander
Brandon Shimoda on Etel Adnan
Cedar Sigo on Eileen Myles
Sasha Steensen on Anne Carson
Donna Stonecipher on Peter Waterhouse
Brian Teare on Rainer Maria Rilke
Tyrone Williams on Nathaniel Mackey
C.D. Wright on Michael Ondaatje
Lynn Xu on Ben Lerner
Rachel Zolf on Juliana Spahr