Peter Gizzi, Threshold Songs (2011)

Gizzi's poems reach persistently for what comes to seem like the ghost of the beauty of the world.

Catherine Wagner, Miss America (2001)

Jack Spicer's Martians are back, but now they're talking wild girl-talk. In Catherine Wagner's Miss America, public and private collide in a new way, like matter and anti-matter. This is a conflagration. "That is damage talk," she ways, "Want to watch me/Make it." And I do. In fact, if I died, I might want to come back as Catherine Wagner.