Another collection of collaborative poems from poets Simone Muench and Jackie K. White

Foreword / by Ed Roberson --

Scorch --

I.

Self-portrait lined by Anna Akhmatova -- Portrait as landscape: untranslatable -- Utterance -- Not a metaphor -- Self-portrait lined by Alejandra Pizarnik -- Bright obvious -- Department of Brokenness -- Portrait as landscape: dear dark garden -- Self-portrait lined by Mina Loy -- Elegy lined by Robert Desnos -- Portrait as landscape: seam -- Elegy lined by Maxine Kumin -- Self-portrait lined by Rosario Castellanos -- Rebuttal -- Self-portrait lined by Bella Akhmadulina --

II.

Against teleology -- From a grimoire -- Portrait as landscape: in this grim play -- Dismantling -- Cleave -- Overtone -- Spoil -- Sea-sprung -- Light in a dead hour -- Self portrait lined by Dahlia Ravikovitch -- Portrait as landscape: scale -- Salt lick -- Mutations -- Abecedarian for the walking woman --

III.

Self-portrait lined by Eavan Boland -- Elegy lined by Atilla Jözsef -- Slow dive -- Weight of stillness -- Elegy lined by Wallace Stevens -- Bound -- Portrait as landscape: requiem -- Self-portrait lined by Tomas Tranströmer -- Of salt and ache and rendering -- Another broken glass -- Pall -- Tense -- Self-portrait lined by Odysseas Elytis -- My body is an endless eye -- Elegy lined by Vicente Huidobro --

IV.

Pressed -- Disclosure -- Recast -- Self-portrait lined by Christina Rossetti -- Portrait as landscape: of grisly, of lovely -- Queue -- Portrait as landscape: shell game -- Solve for x -- Transit -- Chiaroscuro -- Portrait as landscape: not the fox -- Hex & howl -- Coda -- Rotation