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Richard Siken’s “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out” from the 2005 collection Crush.

You Think You Are Something Less Real Than You Are from 2012 by Wendy Xu.

Ashley Capps’ 2006 collection Mistaking the Sea for Green Fields from University of Akron Press.

Patricia Lockwood’s 2014 collection Motherland Fatherland Homelandsexuals, publishes by Penguin Poets.

Federico Garcia Lorca’s In Search of Duende, published in 2010 by New Directions and translated from the Spanish.

Ana Ristovic’s 2016 collection Directions for Use, translated from Serbian.

Linda Besner’s 2017 collection Feel Happier in 9 Seconds.

Danez Smith’s 2015 collection Black Movie.

Don Patterson’s 1993 collection Nil Nil.

Alex Manley’s 2016 collection “We Are All Just Animals & Plants.”

The opening section of David Foster Wallace's 2011 novel The Pale King.

Francis Ponge's Vegetation, originally published in 1942 and translated in 1988 by Lee Fahnestock.

Ada Limón's 2015 collection Bright Dead Things.

Ray Ragosta's 2013 collection A Motive for Disappearance.

Sara Nicholson's 2016 collection What the Lyric Is.

Ben Lerner's 2004 collection, Lichtenberg Figures

Mai Der Vang's 2017 collection Afterland.