"Kill Or Cure,” a bold prescriptive for these apocalyptic days, brings together substantial new work as well as the best of Anne Waldman's previously uncollected poetry. It includes credos, manifestos, dreams, homages to literary predecessors, "Shaman Hisses You Slide Back Into The Night” (the journal poem written during Bob Dylan's historic Rolling Thunder Revue), witty political diatribes, travel vignettes, incantations, and a new section of the ongoing epic poem "Iovis,” a powerful meditation on male energy.

Anne Waldman is a celebrated poet, performer, professor, editor, and cultural activist. She is the author of more than forty books, including Marriage: A Sentence; Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble; Manatee/Humanity; and the feminist epic The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment. A recipient of the Poetry Society of America's Shelley Memorial Award and a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets, she lives in New York City and Boulder, Colorado. Her most recent volume of poetry, Gossamumur, is coming from Penguin in Spring 2013.

Kill Or CureA Note
Suppose a Game
A Name as Revery
Her Night
Of Ah Or
Quote Captive
Jack Kerouac Dream
April Dream
June Dream
Old Dream Ritual
"I am blinded by a fiery circle"
A Guston
Love of His Art
When the World Was Steady
From a Continuing Work in Spanish
Shaman Hisses You Slide Back into the Night
Our Past
Travel being Love
Nomad's Song
Blue Mosque
Polemic
Managua Sketches
Glasnost
Russian Nelli
Andreas
Swiss Banker
Sex & Intrigue
Okay the Dream
Amsterdam
Argument
2 a.m. Toulouse
Olympic Flame
After the Greek
Keeping Abreast in Bangkok
Rat Temple
Must Be New Jersey
Aside: A Jot
Oppositional Poetics
Curse
Insurrection
Abortion
Environmental Event
Paean: May I Speak Thus?
Street Retreat
Simulacrum
Cut-Up Amendament 2
Muse
Pulse
Passion Being Writing
Slaughter
Rudeste
Ms. Stein
Two Men
H.D.
Lore
The Problem
Marianne Moore
Feminafesto
Writing
To the Censorious Ones
Talisman
Crime Work After the Holocaust
My Lady
How I Became Biblical
Yum Yab
The Sofa is Black
Under My Breath
Riddle a Geographical Ambition
Early
Comes-with-a-Child
Kill or Cure
Go-Between Between
Abróchese el Cinturón de Seguridad
First Person
Can't Touch This
Mauve Flowers of the Ubiquitous Wisteria
Code: Intensification of Shade
Tract
Replenish Making Twine If You Like
Dallas
Aletheia
Fait Accompli
Cabal
Net Life
Wide Receiver
Lokapala
Noösphere
Grace of These Lacunae
Lessons Shed Light
for Harry Smith
Last Rite
Jurassic
from Iovis, Book 2: Glyphs
Credo

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