Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Preface, Charles Bernstein; Introduction: Reading Experimental Writing, Georgina Colby; 1. ‘Fog is My Land’ A Citizenship of Mutual Estrangement in the Painted Books of Etel Adnan, Jennifer Scappettone; 2. Reading Happily with John Cage, Lyn Hejinian, and Others, Alex Houen; 3. Experiment, Inscription and the Archive: Kathy Acker's Manuscript Practice, Georgina Colby; 4. Rereading Race and Commodity Form in Erica Hunt’s “Piece Logic”, Chris Chen; 5. Contemporary Experimental Translations and Translingual Poetics, Sophie Seita; 6. On Joan Retallack’s Memnoir: Investigating ‘the Experience of Experiencing’, Erica kaufman; 7. A Queer Response to Caroline Bergvall's Hyphenated Practice: Toward an Interdependent Model of Reading, Susan Rudy; 8. Reading Language Art on Digital Media: Reconfigurations of Experimental Practices, John Cayley; 9. Charles Bernstein’s Walter Benjamin, Among Other Things, Peter Jaeger; Notes on Contributors; Bibliography; Index.