Editors’ introduction; Preface: Field, John Berger; Part I: Opening the Field; 1. Fields, theory, field theory: John Berger and Manfred Werder define a Field, Nicholas Melia, 2. The Nondescript, Stephen Benson; 3. Text-Score-Text, Will Montgomery; Part II: The Poetics of the Field; 4. Rubies Reddened by Rubies Reddening, Michael Pisaro; 5. Pitch Of Inhabiting: Thoughts on the Practice of Sound, Poetry and Virno’s ‘Accustomed Place’, Carol Watts; 6. Druids fielding questions: Eva-Maria Houben, Emily Dickinson and Charles Ives, Dominic Lash; 7. Field Recording as Writing: John Berger, Peter Gizzi and Juliana Spahr, Redell Olsen; Part III: The Field in Practice; 8. Bittern Space, a siskin, Patrick Farmer; 9. Disquiet, Lisa Robertson; 10. Hedges, Daniela Cascella; 11. Stirrup Notes: Fragments on Listening, Jonathan Skinner.