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		Essays by Srikanth Reddy
		Beyond the Manifesto: Language Poetry and Lyn Hejinian's The Language of Inquiry


		Poems about the Self
		canvas and mirror by Evie Shockley

		Days of Me by Stuart Dischell

		Excelsior by Walt Whitman

		I Am Not Yours by Sara Teasdale

		I Am! by John Clare

		In Knowledge of Young Boys by Toi Derricotte

		In Whoever's Hotel Room This Is by Matt Rasmussen

		Intimacy by Paisley Rekdal

		Next Day by Randall Jarrell

		Red Bank by Lesle Lewis

		Song of Myself, I, II, VI & LII by Walt Whitman

		The Suicide by Edna St. Vincent Millay

		Your Brain Is Yours by Natalie Lyalin


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Untitled [Is is]
by Srikanth Reddy

Is is. There is no distinction between ideology and image. One. He records his name on a gold medallion. Two. The philosopher must say is. The world is legion. The self is a suffering form. Is is. Waves rise and fall, but the sea remains.


From Voyager, published by University of California. Copyright © 2011 by Srikanth Reddy. Used by permission of the publisher. All rights reserved.