NEW CALIFORNIA POETRY
For, by Carol Snow
Enola Gay, by Mark Levine
Selected Poems, by Fanny Howe
Sleeping with the Dictionary, by Harryette Mullen
Commons, by Myung Mi Kim
The Guns and Flags Project, by Geoffrey G. O'Brien
Gone, by Fanny Howe
Why/Why Not, by Martha Ronk
A Carnage in the Lovetrees, by Richard Greenfield
The Seventy Prepositions, by Carol Snow
Not Even Then, by Brian Blanchfield
Facts for Visitors, by Srikanth Reddy
Weather Eye Open, by Sarah Gridley
Subject, by Laura Mullen
This Connection of Everyone with Lungs, by Juliana Spahr
The Totality for Kids, by Joshua Clover
The Wilds, by Mark Levine
I Love Artists, by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
I Love Artists
NEW AND SELECTED POEMS
Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
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©2006 by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Berssenbrugge, Mei-mei.
I love artists : new and selected poems / Mei-mei Berssenbrugge.
p. cm. — (New California poetry ; 18)
ISBN 0-520-24601-2 (alk. paper)
ISBN 0-520-24602-0 (pbk. : alk. paper)
I. Title. II. Series.
PS3552.E77115 2006
811'.54—dc22 2005052972
Manufactured in Canada
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The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of
ANSI/NISOZ39.48-1992(R 1997) (Permanence of Paper).
Contents
from Summits Move with the Tide (1974)
from Four Year Old Girl (1998)