American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century (1996)

New York City: Four Walls Eight Windows (book, anthology), 1996.
8.5" x 5.625" x 1.375", 417 pages, hardcover with dust-jacket, ISBN 1-56858-071-1.

American Poets Say Goodbye to the 20th Century, edited by Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal, published by Four Walls and Eight Windows (New York City) in 1996. 

From the flap: "The editors of this anthology asked more than one hundred American poets from divergent backgrounds the following question: How would you say goodbye to the twentieth century?"

William Burroughs contributes "Lack", a diary entry on Christianity from 1 November 1993, at page 51.

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Contents: 

• Andrei Codrescu and Laura Rosenthal: "Prologue to an Epilogue"
• Keith Abbott: "Goodbye Twentieth Century" (poetry)
• Sam Abrams: "Our Holocaust: 2 Hours from Heathrow" (poetry)
• Will Alexander: "The Dawning Zone/The Erupting Parallel Species" (poetry)
• William Allen: "For the Darkling Thrush" (poetry)
• Jack Anderson: "Some Words, Stories, and People for an Old Century and a New" (poetry)
• Michael Andre: "Elegy for a Century of AIDS" (poetry)
• Bruce Andrews: "Definition" (poetry)
• Anthler: 
• "American History in Context" (poetry)
• "Extraterrestrials to Come" (poetry)
• Ivan Argüelles: "Ave Atque Vale Century of Xerox" (poetry)
• Rae Armantrout: 
• "The Turn" (poetry)
• "Between" (poetry)
• Paul Auster: "from In the Country of Last Things" (prose)
• Barbara Barg: "Useless Knowledge" (poetry)
• Bill Berkson: "Volunteer Basis" (poetry)
• Charles Bernstein: "Low Regrets" (poetry)
• John Brandi: 
• "For This We Come" (poetry)
• "Journal Entry, West of Reno" (poetry)
• Summer Brenner: "The Festival of Instinct" (prose)
• James Broughton: "On the Way to the Exit" (poetry)
• Charles Bukowski: "Dinosauria, We" (poetry)
• William Burroughs: "Lack" (prose)
• Janine Canan: "A Woman Meditates on the Turning of the Sixtieth Century" (poetry)
• Joe Cardarelli: "Against 21st Century" (poetry)
• Turner Cassity: "The Glorified Go One by One to Glory" (poetry)
• Maxine Chernoff: "Frankly" (poetry)
• Tom Clark: "On the Brink of the Cold Millennium" (poetry)
• Lucille Clifton: "Note from Memphis" (poetry)
• Andrei Codrescu: "Au bout du temps" (poetry)
• Norma Cole: "Contrafact: Three Words About It" (poetry)
• Jack Collom: "Objet trouvé" (poetry)
• Clark Coolidge: "One Man to a Century" (poetry)
• Robert Creeley: "Goodbye" (poetry)
• Phillip Dacey: "The Stations of the Cross, Newly Revised for America in the Twenty-First Century" (poetry)
• Beverly Dahlen: "From a Reading" (poetry)
• Joel Dailey: "Tidbits, Orbits, Obits" (poetry)
• Tom Dent: "So You Leave the Project to Look for Work" (poetry)
• George-Thérèse Dickenson: "Beyond subject" (poetry)
• Ray DiPalma: 
• "Byzantine Motes" (poetry)
• "The Final Word Will Always Belong to the Night Watchman" (poetry)
• Stephen Dobyns: "Lullaby" (poetry)
• Barbara Einzig: "One Hundred Fragments for the Twentieth Century" (prose)
• Elaine Equi: "Dear Reader" (poetry)
• Clayton Eshleman: "At the Locks of Infinity" (prose)
• Lawrence Ferlinghetti: "A Flight Through Time" (poetry)
• Edward Field: "The Spirit of 76" (poetry)
• David Franks: "Birthdays • & • Holidays" (poetry)
• Kathleen Fraser: "Firestorm" (poetry)
• Ed Friedman: "The Blown Ones" (poetry)
• Gloria Frym: 
• "Hotel Excelsior Splendide" (poetry)
• "From the Editors" (poetry)
• Barry Gifford: "Maria la O" (poetry)
• Allen Ginsberg: "Calm Panic Campaign Promise" (poetry)
• Patricia Goedicke: "The Tongues We Speak" (poetry)
• Ted Greenwald: "Out of Town" (poetry)
• Aimée Grunberger: "Goodbye to All That" (poetry)
• Jim Gustafson: "Spree???" (poetry)
• Jana Harris: "In Tacoma, Signe Turns 101 in a Blue Velvet Dress" (poetry)
• Jim Harrison: "Time Suite" (poetry)
• William Hathaway: "Saint Malthus" (poetry)
• Michael Heller: "The Chronicle Poet" (poetry)
• Dick Higgins: "Farewell to the Twentieth Century" (prose)
• Anselm Hollo: "West Is Left on the Map" (poetry)
• Bob Holman: "The Collect Call of the Wild" (poetry)
• Paul Hoover: 
• "As Quietly as Distant" (poetry)
• "Signs for the 21st Century" (poetry)
• Fanny Howe: "The Chiliast" (prose)
• Roger Kamenetz: "Sleeping in an Egg" (poetry)
• Robert Kelly: "Goodbye" (poetry)
• Jussi Ketonen: "An Agenda for Renewal" (poetry)
• Faye Kicknosway: "Justin's Cat" (prose)
• Carolyn Kizer: "Fin de Siècle Blues" (poetry)
• Steve Kowit: "Still Life" (poetry)
• Maxine Kumin: 
• "Rehearsing for the Final Reckoning in Boston" (poetry)
• "After the Poetry Reading" (poetry)
• Alex Kuo: "Changing Leads" (poetry)
• Joanne Kyger: "Suddenly" (poetry)
• Art Lange: "Seven Haikus In Advance of the New Century" (poetry)
• Rachel Loden: "Blues for the Evil Empire" (poetry)
• Jackson Mac Low: "American Poets Say Goodbye to the Twentieth Century" (poetry)
• Michael McClure: "The Foam" (poetry)
• Jim McCrary: "Three Poems Celebrating the End of the Twentieth Century" (poetry)
• Clarence Major: "Horse Says Good-Bye (and Good Riddance) to the Twentieth Century" (poetry)
• Morton Marcus: "The Manual for Twentieth-Century Man (and Woman)" (poetry)
• Jack Marshall: "Wing and Prayer" (poetry)
• Richard Martin: "They" (poetry)
• Bernadette Mayer: "Love" (poetry)
• C. M. Mayo: "Meteor" (poetry)
• David Meltzer: "old reds" (poetry)
• Diane Middlebrook: "Hair" (poetry)
• Fred Moramarco: "So Long, Twentieth Century" (poetry)
• Stanley Moss: "Faith in the Twentieth Century" (poetry)
• Eileen Myles: "Mr. Twenty" (poetry)
• Elinor Nauen: "No Safety" (poetry)
• Jim Nisbet: "Vos Bastardi Ride" (poetry)
• Pat Nolan: "Hasta la Vista, Baby" (poetry)
• Harold Norse: "Ready-Made" (poetry)
• Alice Notley: "from Désamère" (poetry)
• Alicia Ostriker: "The Ballad of Lyle and Eric" (poetry)
• Maureen Owen: "Goodbye ti the Twentieth Century, or, Adios, Busy Signal" (poetry)
• Michael Palmer: Autobiography 2 (Hellogoodby)" (poetry)
• Molly Peacock: "Goodbye Hello in the East Village" (poetry)
• Bob Perelman: "From the Front" (poetry)
• Robert Peters: "Poet and Century both Turn Geriatric" (poetry)
• Pam Quinlan: "Yearbook" (poetry)
• Carl Rakosi: "Museum of Historical Objects" (poetry)
• Len Roberts: "Somewhere Someone Is Making Another" (poetry)
• Kirk Robertson: "Music" (prose)
• Bob Rosenthal: "Twentieth Century Presents" (poetry)
• Laura Rosenthal: "Memoryes@aol" (poetry)
• Jerome Rothenberg: "Twentieth Century Unlimited" (drawing, poetry)
• Deborah Salazar: "Dedications" (poetry)
• Christy Sheffield Sanford: "Turn of the Century – Time, Lines" (prose, illustration)
• Leslie Scalapino: "from: New Time" (poetry)
• Harris Schiff: "In the Heart of the Empire" (poetry)
• Armand Schwerner: "Ectroterifisica" (prose)
• Jacques Servin: "Sundry Improvement Our Mark: A Nostalgic Farewell to Capitalism" (prose)
• David Shapiro: "After/A Part for thePart" (poetry)
• Charles Simic: "Paradise Motel" (poetry)
• Dave Smith: "Relatives, Belfast" (poetry)
• Michael Stephens: "This Here (I)" (poetry)
• Gerald Stern: "Love Me" (poetry)
• Steven Styers: 
• "Large White Pot" (poetry)
• "In the Garden" (poetry)
• Arthur Sze: "Streamers" (poetry)
• William Talcott: "Fin de Siècle" (poetry)
• Nathaniel Tarn: "Obit XXC" (poetry)
• Mike Topp: "Devotion" (poetry)
• David Trinidad: "Ancient History" (poetry)
• Nanos Valaoritis: "Unaccountable II" (poetry)
• Janine Pommy Vega: "Greetings form the Year 2000, with Respect" (poetry)
• Paul Violi: "Envoy" (poetry)
• Anne Waldman: "Obit" (poetry)
• Keith Waldrop: "Accidental Number" (poetry)
• Lewis Warsh: "New Century" (prose)
• Jonathan Williams: "Metafours Near the End" (poetry)
• Terence Winch: "Futurism of the Past" (poetry)
• Charles Wright: "Pearl" (poetry)
• John Yau: "Automatic Transmission" (poetry)
• Biographies