Presenting the work of 99 poets from the Americas, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Australia, New Zealand and China, the volume features responses to questions posed by guest editor Charles Bernstein - responses that range from historical to imaginary and from philosophical to poetic. Each poet was asked to ponder a series of questions: Is identity an important issue for your work, and, if so, in what sense? What do you see as the most urgent, yet insufficiently addressed , issue or issues for poets and poetics at this moment? Do you see your work in the context of a national state, or in the context of international capital, or in some other context. Selected contributors include Adonis, Robert Creeley, Cecilia Vicuna, Johanna Drucker, and Tom Raworth.