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                                                                  2000   JANUARY 2   New Year's Day: Tessa Rumsey and Harryette Mullen   So, what is the work of the new century going to look like? Here, for the new year, is the work of two young poets. Get ready for a ride. They aim to be alive in their language, but they do not aim to be clear in the way that many   of the poets of the 1960s and 197os, in revolt against what seemed like the academic appropriation of high modernism, of the difficulties of Ezra Pound   and T. S. Eliot, aimed to be clear. This new work comes from several different directions—surrealism, semiotics, the jump-cut rhythms of video and film, an impulse to make language rather than story or personal history do the work of poetry. One critic has call...