Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. Contexts
1. The Dial, The Little Review, and the Dialogics of the Modernist “New”
2. The New American Poetry Revisited, Again
3. New, Newer, and Newest American Poetries
4. Poetry Anthologies and the Idea of the “Mainstream”
II. Texts
5. Serial Form in George Oppen and Robert Creeley
6. Place, Space, and “New Syntax” in Oppen’s Seascape: Needle’s Eye
7. Macro, Micro, Material: Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s Drafts and the Post-Objectivist Serial Poem
8. Drafts and Fragments: Rachel Blau DuPlessis’s (Counter-)Poundian Project
9. “Drawings with Words”: Susan Howe’s Visual Feminist Poetics
10. Authority, Marginality, England, and Ireland in the Work of Susan Howe
11. Bruce Andrews, Writing, and “Poetry”
12. “What About All This Writing?”: Williams and Alternative Poetics
13. Language Writing, Digital Poetics, and Transitional Materialities
Notes
Works Cited
Index