Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
I. LONGER VIEWS
Coming Down from Black Mountain: Charles Olson, Robert Duncan, Robert Creeley
Z-Sited Path: Late Zukofsky and His Tradition
The Palace of Wisdom and the Six-Minute Poem: Theodore Enslin
Truth, Beauty, and the Remote Control: Anne Carson
Still Diving the Mauberley Trench: John Matthias
Dark Matters: Peter Gizzi and Rae Armantrout
Ronald Johnson: Four Essays
One Last Modernist: Guy Davenport
II. SHORTER TAKES
The Piety of Terror: Ian Hamilton Finlay
Mules and Drugs and R&B: Harryette Mullen
Woodpaths, Obscure: Norman Finkelstein
A New Negative Capability: Michael Heller
“The Lighthouses”: George Oppen
Sound and Vision: John Taggart
III. POETICS
Queen Victoria’s Birthday Present: On Writing Biography
A Fragmentary Poetics: On Writing Poems
Works Cited
Index