Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
One: A Feeling, A Beat, and An Image
Two: Genealogies of Sensibility
Three: Locations of Identity: Craft, Ethnicity, and Americanness
Four: Multicultural Imperatives, Difference, and American Promise
Five: Quiet Revolution: Domesticity and Creation Stories
Six: The Spirit in the Wound: Decaying Bodies and Poetic Thanatopsis
Seven: Toward a Critical Consensus
Eight: Ever-Widening Circles: A Poetics of Inclusion
Works Cited
Index