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Introduction: The Poetics of Derivation - Stephen Collis
Part One: Duncan Reading
One: Robert Duncan’s Miltonic Persuasion: The Emergence of a Radical Poetic - Sarah E. Ehlers
Two: Robert Duncan’s Derivative Poetics: Community, the Metaphysicals, and the Nature of War - George Fragopoulos
Three: Textual Poetics and the Politics of Reading in Duncan’s “Night Scenes” - Siobhán Scarry
Four: The Airs of Duncan and Zukofsky - Jeffrey Twitchell-Waas
Five: Is the Queendom Enough (without the Queen)? Poetic Abdication in Robert Duncan and Laura Riding - Graham Lyons
Six: Reading A/Drift:Robert Duncan’s Use of Foreign Words - Clément Oudart
Part Two: Reading Duncan
Seven: Derivation or Stealth? Quotation in the Poetry of Robert Duncan and Ronald Johnson - Ross Hair
Eight: Symposium of the Whole: Jerome Rothenberg and the Dream of “A Poetry of All Poetries” - Stephen Fredman
Nine: How the Dead Prey upon Us: Robert Duncan and Susan Howe - Catherine Martin
Ten: Divining the Derivers: Anarchism and the Practice of Derivative Poetics in Robert Duncan and John Cage - Andy Weave
Eleven: The Poets’ War: Inflation, Complicity, and the Daimonic - J. P. Craig
Twelve: Talking Cosmos: Robert Duncan and Ronald Johnson - Peter O’Leary
Bibliography
Contributors
Index