Includes bibliographical references (p. [231]-242) and index
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Preface: how Reed wrote certain of his essays -- 1. Political reading -- Carl Sandburg and the problem of bad political poetry -- Tom Raworth and poetic intuition -- 2. Sight and sound -- Ezra Pound's utopia of the eye -- Gertrude Stein speaks -- The baseness of Robert Grenier's visual poetics -- Caroline Bergvall begins again -- 3. Writers reading -- Hart Crane and the challenge of Akron -- Robert Duncan and Gertrude Stein -- Reginald Shepherd at Hart Crane's grave -- 4. Associative reading -- Rosmarie Waldrop renews collage -- John Ashbery after all these years -- The abc's of substitutional poetics
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Literature, Modern-- 20th century-- History and criticism
Literature, Modern-- 21st century-- History and criticism