Introduction : A Speaking Whole / Michael Hinds and Stephen Matterson -- 1. Binding Emily Dickinson / Domhnall Mitchell -- 2. Fit Compositions : Whitman's Revisions to Drum-Taps / Eldrid Herrington -- 3. "To make it mean me" : Narrative Design in North of Boston / Stephen Matterson -- 4. Lustra : Work and Text / Stephen Wilson -- 5. Intentionality as Sensuality in Harmonium / Charles Altieri -- 6. The Accidental Bridge : Hart Crane's Theory of the Lyric / Maria Irene Ramalho de Sousa Santos -- 7. William Carlos Williams's An Early Martyr : The Descent Beckons / Ron Callan -- 8. Selected Poems (The 1955) : Randall Jarrell's Book of the Dead / Michael Hinds -- 9. "It's life in death to be bound, delivered, published" : Robert Lowell's Revisions of Notebook 1967-68 / Gareth Reeves -- 10. "Our lives inseparable" : The Contingent World of Adrienne Rich's Twenty-One Love Poems / Lucy Collins -- 11. Empire, Sublimity, and the Look of Things in Amy Clampitt's The Kingfisher / Justin Quinn -- 12. "What I wanted was nothing to do with monuments" : Erring and Lyn Hejinian's The Guard / Nerys Williams -- 13. Prometheans Unbound : Touching Books in Jorie Graham's Swarm and Susan Howe's "Scattering As Behaviour Toward Risk" / Nick Selby -- Afterword : The Book as Architecture / Charles Bernstein.