Table of Contents:
  • History as force field in Pound, Zukofsky, and Olson
  • From natural to social place in Olson and Creeley
  • Creeley, Duncan, and the uses of abstraction
  • Poetic authority and mass audience during the Vietnam War in Duncan and Levertov
  • The problem of political poetry and the polarization of the field in Levertov and Dorn.