Table of Contents:
  • Wars I have seen / Peter Nicholls
  • Pleasure at home: how twentieth-century American poets read the British / David Herd
  • American poet-teachers and the academy / Alan Golding
  • Feminism and the female poet / Lynn Keller and Cristanne Miller
  • Queer cities / Maria Damon
  • Twentieth-century poetry and the New York art world / Brian M. Reed
  • The blue century: brief notes on twentieth-century African-American poetry / Rowan Ricardo Phillips
  • Home and away: US poetries of immigration and migrancy / A. Robert Lee
  • Modern poetry and anticommunism / Alan Filreis
  • Mysticism: neo-paganism, Buddhism, and Christianity / Stephen Fredman
  • Poets and scientists / Peter Middleton
  • Philosophy and theory in US modern poetry / Michael Davidson.