Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Permissions
  • Introduction: Place and Position in American Poetry
  • Part 1. Prospects
  • 1. Modernism on the Mountaintop: Wallace Stevens and William Carlos Williams
  • 2. Pacific Counterpoints: Robinson Jeffers and Pablo Neruda
  • 3. Projective vs. Reflective Verse: Charles Olson and Lorine Niedecker
  • Part 2. Translocalities
  • 4. Versions of Prague: Allen Ginsberg and Roque Dalton
  • 5. The Cosmic Caribbean: Kamau Brathwaite and Ernesto Cardenal
  • 6. Indigenous Claims: Gary Snyder and Joy Harjo
  • Part 3. Zones
  • 7. From Aztlán: Gloria Anzaldúa and Jimmy Santiago Baca
  • 8. Remilitarized Poems: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Myung Mi Kim
  • 9. Forget Your Pastoral: Haunani-Kay Trask and Craig Santos Perez
  • Coda: Look Through to Somewhere
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index.