Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Intro
  • Contents
  • List of Figures
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • Poetry & Spirit: Against Orthodoxy
  • 1. Why Mysticism in Twentieth-Century American Poetry?
  • 2. Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred: Transactions between the Indigenous and the Avant-Garde
  • 3. Judaism as Loss and the Buddhist Element in Michael Heller's Eschaton
  • Poetry & Its Time: Revising Literary History
  • 4. "And All Now Is War": George Oppen, Charles Olson, and Literary Generations
  • 5. "The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs": Charles Olson's Contemporaries
  • 6. Laurie Anderson in the Reagan Era
  • Poetry & The Arts: Multimedia Exchange
  • 7. Robert Creeley, Marisol, and Presences as Transaction Network
  • 8. The Language Art of David Antin's Talk Poems
  • 9. Audio File Audiophile: Listening for Ambient Poetry
  • Poetry & Prose: Intimate Opposition
  • 10. Translation and Not-Understanding
  • 11. Paul Auster's Solitude in the Room of the Book
  • 12. Lyn Hejinian Becomes a Person on Paper
  • Epilogue: Teaching American Poetry
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index