Affect, psychoanalysis, and American poetry : this feeling of exaltation / John Steen.

Introduction
Anxiety's holding: Wallace Stevens' poetry of the nerves
Threshold poetics: Stevens and W. Winnicott's "not-communicating"
Randall Jarrell's beards
Mourning the elegy: Robert Creeley's "mother's photograph"
Ted Berrigan's reparations
Aaron Kunin's line of shame
This feeling of time: Claudia Rankine's Citizen.