Contemporary poets / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom.

Modes and ranges of a long dawn / John Hollander
The poetry of Robert Fitzgerald / Harold Bloom
Elizabeth Bishop's dream-houses / David Bromwich
A street in Bronzeville, the Harlem renaissance and the mythologies of Black women / Gary Smith
A memoir and a critical tribute / Denise Levertov
"Turned back to the wild by love" / Richard Howard
Richard Wilbur's world / Robert B. Shaw
The poetry of Anthony Hecht / Ashley Brown
From "The other" through The early motion / Harold Bloom
Inside and outside in the poetry of Denise Levertov / Diana Collecott
Kenneth Koch / John Hollander
"When you consider the radiance" / Harold Bloom
Lost paradises / J.D. McClatchy
Bound each to each / Diane Middlebrook.

"The rank flavor of blood" / Charles Molesworth
A magma of interiors / Alfred Corn
The new transcendentalism : the visionary strain in Merwin / Harold Bloom
"The body wakes to burial" / Richard Howard
"Who will call these things his own?" / Richard Howard
Ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds / Helen Vendler
Robert Pack / Paul Mariani
The sound and sense of the sleight-of-hand man / David Lehman
Preambles to what was possible / Harold Bloom
The work of Gary Snyder / Crunk
Negative capability / Linda Gregerson
The changing same : Black music in the poetry of Amiri Baraka / Nate Mackey
"The aching prodigal" : Jay Wright's dutiful poet / Robert B. Stepto
Fabulous traveler / John Hollander.