Beats visiting hell: katabasis in Beat literature / Stephen Dickey
"Thalatta, Thalatta!": Xenophon, Joyce, and Kerouac / Christopher Gair
"The final fix" and "The transcendent kingdom": the quest in the early work of William S. Burroughs / Loni Reynolds
The invention of sincerity: Allen Ginsberg and the philology of the margins / Matthew Pfaff
Radical brothers-in-arms: Gaius and Hank at the racetrack / Marguerite Johnson
Riffing on Catullus: Robert Creeley's poetics of adultery / Nick Selby
Sappho comes to the Lower East Side: Ed Sanders, the sixties avant-garde, and fictions of Sappho / Jennie Skerl
Robert Duncan and Pindar's dance / Victoria Moul
Kenneth Rexroth: Greek anthologist / Gideon Nisbet
Philip Whalen and the classics: "A walking grove of trees" / Jane Falk
Troubling classical and Buddhist traditions in Diane di Prima's Loba / Nancy M. Grace and Tony Trigilio
Towards a post-Beat poetics: Charles Olson's localism and the second sophistic / Richard Fletcher
Afterword: "Standing at a juncture of planes" / Nancy M. Grace and Jennie Skerl.