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Introduction: A Case for a Contra-Symbolic City in Modern American Poetry
1. "Remove the [red] tape" of Respectability: Jazzy Transformations in Jean Toomer's Washington, D.C.
2. "Who are these people": William Carlos Williams Walks with the Crowd in Paterson, NJ
3. "Tilting ... momently" Between the Perfect City and the Embodied Urban Experience: Subversive Wordplay in Hart Crane's The Bridge
4. Remembering "You" in the City: Toponyms and Ludic Spaces in Frank O'Hara's Kinesthetic Poetry
5. The Death and Life of a Chicago Edifice: Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca"
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Acknowledgments
Introduction: A Case for a Contra-Symbolic City in Modern American Poetry
1. "Remove the [red] tape" of Respectability: Jazzy Transformations in Jean Toomer's Washington, D.C.
2. "Who are these people": William Carlos Williams Walks with the Crowd in Paterson, NJ
3. "Tilting ... momently" Between the Perfect City and the Embodied Urban Experience: Subversive Wordplay in Hart Crane's The Bridge
4. Remembering "You" in the City: Toponyms and Ludic Spaces in Frank O'Hara's Kinesthetic Poetry
5. The Death and Life of a Chicago Edifice: Gwendolyn Brooks's "In the Mecca"
Notes
Bibliography
Index