Poems of the American empire : the lyric form in the long twentieth century / Jen Hedler Phillis.

Introduction : poems including history
We are all pound now : the cantos and the shape of the economy
The all-over poem : William Carlos Williams' egalitarian aesthetics
Dido's secret : the Atlantic slave trade and the limits of lyric
The new stone age : contemporary poets on the beginning of the American empire
Coda : in search of lost causes : toward a lyric interpretation of history.