Intro
Contents
List of Figures
Preface
Introduction
Poetry & Spirit: Against Orthodoxy
1. Why Mysticism in Twentieth-Century American Poetry?
2. Jerome Rothenberg's Technicians of the Sacred: Transactions between the Indigenous and the Avant-Garde
3. Judaism as Loss and the Buddhist Element in Michael Heller's Eschaton
Poetry & Its Time: Revising Literary History
4. "And All Now Is War": George Oppen, Charles Olson, and Literary Generations
5. "The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs": Charles Olson's Contemporaries
6. Laurie Anderson in the Reagan Era

Poetry & The Arts: Multimedia Exchange
7. Robert Creeley, Marisol, and Presences as Transaction Network
8. The Language Art of David Antin's Talk Poems
9. Audio File Audiophile: Listening for Ambient Poetry
Poetry & Prose: Intimate Opposition
10. Translation and Not-Understanding
11. Paul Auster's Solitude in the Room of the Book
12. Lyn Hejinian Becomes a Person on Paper
Epilogue: Teaching American Poetry
Notes
Bibliography
Index