Acknowledgments
Introduction
Jeanne Heuving and Tyrone Williams
Part One. What Is Poetics?
Chapter One. An Art of Addition, an Eddic Return
Lyn Hejinian
Chapter Two. Statement on Poetics: Pleasures, Polemics, Practices, Stakes
Rachel Blau DuPlessis
Chapter Three. From Late Arcade
Nathaniel Mackey
Part Two. Critical Interventions
Chapter Four. Poetics Today
Charles Altieri
Chapter Five. The Material and Medium of Language
Jeanne Heuving
Chapter Six. Toward Transformation: The Contextual Turn in US Poetry
Elisabeth A. Frost
Chapter Seven. "To Make from Outrage Islands of Compassion": Denise Levertov's Bridge-Poetics of Eye-Witnessing in the Context of her Friendship with Robert Duncan
Cynthia Hogue
Part Three. Cross-Cultural Imperatives
Chapter Eight. Ethnos and Graphos
Sarah Dowling
Chapter Nine. White Mischief: Language, Life, Logic, Luck, and White People
Aldon Nielsen
Chapter Ten. Transcendental Tabby
Leonard Schwartz
Part Four. Digital, Capital, and Institutional Frames
Chapter Eleven. The Codex Is Broken
Ron Silliman
Chapter Twelve. Empire Aesthetics: It's Not the Point, It's the Platform--Detroit Model
Vanessa Place
Chapter Thirteen. Now That's a Poem: Vito Acconci, Conceptual Writing, and Poetic Nominalism
Brian Reed
Part Five. Coda
Chapter Fourteen. The United Divisions of Poetry
Tyrone Williams
Contributors
Index
