The utopian moment in contemporary American poetry Book

	Preface to the Second Edition	9
	Acknowledgments	15
	Introduction: On Methodology	19
1	At the Front: Evaluating Contemporary Poetry	23
2	What Was Objectivism?	35
3	O'Hara, Ashbery, and the Loss of the Sublime	47
4	The New Arcady	68
5	The Utopia of Language	102
6	In the Fullness of Time	123
	Conclusion: On Tradition	139
	Appendix: Ernst Bloch and the Utopian Refunctioning of Marxism	144
	Notes	157
	Works Cited	171
	Index	175