Poetry On and Off the Page: Essays for Emergent Occasions Book

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction
1	Postmodernism / Fin de Siecle: Defining "Difference" in Late Twentieth-Century Poetics	3
2	Tolerance and Taboo: Modernist Primitivisms and Postmodernist Pieties	34
3	"Barbed-Wire Entanglements": The "New American Poetry," 1930-32	51
4	"A Step Away from Them": Poetry 1956	83
5	Lucent and Inescapable Rhythms: Metrical "Choice" and Historical Formation	116
6	After Free Verse: The New Nonlinear Poetries	141
7	What We Don't Talk about When We Talk about Poetry: Some Aporias of Literary Journalism	168
8	English as a "Second" Language: Mina Loy's "Anglo-Mongrels and the Rose"	193
9	Poetry in Time of War: The Duncan-Levertov Controversy	208
10	How Russian Is It: Lyn Hejinian's Oxota	222
11	What Really Happened: Roland Barthes's Winter Garden/Christian Boltanski's Archives of the Dead	243
12	"Inner Tension / In Attention": Steve McCaffery's Book Art	264
13	The Music of Verbal Space: John Cage's "What You Say ..."	290
14	The Morphology of the Amorphous: Bill Viola's Videoscapes	309
	Notes	323
	Illustration Sources	357
	Poetry Sources	363
	Index	365