Introduction
1. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: How the Arts Help Us to Live
2. Fin-de-Siècle Lyric: W. B. Yeats and Jorie Graham
3. The Unweary Blues: The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
4. The Nothing That Is: Chickamauga, by Charles Wright
5. American X-Rays: Forty Years of Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry
6. The Waste Land: Fragments and Montage
7. The Snow Poems and Garbage: Episodes in A. R. Ammons’s Poetics
8. All Her Nomads: Collected Poems, by Amy Clampitt
9. Seamus Heaney and the Oresteia: “Mycenae Lookout” and the Usefulness of Tradition
10. Melville: The Lyric of History
11. Lowell’s Persistence: The Forms Depression Makes
12. Wallace Stevens: Hypotheses and Contradictions, Dedicated to Paul Alpers
13. Ardor and Artifice: Merrill’s Mozartian Touch
14. The Titles: A. R. Ammons, 1926–2001
15. Poetry and the Mediation of Value: Whitman on Lincoln
16. “Long Pig”: The Interconnection of the Exotic, the Dead, and the Fantastic in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
17. Stevens and Keats’s “To Autumn”: Reworking the Past
18. “The Circulation of Small Largenesses”: Mark Ford and John Ashbery
19. Wallace Stevens: Memory, Dead and Alive
20. Jorie Graham: The Moment of Excess
21. Attention, Shoppers: Where Shall I Wander, by John Ashbery
22. Seamus Heaney’s “Sweeney Redivivus”: Its Plot and Its Poems
23. The Democratic Eye: A Worldly Country, by John Ashbery
24. Losing the Marbles: James Merrill on Greece
25. Mark Ford: Intriguing, Funny, Prophetic
26. Notes from the Trepidarium: Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido
27. Pried Open for All the World to See: Berryman the Poet
Notes
Credits
Acknowledgments
Index
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