Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. PREFACE vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xiv
4. CONTENTS xv
5. LIST OF PLATES xvii
6. I. The New York Avant Garde, 1910-1917 1
7. II. The Poem as a Canvas of Broken Parts 47
8. III. Stieglitz 82
9. IV. The Evangelists of the American Moment 108
10. V. Doctor Williams and the New World 127
11. VI. The Hieroglyphics of a New Speech 145
12. VII. The Poem as Still-Life 161
13. Selective Bibliography 199
14. Index 211