Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contents vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Preface xiii
6. 1. Introduction: Poetry, Theory, Archives 1
7. 2. T. S. Eliot and Derek Mahon: A Tale of Two Archives 25
8. 3. Archival Poetics: Containing Multitudes 46
9. 4. Digital Baedecker: A Feminist Experiment with Mina Loy’s Archive 63
10. 5. Louis MacNeice and His Archives 80
11. 6. On Efficiency: John Updike’s Poetry Archives 92
12. 7. Sylvia Plath’s Library: The Marginal Archive 111
13. 8. ‘Library of Opaque Memory’: Spectral Archives in Brandon Som, Mai Der Vang and Bhanu Kapil 124
14. 9. Opening the Box: Exploring the Bloodaxe Archive 143
15. 10. ‘I am Already Historical’: In the Archive 159
16. 11. The Archive and the Mirror 169
17. 12. AA(A), or Affect, Archives and Anecdotes 182
18. 13. Musée des Fragments: The Secret Memories of Ordinary Things 196
19. Further Reading 205
20. Index 209