Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Abbreviations xiii
5. I
6. 1. Decision at the Apogee: Robert Duncan’s Anarchist Critique of Denise Levertov 1
7. 2. Robert Duncan and the Question of Law: Ernst Kantorowicz and the Poet’s Two Bodies 18
8. 3. Better to Stumble to It: The Start of Duncan’s Letters: Poems, 1953-1956 32
9. 4. Visions of the Field in Poetry and Painting: Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan, and John Button 43
10. II
11. 5. My Stories with Robert Duncan 63
12. 6. The People’s P***k: A Dialectical Tale 71
13. 7. The Hasid and the Kabbalist 81
14. III
15. 8. Chelsea 8: Political Poetry at Midcentury 93
16. 9. Poetic Authority and the Public Sphere of Politics in the Activist 1960s: The Duncan-Levertov Debate 109
17. 10. Prophetic Frustrations: Robert Duncan’s Tribunals 126
18. 11. Revolution or Death: Levertov’s Poetry in Time of War 148
19. 12. The Vision of the Burning Babe: Southwell, Levertov, and Duncan 161
20. 13. Poetic Language and Language Poetry: Levertov, Duncan, Creeley 180
21. Contributors 199
22. Index 203