Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction. Recognizing American Lyrics 1
5. Chapter One “We Fathom You Not — We Love You”: Walt Whitman Resists the Emerging Politics of Recognition 31
6. Chapter Two Jean Toomer’s “The Blue Meridian” and the “Social Prison” of Cultural Pluralism 61
7. Chapter Three Looking without Recognizing: Hart Crane’s Lyric Sociality 93
8. Chapter Four Burlesquing Recognition: James Merrill’s Formalism 129
9. Chapter Five More Rapid than Recognition: Thylias Moss’s Lyric Velocity 159
10. Coda “Join Me Down Here in Nowhere” 187
11. Notes 199
12. Bibliography 263
13. Index 283