Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Preface xi
4. 1. A Defense of Poetry 1
5. The Revenge of the Poet-Critic, or The Parts Are Greater Than the Sum of the Whole 3
6. Thelonious Monk and the Performance of Poetry 18
7. An Interview with Manuel Brito 25
8. Solidarity Is the Name We Give to What We Cannot Hold 33
9. What's Art Got to Do with It?: The Status of the Subject of the Humanities in an Age of Cultural Studies 36
10. A Test of Poetry 52
11. The Book as Architecture 56
12. Dear Mr. Fanelli 58
13. An Interview with Hannah Möckel-Rieke 63
14. I Don't Take Voice Mail: The Object of Art in the Age of Electronic Technology 73
15. Weak Links (on Hannah Weiner) 81
16. C1aire-in-the-Building 83
17. Again Eigner 86
18. Frame Lock 90
19. "Passed by Examination": Paragraphs for Susan Howe 100
20. The Value of Sulfur 104
21. Shaker Show 108
22. Gertrude and Ludwig's Bogus Adventure 109
23. Introjective Verse 110
24. Poetics of the Americas 113
25. Unzip Bleed 138
26. Lachrymose Encaustic / Abrasive Tear 140
27. Stein's Identity 141
28. Provisional Institutions: Alternative Presses and Poetic Innovation 145
29. Pound and the Poetry of Today 155
30. Inappropriate Touching 166
31. Water Images of The New Yorker 175
32. The Response as Such: Words in Visibility 178
33. From an Ongoing Interview with Tom Beckett 186
34. Explicit Version Number Required 191
35. Hinge Picture (on George Oppen) 192
36. Reznikoff's Nearness 197
37. An Autobiographical Interview 229
38. Beyond Emaciation 253
39. Riding's Reason 255
40. Whose He Kidding 268
41. Unrepresentative Verse (on Ginsberg and Eliot) 270
42. Poetry and [Male?] Sex 273
43. Close listening: Poetry and the Performed Word 279
44. Taps [In memoriam Eric Mottram] 302
45. Warning-Poetry Area: Publics under Construction 304
46. The Republic of Reality 312
47. Notes and Acknowledgments 317