Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. List of Illustrations ix
4. Preface xi
5. 1. Poetry as Civilization: Primo Levi and Dante at Auschwitz 1
6. 2. The Poem as History 14
7. 3. Ingesting Violence: Th e Poetry of Witness Problem 33
8. 4. Theodore Roethke’s Lost Son and the Confessional Era 54
9. 5. Hart Crane’s Broken Tower 74
10. 6. Poet from Kars: Yeghishe Charents and Armenia’s Modern Age 94
11. 7. Collage and Its Discontents 124
12. 8. Arshile Gorky: From the Armenian Genocide to the Avant- Garde 150
13. 9. The Anatolian Embrace: Greeks and Armenians in Elia Kazan’s America, America 181
14. 10. Siamanto’s Bloody News 206
15. 11. Bob Dylan in Suburbia 220
16. 12. Writing Horizontal: Notes Toward the Poem as Space 255
17. Acknowledgments 275
18. Notes 277