Acknowledgments
Contents
Preface
I.
1. Generations “I”: The Future of Autobiographical Poetry
2. Some Kind of Statement, One Ear Showing: Social Poetry and Its Problems
3. Ferality and Strange Good Fortune: Notes on Teaching and Writing
4. The State You Are Entering: Depression and Contemporary Poetry
5. A Cavalier and Doomed Lot: James L. White, a Memoir
II.
6. “Mad Means Something”: Anger, Invective, and the Period Style
7. Without a Deep Delight: Neo-Narrative Poetry and Its Problems
8. Weldon Kees: A Photo and Two Afterlives
9. Snodgrass’s Borrowed Dog: S. S. Gardons and “Remains”
10. Illegible Due to Blotching: Poetic Authenticity and Its Discontents
III.
11. John Flanders on the Anxious Highway: First Books and the Politics of Poetry
12. Like a Rolling Incognito Lounge: Rock and Roll and American Poetry
13. Large Air: A (Millennial) Notebook
14. Mercantile Eyes: Travel Poems and Tourist Poems (co-authored with Lynda Hull)
15. Magi-in-Residence: An Alchemy of Poetic Ruin
Notes
Index