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“3 in 1” (Creeley), 218 Ashbery, John, works of: A Wave, 7 9 ; “ A W a v e , ” “6/21” (Rich), 157 – 159 75 , 76 , 81 , 87 , 88 – 90 ; Flow Chart, 8 5 , 12 from r h y m m s (Grenier), 242 87 , 90 – 94 ; “Th e New Spirit,” 87 ; Th e 16 from r h y m m s (Grenier), 242 Prelude, 8 7 ; “ Th e Recital,” 87 ; Selected Poems, 82 , 88 ; Self-Portrait in a Convex Abstract Expressionism, 75 Mirror, 73 – 74 , 75 , 85 ; “Self-Portrait in a “Achilles’ Song” (Duncan), 196 Convex Mirror,” 74 , 75 – 79 , 81 , 87 , 94 ; Acker, Kathy, 9 “ Th e System,” 76 , 81 – 86 , 87 , 88 ; Th ree Acts of the Apostles, Th e (Strauss), 9 , 202 Poems, 76 , 81 , 86 – 87 ; “Tradition and Adler, Ed, 117 Talent,” 141 “Advent 1966” (Levertov), 188 , 193 Ash-Wednesday (Eliot), 14 “After the Surprising Conversions” “As If” (Creeley), 220 , 222 (Lowell), 19 “At a Bach Concert” (Rich), 140 “Age of Lowell, Th e” (Ehrenpreis), 35 Atherton, Rev. Hope, 250 Ahmad, Aijiz, 163 Atlas of the Diffi cult World, An (Rich), 138 , 154 “Air Without Incense” (Rich), 156 “Atlas of the Diffi cult World, An” (Rich), 154 , Allen, Donald, 224 ; Th e New American 155 , 157 , 159 Poetry, 224 “At the Fishhouses” (Bishop), 69 , 72 Altieri, Charles, 4 , 5 , 84 , 86 , 153 ; Painterly “At the Loom” (Levertov), 185 Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry: Auden, W. H., 8 , 15 , 41 , 64 , 139 , 141 , 150 , Th e Contemporaneity of Modernism, 4 271 , 276 “America” (Ginsberg), 108 “August” (Everson), 124 – 125 American poetics, 270 – 278 Augustine, 121 , 182 ; Confessions, 121 American Poetry Wax Museum, Th e “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” (Rich), 140 (Rasula), 34 – 35 Auroras of Autumn, Th e (Stevens), 7 Amherst College, 250 Autobiography (Creeley), 212 Andrews, Bruce, 9 , 224 , 225 ; “Code Words,” 225 ; “Autobiography” (Creeley), 212 , 223 Th e L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, 9 , 224 “Autobiography, Memory and Mechanisms of Anglophilia, 270 – 271 Concealment” (Palmer), 232 “Annul in Me My Manhood” (Everson), 133 “Avowal, Th e” (Levertov), 202 “Answering” (Duncan), 177 , 190 “Axel Av á kar” (Rich), 163 – 164 Antoninus, Brother. See Everson, William Axelrod, Steven, 37 Arnold, Matthew, 83 , 271 ; Poems, 8 3 “Arrival in Santos” (Bishop), 61 “Ball Poem, Th e” (Berryman), 42 “Ars Poetica” (MacLeish), 274 Baraka, Amiri, 15 , 208 “Articulation of Sound Forms in Time” Bartlett, Lee, 122 ; William Everson: Th e Life of (S. Howe), 250 , 255 Brother Antoninus, 122 Ashbery, John, 8 , 59 , 63 , 73 – 94 , 95 , 100 , 141 , Baudelaire, Charles, 5 , 48 , 65 , 66 , 67 , 79 , 147 , 153 , 170 , 213 , 225 , 276 ; fl ux, 86 – 90 ; 196 , 275 ; “Correspondances,” 66 ; Les Fleurs translations, 79 – 80 du Mal, 48 , 65 , 66

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Beat Movement. See Beats Bishop, Elizabeth, works of: “Arrival in Beat poetics, 95, 98 , 101 Santos,” 61 ; “At the Fishhouses,” 69 , 72 ; Beats, 29 , 95 – 100 , 120 , 123 , 126 , 141 , 167 , “ Th e Bight,” 65 – 67 , 69 , 72 , 74 ; Complete 208 , 236 Poems, 74 ; “Correspondences,” 66 – 67 ; Beauvoir, Simone de, 143 “Crusoe in England,” 63 , 69 ; “Eff orts Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Bishop with Marianne of Aff ection,” 63 ; “Th e End of March,” Moore and Robert Lowell (Kalstone), 59 63 , 68 – 69 ; “Th e Fish,” 73 ; “Geographical “Belief & Technique for Modern Prose” Mirror,” 69 – 72 ; Geography III, 61 , 63 ; “Th e (Kerouac), 98 Imaginary Iceberg,” 62 ; “In the Waiting Bell, Vereen, 35 ; Robert Lowell: Nihilist As Room,” 63 ; “Th e Map,” 61 – 62 , 72 ; “Th e Hero, 3 5 Moose,” 72 – 73 , 109 ; North and South, Bending the Bow (Duncan), 184 , 192 , 196 59 , 61 , 62 ; “North Haven,” 34 ; “One Art,” “Bending the Bow” (Duncan), 183 – 184 68 , 74 , 160 – 161 ; Questions of Travel, 6 1 ; Bernanos, George, 267 “ Th e Sandpiper,” 69 Bernstein, Charles, 9 , 10 , 208 , 224 , 227 , Blackburn, Paul, 208 229 – 230 , 236 ; “Dysraphism,” 229 – 230 , 245 ; Black Mountain College, 98 , 126 , 166 – 167 Th e L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, 9 , 224 Black Mountain Review, 9 8 Berrigan, Fr. Daniel, 149 , 199 Black Mountain school, 166 , 167 , 168 , 203 – 204 , Berrigan, Ted, 208 205 , 208 Berry, Wendell, 15 Blackmur, R. P., 18 Berryman, John, 8 , 15 , 16 , 18 , 24 , 29 , 30 , 35 , Black Sparrow Press, 120 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 – 58 , 60 , 69 , 80 , 81 , 148 , 208 , Blackwood, Lady Caroline, 33 , 37 276 , 277 ; Alcoholics Anonymous, 57 ; Blake, William, 2 , 101 , 103 , 104 , 107 , 108 , 269 alcoholism, 50 , 55 , 57 ; Catholicism, Blast, 224 40 – 41 , 55 – 56 , 57 , 58 ; health, 50 , 53 , 56 – 57 ; Blavatsky, Mme., 181 suicide, 56 – 57 ; theodicy, 41 , 51 – 53 “Blue Ghazals, Th e” (Rich), 163 Berryman, John, works of: “A Prayer After Bollingen Prize, 40 All,” 56 ; “A Prayer for the Self,” 55 ; “Th e Book of Blues, Th e (Kerouac), 119 Ball Poem,” 42 ; Berryman’s Sonnets, 4 4 ; “Book of the Yellow Castle, Th e” (Palmer), 232 “Defensio in Extremis,” 54 ; Delusions, Boston Arts Festival, 30 – 31 Etc., 40 , 54 , 55 ; “Despondency and Bracewell Hall (Irving), 270 Madness,” 30 ; “Th e Disciple,” 42 ; Th e Bradstreet, Anne, 270 , 271 , 272 ; Th e Tenth Muse, Dream Songs, 40 , 41 , 42 , 44 , 47 – 53 , 56 , lately Sprung up in America, 271 148 , 233 , 276 ; “Ecce Homo,” 56 ; “Eleven Bridge, Th e (Crane), 14 , 87 , 92 , 133 Addresses to the Lord,” 54 , 55 ; “Th e Facts Bridges, Robert, 54 & Issues,” 57 ; “Fare Well,” 42 ; Henry’s Fate “Bring It Up from the Dark” (Duncan), 196 & Other Poems, 40 , 55 ; Homage to Mistress Brinnin, John Malcolm, 68 , 69 Broadstreet, 40 , 41 , 43 , 44 – 47 , 48 , 50 ; “King Brown, Dennis, 87 David Dances,” 57 – 58 ; “Lauds,” 55 ; Love & Browning, Robert, 251 ; “Childe Roland to the Fame, 40 , 53 – 54 ; “Opus Dei,” 55 ; “Overseas Dark Tower Came,” 251 Prayer,” 55 ; “Th e Statue,” 42 ; “Winter Bryant, William Cullen, 270 Landscape,” 42 Buber, Martin, 260 Berryman’s Sonnets (Berryman), 44 Buddhism, 97 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 107 , 109 , 110 – 111 , “Between the Porch and the Altar” (Lowell), 19 114 – 116 , 117 “Beyond the Alps” (Lowell), 28 , 29 , 38 , 39 Bundtzen, Lynda, 150 Bible, 213 , 256 Bunyan, John, 213 “Bight, Th e” (Bishop), 65 – 67 , 69 , 72 , 74 “Burning Babe, Th e” (Southwell), 193 Big Sur (Kerouac), 106 , 117 – 118 “Burning of Paper Instead of Children, Th e” Billy Budd (Melville), 250 (Rich), 149 – 150 , 164 Birth-Mark, Th e: Unsettling the Wilderness in Burroughs, William, 95 , 96 , 98 American Literary History (S. Howe), 250 Bishop, Elizabeth, 8 , 20 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 34 , 36 , Cage, John, 75 38 , 55 , 59 – 73 , 74 , 75 , 81 , 85 , 109 , 160 – “Calendar, A” (Creeley), 221 161 , 276 ; alcoholism, 60 ; depression, 60 ; “Calle Visi ó n” (Rich), 154 , 159 , 160 relationships, 60 ; sexuality, 60 Calvinism, 5 , 16 , 31 , 118 , 123 , 195 , 212 , 252 , 256

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Campbell, Bruce, 249 Collins, Jess, 171 , 174 , 181 , 185 , 195 ; “Enamourd Campo, Allan, 120 Mage,” 181 , 185 ; “If All the World Were Candles in Babylon (Levertov), 200 Paper and All the Water Sink,” 174 “Canticle for the Waterbirds, A” (Everson), Collins, Judy, 191 130 – 131 “Colloquy in Black Rock” (Lowell), “Canticle to the Christ in the Holy Eucharist, 22 – 24 , 36 , 40 A” (Everson), 134 – 135 “Colonel Shaw and the Massachusetts 54th” “Canto 30” (Pound), 6 (Lowell), 30 – 31 “Canto 81” (Pound), 5 Columbia College, 53 “Canto 116” (Pound), 5 – 6 Columbia University, 95 , 98 Cantos, Th e (Pound), 5 – 6 , 14 , 44 , 47 , 53 , 87 , 92 , Communism, 96 184 , 196 , 226 – 227 , 234 , 240 , 243 , 274 Company of Moths (Palmer), 232 Capote Truman, 102 Complete Poems (Bishop), 74 Carlyle, Th omas, 212 “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian Carpenter, David, 120 Existence” (Rich), 152 Carr, Lucien, 95 “Conclusion” (Pater), 83 Cassady, Carolyn, 115 “Concord” (Lowell), 19 Cassady, Neal, 95 – 96 , 98 , 99 , 112 , 115 , 118 Confessions (Augustine), 121 Catholic Art and Culture (Watkin), 26 Confi dence Man, Th e: His Masquerade Catholicism, 5 , 6 , 15 , 17 – 18 , 19 – 29 , 40 – 41 , 55 – 56 , (Melville), 12 57 , 58 , 59 , 111 , 115 , 116 – 117 , 118 , 120 , 121 , Conjunctions, 8 0 122 – 123 , 126 , 127 – 137 , 257 – 258 , 259 – 261 , Conrad, Alfred, 141 , 144 , 145 , 149 , 151 262 , 264 , 267 , 268 Constable, John, 270 Catholic mysticism, 20 , 97 Contemporary American Poetry: Voice of America Catholic mystics, 120 , 257 Forum Lectures (Nemerov), 178 “Caves” (Creeley), 221 , 222 “Contemporary Logos, Th e” (F. Howe), C é zanne, Paul, 101 257 , 263 Change of World, A (Rich), 138 , 139 , 140 , 141 , 143 , “Contradictions: Tracking Poems” (Rich), 150 , 159 , 162 159 – 160 “Change of World, A” (Rich), 139 Cooper, James Fenimore, 270 , 271 “Charles the Fifth and the Peasant” (Lowell), 19 Corman, Cid, 168 Charters, Ann, 113 “Correspondances” (Baudelaire), 66 “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came” “Correspondences” (Bishop), 66 – 67 (Browning), 251 Corso, Gregory, 95 , 96 “Child in Old Age, A” (F. Howe), 267 Crane, Hart, 13 , 14 , 92 , 97 , 100 , 123 , 133 , 208 ; Christ and Apollo (Lynch), 122 Th e Bridge, 14 , 87 , 92 , 133 ; “Th e River,” 133 ; Christianity, 100 , 101 , 118 , 126 , 127 , 156 , 182 , 183 , “Voyages,” 14 275 , 276 . See also Catholicism “Credo” (Creeley), 221 Clare College, Cambridge, 53 Creeley, Robert, 8 , 98 , 126 , 159 , 166 , 167 , 168 – “Claritas” (Levertov), 176 – 177 , 190 169 , 170 , 203 – 204 , 205 , 207 , 208 – 223 , 230 , Clark, T. J., 253 ; Th e Sight of Death, 253 236 , 237 , 239 , 243 , 244 , 249 , 257 , 277 ; New Clark, Tom, 212 – 213 England, 211 – 212 , 213 , 223 ; Puritanism, Cliff , Michelle, 151 , 153 , 154 , 157 , 161 – 162 , 164 212 – 213 , 221 , 223 ; words, 210 , 211 , 215 – 216 , Code of Signals: Recent Writings on Poetics 219 – 220 (Palmer), 9 , 224 , 230 , 257 Creeley, Robert, works of: “3 in 1,” 218 ; “Code Words” (Andrews), 225 “A Calendar,” 221 ; “A Note,” 210 ; “A Coherent Splendor, A: Th e American Poetic Piece,” 216 – 217 , 218 ; “As If,” 220 , 222 ; Renaissance, 1910–1950 (Gelpi), 1 , 12 Autobiography, 212 ; “Autobiography,” Cold War, 7 , 8 , 15 , 17 , 31 , 33 , 47 – 48 , 95 , 96 , 109 , 212 , 223 ; “Caves,” 221 , 222 ; Collected 207 , 225 Poems, 220 ; “Credo,” 221 ; “Th e Dishonest Coleridge, Samuel Taylor, 2 , 67 , 73 , 172 , 179 Mailmen,” 209 – 210 ; “Th e Dogs of Collected Poems (Creeley), 220 Auckland,” 221 ; On Earth, 221 ; “For Love,” Collected Poems (Kerouac), 111 214 – 215 ; “Gemini,” 217 – 218 ; Hello: A Collected Poems (Lowell), 32 Journal, 219 ; “Histoire de Florida,” 221 ; Collected Poems of Larry Eigner (Eigner), 238 If I Were Writing Th is, 220 ; “I Know a

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Creeley, Robert, works of: “3 in 1,” (cont.) “Domesday Book” (Lowell), 27 – 28 Man,” 209 ; “Th e Immoral Proposition,” “Domination of Black” (Stevens), 7 213 – 214 ; “Th e Language,” 215 – 216 ; Life “Don’t Flinch” (Rich), 163 & Death, 221 ; For Love, 214 , 236 ; Memory Door in the Hive, A (Levertov), 200 Gardens, 221 ; “Numbers,” 217 – 219 ; “Oh Dorn, Edward, 208 No,” 214 ; Pieces, 216 , 217 , 219 , 220 , 277 ; Double Image (Levertov), 168 “ Th e Riddle,” 209 ; Selected Poems, 237 ; “Doubt” (F. Howe), 264 , 265 “ T o Th ink …,” 222 – 223 ; Words, 211 , 215 , Draft of XXX Cantos, A (Pound), 5 216 , 277 Drafts and Fragments of Cantos CX–CXVII “Crisis of Spirit in the World” (Duncan), 207 (Pound), 5 Crooked Lines of God, Th e (Everson), 120 , 121 Dream of a Common Language, Th e (Rich), “Cross Tore a Hole, Th e” (Everson), 132 150 , 157 “Crusoe in England” (Bishop), 63 , 69 “Dreams Before Waking” (Rich), 154 Cubism, 3 Dream Songs, Th e (Berryman), 40 , 41 , 42 , 44 , Cunningham, J. V., 167 47 – 53 , 56 , 148 , 233 , 276 “Dream Within a Dream, A” (Poe), 273 Dante, 161 , 196 , 274 “Dreamwood” (Rich), 159 “Dante Etudes” (Duncan), 196 “Drunken Fisherman, Th e” (Lowell), 22 , 69 Dark Fields of the Republic (Rich), 154 Dryden, John, 102 , 271 Day, Dorothy, 199 Duchamp, Marcel, 224 , 225 Day at the Beach, A (Grenier), 238 Duncan, Robert, 8 , 14 , 15 , 96 , 100 , 120 , 121 , Day by Day (Lowell), 27 , 33 , 34 , 37 125 , 126 , 166 – 207 , 211 , 213 , 221 , 229 – 230 , “Dead in Europe, Th e” (Lowell), 28 233 , 277 ; gnosticism, 168 , 181 – 184 , 192 , 193 , “Death from Cancer” (Lowell), 21 – 22 195 , 198 , 206 , 207 ; health, 195 ; Vietnam “Death of a Critic” (Lowell), 37 – 38 War, 187 – 189 , 190 – 194 , 195 Deep Form, 99 , 101 , 102 Duncan, Robert, works of: “Achilles’ Song,” 196 ; “Defensio in Extremis” (Berryman), 54 “An Essay at War,” 195 ; “Answering,” DeLeuze, Gilles, 246 177 , 190 ; “A Seventeenth Century Suite,” Delusions, Etc. (Berryman), 40 , 54 , 55 190 , 193 , 194 ; Bending the Bow, 184 , “Depth of Fall, Th e” (Grenier), 237 192 , 196 ; “Bending the Bow,” 183 – 184 ; “Depths, Th e” (Levertov), 176 “Bring It Up from the Dark,” 196 ; “Crisis Derrida, Jacques, 9 of Spirit in the World,” 207 ; “Dante “Design” (Frost), 69 Etudes,” 196 ; “Earth’s Winter Song,” “Despondency and Madness” (Berryman), 30 187 , 188 ; Fictive Certainties, 181 ; Ground Dewdney, Christopher, 226 ; “Fractal Work, 197 ; Ground Work: Before the Diff usion,” 226 War, 196 ; Ground Work: In the Dark, 196 ; Dharma Bums, Th e (Kerouac), 117 Heavenly City, Earthly City, 168 , 170 ; Dial, 9 , 224 “Letters for Denise Levertov: An A Muse Dickinson, Emily, 12 , 53 , 68 , 141 , 142 , 147 , 148 , Meant,” 170 – 171 ; “Man’s Fulfi llment 212 , 237 , 244 , 250 – 252 , 253 , 257 , 258 , 259 , in Order and Strife,” 180 – 181 , 192 , 261 , 264 , 268 , 273 ; Th e Manuscript Books of 195 , 196 ; Medieval Scenes, 168 ; “Often I Emily Dickinson, 251 ; “My Life had stood a am Permitted to Return to a Meadow,” Loaded Gun – ,” 148 173 – 175 ; Th e Opening of the Field, 173 – 175 ; “Disappearance Approach, Th e” (S. Howe), “Passages,” 182 , 184 – 186 , 188 , 196 – 198 , 252 – 253 203 , 233 ; Roots and Branches, 173 , 177 ; “Disciple, Th e” (Berryman), 42 “Roots and Branches,” 177 ; “Santa Cruz “Dishonest Mailmen, Th e” (Creeley), 209 – 210 Propositions,” 190 , 191 ; “Th e Self in Dispossessed, 4 0 Postmodern Poetry,” 206 , 207 , 277 ; “Th e Diving into the Wreck (Rich), 150 Sentinels,” 196 ; “Soldiers,” 188 ; “Th e “Diving into the Wreck” (Rich), 148 , 150 , 151 Structure of Rime,” 196 ; “Styx,” 196 ; Dixon, Rev. Henry Watson, 54 “ Th e Torn Cloth,” 194 ; “Towards an Doctor Sax (Kerouac), 98 , 117 Open Universe,” 178 , 180 , 181 ; “Tribal “Dogs of Auckland, Th e” (Creeley), 221 Memories,” 184 ; Of the War: Passages 22–27 , Dolphin, Th e (Lowell), 33 , 36 , 37 188 , 192 , 195 ; “Where It Appears: Passages “Dolphin” (Lowell), 34 4,” 185

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“During the Eichmann Trial” (Levertov), 186 “Esth é tique du Mal” (Stevens), 65 Dusk Road Games (Grenier), 237 Evergreen Review, 98 , 120 “Dysraphism” (Bernstein), 229 – 230 , 245 Everson, William, 8 , 15 , 19 , 32 , 36 , 96 , 100 , 120 – 137 , 260 , 277 ; Catholicism, 121 , 122 – 123 , “Earth’s Winter Song” (Duncan), 187 , 188 126 , 127 – 137 ; erotic mysticism, 127 – 130 , “East Coker” (Eliot), 5 , 14 133 – 134 , 137 ; Jung, Carl, 122 ; monasticism, “Eastern War Time” (Rich), 153 120 , 121 – 122 , 126 , 127 , 128 , 130 , 132 , 136 ; Eberhart, Richard, 97 , 105 , 107 ; “West Coast pantheism, 120 , 121 , 123 – 125 , 127 Rhythms,” 97 Everson, William, works of: “A Canticle for “Ecce Homo” (Berryman), 56 the Waterbirds,” 130 – 131 ; “A Canticle Edinburgh Review, 270 to the Christ in the Holy Eucharist,” Edwards, Jonathan, 11 , 17 , 41 , 212 , 253 , 256 , 272 ; 134 – 135 ; “A Frost Lay White on California,” Images or Shadows of Divine Th ings, 253 , 135 – 136 ; “Annul in Me My Manhood,” 133 ; 256 , 272 ; “Personal Narrative,” 253 “August,” 124 – 125 ; Th e Crooked Lines of “Eff orts of Aff ection” (Bishop), 63 God, 120 , 121 ; “Th e Cross Tore a Hole,” 132 ; Ehrenpreis, Irvin, 18 , 35 ; “Th e Age of Lowell,” 35 “ Th e Encounter,” 132 – 133 ; Th e Hazards of Eigner, Larry, 208 , 237 – 238 , 239 , 243 ; Collected Holiness, 121 ; “In All Th ese Acts,” 130 , 136 ; Poems of Larry Eigner, 238 Man-Fate, 122 ; Th e Masks of Drought, 122 ; Einstein, Albert, 9 Prodigious Th rust, 121 ; Th e Residual Eisenhower, Dwight D., 47 Years, 125 ; River-Root, 127 – 130 ; Th e Rose “Eleven Addresses to the Lord” of Solitude, 121 ; San Joaquin, 124 ; “Song (Berryman), 54 , 55 of Songs,” 133 – 134 ; “Th e Song the Body Eliot, T. S., 2 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 9 , 13 , 14 , 19 , 20 , 39 , 41 , Dreamed in the Spirit’s Mad Behest,” 43 , 47 , 77 , 87 , 91 – 92 , 102 , 126 , 127 , 130 , 133 – 134 ; “Th e South Coast,” 137 ; Th ese Are 139 , 141 , 156 , 208 , 270 , 271 , 275 the Ravens, 123 ; “Tor House,” 123 ; Triptych Eliot, T. S., works of: Ash-Wednesday, 14 ; “East for the Living, 126 ; “Th e Wise,” 126 – 127 Coker,” 5 , 14; Four Quartets, 5 , 6 , 20 , “Experience” (Emerson), 254 77 , 127 , 275 ; “From Poe to Val é ry,” 275 ; “Eye and Tooth” (Lowell), 34 “Gerontion,” 130 ; “Th e Hollow Men,” 275 ; “Journey of the Magi,” 126 ; “Th e Music of Fabilli, Mary, 121 Poetry,” 6 ; Th e Waste Land, 5 , 6 , 43 , 47 , 91 , “Face to Face” (Rich), 148 274 , 275 ; “What the Th under Said,” 5 “Facts & Issues, Th e” (Berryman), 57 “Emergency Clinic” (Rich), 163 Fall of America, Th e (Ginsberg), 108 Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 2 , 11 – 13 , 16 , 41 , 67 , “Fare Well” (Berryman), 42 73 , 100 , 109 , 120 , 123 , 129 , 157 , 172 , Faulkner, William, 16 , 17 , 271 179 , 195 , 196 , 204 , 205 , 212 , 216 – 217 , Faville, Curtis, 238 244 – 246 , 253 – 254 , 255 , 256 , 257 , 261 , 268 , feminism, 138 , 139 , 140 , 144 , 150 – 155 , 163 , 250 270 , 273 , 274 , 275 ; English Traits, 270 ; Ferlinghetti, Lawrence, 96 , 117 , 120 “Experience,” 254 ; Nature, 12 , 244 , 273 ; Fernandez, Ramon, 76 “ Th e Poet,” 245 ; Representative Men, Fictive Certainties (Duncan), 181 216 – 217 ; “Self-Reliance,” 195 , 196 ; “Th e First Figure (Palmer), 232 Snow Storm,” 254 “First Word, Th e” (Kerouac), 100 “Enamourd Mage” (Collins), 181 , 185 “Fish, Th e” (Bishop), 73 “Encounter, Th e” (Everson), 132 – 133 FISH / HAWK / WITH / FISH (Grenier), 239 , “End of March, Th e” (Bishop), 63 , 68 – 69 240 , 241 “Endpapers” (Rich), 164 – 165 Fitzgerald, F. Scott, 16 ; Th e Great Gatsby, 1 6 England, 2 , 12 , 270 Fleurs du Mal, Les (Baudelaire), 48 , 65 , 66 English Traits (Emerson), 270 Flow Chart (Ashbery), 85 , 87 , 90 – 94 Enlightenment, 1 , 67 , 223 , 273 ; “Focus” (Rich), 146 rationalism, 1 , 223 “Footsteps Over Ground” (F. Howe), 259 – 260 “Enquiry” (Levertov), 192 “For John Berryman I” (Lowell), 16 , 38 “Epilogue” (Lowell), 38 For Lizzie and Harriet (Lowell), 33 “Essay at War, An” (Duncan), 195 For Love (Creeley), 214 , 237 “Essentials of Spontaneous Prose” (Kerouac), “For Love” (Creeley), 214 – 215 98 , 100 “For Once, Th en, Something” (Frost), 12

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“For the Book” (F. Howe), 268 – 269 Graham, Jorie, 278 For the Union Dead (Lowell), 31 , 33 , 34 , 37 , 61 “Grass Fires” (Lowell), 38 “For the Union Dead” (Lowell), 32 Great Gatsby, Th e (Fitzgerald), 16 “For the Young Anarchists” (Rich), 164 Great War. See World War I Four Quartets (Eliot), 5 , 6 , 20 , 77 , 127 , 275 Greenberg, Clement, 10 – 11 Fox (Rich), 139 Greene, Graham, 57 ; Th e Power and the Glory, 5 7 “Fractal Diff usion” (Dewdney), 226 Grenier, Robert, 15 , 208 , 224 , 230 , 236 – 246 , 251 , Freud, Sigmund, 29 , 276 257 , 277 ; drawing poems, 239 – 246 , 257 ; “Frolic Architecture” (S. Howe), 253 , 255 ideograms, 240 , 243 , 246 “From an Old House in America” (Rich), 153 Grenier, Robert, works of: 12 from r h y m “From Poe to Val é ry” (Eliot), 275 m s, 242 ; 16 from r h y m m s, 242 ; A “From Sickbed Shores” (Rich), 163 Day at the Beach, 238 ; “Th e Depth of Frost, Robert, 8 , 12 , 39 , 62 – 63 , 64 , 69 , 73 , 139 , Fall,” 237 ; Dusk Road Games, 237 ; FISH / 147 , 157 , 208 , 250 , 270 , 274 ; “Design,” 69 ; HAWK / WITH / FISH, 240 , 241 ; OWL “For Once, Th en, Something,” 12 ; “Tree at / ON / BOU / GH, 245 ; OWL / ON / My Window,” 139 BOU / GH, 242 ; Phantom Anthems, 238 ; “Frost Lay White on California, A” (Everson), Sentences Toward Birds, 238 ; Series, 238 ; 135 – 136 What I Believe transpiration/transpiring “Further Defi nition, A” (Levertov). See “Some Minnesota, 239 Notes on Organic Form” (Levertov) Ground Work (Duncan), 197 Futurist Moment, 4 Ground Work: Before the War (Duncan), 196 Futurist Moment, Th e: Avant-Garde, Avant Ground Work: In the Dark (Duncan), 196 Guerre, and the Language of Rupture Guattari, Felix, 246 (Perloff ), 3 Guest, Barbara, 75

Gelpi, Albert: A Coherent Splendor: Th e H a ff enden, John, 40 – 41 , 43 American Poetic Renaissance, 1910–1950 , 1 , 12 Hall, Donald, 37 “Gemini” (Creeley), 217 – 218 Hamilton, Ian, 31 , 37 “Geographical Mirror” (Bishop), 69 – 72 Hardwick, Elizabeth, 28 – 29 , 33 , 34 , 60 Geography III (Bishop), 61 , 63 H a r d y , Th omas, 271 Germany, 12 Hare, Peter, 252 , 253 “Gerontion” (Eliot), 130 Harmonium (Stevens), 5 Ghalib, Mira, 163 Harvard Crimson, 106 “Ghazals (Homage to Ghalib)” (Rich), 163 Harvard University, 17 , 61 , 68 , 75 , 95 , 102 , 106 , Gilson, Etienne, 18 ; Th e Mythical Th eology of 140 , 144 , 168 , 230 , 236 , 237 , 244 , 250 , 259 Saint Bernard, 1 8 Hass, Robert, 207 , 278 Ginsberg, Allen, 15 , 20 , 95 – 115 , 120 , 122 , 125 , 129 , Hawkins, Bobbie Louise, 214 – 215 141 , 149 , 208 , 277 ; Buddhism, 107 , 109 , Hawthorne, Nathaniel, 16 , 17 , 254 , 270 , 271 ; 110 – 111 , 114 – 116 ; fl ow, 100 , 101 Our Old Home, 270 ; “Th e Snow Ginsberg, Allen, works of: “America,” 108 ; Maiden,” 254 Th e Fall of America, 108 ; Howl, 97 , 98 , Hazards of Holiness, Th e (Everson), 121 99 , 102 – 106 , 107 , 111 , 129 ; “Kaddish,” H.D., 5 , 6 , 7 , 13 , 14 , 141 , 196 , 270 , 274 – 106 – 107 ; “Notes Written on Finally 275 ; Helen in Egypt, 5 ; “Hermetic Recording Howl,” 104 ; “Sunfl ower Sutra,” Defi nition,” 6 ; Sea Garden, 5 , 274 ; Trilogy, 5 107 – 108 , 113 ; “Wichita Vortex Sutra,” Heavenly City, Earthly City (Duncan), 168 , 170 108 – 110 , 149 Heidegger, Martin, 244 , 264 Giroux, Robert, 41 Heisenberg, Werner, 9 Gl ü ck, Louise, 278 Hejinian, Lyn, 9 , 10 , 224 , 229 , 230 , 234 – 236 , gnosticism, 24 , 28 , 118 , 127 , 134 , 135 , 168 , 181 , 182 , 257 , 277 ; My Life, 234 – 236 , 277 ; “My 183 , 184 , 192 , 193 , 195 , 198 , 206 , 207 , 263 , Life,” 245 275 , 277 Helen in Egypt (H.D.), 5 God and the Unconscious (White), 122 Hello: A Journal (Creeley), 219 Goddard College, 57 Henry’s Fate & Other Poems (Berryman), 40 , 55 Gone (F. Howe), 265 , 266 Heraclitus, 180 Goodman, Mitchell, 167 , 171 , 190 Herbert, George, 202

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Here and Now (Levertov), 172 , 176 , 182 Husserl, Edmund, 9 , 264 “Hermetic Defi nition” (H.D.), 6 Hymn to the Mother of the Gods (Julian), 184 Herschel, Caroline, 147 Herschel, William, 147 “I am in Danger – Sir – “ (Rich), 141 , 147 Heyen, William, 54 “Idea of Order at Key West, Th e” (Stevens), 64, High Modernism, 4 – 5 , 7 , 224 67 , 74 , 76 , 142 , 168 Highton, Penelope, 219 , 221 , 223 “Ideas in the Th ings, Th e” (Levertov), 203 “Histoire de Florida” (Creeley), 221 Ideas of Order (Stevens), 64 History (Lowell), 33 , 34 , 35 , 37 , 61 ideograms, 240 , 243 , 246 , 274 “Hollow Men, Th e” (Eliot), 275 “If All the World Were Paper and All the Water Homage to Mistress Broadstreet (Berryman), 40 , Sink” (Collins), 174 41 , 43 , 44 – 47 , 48 , 50 If I Were Writing Th is (Creeley), 220 “Home” (Lowell), 38 – 39 “I Know a Man” (Creeley), 209 Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 18 , 20 , 25 , 48 , Illuminations (Rimbaud), 80 56 , 126 , 179 ; “Th e Wreck of the Images or Shadows of Divine Th ings (Edwards), Deutschland,” 25 253 , 256 , 272 Hopper, Edward, 232 “Imaginary Iceberg, Th e” (Bishop), 62 Hotchkiss, Bill, 120 Imagism, 12 , 15 , 206 , 243 , 274 , 275 Howe, Fanny, 15 , 230 , 257 – 269 , 277 ; Imagists, 13 bewilderment, 262 – 263 , 264 , 267 ; Imitations (Lowell), 19 Catholicism, 257 – 258 , 259 – 261 , 262 , 264 , “Immanence” (F. Howe), 261 267 , 268 ; politics, 257 “Immoral Proposition, Th e” (Creeley), 213 – 214 Howe, Fanny, works of: “A Child in Old “In All Th ese Acts” (Everson), 130 , 136 Age,” 267 ; “A Vision,” 267 – 268 ; “Th e “In a Station of the Metro” (Pound), 274 Contemporary Logos,” 257 , 263 ; “Doubt,” Indiana, Robert, 217 264 , 265 ; “Footsteps Over Ground,” Inhumanism, 124 259 – 260 ; “For the Book,” 268 – 269 ; “In Memory of Arthur Winslow” (Lowell), Gone, 265 , 266 ; “Immanence,” 261 ; 19 , 21 – 22 Introduction to the World, 258 – 259 ; Th e “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory” Lives of a Spirit/Glasstown: Where Something (Yeats), 44 Got Broken, 257 ; Th e Lyrics, 257 , 258 ; In the American Grain (Williams), 244 “Outremer,” 267 ; “Th e Passion,” 265 – 266 ; In the American Tree (Silliman), 224 , 257 “Refl ections on Word and Life,” 265 ; “In the Cage” (Lowell), 19 Second Childhood, 266 , 267 , 268 , 269 ; “In the Waiting Room” (Bishop), 63 “Second Childhood,” 266 – 267 ; Th e Introduction to the World (F. Howe), 258 – 259 Wedding Dress, 265 “In Whom We Live and Move and Have Our Howe, Susan, 15 , 230 , 244 , 246 – 257 , 271 , 277 ; Being” (Levertov), 202 collages, 248 , 251 , 254 – 255 , 257 ; New Irving, Washington, 270 ; Bracewell Hall, 270 England, 246 , 249 – 250 ; Puritanism, “Israfel” (Poe), 12 , 273 252 – 253 , 256 , 259 “‘It Is the Lesbian in Us …,’” (Rich), 152 Howe, Susan, works of: “Articulation of Sound Forms in Time,” 250 , 255 ; Th e Birth-Mark: Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics, 111 Unsettling the Wilderness in American Jacob’s Ladder, Th e (Levertov), 173 , 186 Literary History, 250 ; “Th e Disappearance James, Henry, 270 , 271 Approach,” 252 – 253 ; “Frolic Architecture,” Jameson, Fredric, 32 253 , 255 ; My Emily Dickinson, 250 , 251 – 252 ; Janet, Pierre, 80 Pierce-Arrow, 252 ; “Scattering as Behavior Jansen, Cornelius, 118 toward Risks,” 250 ; Singularities, 248 , Jansenism, 118 , 119 250 , 255 ; Th at Th is, 252 , 255 – 256 ; “Th at Jarrell, Randall, 18 , 19 , 36 , 49 , 141 Th is,” 253 , 255 , 256 ; “Th orow,” 246 – 249 , J e ff ers, Robinson, 8 , 13 , 14 , 16 , 48 , 100 , 103 , 120 , 250 , 252 122 , 123 , 124 , 125 , 126 , 127 , 130 , 131 , 154 , 155 , Howl (Ginsberg), 97 , 98 , 99 , 102 – 106 , 107 , 157 , 163 ; “Shine, Perishing Republic,” 16 111 , 129 John of the Cross, 101 “Hugh Selwyn Mauberley” (Pound), 5 Johnson, Lyndon, 109 Huncke, Herbert, 95 Johnson, Ronald, 15

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Jones, James T., 111 , 112 , 117 ; A Map of Mexico Lake George Arts Project, 246 City Blues: Jack Kerouac as Poet, 111 “Lake Mountain Moon” (Levertov), 200 Jones, LeRoi. See Baraka, Amiri Lamantia, Philip, 98 , 120 Jordan, June, 153 “Lamentation, A” (Levertov), 186 “Journey of the Magi” (Eliot), 126 Land of Unlikeness (Lowell), 18 , 21 Joyce, James, 4 , 91 ; Ulysses, 9 1 L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E, 9 , 224 , 236 jubilat, 230 “Language, Th e” (Creeley), 215 – 216 Julian the Apostate, 184 ; Hymn to the Mother of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E Book, Th e (Andrews, the Gods, 184 Bernstein), 9 , 224 Jung, Carl, 122 , 131 “Language” Poetries (Messerli), 224 Language Poetry, 9 , 10 , 12 , 15 , 34 , 35 , 155 – 156 , Kabbala, 181 159 , 180 , 206 , 207 , 208 – 269 , 277 ; West “Kaddish” (Ginsberg), 106 – 107 Coast, 230 Kalstone, David, 59 ; Becoming a Poet: Elizabeth Lannan Foundation, 223 Bishop with Marianne Moore and Robert Larkin, Philip, 271 Lowell, 5 9 “Last Night” (Lowell), 37 Kandinsky, Wassily, 3 , 224 “Lauds” (Berryman), 55 Kant, Immanuel, 2 Lawrence, D. H., 122 , 123 , 124 , 125 , 126 , 127 Keats, John, 77 , 87 , 271 Lax, Robert, 113 Keller, Lynn, 7 – 8 , 63 , 74 ; Re-making It New: Leafl ets (Rich), 149 , 150 , 163 , 190 Contemporary American Poetry and the Leaves of Grass (Whitman), 48 , 91 , 102 , 120 Modernist Tradition, 8 Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm, 41 Kennedy, Robert, 33 “Letters for Denise Levertov: An A Muse Kenner, Hugh, 3 Meant” (Duncan), 170 – 171 Kenyon College, 17 , 19 Levertoff , Olga, 186 Kenyon Review, 224 Levertov, Denise, 8 , 15 , 19 , 126 , 141 , 148 , Kermani, David, 85 149 , 166 – 207 , 210 , 211 , 213 , 221 , 225 , Kerouac, Jack, 15 , 95 – 120 , 122 , 141 ; Buddhism, 260 , 262 , 277 ; mystery, 176 ; religious 99 , 100 , 111 , 114 – 116 , 117 ; Catholicism, orientation, 182 , 183 , 199 – 203 ; Vietnam 111 , 115 , 116 – 117 , 118 , 120 ; Deep Form, War, 186 – 188 , 189 , 190 – 194 , 199 , 225 99 , 101 , 102 ; drugs, 98 ; fl ow, 99 – 100 ; Levertov, Denise, works of: A Door in the improvisation, 113 – 114 ; Jansenism, 118 , 119 Hive, 200 ; “Advent 1966,” 188 , 193 ; “A Kerouac, Jack, works of: “Belief & Technique Lamentation,” 186 ; “A Note to Olga,” 186 ; for Modern Prose,” 98 ; Big Sur, 106 , “A Poet’s View,” 199 – 200 , 201 ; “A 117 – 118 ; Th e Book of Blues, 119 ; Collected Tree Telling of Orpheus,” 184 ; “At the Poems, 111 ; Th e Dharma Bums, 117 ; Doctor Loom,” 185 ; “A Vision,” 186 , 187 , 188 ; “Th e Sax, 98 , 117 ; “Essentials of Spontaneous Avowal,” 202 ; Candles in Babylon, 200 ; Prose,” 98 , 100 ; “Th e First Word,” 100 ; “Claritas,” 176 – 177 , 190 ; “Th e Lonesome Traveler, 120 ; Maggie Cassidy, 9 8 ; Depths,” 176 ; Double Image, 168 ; “During Mexico City Blues, 99 , 111 – 117 ; On the the Eichmann Trial,” 186 ; “Enquiry,” 192 ; Road, 97 , 98 , 99 , 102 , 103 , 106 , 111 – 113 , 117 ; Here and Now, 172 , 176 , 182 ; “Th e Ideas San Francisco Blues, 9 9 ; Th e Scripture of in the Th ings,” 203 ; “In Whom We Live the Golden Eternity, 115 , 117 ; Some of the and Move and Have Our Being,” 202 ; Th e Dharma, 99 , 111 ; Th e Subterraneans, 9 8 ; Th e Jacob’s Ladder, 173 , 186 ; “Lake Mountain Town and the City, 9 8 ; Visions of Cody, 9 8 ; Moon,” 200 ; “Life at War,” 186 – 187 , 188 , Visions of Gerard, 116 – 117 189 , 192 , 194; “Line breaks, Stanza-Spaces, Kesey, Ken, 106 and the Inner Voice,” 179 ; “Th e Many King, Martin Luther, 159 Mansions,” 200 – 201 ; “Mass for the Day “King David Dances” (Berryman), 57 – 58 of St. Th omas Didymus,” 199 , 200 ; “Of “Knight, Th e” (Rich), 142 , 143 God and Of the Gods,” 200 , 201 ; “Olga Koch, Kenneth, 75 , 95 , 208 Poems,” 186 ; “On Belief in the Physical Kooning, Willem de, 75 Resurrection of Jesus,” 202 – 203 ; “On Williams’ Triadic Line,” 203 ; O Taste and Lacan, Jacques, 9 See, 173 , 177 ; “O Taste and See,” 177 – 178 ; Laforgue, Jules, 13 , 275 Overland to the Islands, 169 ; “Passage,”

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201 – 202 ; Th e Poet in the World, 181 ; Imitations, 19 ; “In Memory of Arthur “Psalm Concerning the Castle,” 186 ; Winslow,” 19 , 21 – 22 ; “In the Cage,” 19 ; “ Th e Rights,” 170 ; “Th e Ripple,” 175 – 176 ; Land of Unlikeness, 18 , 21 ; “Last Sands of the Well, 202 ; “Th e Shifting,” Night,” 37 ; Life Studies, 19 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 169 , 170 , 198 ; “Some Notes on Organic 31 , 33 , 35 , 37 , 60 ; “Life Studies,” 29 , 30 , Form,” 178 – 180 , 181 , 201 ; Th e Sorrow 60 , 233 ; For Lizzie and Harriet, 33 ; “Logan Dance, 186 ; “Staying Alive,” 149 , 190 – 191 ; Airport, Boston,” 38 ; Lord Weary’s Castle, “Tenebrae,” 192 ; “To R. D., March 4, 18 – 20 , 21 , 24 , 28 , 30 , 31 , 36 , 38 , 40 , 43 , 1988,” 194 – 195 ; “Th e Tulips,” 179 ; Up 47 , 59 , 60 , 69 ; “Mary Winslow,” 19 ; Th e Rising, 192 ; “Up Rising,” 188 ; “What Th ey Mills of the Kavanaughs, 19 ; “Mr. Edwards Were Like,” 192 and the Spider,” 19 ; “Napoleon Crosses Lewis, John L., 64 the Berezina,” 19 ; Near the Ocean, 32 , 33 ; “Life at War” (Levertov), 186 – 187 , 188 , 189 , “ Th e Nihilist as Hero,” 35 – 36 ; Notebook 192 , 194 1967–68 , 33 , 37 , 47 , 149 , 190 ; “Th e Quaker Life & Death (Creeley), 221 Graveyard in Nantucket,” 24 – 27 , 40 ; Life Studies (Lowell), 19 , 28 , 29 , 30 , 31, 33 , “Reading Myself,” 35 ; “Rebellion,” 19 ; 35 , 37 , 60 “Salem,” 19 ; “Skunk Hour,” 30 , 31 , 60 ; “Life Studies” (Lowell), 29 , 30 , 60 , 233 “St. Mark’s, 1933,” 38 ; “Th anks-Off ering “Like Th is Together” (Rich), 145 – 146 for Recovery,” 38 ; For the Union Dead, “Line breaks, Stanza-Spaces, and the Inner 31 , 33 , 34 , 37 , 61 ; “Waking Early Sunday Voice” (Levertov), 179 Morning,” 32 ; “Water,” 60 – 61 ; “Where the Lives of a Spirit, Th e/Glasstown: Where Something Rainbow Ends,” 27 Got Broken (F. Howe), 257 Luce, Henry, 96 “Logan Airport, Boston” (Lowell), 38 “Lycidas” (Milton), 25 Lonesome Traveler (Kerouac), 120 Lynch, William, 122 ; Christ and Apollo, 122 “Long Conversation, A” (Rich), 154 Lyrics, Th e (F. Howe), 257 , 258 Lord, Audre, 153 Lord Weary’s Castle (Lowell), 18 – 20 , 21 , 24 , 28 , Mackinnon, Ann, 214 30 , 31 , 36 , 38 , 40 , 43 , 47 , 59 , 60 , 69 MacLeish, Archibald, 274 ; “Ars Poetica,” 274 Louisiana State University, 18 Mac Low, Jackson, 226 – 227 , 234 ; Words nd Ends Love & Fame (Berryman), 40 , 53 – 54 from Ez, 226 – 227 Lowell, Robert, 8 , 15 , 16 – 39 , 40 , 43 , 47 , 55 , 56 , Maggie Cassidy (Kerouac), 98 58 , 59 , 60 – 61 , 62 , 63 , 64 , 65 , 68 , 69 , 73 , Mallarm é , St é phane, 79 , 80 , 196 , 275 ; Nursery 74 , 81 , 98 , 141 , 149 , 190 , 208 , 230 , 236 , Rhymes, 7 9 237 , 249 , 271 , 276 , 277 ; Catholicism, Man-Fate (Everson), 122 17 – 18 , 19 – 29 , 40 – 41 , 58 , 59 ; depression, 28 , Manicheism, 182 29 , 30 , 33 ; politics, 33 , 34 Mannerism, 76 , 77 , 78 Lowell, Robert, works of: “After the Surprising “Man’s Fulfi llment in Order and Strife” Conversions,” 19 ; “A Prayer for My (Duncan), 180 – 181 , 192 , 195 , 196 Grandfather to Our Lady,” 28 ; “Between Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson, Th e the Porch and the Altar,” 19 ; “Beyond the (Dickinson), 251 Alps,” 28 , 29 , 38 , 39 ; “Charles the Fifth “Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad, Th e” and the Peasant,” 19 ; Collected Poems, 3 2 ; (Stevens), 79 “Colloquy in Black Rock,” 22 – 24 , 36 , 40 ; Man with the Blue Guitar, Th e (Stevens), 64 “Colonel Shaw and the Massachusetts “Many Mansions, Th e” (Levertov), 200 – 201 54th,” 30 – 31 ; “Concord,” 19 ; Day by Day, “Map, Th e” (Bishop), 61 – 62 , 72 27 , 33 , 34 , 37 ; “Th e Dead in Europe,” 28 ; Map of Mexico City Blues, A: Jack Kerouac as Poet “Death from Cancer,” 21 – 22 ; “Death of a (Jones), 111 Critic,” 37 – 38 ; “Dolphin,” 34 ; Th e Dolphin, Marcion of Sinope, 263 33 , 36 , 37 ; “Domesday Book,” 27 – 28 ; Maritain, Jacques, 28 “ Th e Drunken Fisherman,” 22 , 69 ; Marlowe, Christopher, 30 ; Th e Tragical History “Epilogue,” 38 ; “Eye and Tooth,” 34 ; of Doctor Faustus, 3 0 “For John Berryman I,” 16 , 38 ; “For “Marriage in the Sixties, A” (Rich), 145 the Union Dead,” 32 ; “Grass Fires,” 38 ; Martin, John, 270 History, 33 , 34 , 35 , 37 , 61 ; “Home,” 38 – 39 ; Marvell, Andrew, 33

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Marx, Karl, 153 – 154 “My Life had stood a Loaded Gun –” Marxism, 4 , 9 , 153 – 154 , 155 , 159 (Dickinson), 148 “Mary Winslow” (Lowell), 19 Mythical Th eology of Saint Bernard, Th e Masks of Drought, Th e (Everson), 122 (Gilson), 18 “Mass for the Day of St. Th omas Didymus” (Levertov), 199 , 200 “Napoleon Crosses the Berezina” (Lowell), 19 materialism, 16 , 17 , 18 , 31 , 96 , 98 , 106 , 108 , 157 Naropa Institute, 101 , 111 Mather, Cotton, 16 Nation, 188 Matthiessen, F. O., 140 National Book Award, 40 , 73 Maximus Poems, Th e (Olson), 196 National Book Critics Circle Award, 73 Mazzola, Francesco, 76 , 77 – 78 , 79 National Geographic, 6 3 McCaff ery, Steve, 225 ; “Sound Poetry,” 225 Nature (Emerson), 12 , 244 , 273 McCarthy, Eugene, 33 Near the Ocean (Lowell), 32 , 33 McClure, Michael, 96 , 98 , 111 , 112 , 208 ; Necessary Angel, Th e (Stevens), 78 Scratching the Beat Surface, 111 Necessities of Life (Rich), 138 , 141 , 145 McNamara, Robert, 109 “Necessities of Life” (Rich), 145 Medieval Scenes (Duncan), 168 Nemerov, Howard: Contemporary American Melville, Herman, 12 , 16 , 250 ; Billy Budd, 250; Poetry: Voice of America Forum Th e Confi dence Man: His Masquerade, 1 2 ; Lectures, 178 Moby-Dick, 12 , 25 ; Pierre: or, Th e Neoplatonism, 274 Ambiguities, 1 2 Neoromanticism, 8 , 10 , 14 – 15 , 36 , 58 , 102 , 153 , Memory Gardens (Creeley), 221 162 , 166 , 172 , 173 , 178 , 206 , 207 , 223 , Merrill, James, 8 , 167 , 208 277 , 278 Merry Pranksters, 106 Neoromantics, 14 , 15 , 36 , 95 , 102 , 153 , 156 , 162 , Mersmann, James, 194 178 , 206 , 277 , 278 Merton, Th omas, 113 , 199 Neustadt Prize Laureateship, 74 Messerli, Douglas, 224 ; “Language” Poetries, 224 New American Poetry, Th e (Allen), 224 Metamorphoses (Ovid), 253 New Criticism, 17 , 43 , 95 , 102 , 123 , 126 , 208 , metaphysics, 1 , 14 , 73 , 172 , 195 , 223 , 245 , 273 , 224 , 230 274 – 275 New Romantics, 167 , 168 Mexico City Blues (Kerouac), 99 , 111 – 117 “New Spirit, Th e” (Ashbery), 87 Midnight Salvage (Rich), 138 New York City, 9 , 74 , 75 , 95 , 144 , 149 , 155 , 166 , “Midnight Salvage” (Rich), 159 , 160 167 , 168 , 171 , 224 Miles, Barry, 103 New York School, 75 , 95 , 141 Millay, Edna St. Vincent, 141 New York Times, 1 8 Millier, Brett, 68 – 69 New York Times Book Review, 9 7 Mills of the Kavanaughs, Th e (Lowell), 19 Niedecker, Lorine, 234 Milton, John, 25 , 30 ; “Lycidas,” 25 “Nihilist as Hero, Th e” (Lowell), 35 – 36 Moby-Dick (Melville), 12 , 25 No Poetry Will Serve (Rich), 164 Modernism, 1 , 2 , 3 – 5 , 7 – 15 , 39 – 40 , 58 , 73 , 74 , “North American Time” (Rich), 158 76 – 80 , 102 , 170 – 171 , 172 – 173 , 204 , 223 – 225 , North and South (Bishop), 59 , 61 , 62 274 – 277 “North Haven” (Bishop), 34 Modernists, 2 – 5 , 7 , 13 , 73 , 77 , 123 , 140 , 173 , 190 , “Note, A” (Creeley), 210 224 , 244 , 275 Notebook 1967–68 (Lowell), 33 , 37 , 47 , 149 , 190 “Mont Blanc” (Shelley), 249 “Notes Written on Finally Recording Howl” Moore, Marianne, 8 , 59 , 60 , 62 – 64 , 68 , 73 , (Ginsberg), 104 141 , 202 ; “Poetry,” 202 “Note to Olga, A” (Levertov), 186 “Moose, Th e” (Bishop), 72 – 73 , 109 “Numbers” (Creeley), 217 – 219 Morrison, Th eodore, 140 Nursery Rhymes (Mallarm é ), 79 “Mr. Edwards and the Spider” (Lowell), 19 Muratori, Fred, 91 – 92 Objectivists, 9 , 167 , 208 , 234 “Music of Poetry, Th e” (Eliot), 6 O’Connor, Flannery, 20 My Emily Dickinson (S. Howe), 250 , 251 – 252 “Of God and Of the Gods” (Levertov), 200 , 201 My Life (Hejinian), 234 – 236 , 277 “Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow” “My Life” (Hejinian), 245 (Duncan), 173 – 175

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Of the War: Passages 22–27 (Duncan), 188 , “Passage” (Levertov), 201 – 202 192 , 195 “Passages” (Duncan), 182 , 184 – 186 , 188 , 196 – 198 , O’Hara, Frank, 75 , 95 203 , 233 “Oh No” (Creeley), 214 “Passion, Th e” (F. Howe), 265 – 266 “Olga Poems” (Levertov), 186 Pater, Walter, 83 ; “Conclusion,” 83 ; Th e Oliver, Mary, 207 , 278 Renaissance, 8 3 Olson, Charles, 8 , 15 , 98 , 126 , 166 , 167 , 168 , 172 , Paterson (Williams), 5 , 7 , 29 , 87 174 , 181 , 182 , 184 , 196 , 208 , 213 , 221 , 236 ; Paterson V (Williams), 6 Th e Maximus Poems, 196 ; “Projective Perloff , Marjorie, 3 , 4 , 5 , 80 , 91 ; Th e Futurist Verse,” 98 , 167 , 168 , 205 Moment: Avant-Garde, Avant Guerre, and “On Belief in the Physical Resurrection of Jesus” the Language of Rupture, 3 ; Th e Poetics of (Levertov), 202 – 203 Indeterminacy: Rimbaud to Cage, 3 “One Art” (Bishop), 68 , 74 , 160 – 161 “Personal Narrative” (Edwards), 253 On Earth (Creeley), 221 Phantom Anthems (Grenier), 238 “On Edges” (Rich), 148 “Phenomenology of Anger, Th e” (Rich), 150 – 153 On the Road (Kerouac), 97 , 98 , 99 , 102 , 103 , 106 , Philo of Alexandria, 263 111 – 113 , 117 Picasso, Pablo, 3 , 224 “On Westminster Bridge” (Wordsworth), 177 Pictures from Brueghel (Williams), 6 “On Williams’ Triadic Line” (Levertov), 203 “Piece, A” (Creeley), 216 – 217 , 218 Opening of the Field, Th e (Duncan), 173 – 175 Pieces (Creeley), 216 , 217 , 219 , 220 , 277 Oppen, George, 6 , 9 , 167 , 208 , 234 Pierce, Charles Sanders, 252 “Opus Dei” (Berryman), 55 Pierce-Arrow (S. Howe), 252 Origin, 168 , 169 Pierre: or, Th e Ambiguities (Melville), 12 “Orion” (Rich), 146 – 147 , 151 , 158 , 163 Pisan Cantos, Th e (Pound), 5 O Taste and See (Levertov), 173 , 177 “Planetarium” (Rich), 147 – 148 , 158 “O Taste and See” (Levertov), 177 – 178 Plath, Sylvia, 29 , 50 , 69 , 141 Our Old Home (Hawthorne), 270 Plato, 182 , 216 “Our Whole Life” (Rich), 149 Platonism, 244 , 263 “Outremer” (F. Howe), 267 Poe, Edgar Allen, 12 , 16 , 41 , 273 , 275 , 276 ; “A Overland to the Islands (Levertov), 169 Dream Within a Dream,” 273 ; “Israfel,” “Overseas Prayer” (Berryman), 55 12 , 273 Ovid, 253 , 254 ; Metamorphoses, 253 Poems (Arnold), 83 OWL / ON / BOU / GH (Grenier), 239 , 240 , “Poet, Th e” (Emerson), 245 242 , 245 Poetics Journal, 9 , 10 , 224 OWL / ON / BOU / GH (Grenier), 242 Poetics of Indeterminacy, Th e: Rimbaud to Cage Owl’s Clover (Stevens), 64 (Perloff ), 3 Poet in the World, Th e (Levertov), 181 Painterly Abstraction in Modernist American Poetry, 9 , 146 , 168 , 178 , 224 Poetry: Th e Contemporaneity of Modernism “Poetry” (Moore), 202 (Altieri), 4 “Poetry III” (Rich), 160 , 162 – 163 Palmer, Michael, 9 , 197 , 208 , 224 , 230 – 233 , 234 , Poetry Society of America, 40 , 195 257 , 259 , 268 , 277 “Poet’s View, A” (Levertov), 199 – 200 , 201 Palmer, Michael, works of: “Autobiography, Pollock, Jackson, 75 Memory and Mechanisms of Pope, Alexander, 102 , 271 Concealment,” 232 ; “Th e Book of the Pope Pius XII, 28 Yellow Castle,” 232 ; Code of Signals: Recent Postmodernism, 1 , 3 , 7 – 15 , 35 , 36 , 40 , 58 , 73 , 74 , Writings on Poetics, 9 , 224 , 230 , 257 ; 76 – 79 , 87 , 166 , 170 , 207 , 223 – 225 , 276 – 278 Company of Moths, 232 ; First Figure, 232 ; “Postmodernism: Sign for a Struggle, the “ Th e Promises of Glass,” 232 – 233 ; Th e Struggle for the Sign” (Silliman), 9 – 10 Promises of Glass, 231 ; “Study,” 231 – 232 ; Postmodernists, 7 , 8 , 9 , 11 , 14 , 34 , 36 , 58 , 73 , “ Th e White Notebook,” 231 76 , 77 , 78 , 80 , 92 , 95 , 102 , 123 , 153 , 159 , pantheism, 5 , 120 , 121 , 123 – 125 , 127 , 155 , 157 , 199 206 – 207 , 211 , 224 , 225 , 226 , 231 , 244 , 245 , Parmigianino. See Mazzola, Francesco 268 , 276 , 277 Partisan Review, 4 0 Poststructuralism, 9 Parts of a World (Stevens), 5 Poststructuralists, 9 , 91

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Poulson, Edwa, 121 Renaissance, 1 , 76 , 78 , 223 , 270 Pound, Ezra, 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 13 – 14 , 17 , 39 , 41 , 44 , Renaissance, Th e (Pater), 83 47 , 48 , 73 , 92 , 100 , 102 , 103 , 109 , 126 , 167 , Representative Men (Emerson), 216 – 217 168 , 172 , 184 , 190 , 196 , 203 , 204 , 207 , 208 , Residual Years, Th e (Everson), 125 210 , 221 , 224 , 226 – 227 , 234 , 237 , 239 , 240 , Reverdy, Pierre, 80 243 , 270 , 271 , 273 – 275 Rexroth, Kenneth, 96 , 98 , 120 , 121 , 125 , 126 , 141 ; Pound, Ezra, works of: A Draft of XXX “San Francisco Letter,” 120 Cantos, 5 ; “Canto 30,” 6 ; “Canto 81,” 5 ; Rich, Adrienne, 8 , 15 , 32 – 33 , 34 , 36 , 48 , 138 – 165 , “Canto 116,” 5– 6 ; Th e Cantos, 5 – 6 , 1 4 , 190 , 221 , 225 , 262 , 277 ; activism, 149 , 225 ; 44 , 47 , 53 , 87 , 92 , 184 , 196 , 226 – 227 , change, 138 , 141 , 142 , 144 – 145 , 151 , 153 , 234 , 240 , 243 , 274 ; Drafts and Fragments 154 , 161 ; feminism, 138 , 139 , 140 , 144 , of Cantos CX–CXVII, 5 ; “Hugh Selwyn 150 – 155 , 163 ; gender, 142 , 143 , 150 , 151 , Mauberley,” 5 ; “In a Station of the 152 – 153 , 154 ; health, 159 – 160 , 163 , 164 ; Metro,” 274 ; Th e Pisan Cantos, 5 sexuality, 138 Poussin, Nicholas, 253 , 254 Rich, Adrienne, works of: “6/21,” 158 – 159 ; A “Power” (Rich), 151 Change of World, 138 , 139 , 140 , 141 , 143 , Power and the Glory, Th e (Greene), 57 150 , 159 , 162 ; “A Change of World,” 139 ; “Powers of Recuperation” (Rich), 163 , 164 “Air Without Incense,” 156 ; “A Long “Prayer After All, A” (Berryman), 56 Conversation,” 154 ; “A Marriage in the “Prayer for My Grandfather to Our Lady, A” Sixties,” 145 ; An Atlas of the Diffi cult World, (Lowell), 28 138 , 154 ; “An Atlas of the Diffi cult World,” “Prayer for the Self, A” (Berryman), 55 154 , 155 , 157 , 159 ; “An Unsaid Word,” 140 ; Prelude, Th e (Ashbery), 87 “At a Bach Concert,” 140 ; “Aunt Jennifer’s “Prelude, Th e” (Wordsworth), 47 , 53 Tigers,” 140 ; A Wild Patience Has Taken Prodigious Th rust (Everson), 121 Me Th is Far, 138 , 150 ; “Axel Av á kar,” “Projective Verse” (Olson), 98 , 167 , 168 , 205 163 – 164 ; “Th e Blue Ghazals,” 163 ; “Th e Promises of Glass, Th e (Palmer), 231 Burning of Paper Instead of Children,” “Promises of Glass, Th e” (Palmer), 232 – 233 149 – 150 , 164 ; “Calle Visi ó n,” 154 , 159 , 160 ; Propertius, 19 “Compulsory Heterosexuality and Lesbian “Prospective Immigrant Please Note” (Rich), 145 Existence,” 152 ; “Contradictions: Tracking “Psalm Concerning the Castle” (Levertov), 186 Poems,” 159 – 160 ; Dark Fields of the Pulitzer Prize, 18 , 40 , 73 Republic, 154 ; Diving into the Wreck, 150 ; Puritanism, 11 – 12 , 15 , 24 , 212 , 250 , 252 – 253 , “Diving into the Wreck,” 148 , 150 , 151 ; 256 , 259 “Don’t Flinch,” 163 ; Th e Dream of a Puritans, 11 , 16 , 17 , 22 , 206 , 212 , 244 , 249 , 252 , Common Language, 150 , 157 ; “Dreams 256 , 257 , 270 , 272 , 274 , 276 Before Waking,” 154 ; “Dreamwood,” 159 ; “Eastern War Time,” 153 ; “Emergency “Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket, Th e” Clinic,” 163 ; “Endpapers,” 164 – 165 ; “Face (Lowell), 24 – 27 , 40 to Face,” 148 ; “Focus,” 146 ; “For the Questions of Travel (Bishop), 61 Young Anarchists,” 164 ; Fox, 139 ; “From an Old House in America,” 153 ; “From Radcliff e College, 139 , 140 , 159 Sickbed Shores,” 163 ; “Ghazals (Homage RAIN (Grenier), 240 , 243 to Ghalib),” 163 ; “I am in Danger – Sir – ,” Ransom, John Crowe, 17 , 18 , 19 141 , 147 ; “‘It Is the Lesbian in Us …,,’” 152 ; Rasula, Jed, 34 – 35 ; Th e American Poetry Wax “ Th e Knight,” 142 , 143 ; Leafl ets, 149 , 150 , Museum, 3 4 – 3 5 163 , 190 ; “Like Th is Together,” 145 – 146 ; rationalism, 1 , 223 Midnight Salvage, 138 ; “Midnight Salvage,” Read, Bill, 68 159 , 160 ; Necessities of Life, 138 , 141 , 145 ; “Reading Myself” (Lowell), 35 “Necessities of Life,” 145 ; No Poetry Will “Rebellion” (Lowell), 19 Serve, 164 ; “North American Time,” 158 ; “Recital, Th e” (Ashbery), 87 “On Edges,” 148 ; “Orion,” 146 – 147 , 151 , “Refl ections on Word and Life” (F. Howe), 265 158 , 163 ; “Our Whole Life,” 149 ; “Th e Re-making It New: Contemporary American Phenomenology of Anger,” 150 – 153 ; Poetry and the Modernist Tradition “Planetarium,” 147 – 148 , 158 ; “Poetry (Keller), 8 III,” 160 , 162 – 163 ; “Power,” 151 ; “Powers

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of Recuperation,” 163 , 164 ; “Prospective Roussel, Raymond, 80 Immigrant Please Note,” 145 ; “Th e Rukeyser, Muriel, 153 , 168 Roofwalker,” 141 , 142 – 143 , 145 ; “Th e School Ruskin, John, 270 among the Ruins,” 154 ; Th e School Among the Ruins, 161 ; Snapshots of a Daughter-In- “Salem” (Lowell), 19 Law, 138 , 141 , 143 – 144 , 145 ; “Snapshots of “Sandpiper, Th e” (Bishop), 69 a Daughter-in-Law,” 143 – 144 , 146 , 149 ; Sands of the Well (Levertov), 202 “Solfeggietto,” 157 ; “Sources,” 153 ; San Francisco/Bay Area, 9 , 96 , 98 , 103 , 117 , 121 , “Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish 125 , 134 , 141 , 166 , 208 , 224 , 230 , 239 Identity,” 153 ; “Th e Springboard,” 143 ; San Francisco Blues (Kerouac), 99 “Storm Warnings,” 139 – 140 , 148 ; “Th e “San Francisco Letter” (Rexroth), 120 Stranger,” 151 – 152 ; Telephone Ringing in San Francisco Renaissance, 96 , 120 , 125 – 126 the Labyrinth, 138 , 140 – 141 , 161 ; “Terza San Joaquin (Everson), 124 Rima,” 159 , 161 ; *”Th ree Classics for New “Santa Cruz Propositions” (Duncan), 190 , 191 Readers: Karl Marx, Rosa Luxemborg, Che Santayana, George, 29 Guevara,” 154 ; Time’s Power, 138 ; Tonight Sargent, John Singer, 270 No Poetry Will Serve, 138 ; “Tonight No Saussure, Ferdinand de, 244 Poetry Will Serve,” 162 , 163 ; “Tracking “Scattering as Behavior toward Risks” (S. Poems,” 138 ; “Transcendental Etude,” Howe), 250 151 , 157 ; “Transit,” 159 ; “Th e Trees,” 145 ; Sch ö nberg, Arnold, 3 , 224 “Trying to Talk with a Man,” 150 , 152 ; School Among the Ruins, Th e (Rich), 161 “Twenty-One Love Poems,” 151 ; “Th e “School among the Ruins, Th e” (Rich), 154 Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room,” 140 ; Schwartz, Delmore, 49 “Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot,” 146 ; Scratching the Beat Surface (McClure), 111 “Walking in the Dark,” 148 ; “When We Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Th e (Kerouac), Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision,” 152 ; 115 , 117 Th e Will to Change, 138 , 149 , 150 , 163 ; Sea Garden (H.D.), 5 , 274 “Women and Honor,” 153 – 154 ; “Yom Second Childhood (F. Howe), 266 , 267 , Kippur 1984,” 153 , 154 – 155 , 157 ; Your Native 268 , 269 Land, Your Life, 138 , 154 , 159 “Second Childhood” (F. Howe), 266 – 267 Ricks, Christopher, 40 Second World War. See World War II Rickson, Susanna, 121 – 122 , 136 Selected Poems (Ashbery), 82 , 88 “Riddle, Th e” (Creeley), 209 Selected Poems (Creeley), 237 “Rights, Th e” (Levertov), 170 “Self in Postmodern Poetry, Th e” (Duncan), Rilke, Rainer Maria, 19 , 141 – 142 , 166 , 190 206 , 207 , 277 Rimbaud, Arthur, 19 , 79 , 80 , 97 , 275 ; Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror (Ashbery), Illuminations, 8 0 73 – 74 , 75 , 85 “Ripple, Th e” (Levertov), 175 – 176 “Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror” (Ashbery), “River, Th e” (Crane), 133 74 , 75 – 79 , 81 , 87 , 94 River-Root (Everson), 127 – 130 “Self-Reliance” (Emerson), 195 , 196 Robert Lowell: Nihilist As Hero (Bell), 35 Sentences Toward Birds (Grenier), 238 Rock, Th e (Stevens), 5 “Sentinels, Th e” (Duncan), 196 Roethke, Th eodore, 15 , 29 , 49 Series (Grenier), 238 Rogers, Tom, 54 “Seventeenth Century Suite, A” (Duncan), 190 , Romantic Imagination, 2 , 4 193 , 194 Romanticism, 1 , 2 , 3 – 4 , 7 , 8 , 10 , 11 – 12 , 14 , 58 , Sexton, Anne, 29 , 69 , 141 172 , 204 , 223 , 224 – 225 , 244 , 274 , 277 Shears, Judith, 120 Romantics, 1 – 2 , 7 , 15 , 47 , 67 , 81 , 168 , 206 , Shelley, Percy Bysshe, 108 , 249 ; “Mont 272 – 274 Blanc,” 249 “Roofwalker, Th e” (Rich), 141 , 142 – 143 , 145 Shelley Memorial Award, 40 , 195 Roosevelt, Franklin D., 18 “Shifting, Th e” (Levertov), 169 , 170 , 198 Roots and Branches (Duncan), 173 , 177 “Shine, Perishing Republic” (Jeff ers), 16 “Roots and Branches” (Duncan), 177 Shoptaw, John, 87 , 88 , 90 , 91 Rose of Solitude, Th e (Everson), 121 Shuyler, James, 75 Rosicrucianism, 181 , 195 Sight of Death, Th e (Clark), 253

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Silliman, Ron, 9 – 10 , 208 , 224 – 225 , 228 – Stevens, Wallace, 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 , 13 , 14 , 57 , 229 , 257 ; In the American Tree, 224 , 257 ; 63 , 64 , 65 , 67 , 73 , 74 , 76 , 77 , 78 – 79 , 87 , “Postmodernism: Sign for a Struggle, the 94 , 139 , 140 , 142 , 143 , 148 , 168 , 172 , 177 , Struggle for the Sign,” 9 – 10 ; Tjanting, 225 , 190 , 196 , 206 , 208 , 210 , 218 , 224 , 254 , 274 , 228 – 229 ; “Tjanting,” 245 275 – 276 Singularities (S. Howe), 248 , 250 , 255 Stevens, Wallace, works of: Th e Auroras of Six Gallery, 98 , 105 Autumn, 7 ; “Domination of Black,” 7 ; “Skunk Hour” (Lowell), 30 , 31 , 60 “Esth é tique du Mal,” 65 ; Harmonium, 5 ; Smith, Sydney, 270 – 271 “ Th e Idea of Order at Key West,” 64 , Snapshots of a Daughter-In-Law (Rich), 138 , 141 , 67 , 74 , 76 , 142 , 168 ; Ideas of Order, 6 4 ; 143 – 144 , 145 “ Th e Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad,” 79 ; “Snapshots of a Daughter-in-Law” (Rich), Th e Man with the Blue Guitar, 6 4 ; Th e 143 – 144 , 146 , 149 Necessary Angel, 7 8 ; Owl’s Clover, 6 4 ; Snodgrass, W. D., 29 Parts of a World, 5 ; Th e Rock, 5 ; “ Th e “Snow Maiden, Th e” (Hawthorne), 254 Snow Man,” 254 ; “Supreme Fiction,” 275 ; “Snow Man, Th e” (Stevens), 254 “ Th irteen Ways of Looking at a “Snow Storm, Th e” (Emerson), 254 Blackbird,” 7 , 218 ; “To an Old Christian Snyder, Gary, 15 , 96 , 97 , 98 , 115 , 208 Woman,” 6 ; Transport to Summer, 5 , 7 Soares, Lota de Macedo, 60 , 61 , 68 “St. Mark’s, 1933” (Lowell), 38 “Soldiers” (Duncan), 188 “Storm Warnings” (Rich), 139 – 140 , 148 “Solfeggietto” (Rich), 157 “Stranger, Th e” (Rich), 151 – 152 Solomon, Carl, 104 – 105 Strauss, David Levi, 9 ; Th e Acts of the “Some Notes on Organic Form” (Levertov), Apostles, 9 , 202 178 – 180 , 181 , 201 , 204 “Structure of Rime, Th e” (Duncan), 196 Some of the Dharma (Kerouac), 99 , 111 “Study” (Palmer), 231 – 232 “Song of Myself” (Whitman), 42 , 43 , 47 , 48 , “Styx” (Duncan), 196 53 , 87 , 155 Subterraneans, Th e (Kerouac), 98 “Song of Songs” (Everson), 133 – 134 “Sunfl ower Sutra” (Ginsberg), 107 – 108 , 113 “Song the Body Dreamed in the Spirit’s Mad “Supreme Fiction” (Stevens), 275 Behest, Th e” (Everson), 133 – 134 Surangama Sutra, 100 Sorrow Dance, Th e (Levertov), 186 Surrealism, 14 , 79 , 172 “Sound Poetry” (McCaff ery), 225 Symbolism, 12 , 15 , 206 , 274 , 275 “Sources” (Rich), 153 Symbolistes. See Symbolists “South Coast, Th e” (Everson), 137 Symbolists, 13 , 65 , 79 , 275 Southern Review, 224 “System, Th e” (Ashbery), 76 , 81 – 86 , 87 , 88 Southwell, Robert, 193 ; “Th e Burning Babe,” 193 Spengler, Oswald, 2 Tannlund, Rose, 121 Spicer, Jack, 96 Taoism, 274 “Split at the Root: An Essay on Jewish Identity” Tate, Allen, 8 , 17 , 18 , 19 , 20 , 24 , 29 , 34 (Rich), 153 Taylor, Edward, 22 , 270 Spring and All (Williams), 5 , 13 , 242 – 243 , Taylor, Peter, 27 , 32 274 , 275 Telephone Ringing in the Labyrinth (Rich), 138 , “Springboard, Th e” (Rich), 143 140 – 141 , 161 Staff ord, Jean, 28 , 59 Tender Buttons (Stein), 234 , 274 Stanford Humanities Center, 249 “Tenebrae” (Levertov), 192 Stanford University, 199 Tennyson, Alfred, 270 , 271 “Stanzas in Meditation” (Stein), 79 Tenth Muse, Th e, lately Sprung up in America “Statue, Th e” (Berryman), 42 (Bradstreet), 271 “Staying Alive” (Levertov), 149 , 190 – 191 “Terza Rima” (Rich), 159 , 161 Stein, Edith, 264 “ Th anks-Off ering for Recovery” (Lowell), 38 Stein, Gertrude, 4 , 14 , 79 , 168 , 170 , 172 , 173 , Th at Th is (S. Howe), 252 , 255 – 256 206 , 208 , 224, 225 , 234 , 236 , 237 , 244 , 274 , “ Th at Th is” (S. Howe), 253 , 255 , 256 276 , 277 ; “Stanzas in Meditation,” 79 ; theodicy, 41 , 51 – 53 Tender Buttons, 234 , 274 Th eresa of Avila, 101

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Th ese Are the Ravens (Everson), 123 Ulysses (Joyce), 91 “ Th irteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” “Uncle Speaks in the Drawing Room, Th e” (Stevens), 7 , 218 (Rich), 140 this, 224 , 236 University of California, Santa Cruz, 136 Th omas, Dylan, 49 “Unsaid Word, An” (Rich), 140 Th oreau, Henry David, 12 , 47 , 48 , 100 , 212 , 244 , Up Rising (Levertov), 192 246 – 247 ; Walden, 4 7 “Up Rising” (Levertov), 188 “ Th orow” (S. Howe), 246 – 249 , 250 , 252 “ Th ree Classics for New Readers: Karl Val é ry, Paul, 13 , 19 , 32 , 36 , 79 , 275 Marx, Rosa Luxemborg, Che Guevara” Vancouver Poetry Festival 1963, 205 , 230 (Rich), 154 Vendler, Helen, 35 Th ree Poems (Ashbery), 76 , 81 , 86 – 87 Victorians, 7 , 139 Time, 120 Vietnam War, 48 , 108 , 149 , 180 , 181 , 186 – 188 , Time’s Power (Rich), 138 189 , 190 – 194 , 199 , 225 Tjanting (Silliman), 225 , 228 – 229 Villon, Fran ç ois, 19 “Tjanting” (Silliman), 245 Virgil, 161 “To an Old Christian Woman” (Stevens), 6 “Vision, A” (F. Howe), 267 – 268 Tolstoy, Leo, 29 “Vision, A” (Levertov), 186 , 187 , 188 Tonight No Poetry Will Serve (Rich), 138 Visions of Cody (Kerouac), 98 “Tonight No Poetry Will Serve” (Rich), Visions of Gerard (Kerouac), 116 – 117 162 , 163 Voice of America, 178 “To R. D., March 4, 1988” (Levertov), 194 – 195 “Voyages” (Crane), 14 “Tor House” (Everson), 123 “Torn Cloth, Th e” (Duncan), 194 “Waiting for You at the Mystery Spot” “To Th ink …” (Creeley), 222 – 223 (Rich), 146 “Towards an Open Universe” (Duncan), 178 , “Waking Early Sunday Morning” (Lowell), 32 180 , 181 Walden (Th oreau), 47 Town and the City, Th e (Kerouac), 98 Waldman, Anne, 111 “Tracking Poems” (Rich), 138 “Walking in the Dark” (Rich), 148 “Tradition and Talent” (Ashbery), 141 Warren, Robert Penn, 18 Tragical History of Doctor Faustus, Th e Waste Land, Th e (Eliot), 5 , 6 , 43 , 47 , 91 , 274 , 275 (Marlowe), 30 “Water” (Lowell), 60 – 61 “Transcendental Etude” (Rich), 151 , 157 Watkin, E. I., 26 ; Catholic Art and Culture, 2 6 Transcendentalism, 12 , 15 , 43 , 157 , 268 , 273 Watten, Barrett, 9 , 10 , 224 , 225 – 226 , 236 Transcendentalists, 12 , 100 Wave, A (Ashbery), 79 “Transit” (Rich), 159 “Wave, A,” 81 , 87 Transport to Summer (Stevens), 5 , 7 “Wave, A” (Ashbery), 75 , 76 , 88 – 90 “Tree at My Window” (Frost), 139 Wedding Dress, Th e (F. Howe), 265 “Trees, Th e” (Rich), 145 Wedge, Th e (Williams), 210 “Tree Telling of Orpheus, A” (Levertov), 184 Weil, Simone, 264 “Tribal Memories” (Duncan), 184 West, Benjamin, 270 Trilling, Lionel, 98 , 102 West Coast Language poetry, 230 Trilogy (H.D.), 5 “West Coast Rhythms” (Eberhart), 97 Triptych for the Living (Everson), 126 Whalen, Philip, 96 , 98 , 208 Trismegistus, Hermes, 181 What I Believe transpiration/transpiring Trungpa, Ch ö gyam, 101 Minnesota (Grenier), 239 “Trying to Talk with a Man” (Rich), 150 , 152 “What the Th under Said” (Eliot), 5 Tudor, David, 75 “What Th ey Were Like” (Levertov), 192 “Tulips, Th e” (Levertov), 179 “When We Dead Awaken: Writing as Re-vision” Turner, J. M. W., 270 (Rich), 152 “Turning” (Levertov). See “Shifting, Th e” “Where It Appears: Passages 4” (Duncan), 185 (Levertov) “Where the Rainbow Ends” (Lowell), 27 Twain, Mark, 16 Whistler, James, 270 “Twenty-One Love Poems” (Rich), 151 White, Victor, 122 ; God and the Unconscious, 122

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“White Notebook, Th e” (Palmer), 231 “Wise, Th e” (Everson), 126 – 127 Whitman, Walt, 2 , 12 , 16 , 29 , 43 , 44 , 47 , 48 , 87 , Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 9 , 244 91 , 92 , 97 , 99 , 100 , 101 , 102 , 103 , 108 , 109 , Wolfe, Th omas, 98 , 99 110 , 111 , 112 , 120 , 123 , 124 , 125 , 126 , 154 , 155 , Wollstonecraft, Mary, 143 157 , 167 , 172 , 270 , 273 ; Leaves of Grass, 4 8 , “Women and Honor” (Rich), 153 – 154 91 , 102 , 120 ; “Song of Myself,” 42 , 43 , 47 , Woolf, Virginia, 264 48 , 53 , 87 , 155 Words (Creeley), 211 , 215 , 216 , 277 “Wichita Vortex Sutra” (Ginsberg), 108 – 110 , 149 Words nd Ends from Ez (Mac Low), 226 – 227 Wilbur, Richard, 167 , 208 Wordsworth, William, 2 , 47 , 48 , 67 , 172 , 177 , Wild Patience Has Taken Me Th is Far, A (Rich), 270 , 271 ; “On Westminster Bridge,” 177 ; 138 , 150 “ Th e Prelude,” 47 , 53 William Everson: Th e Life of Brother Antoninus World War I, 40 , 109 , 276 (Bartlett), 122 World War II, 7 , 15 , 17 , 18 , 40 , 59 , 64 , 121 , Williams, William Carlos, 4 , 5 , 6 – 7 , 8 , 9 , 13 , 14 , 150 , 276 20 , 29 , 30 , 39 , 73 , 79 , 97 , 99 , 102 – 103 , 167 , “Wreck of the Deutschland, Th e” (Hopkins), 25 168 , 169 , 172 , 175 , 190 , 202 – 203 , 204 , 207 , 208 , 210 , 221 , 234 , 237 , 239 , 242 – 243 , 244 , Yaddo, 20 246 , 274 , 275 Yale University, 253 Williams, William Carlos, works of: In the Yale Younger Poets series, 139 American Grain, 244 ; Paterson, 5 , 7 , 29 , 87 ; Yeats, W. B., 8 , 41 , 42 , 44 , 100 , 139 , 150 , 236 ; “In Paterson V, 6 ; Pictures from Brueghel, 6 ; Memory of Major Robert Gregory,” 44 Spring and All, 5 , 13 , 242 – 243 , 274 , 275 ; Th e “Yom Kippur 1984” (Rich), 153 , 154 – 155 , 157 Wedge, 210 Your Native Land, Your Life (Rich), 138 , Will to Change, Th e (Rich), 138 , 149 , 150 , 163 154 , 159 Winkfi eld, Trevor, 90 Winslow, Warren, 24 Zukofsky, Louis, 6 , 9 , 167 , 168 , 208 , 216 , “Winter Landscape” (Berryman), 42 234 , 236