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Volume 18 (2006)
Preface: General editor's preface 5
Table of Contents 9
Preface: Introduction 11
Article: "The United States Themselves [Are] Essentially the Greatest poem" : fraternity, personalism, and a new world metaphysics in Democratic Vistas 21
Article: Whitman's 1855 Leaves of Grass : the incarnational and "Hard Work and Blood" 35
Article: Pound and Eliot's sense of history and tradition as re-lived experience 53
Article: The abstract and the historical : structure in Ezra Pound's The Fifth Decad of Cantos 71
Article: Art versus the descent of the iconoclasts : cultural memory in Ezra Pound's Pisan Cantos 87
Article: An anthropologist at work : Ruth Benedict's poetry 113
Article: How to end a life-work : Luis Zukofsky's indexes 127
Article: Naming things : Frank O'Hara and "The Day Lady Died" 139
Article: Surrealism meets Kabbalah : the place of Semina in mid-century California poetry and art 151
Article: Gender politics and the making of anthologies : towards a theory of women's poetry 175
Article: Poetry as mother tongue? : Lorna Dee Cervantes's Emplumada 193
Article: Four poems 209
Article: Five poems 219
Rubric: Notes on contributors 231
Index: Index of names 235