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SPELL ; v. 18

"The United States themselves [are] essentially the greatest poem": fraternity, personalism, and a new world metaphysics in Democratic vistas / Louis J. Kern

Whitman's 1855 Leaves of grass: the incarnational and "Hard work and blood" / William Dow

Pound and Eliot's sense of history and tradition as re-lived experience / Viorica Patea

The abstract and the historical: structure in Ezra Pound's The fifth decad of cantos / Mike W. Malm

Art versus the descent of the iconoclasts: cultural memory in Ezra Pound's Pisan cantos / Ronald Bush

An anthropologist at work: Ruth Benedict's poetry / Philipp Schweighauser

How to end a life-work: Louis Zukofsky's indexes / Abigail Lang

Naming things: Frank O'Hara and "The day Lady died" / Micah Mattix

Surrealism meets Kabbalah: the place of Semina in mid-century California poetry / Stephen Fredman

Gender politics and the making of anthologies: towards a theory of women's poetry / Matilde Martín González

Poetry as mother tongue? Lorna Dee Cervantes' Emplumada / Erika Scheidegger

Four poems / Wesley McNair

Five poems / Robert Rehder.

Whitman, Walt, 1819-1892 > Criticism and interpretation.

American poetry > 19th century.

American poetry > 20th century.

American poetry > 21st century.