Introduction: utopias of one
The United States of America. Learning from Walden
W.E.B. Du Bois's hermeticism
The Soviet Union. Osip and Nadezhda Mandel'shtam's utopian anti-utopianism
Anna Akhmatova's complicity
The world. Wallace Stevens's point of view
Reading Ezra Pound and J. H. Prynne in Chinese
Conclusion: utopias of two.