American experimental poetry and democratic thought

The flag of his disposition : Whitman's posture

The poet in the dark : Ezra Pound, an Arendtian perspective

'I am alive

because/I do not own a house' : Emily Dickinson, Mina Loy, and Lorine Niedecker

Williams Stevens Williams, continuing revolution

Robert Creeley's lonely crowd

'Ferocious mumbling in public' : George Oppen

Conclusion, 'Your marvellous appearances' : Frank O'Hara.