An American millennium : Vachel Lindsay and the poetics of stargazing

Hart Crane : speaking the mot juste in the age of silents

Cut on movement : Archibald MacLeish and the temptations of cinematic form

Winfield Townley Scott and Delmore Schwartz : halving reality and watching it too

Intermission : The Day of the Locust as a rite of passage

Karl Shapiro, "an American Jew and a poet" : looking toward new zion in the golden state

"The Audience Vanishes" : Frank O'Hara and the mythos of decline

"The poet is at the movies" : Adrienne Rich and the new wave

"Mama how come black men don't get to be heroes?" : colorizing American experience

Fin de siecle : Jorie Graham and the rites of self-renewal in a culture of film.