1. Introduction

2. "Inquisitive Intensity" in Marianne Moore

3. An "Unintelligible Vernacular": Questions of Voice

4. "Your Thorns Are the Best Part of You": Gender Politics in the Nongendered Poem

5. "The Labors of Hercules": Celebrating and Overcoming "Race"

6. Quotation, Community, and Correspondences

7. Questioning Authority in the Late Twentieth Century.