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Contents Instead of an Introduction: Letter of Resignation 1 Situations of Poetry The Discursive Situation of Poetry 9 Poetry and Politics, or: Why are the Poets on the Left? 32 The Aesthetic Anxiety: Avant-Garde Poetics and the Idea of Politics 40 Public Faces in Private Places: Notes on Cambridge Poetry 64 Negative Legislators: Exhibiting the Post-Avant 80 When Poets Dream of Power 88 Can Poems Communicate? 97 The Poet in the University: Charles Bernstein’s Academic Anxiety 104 The State of the Art 115 To Criticize the Poetry Critic Seeing the New Criticism Again 129 Poetry/Not Poetry 138 The Death of the Critic 144 Marginality and Manifesto 156 Poets and Poetry A Portrait of Reginald Shepherd as Philoctetes 167 True Wit, False Wit: Harryette Mullen in the Eighteenth Century 180 Emancipation of the Dissonance: The Poetry of C. S. Giscombe 188 In the Haze of Pondered Vision: Yvor Winters as Poet 203 The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Poetry 208 Power and the Poetics of Play 219 Neruda’s Earth, Heidegger’s Earth 236 The Decadent of Moyvane 244 Modernist Current: On Michael Anania 250 Laforgue/Bolaño: The Poet as Bohemian 267 Oppen/Rimbaud: The Poet as Quitter 274 Remembering Robert Kroetsch 285 Myself I Sing Nothing in this Life 295 My Laureates 306 ...