1. State of the Art

2. Artifice of Absorption

3. In the Middle of Modernism in the Middle of Capitalism on the Outskirts of New York

4. Time Out of Motion: Looking Ahead to See Backward

5. Pounding Fascism (Appropriating Ideologies- Mystification, Aestheticization, and Authority in Pound's Poetic Practice)

6. Play It Again, Pac-Man

7. Professing Stein / Stein Professing

8. Optimism and Critical Excess (Process)

9. Censers of the Unknown-Margins, Dissent, and the Poetic Horizon

10. The Second War and Postmodern Memory

11. Comedy and the Poetics of Political Form

Acknowledgments