1. Introduction: Frame and Flux

2. Frost's Crossings

3. Stevens' Eccentricity

4. Moore's America

5. Amy Clampitt: Nomad Exquisite

6. A. R. Ammons: Pilgrim, Sage, Ordinary Man

7. John Ashbery: Landscapeople

8. Epilogue: "The Machine in the Garden"

Notes

Works Cited

Acknowledgments

Index

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Bonnie Costello, Professor of English at Boston University, is the general editor of The Selected Letters of Marianne Moore.

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