• Introduction
1. Secretly, the Praises: The Cultural Politics of a New Dealer
2. Toward a Poetics for the Long Poem: Olson’s Relation to Pound and Williams
3. A Common World: Olson, Whitehead, and the Objectivists
4. Spaceman—Mapping a Theme of Olson
5. Deaf to the Lure of Personality: Varieties of Anti–Poetic
6. From Precept to Paradigm: One Conclusion
• Abbreviations
• Notes
• Index

Robert von Hallberg teaches English literature at the University of Chicago.

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