Introduction (Robert Rehder & Patrick Vincent)

Louis J. Kern (Hofstra)
“The United States Themselves [Are] Essentially the Greatest Poem”: Fraternity, Personalism, and a New World Metaphysics in Democratic Vistas

William Dow (American University of Paris)
Whitman’s 1855 Leaves of Grass: The Incarnational and Hard Work and Blood”

Viorica Patea (Salamanca)
Pound and Eliot’s Sense of History and Tradition as Re-Lived Experience     

Mike W. Malm (Munich)
The Abstract and the Historical: Structure in Ezra Pound’s The Fifth Decad of Cantos

Ronald Bush (Oxford)
Art Versus the Descent of the Iconoclasts: Cultural Memory in Ezra Pound’s Pisan Cantos

Philipp Schweighauser (Berne)
An Anthropologist at Work: Ruth Benedict’s Poetry

Abigail Lang (Paris 7)
How to End a Life-Work: Louis Zukofsky’s Indexes

Micah Mattix (Neuchâtel)
Naming Things: Frank O’Hara and “The Day Lady Died”

Stephen Fredman (Notre Dame)
Surrealism Meets Kabbalah: The Place of Semina in Mid-Century California Poetry

Matilde Martín González (La Laguna)
Gender Politics and the Making of Anthologies: Towards a Theory of Women’s Poetry

Erika Scheidegger (Geneva)
Poetry as Mother Tongue? Lorna Dee Cervantes’ Emplumada 

Wesley McNair (Maine-Farmington)
Four Poems               

Robert Rehder (Fribourg)
Five Poems