xii, 321 p. ; 24 cm.

A Defense of Poetry -- The Revenge of the Poet-Critic, or The Parts Are Greater Than the Sum of the Whole -- Thelonious Monk and the Performance of Poetry -- An Interview with Manuel Brito -- Solidarity Is the Name We Give to What We Cannot Hold -- What's Art Got to Do with It?: The Status of the Su...

Pound and the Poetry of Today -- Inappropriate Touching -- Robin on His Own (on Robin Blaser) -- Water Images of The New Yorker -- The Response as Such: Words in Visibility -- From an Ongoing Interview with Tom Beckett -- Explicit Version Number Required -- Hinge Picture (on George Oppen) -- Rezniko...