| Acknowledgments | |
| 1 | The Marginalization of Poetry | 3 |
| 2 | Language Writing and Literary History | 11 |
| 3 | Here and Now on Paper: The Avant-garde Particulars of Robert Grenier | 38 |
| 4 | Parataxis and Narrative: The New Sentence in Theory and Practice | 59 |
| 5 | Write the Power: Orthography and Community | 79 |
| 6 | Building a More Powerful Vocabulary: Bruce Andrews and the World (Trade Center) | 96 |
| 7 | This Page Is My Page, This Page Is Your Page: Gender and Mapping | 109 |
| 8 | An Alphabet of Literary History | 144 |
| 9 | A False Account of Talking with Frank O'Hara and Roland Barthes in Philadelphia | 156 |
| Notes | 167 |
| Index | 183 |
