I. Introduction
II. Four Saints
On Autumn Lake: John Ashbery
A Voice Like the Day: James Schuyler
Make It True: James Schuyler
The Poet’s So-called Prose: Marianne Moore
A Schuyler Ballade
Note on Niedecker
Free and Clean: Lorine Niedecker
Niedecker and the Evolutional Sublime
III. How Emerson Avails
How Emerson Avails
A Brief History of Memes
Native Genius: Richard Poirier
An Outsider’s Introduction to Emerson
IV. The Prophetic Ashbery
Remarks on Ashbery
The Prophetic Ashbery
Justified Times: John Ashbery
V. The New York School Revisited
Unlikely Angel: Dwight Ripley and the New York School
The Drawings of Dwight Ripley
A Hidden History of the Avant-Garde
The New York School Revisited
VI. Traditions Ahead
Poetry and the Menace Ahead
The Enduring Influence of a Painter’s Garden: Robert Dash
Statement on Form
The Pyrrhic Measure in American Poetry: John Koethe, Marjorie Welish
The Applause of Science: George Bradley
The Civic Metonymy of Michael Schiavo
Three Introductions: Ann Lauterbach, Gerrit Henry, Marjorie Welish
Apertures on a Virtual Field: Michelle Jaffé
Deborah Rosenthal’s Art of Deep Time
Mark Milroy Paints My Portrait
In the Empire of the Air: Donald Britton
VII. Updates
VIII. Appendix: A Conversation with Ian Pople
IX. Index