Table of Contents

• Copyright
• Permissions
• Epigraphs
• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• Foundations
  1. 1. History 1927-1928
     1. Exile
     2. Groups
     3. Publication Schemes
  2. 2. Carl Rakosi
     1. Biography
     2. Poems, 1927
  3. 3. Louis Zukofsky
     1. Biography
     2. Poem beginning “The”
     3. Mass-consciousness
  4. 4. William Carlos Williams
     1. Zukofsky and Williams
     2. The Descent of Winter
  5. 5. Williams and Zukofsky
     1. Definitions
     2. Imagism
     3. Constellation
     4. Kandinsky
     5. Whitehead
     6. A Thing
  6. 6. George and Mary Oppen
     1. Biography
     2. Discrete Series
  7. 7. Charles Reznikoff
     1. Biography
     2. Five Groups of Verse
• Synthesis
  1. 8. Sincerity and Objectification
     1. Sincerity
     2. Objectification
     3. Applications
     4. Correlations
  2. 9. History 1929-1930
     1. Blues
     2. Private Presses
     3. Critical Management
  3. 10. January: A Novelette
  4. 11. History 1930
     1. Publications
     2. Travels
  5. 12. American Poetry 1920-1930
     1. The Canon
     2. The Criteria
• Presentation
  1. 13. Plans for the Poetry Issue
  2. 14. Editing the Poetry Issue
     1. Stray Manuscripts
     2. Rakosi
     3. A Standard
  3. 15. Program: “Objectivists” 1931
  4. 16. Symposium with Tyler and Ford
  5. 17. René Taupin’s André Salmon
  6. 18. “A”
     1. Donna Mi Prega
     2. “A” 1-7
  7. 19. The Poetry
     1. The Core
     2. The Periphery
• Renascence
  1. 20. Critical Reactions
     1. Harriet Monroe
     2. Horace Gregory
     3. Stanley Burnshaw
     4. Kenneth Rexroth
     5. Ezra Pound
     6. Basil Bunting
     7. Walter Lowenfels
     8. T. H. Ferrill
  2. 21. “Recencies” in Poetry
     1. Critical Qualifications
     2. Poem as Object
     3. Exclusion and Invention
  3. 22. History 1931-1934
     1. An “Objectivists” Anthology
     2. To Publishers
     3. The Objectivist Press
• Contexts
  1. 23. The Shared World
     1. The Political Context
     2. The Literary Context
     3. Principles
• Bibliography