Includes bibliographical references (p. 137-145) and index
The "uneducated poets": Stephen Duck and Ann Yearsley -- A song for occupations: Whitman the rough -- "Poor Doc, nobody wants his life or his verses": W.C. Williams and the new masses -- Special handling: David Schubert and Marcia Nardi -- Caviar and cabbage": the voracious appetite of Melvin Tolson -- Opening the field: the new American poetry -- Literary men in blue jeans: Ted Berrigan and Ron Padgett -- Burning beauty: Diane Wakoski, Eileen Myles, Wilma Elizabeth McDaniel, Tracie Morris