xvi, 346 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
Contents
Unreal cities -- "Trouver une langue": the anti-paysage of Rimbaud -- Poetry as word-system: the art of Gertrude Stein -- "Lines converging and crossing": the "French" decade of William Carlos Williams -- "No edges, no convexities": Ezra Pound and the circle of fragments -- "The space of a door": Beckett and the poetry of absence -- "Mysteries of construction": the dream songs of John Ashbery -- "No more margins": John Cage, David Antin, and the poetry of performance
