Introduction Enabling fictions -- The Elegiac Mode : rhetoric and poetics in the 1940's -- "The Darkness Surrounds Us" : participation and reflection among the Beat writers -- "Spotting That Design" : incarnation and interpretation in Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen -- "Cave of Resemblances, Cave of Rimes" : tradition and repetition in Robert Duncan -- "The City Redefined" : community and dialogue in Jack Spicer -- Appropriations : women and the San Francisco Renaissance -- Approaching the Fin de Siecle
Analysis
Poetry in English Californian writers: San Francisco writers, 1945- - Critical studies
Notes
Includes index
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-242)