"...an exciting collection of essays that promote what Cornel West calls 'dedeisciplinizing modes of knowing.'" Michael Coyle, American Literature

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: and all the birds sing bass; 2. The changing same: black music in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka; 2. To define an ultimate dimness: the poetry of Clarence Major; 4. The world-poem in microcosm: Robert Duncans 'The Continent'; 5. Uroboro's: Robert Duncan's Dante and A Seventeenth Century Suite; 6. Robert Creeley's The Gold Diggers: Projective prose; 7. That words can be on the page: the graphic aspect of Charles Olson's poetics; 8. New series 1 (Folk series): Edward Kamau Brathwaite's New World Trilogy; 9. Limbo, dislocation, phantom limb: Wilson Harris and the Caribbean occasion; 10. Poseidon (Dub version); 11. The unruly pivot: Wilson Harris's The Eye of the Scarecrow; 12. The Imagination of Justice: Wilson Harris's Ascent to Omai; 13. Sound and sentiment, sound and symbol; 14. On edge; 15. Other: from noun to verb; Notes; Index.

"...an exciting collection of essays that promote what Cornel West calls 'dedeisciplinizing modes of knowing.'" Michael Coyle, American Literature

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: and all the birds sing bass; 2. The changing same: black music in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka; 2. To define an ultimate dimness: the poetry of Clarence Major; 4. The world-poem in microcosm: Robert Duncans 'The Continent'; 5. Uroboro's: Robert Duncan's Dante and A Seventeenth Century Suite; 6. Robert Creeley's The Gold Diggers: Projective prose; 7. That words can be on the page: the graphic aspect of Charles Olson's poetics; 8. New series 1 (Folk series): Edward Kamau Brathwaite's New World Trilogy; 9. Limbo, dislocation, phantom limb: Wilson Harris and the Caribbean occasion; 10. Poseidon (Dub version); 11. The unruly pivot: Wilson Harris's The Eye of the Scarecrow; 12. The Imagination of Justice: Wilson Harris's Ascent to Omai; 13. Sound and sentiment, sound and symbol; 14. On edge; 15. Other: from noun to verb; Notes; Index.

"...an exciting collection of essays that promote what Cornel West calls 'dedeisciplinizing modes of knowing.'" Michael Coyle, American Literature

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: and all the birds sing bass; 2. The changing same: black music in the Poetry of Amiri Baraka; 2. To define an ultimate dimness: the poetry of Clarence Major; 4. The world-poem in microcosm: Robert Duncans 'The Continent'; 5. Uroboro's: Robert Duncan's Dante and A Seventeenth Century Suite; 6. Robert Creeley's The Gold Diggers: Projective prose; 7. That words can be on the page: the graphic aspect of Charles Olson's poetics; 8. New series 1 (Folk series): Edward Kamau Brathwaite's New World Trilogy; 9. Limbo, dislocation, phantom limb: Wilson Harris and the Caribbean occasion; 10. Poseidon (Dub version); 11. The unruly pivot: Wilson Harris's The Eye of the Scarecrow; 12. The Imagination of Justice: Wilson Harris's Ascent to Omai; 13. Sound and sentiment, sound and symbol; 14. On edge; 15. Other: from noun to verb; Notes; Index.