Stephen Voyce is an assistant professor in the Department of English and a member of the Digital Studio for Public Humanities at the University of Iowa.

‘Voyce has written an intelligent and provocative book… This important book ought to prompt a vigorous critical conversation. Highly recommended.’ - G. Grieve-Carlson (Choice Magazine, vol 51:03:2013) ‘Voyce offers a generous sampling of poems with a highly enjoyable interweaving of original theoretical discussion and analysis of poetry.’- Irene Gammel (The Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 50:01:2016)

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Black Mountain College: A Poetic of Local Relations Assembly Point of ActsWe are the Process: Toward a Theory of FieldTo Join the Arts in Action: John Cage at the CollegePolis and Totality in The Maximus PoemsFor Love Revisited: Robert Creeley and the Politics of Friendship“Public Parks” and “Poetic Communes”: Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan’s Open Form Protest3. Caribbean Artists Movement: A Poetic of Cultural Activism Link-up: The Poetic of a Social MovementUnderground Language“Eating the Dead”: Kamau Brathwaite’s Arrivants in LondonTo Havana and Beyond: John La Rose, Andrew Salkey, and a Map for Third World Unity4. The Women’s Liberation Movement: A Poetic for a Common World Devising our NetworksThe Tyranny of StructurelessnessUsurping the Left’s Mimeograph Machine: Robin Morgan, WITCH, and Poetic InsurrectionThe Location of the Commons: Adrienne Rich, Judy Grahn, and the Building of a Common WorldConsciousness-Raising as Poetic Discourse5. Toronto Research Group: A Poetic of the Eternal Network The Institute of Creative MisunderstandingThe Kids of the Book-MachineA Realignment of Kinship: The Four HorsemenThe Eternal Network6. Epilogue: Community as an Eternal IdeaNotesBibliographyIndex

Stephen Voyce is an assistant professor in the Department of English and a member of the Digital Studio for Public Humanities at the University of Iowa.

‘Voyce has written an intelligent and provocative book… This important book ought to prompt a vigorous critical conversation. Highly recommended.’ - G. Grieve-Carlson (Choice Magazine, vol 51:03:2013) ‘Voyce offers a generous sampling of poems with a highly enjoyable interweaving of original theoretical discussion and analysis of poetry.’- Irene Gammel (The Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 50:01:2016)

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Black Mountain College: A Poetic of Local Relations Assembly Point of ActsWe are the Process: Toward a Theory of FieldTo Join the Arts in Action: John Cage at the CollegePolis and Totality in The Maximus PoemsFor Love Revisited: Robert Creeley and the Politics of Friendship“Public Parks” and “Poetic Communes”: Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan’s Open Form Protest3. Caribbean Artists Movement: A Poetic of Cultural Activism Link-up: The Poetic of a Social MovementUnderground Language“Eating the Dead”: Kamau Brathwaite’s Arrivants in LondonTo Havana and Beyond: John La Rose, Andrew Salkey, and a Map for Third World Unity4. The Women’s Liberation Movement: A Poetic for a Common World Devising our NetworksThe Tyranny of StructurelessnessUsurping the Left’s Mimeograph Machine: Robin Morgan, WITCH, and Poetic InsurrectionThe Location of the Commons: Adrienne Rich, Judy Grahn, and the Building of a Common WorldConsciousness-Raising as Poetic Discourse5. Toronto Research Group: A Poetic of the Eternal Network The Institute of Creative MisunderstandingThe Kids of the Book-MachineA Realignment of Kinship: The Four HorsemenThe Eternal Network6. Epilogue: Community as an Eternal IdeaNotesBibliographyIndex

Stephen Voyce is an assistant professor in the Department of English and a member of the Digital Studio for Public Humanities at the University of Iowa.

‘Voyce has written an intelligent and provocative book… This important book ought to prompt a vigorous critical conversation. Highly recommended.’ - G. Grieve-Carlson (Choice Magazine, vol 51:03:2013) ‘Voyce offers a generous sampling of poems with a highly enjoyable interweaving of original theoretical discussion and analysis of poetry.’- Irene Gammel (The Journal of Canadian Studies, vol 50:01:2016)

• AcknowledgementsList of FiguresAbbreviations1. Introduction2. Black Mountain College: A Poetic of Local Relations Assembly Point of ActsWe are the Process: Toward a Theory of FieldTo Join the Arts in Action: John Cage at the CollegePolis and Totality in The Maximus PoemsFor Love Revisited: Robert Creeley and the Politics of Friendship“Public Parks” and “Poetic Communes”: Denise Levertov and Robert Duncan’s Open Form Protest3. Caribbean Artists Movement: A Poetic of Cultural Activism Link-up: The Poetic of a Social MovementUnderground Language“Eating the Dead”: Kamau Brathwaite’s Arrivants in LondonTo Havana and Beyond: John La Rose, Andrew Salkey, and a Map for Third World Unity4. The Women’s Liberation Movement: A Poetic for a Common World Devising our NetworksThe Tyranny of StructurelessnessUsurping the Left’s Mimeograph Machine: Robin Morgan, WITCH, and Poetic InsurrectionThe Location of the Commons: Adrienne Rich, Judy Grahn, and the Building of a Common WorldConsciousness-Raising as Poetic Discourse5. Toronto Research Group: A Poetic of the Eternal Network The Institute of Creative MisunderstandingThe Kids of the Book-MachineA Realignment of Kinship: The Four HorsemenThe Eternal Network6. Epilogue: Community as an Eternal IdeaNotesBibliographyIndex