Contents

List of Figures

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction: Catalysing Encounters

1 Habitat New York: Joseph Cornell’s ‘imaginative universe’

2 ‘Confusion hath fuck his masterpiece’: Re-reading William Burroughs, from Junky to Nova Express

3 ‘Donc le poète est vraiment voleur du feu’: Frank O’Hara and the Poetics of Love and Theft

4 Bob Dylan and Collage: ‘A deliberate cultural jumble’

Conclusion: ‘Yield us a new thought’

Bibliography

Index