CONTENTS

Polemical Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Etymologies, 1980—the Allegorical Moment

1. Entomologies: Louis Zukofsky and Lorine Niedecker

2. Epistemologies: Clark Coolidge

3. A=L=L=E=G=O=R=I=E=S: Peter Inman, Myung Mi Kim, Lyn Hejinian

4. Semiologies: Susan Howe

5. Fictocritical Postlude: The Melancholy of Conceptualism

Notes

Works Cited

Index