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Index
Cover
Half Title
Dedication
Series Information
Title Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations
Introduction: City Poems and American Urban Crisis
Poetry and political action: An Army of Lovers
City poems and aesthetic theory
Varieties of American urban crisis
City poems and political action
Scope and purpose
1 Writing around Williams: Paterson and Experimental Urban Poetics
Rational-comprehensive planning
The rational-comprehensive limits of Paterson Books I–IV
Paterson and Olson’s “Polis”
Paterson and Ginsberg’s “Shrouded Stranger”
Williams’s search for “measure”: The late style of Book V
2 Community and Crisis in Los Angeles Poetry
Claiming the “right to the city” in Los Angeles
“The words we inhabit here”: Poetry and community in Los Angeles
Making personal geographies public
Watts and the poetry of crisis
Claiming space for resistance: Music and solidarity in Jayne Cortez’s Pissstained Stairs
“I will factor-in feeling”: Wanda Coleman and the tactics of revolution
3 The “Curious” Languages of New York: George Oppen and Critical Urban Theory
Urban questions
The questions of urban ideology: Oppen and Castells
The possibilities of poetic language: Oppen and Heidegger
The “curious” languages of New York
4 Reading “Bronzeville”: Poetics of Neighborhood I
Reading poetry, reading neighborhoods
The poetics of neighborhood: Gwendolyn Brooks’s “Bronzeville”
Looking outward: The Bean Eaters and “Two Dedications”
Neighborhood poetics as spatial project: “In the Mecca” and “The Sermons on the Warpland”
5 Organizing “El Barrio” and the “Loisaida”: Poetics of Neighborhood II
Prelude to action: Abandonment and neglect in Nuyorican communities
Place-framing and collective efficacy: The Young Lords in New York City
Claiming space: The words and feelings of Nuyorican Poetry
Locating “la isla” in the “ghetto”: Expanding the Nuyorican poetics of neighborhood
6 Poetry and Progressive Planning
City poems, community knowledge, and progressive action
Poetic knowledge and critical urban analysis
“Not with my hands / but with my imagination”: Using poetry to cultivate the urban commons
Notes
References
Index
Copyright Page
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