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Tables of Contents for Strange Good Fortune
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgments
vii
Preface
xiii
I.
Generations ``I'': The Future of Autobiographical Poetry
3
16
Some Kind of Statement, One Ear Showing: Social Poetry and its Problems
19
18
Ferality and Strange Good Fortune: Notes on Teaching and Writing
37
14
The State You Are Entering: Depression and Contemporary Poetry
51
16
A Cavalier and Doomed Lot: James L. White, a Memoir
67
20
II.
``Mad Means Something'': Anger, Invective, and the Period Style
87
15
Without a Deep Delight: Neo-Narrative Poetry and Its Problems
102
20
Weldon Kees: A Photo and Two Afterlives
122
12
Snodgrass's Borrowed Dog: S. S. Gardons and ``Remains''
134
16
Illegible Due to Blotching: Poetic Authenticity and Its Discontents
150
25
III.
John Flanders on the Anxious Highway: First Books and the Politics of Poetry
175
21
Like a Rolling Incognito Lounge: Rock and Roll and American Poetry
196
19
Large Air: A (Millennial) Notebook
215
18
Mercantile Eyes: Travel Poems and Tourist Poems (co-authored with Lynda Hull)
233
15
Magi-in-Residence: An Alchemy of Poetic Ruin
248
21
Notes
269
8
Index
277