Half-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Foreword: Göran Printz-Påhlson, a Life in and beyond Letters -- Inbetween: Locating Göran Printz-Påhlson -- 'The Overall Wandering of Mirroring Mind': Some Notes on Göran Printz-Påhlson -- The Words of the Tribe: Primitivism, Reductionism, and Materialism in Modern Poetics -- Part One: Linguistic Primitivism in Modernism and Romanticism -- Part Two: Linguistic Reductionism in Poetry Criticism -- Part Three: The Material Word: From Imagism to New Criticism to Intertextualism -- Part Four: The Polity of Metaphor and the Purity of Diction -- Other Prose -- Part Five: Style, Irony, Metaphor, and Meaning -- Part Six: Realism as Negation -- Part Seven: Historical Drama and Historical Fiction: The Example of Strindberg -- Part Eight: The Canon of Literary Modernism: A Note on Abstractionin the Poetry of Erik Lindegren -- Part Nine: The Tradition of Contemporary Swedish Poetry -- Part Ten: Kierkegaard the Poet -- Part Eleven: Surface and Accident: John Ashbery -- Part Twelve: The Voyages of John Matthias -- Letters of Blood: Poems -- Letters of Blood -- One -- My Interview with I.A. Richards -- Generation -- Televisiondreamroutines -- The Longest-Running Show on Television -- The Enormous Comics -- Poem Unnamed -- Botchuana -- Two -- Aelius Lamia: Tankas for Robert Hass -- Odradek -- Turing Machine -- Broendal -- Two Prose Poems -- Sir Charles Babbage Returns to Trinity College -- Man-Made Monster Surreptitiously Regarding Idyllic Scene -- Joe Hill in Prison -- Remember the Rosenbergs -- When Beaumont and Tocqueville First Visited Sing-Sing -- Three Baroque Arias from Gradiva -- Three -- Comedians -- Acrobats on the Radio: Letter to Newcomb -- To John at the Summer Solstice, Before His Return -- Four -- The Green-Ey'd Monster.

Select Bibliography of Works by Göran Printz-Påhlson -- A Note on the Text.