Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. A History of American Poetry Anthologies -- 2. Poets Canonizing Poets: John Berryman's "Homage to Mistress Bradtreet" -- 3. The New Criticism and American Poetry in the Academy -- 4. Little Magazines and Alternative Canons: The Example of Origin -- 5. "Provisionally complicit resistance": Language Writing and the Institution(s) of Poetry -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.