Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-215) and index.
Contents
"Absence of more": the struggle for unique self-authorization in Gertrude Stein -- William Carlos Williams' "secret gardens": cultural criticism in the distance -- "Montage of an otherness deferred": dreaming subjectivity in Langston Hughes -- "Vanilla hemorrhages": the queer perversities of Frank O'Hara -- "O Canada!": the spectral lesbian poetics of Elizabeth Bishop.