Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Paul Friedrich: An Appreciation -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. A Background History of Linguistic Relativism -- 3. Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy: A Reformulation of Sapir's Position -- 4. Indeterminacy in Linguistic Fieldwork -- 5. The Poetry of Language in the Politics of Dreams -- 6. The Unheralded Revolution in the Sonnet: Toward a Generative Model -- 7. The Poem as Parallactic Position: Seven Poems -- 8. Linguistic Relativity and the Order-to-Chaos Continuum -- 9. Toward an Improved Theory of Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Permission Notices -- Index of Names and Titles -- Subject Index