Twentieth-Century American Poetics: An Overview -- The Language of Crisis: Robert Lowell, John Berryman -- The Language of Flux: Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery -- The Language of Incarnation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac, William Everson -- The Language of Witness: Adrienne Rich -- The Language of Vision: Denise Levertov, Robert Duncan -- The Language of L=A=N=G=U=A=G=E: Robert Creely, Lyn Hejinian, Susan Howe, Michael Palmer, Robert Grenier, Fanny Howe.