Seer and sage
Amateur and professional
Absence and presence
Sophisticate and innocent
Celebrity and cipher
Alien and intimate
Listen, my children: modes of poetry reading in American schools
I am an American: poetry and civic ideals
Grow old along with me: poetry and emotions among family and friends
God's in his heaven: religious uses of verse
Lovely as a tree: reading and seeing out-of-doors
Coda "favorite" poems and contemporary readers.
Songs of ourselves : the uses of poetry in America by Joan Shelley Rubin. ISBN 9780674024366. Published by Belknap in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.