Includes index.
The poet and the wreck: Gerard Manley Hopkins
Plummet-measured: Yeats and form
A mouthful of earth: Edward Thomas
Mr and Mrs Stevens
T.S. Eliot: the prime ram of our flock
Not ready for repentance: Hart Crane
Elizabeth Bishop's Aviary
Nicholas Moore, Wallace Stevens and the fortune press
James Schuyler and Fairfield Porter
Long live Donald Justice!
Allen Ginsberg's ego confessions
John Ashbery's Where shall I wander
Veteran of negatives: Ted Hughes
Nancy Nancy Everywhere: Joe Brainard
Trust yourself: Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bob Dylan
Horse sense: Paul Muldoon
Coda: an interview by Anthony Caleshu.
Mr and Mrs Stevens and other essays by Mark Ford. ISBN 9783034302470. Published by Peter Lang in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.