the Tribe of John Ashbery and Contemporary Poetry edited by Susan M. Schultz

Foreword: A Short Article or Poem in Response to the Work
     George Bradley
Acknowledgments
Abbreviations

Introduction
     Susan M. Schultz


Part I. New Readings of Ashbery

I Typical Ashbery
     Jonathan Morse	

2 Ashbery as Love Poet
     Charles Altieri	

3 Coming Full Circle: John Ashbery's Later Poetry
     Fred Moramarco	

4 John Ashbery's Landscapes
     Bonnie Costello	


Part 2. Explorations of Influence

5 The Absence of a Noble Presence
     John Koethe	

6 Purists Will Object: Some Meditations on Influence
     Donald Revell	

7 Nimbus of Sensations: Eros and Reverie in the Poetry of
    John Ashbery and Ann Lauterbach
       James McCorkle	 

8 Ashbery's Menagerie and the Anxiety of Affluence
     John Gery	
9 Periodizing Ashbery and His Influence		
     Stephen Paul Miller	

10 Fossilized Fish and the World of Unknowing: John Ashbery		
   and William Bronk		
     John Ernest	

Part 3. Ashbery and Postmodern Poetries		
			
II Taking the Tennis Court Oath		
     Andrew Ross	

12 The Music of Construction: Measure and Polyphony in Ashbery		
    and Bernstein		
        John Shoptaw	
			
Afterword: The Influence of Kinship Patterns upon Perception		
of an Ambiguous Stimulus
     Charles Bernstein	
			
Works Cited	
Contributors	
Index