Introduction -- Anxiety's holding: Wallace Stevens' poetry of the nerves -- Threshold poetics: Stevens and W. Winnicott's "not-communicating" -- Randall Jarrell's beards -- Mourning the elegy: Robert Creeley's "mother's photograph" -- Ted Berrigan's reparations -- Aaron Kunin's line of shame -- This feeling of time: Claudia Rankine's Citizen.
