Introduction : Enabling fictions -- The elegiac mode : rhetoric and poetics in the 1940s -- "The darkness surrounds us" : participation and reflection among the Beat writers -- "Spotting that design" : incarnation and interpretation in Gary Snyder and Philip Whalen -- "Cave of resemblances, cave of rimes" : tradition and repetition in Robert Duncan -- "The city redefined" : community and dialogue in Jack Spicer -- Appropriations : women and the San Francisco Renaissance -- Approaching the fin de siècle.
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