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Acknowledgments Introduction Cloudy yearnings: Saul Bellow Janis BellowA student in Plato's academy Paul Carroll Beautiful language Hayden CarruthDisturbing the dogmas: Robert Coover Molly McQuade The yeast of chaos LeonForrest Getting angry June Jordan An extreme ordinariness Janet KauffmanThe poetry club: Janet Lewis Richard Stern Independence of mind MorrisPhilipson A certain zealous intensity M. L. Rosenthal Just a lively boyPhilip Roth Good behavior Susan Fromberg Schaeffer Real America CharlesSimic A gluttonous reader Susan Sontag Wonkiness George StarbuckIntellectual passions George Steiner Tenacity Richard Stern Poetry andanthropology Nathaniel Tarn Trying to break away Douglas Unger A veryfringe character Kurt Vonnegut A vacation from the modern world MargueriteYoung Other Chicago Writers Index