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Acknowledgments 1 Problems and Propositions (On Where We Find the Avant-Garde) 2 Justice from the Ashes (On Juliana Spahr’s and David Buuck’s An Army of Lovers, and Kaia Sand’s Remember to Wave) 3 A Sacred Metaphor and the Values of the Avant-Garde (On Crisis, Renewal, and Multiformity) 4 Case Studies (On Peter O’Leary’s Phosphorescence of Thought, Kenneth Goldsmith’s The Weather, and Claudia Rankine’s Don’t Let Me Be Lonely: An American Lyric) 5 Conclusions and Implications (On Accepting Friendship, Giving up on Moralism, and the Poetics of Generosity) Bibliography Index