Introduction: "Translation: Re-turning Toward an American Idiom"

Chapter One: "Beyond the Deep Image: James Wright’s Vallejo and the Ethics of Translation"

Chapter Two: "I Sing the Body Pan American: Whitman, Hughes, Neruda, and the Better Self"

Chapter Three: "From the Mouths of Mothers: William Carlos Williams and Translation as Bochinche"

Chapter Four: "Rukeyser, Bishop, and Paz: Writing Toward a Common, Beloved Mystery"

Chapter Five: "Cuban Life Studies: Eliot, Lowell, Padilla, Lezama, and Tejada at Crux of the Anglo-Hispanic, Linear-Baroque"

Conclusion: "Beyond Hegemony and Marginality: New American Canons"