The flag of his disposition : Whitman's posture
The poet in the dark : Ezra Pound, an Arendtian perspective
because/I do not own a house' : Emily Dickinson, Mina Loy, and Lorine Niedecker
Williams Stevens Williams, continuing revolution
Robert Creeley's lonely crowd
'Ferocious mumbling in public' : George Oppen
Conclusion, 'Your marvellous appearances' : Frank O'Hara.