Preface: A visit to the masters school

Odysseus returns to Cambridge

104 Irving Street

Harvard

The Western Front

The enormous room

Greenwich Village. Elaine and Nancy

Anne Barton and Josef Stalin

Eimi and Marion Morehouse

No thanks

Ezra Pound and Santa Claus

Rebecca Clarke Cummings and Nancy Thayer

I think I am falling in love with you.

Readings . . . a new career

Victory and defeat

Coda: Cummings' reputation in the twenty-first century

Afterword: Patchin place.