List of illustrations
1. Introduction: The Lyric's Childish Forms
2. 'Infant Sight': Elizabeth Bishop's Prodigal Child
3. 'Children Twist Hula-Hoops, Imagining a Door to the Outside': John Ashbery and the Eccentric Child
4. 'All Our Children are Outriders for a Queendom Not Yet Assured': Audre Lorde - Writing the Black Child Into the Lyric
5. 'Original Childishness': James Schuyler's Wondrous States
6. 'Am I Still that Transparent': Joe Brainard's Snapshot Childhood
7. ''Innocence, In No Sense, Anon': Claudia Rankine's Lyric In Vitro
Coda: Lyric Redress
Notes
Bibliography
Index
