It must chage: the art of digression in twentieth-century American poetry -- To explain grace requires a curious hand: Marianne Moore's interdisciplinary digressions -- Changing the Sjuzet: Lyn Hejinian's digressive narratology and the writing of history -- Digression personified: Whitman, the New-York school, and the drift of poetry -- New digressions: John Ashbery and the changing subjects of the twenty-first century

1. Moore
2. Marianne
3. 1887-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation
4. Hejinian
5. Lyn -- Criticism and interpretation
6. Ashbery
7. John
8. 1927- -- Criticism and interpretation
9. Whitman
10. Walt
11. 1819-1892 -- Influence
12. American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
13. Digression (Rhetoric) in literature
14. Poetics