Billitteri C. Language and the Renewal of Society in Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson

New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009. — 219 p. — ISBN10: 0230608361; ISBN13: 978-0230608368.This book takes up the utopian desire for a perfect language of words that give direct expression to the real, known in Western thought as Cratylism, and its impact on the social visions and poetic projects of three of the most intellectually ambitious of American writers: Walt Whitman, Laura (Riding) Jackson, and Charles Olson.The True Forms of Things: Cratylism and American Poetry
Substantial Words: Walt Whitman and the Power of Names
The Linguistic Ultimate: Laura (Riding) Jackson and the Language of Truth
A State Destroys a Noun: Charles Olson and Objectism
CODA: Language Poetry and Neo-Cratylism