Table of contents : Preface Contents 1. A Perspective on Waldo Frank 2. The Island in Manhattan 3. Toward the Lyric–I 4. Toward the Lyric–II 5. Our America 6. City Block 7. Rahab 8. Holiday 9. Chalk Face 10. Cultures and Communism 11. The Death and Birth of David Markand 12. The Bridegroom Cometh 13. Summer Never Ends 14. Return to America Hispana 15. Island in the Atlantic 16. The Invaders 17. Not Heaven Selected Bibliography Index