1. For the history of free verse, see, for example, Chris Beyers, A History of Free Verse (Fayetteville: University of Arkansas Press, 2001);
2. H. T. Kirby-Smith, The Origins of Free Verse (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996).
3. David Antin, “Modernism and Postmodernism: Approaching the Present in American Poetry,” boundary 2 1.1 (1972): 98–133, 117.
4. J. H. Prynne, Field Notes: ‘The Solitary Reaper’ and Others (Cambridge, n. pub., 2007).
5. Drew Milne, “Agoraphobia, and the Embarrassment of Manifestos: Notes Towards a Community of Risk,” Jacket 20 (December 2002)
http://jacket-magazine.com
/20/.html ; originally published in Parataxis: Modernism and Modern Writing 3 (1993): 25–39.