Acknowledgements; Contributors; Preface, Susan Howe; 1. Introduction: Archive, Theory, Poetry, Linda Anderson, Mark Byers, Ahren Warner; 2. T.S.Eliot and Derek Mahon: A Tale of Two Archives, Hugh Haughton; 3. Archival Poetics: Containing Multitudes, Mark Byers; 4. Digital Baedecker: A Feminist Experiment with Mina Loy’s Archive, Suzanne Churchill, Linda Kinnahan, Susan Rosenbaum; 5. Louis MacNeice and his Archives, Jonathan Allison; 6. On Efficiency: John Updike’s Poetry Archive, J. O. Gill; 7. Sylvia Plath’s Library: The Marginal Archive, Amanda Golden; 8. ‘Library of Opaque Memory’: Spectral Archives in Brandon Som, Mai Der Vang, and Bhanu Kapil, Sarah Howe; 9. Opening the Box: Exploring the Bloodaxe Archive, Linda Anderson; 10. ‘I am Already Historical’: In the Archive, Sean O’brien; 11. The Archive and the Mirror, George Szirtes; 12. AA(A), or Affect, Archives &Anecdotes, Ahren Warner; 13. Musée des Fragments: The Secret Memories of Ordinary Things, Carolyn Forché; Further Reading; Index.