Introduction: East-West exchange and the renewal of modernism -- Williams, Wang, and "The Cassia Tree" -- Modernist minimalism reinitiated in Rutherford -- Moore, Sze, and the Tao -- Sze's "permanent gifts" and Moore's last achievement -- Fang as Pound's teacher of Naxi pictographs -- Naxi rites and vortex in Pound's final cantos -- Coda: East-West exchange in the eighties and at the millennium -- Appendix: "tedium and integrity in poetry" by Marianne Moore.
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