Disengagement: the art of the Beat generation.--Morals, ethics, religion, ideology, the poet, poetry.--Black writers.--Black or White readers.--Community planning.--Urbanism.--Poetry in 1965.--Why is American poetry culturally deprived?--Poetry and money.--The heat.--The second post-war, the second interbellum, the permanent war generation.--Who is alienated from what?--The demagogic process.--Back to the sources of literature.--Poetry into the '70's.--Facing extinction