This volume: * provides a fascinating and detailed overview of the history of the FBI and the CIA and their surveillance methods * examines the poetry and lives of an impressive array of American poets: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and others * will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, politics, especially surveillance and intelligence, and Digital Humanities.

This volume: * provides a fascinating and detailed overview of the history of the FBI and the CIA and their surveillance methods * examines the poetry and lives of an impressive array of American poets: Ezra Pound, William Carlos Williams, W.H. Auden, Langston Hughes, James Baldwin, Sylvia Plath, Gertrude Stein, Robert Lowell, Allen Ginsberg, and others * will be of great interest to scholars and researchers of literature, politics, especially surveillance and intelligence, and Digital Humanities.