| Catullan Provocations |
| Acknowledgments |
| Introduction |
| Chapter 1 The Collection and Its Author |
| Chapter 2 Catullus and the Reader The Erotics of Poetry |
| Chapter 3 Obscenity Figures |
| Chapter 4 Urbanity The Poetry of Exclusion |
| • | The Power of the Indefinable |
| • | Theft and Reclamation |
| • | Making Language Perform |
| • | Play and Frustration |
| Chapter 5 The Wronged Lover and the Poet's Isolation |
| Chapter 6 Gazing at the Golden Age Belatedness and Mastery in Catullus 64 |
| Chapter 7 The Ruse of the Victim Poems 10 and 11 |
| Chapter 8 The Death of a Brother Displacement and Expression |
| Chapter 9 Between Men Catullan Literature |
| Conclusion |
| Notes |
| Bibliography |
| General Index |
| Index of Catullun Poems Cited |