Native well being: Henry James and the "cosmopolite" -- The mother's tongue : seduction, authenticity, and interference in The ambassadors -- Ezra Pound's American scenes : Henry James and the labour of translation -- Pound and translation : ideogram and the vulgar tongue -- Gertrude Stein, Wyndham Lewis, and the American language -- Jack Spicer's After Lorca : translation as delocalization -- Homecomings: the poet's prose of Ashbery, Schuyler and Spicer.