ch. 1 Futurisms: An Introduction / Monica Jansen -- ch. 2 The Audacity of Hope: The Foundational Futurist Manifestos / Marjorie Perloff -- pt. I PRECURSORS -- ch. 3 The Anthology Poeti futuristi: Poetry of Transition / Davide Podavini -- ch. 4 Marinetti in France between Symbolism and Futurism: Vers et Prose and Les Guepes / Eleonora Conti -- ch. 5 Futurist Roots in Palermo: Federico De Maria between Anti-Classicism and Anti-Marinettism / Laura Greco -- ch. 6 The Statistical Sublime / Jeffrey T. Schnapp -- ch. 7 Mapping Futurism: Performance in Rome and Across Italy, 1909-1915 with a Coda on Interwar Calabria / Patricia Gaborik -- pt. II PROTAGONISTS -- ch. 8 Time and Space in the Writings of Marinetti, Palazzeschi, the Group of L'Italia futurista, and Other Futurist Writers / Beatrice Sica -- ch. 9 The Great War in the Words-in-Freedom Style of an Atypical Futurist: Conflagrazione by Paolo Buzzi / Monica Biasiolo -- ch. 10 How to Become a Woman of the Future: Una donna con tre anime---Un ventre di donna / Silvia Contarini -- ch. 11 Love, Politics, and an Explosive Future: Volt's La fine del mondo / Kyle Hall -- ch. 12 Auto-Commentary in Ardengo Soffici's BIF[§]ZF+18: Simultaneita e chimismi lirici / Dirk Vanden Berghe -- ch. 13 Luciano Folgore's Self-Parody: End or Renewal of Futurism? / Stefano Magni -- ch. 14 Fortunato Depero's Radio-Lyrics / Francesca Bravi -- ch. 15 A Vitalist Art: Filippo Tommaso Marinetti's sintesi radiofoniche / Federico Luisetti -- pt. III LEGACIES -- ch. 16 The End of an Avant-Garde? Filippo Tommaso Marinetti and Futurism in World War I and its Aftermath / Walter L. Adamson -- ch. 17 Futurism and the Politics of the Ugly: Theory, History, and Actuality / Sascha Bru -- ch. 18 Futurism and the Manifesto in the 1960s / Florian Mussgnug -- ch. 19 No Man's Land: From Free-Word Tables to Verbal-Visual Poetry / Teresa Spignoli -- ch. 20 The Postwar Reception of Futurism: Repression or Recuperation? / Gunter Berghaus