Contents

Foreword by Rachel Zucker

Note from the Editor

Rep Gordon Canfield

We leave the youthful pennants and the books,

A Night in the Village

Epitaph for a Suicide

Epitaph for a Poet

To live and deal with life as if it were a stone.

Behold! The Swinging Swan

Hitch-Hiking Key West

What’s buzzing

Thus on a Long Bus Ride

We rode on a lonely bus

There’s nobody here

On Nixon; Chain Poem

A Lion Met America

Leave the Bones Behind

The Real Distinguished Thing

To Frank O’Hara & John Ashbery & Kenneth Koch

Yesterday I was writing in Heaven or of Heaven

B.C. [Bob Creeley]

War Is Black Magic

Journals November 22, ’63

In a Shaking Hand

Little Flower M.M. [Marianne Moore]

Don’t Know Who I Am

New York to San Fran

Entering Kansas City High

Cleveland Airport

Nashville April 8

After Wales Visitacione July 29 1967

Mabillon Noctambules

No Money, No War

May King’s Prophecy

For The Soul of the Planet Is Wakening

Frank O’Hara darkly

Hum! Hum! Hum!

The world’s an illusion

Inscribed In George Whitman’s Guest Register

Eyes Full of Pitchpine Smoke

Freedom of Speech

Spring night four a.m.

Louis’ First Night In Grave

Kidneystone Opium Traum

Homage to Paris at the Bottom of the Barrel

Bebbe put me on your lap

Verses Included In Howl Reading Boston City Hall

All The Things I’ve Got to Do

No Way Back to the Past

A Brief Praise of Anne’s Affairs

Popeye and William Blake Fight to the Death

For School Kids in New Jersey

Second Spontaneous Collaboration Into the Air, Circa 23 May 1980

Good God I got high bloodpressure answering

Amnesiac Thirst For Fame

A knock, look in the mirror

Thundering Undies

Trungpa Lectures

Pinsk After Dark

Listening to Susan Sontag

You Want Money?

Cats Scratching

I used to live in gay sad Paris!

As the rain drips from the gutter on to the bushes of the imperial court lawn

Having bowed down my forehead on the pavement on Central Park West

Back to Wuppertal

Am I a Spy From the Moon?

Awakened at dawn trying to run away—

Grey clouds hang over

3’d day down Yangtze River, yesterday

African Spirituality Will Save the Earth

Bob Dylan Touring with Grateful Dead

Asia Minor for Gregory

The moon in the dewdrop is the real moon

New Years Greeting

Hermaphrodite Market

Last Conversation with Carl or In Memoriam

Dream of Carl Solomon

Acknowledgments

Notes on the Photographs

Index of Titles and First Lines