CONTENTS
Title Page
Copyright Notice
Dedication
Introduction
I. FUTURISM × FEMINISM: THE CIRCLE SQUARED (POEMS 1914–1920)
“There is no Life or Death”
Parturition
Italian Pictures
Three Moments in Paris
Sketch of a Man on a Platform
Virgin Plus Curtains Minus Dots
Babies in Hospital
Giovanni Franchi
At the Door of the House
The Effectual Marriage
Human Cylinders
The Black Virginity
Ignoramus
Lions’ Jaws
II. SONGS TO JOANNES (1917)
Songs to Joannes
III. CORPSES AND GENIUSES (POEMS 1919–1930)
O Hell
The Dead
Mexican Desert
Perlun
Poe
Apology of Genius
Brancusi’s Golden Bird
Lunar Baedeker
Der Blinde Junge
Crab-Angel
Joyce’s Ulysses
“The Starry Sky” OF WYNDHAM LEWIS
Marble
Gertrude Stein
The Widow’s Jazz
Lady Laura in Bohemia
The Mediterranean Sea
Nancy Cunard
Jules Pascin
IV. COMPENSATIONS OF POVERTY (POEMS 1942–1949)
On Third Avenue
Mass-Production on 14th Street
Idiot Child on a Fire-Escape
Aid of the Madonna
Ephemerid
Chiffon Velours
Property of Pigeons
Photo After Pogrom
Time-Bomb
Omen of Victory
Film-Face
Faun Fare
Letters of the Unliving
Hot Cross Bum
An Aged Woman
Moreover, the Moon — — —
V. EXCAVATIONS & PRECISIONS (PROSE 1914–1925)
Aphorisms on Futurism
Feminist Manifesto
Modern Poetry
Preceptors of Childhood
Auto-Facial-Construction
APPENDICES
Editorial Guidelines and Considerations
Notes on the Text
Three Early Poems
“Love Songs” (1923)
Other Writings
Tables of Contents
Acknowledgments
Copyright