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Cover Title Page Copyright Doveglion Contents Introduction by LUIS H. FRANCIA Suggestions for Further Reading A Note on the Text DOVEGLION: COLLECTED POEMS HAVE COME, AM HERE (The Viking Press, 1942)

LYRICS: I

1 It is what I never said 2 There was a time 3 When the pigeon walked toward me 4 Nobody yet knows who I am 5 O the Eyes that will see me 6 I will break God’s seamless skull 7 Between God’s eyelashes I look at you 8 As in a rose the true fire moves 9 It’s a hurricane of spirit 10 O three eyen hath God 11 When I shall the first time seek my Life 12 Leaned in my eyes and loved me 13 There is a one that createth me 14 am so very am and 15 When the world shall come to its end 16 In my desire to be Nude

LYRICS: II

17 First, a poem must be magical 18 She has gone 19 I can no more hear Love’s 20 I can not speak of the beauty of love 21 And if the heart can not love 22 I was speaking of oranges to a lady 23 Girl singing. Day. And on her way 24 O Lovely. O lovely as panther. O 25 There came you wishing me * * * 26 Hands handle the hours of night 27 her day-rose is much sweet 28 Am 29 Silence is Thought converging 30 I did sternly (why not) ask very Death 31 By all the luminance of her voice I swear 32 than whose roses. And if her love be musical

LYRICS: III

33 I think, yes, a leopard in Dufy blue would 34 Bring the pigeons watermelons, Abelard 35 Inviting a tiger for a weekend 36 The distinction is in Fire and Division 37 Take a very straight line, Fermin, if you want to die 38 Now I prize yellow strawberries 39 Be beautiful, noble, like the antique ant 40 In Picasso you see Blue, Rose, and the

LYRICS: IV

41 To make icecream chrysantheme 42 I have observed pink monks eating blue raisins 43 roses racing with rabbits 44 sky wrote me blackbirds 45 A radio made of seawater 46 in blue without when blues dream bears 47 All the horses were gold

DIVINE POEMS

48 If my sun set in the west 49 God said, “I made a man 50 Countering the general eye 51 Sir, I commend to you the spirit 52 Come to a conference with me! 53 I unfell completely from 54 Now, if you will look in my brain 55 Myself solving myself 56 Imagination is Where God 57 I was not young long: I met the soul early 58 My mouth is very quiet 59 From seeming to being is forever 60 The way my ideas think me 61 Now let us announce me 62 Between one and one 63 To give you my permanent address 64 Saw God dead but laughing 65 Only birds, only mirrors 67 Since my Correspondence 68 My most. My most. O my lost! 69 Flew birds east where I was 70 So that it could be essence 71 Or I myself in death 72 Then when He said no I knew yes 73 Nevermore to delay life 74 Time the traveller 75 Often, the livingness of death 76 Sir, there’s a tower of fire in me 77 Were death not so involved 78 Mostly are we mostless 79 Futurity’s equivalence to Now 80 Faithfullest, for I am infidel! 81 In life I shone with so much death 82 O, the brightness of my dark! 83 How shines my dark-world 84 Progress from no or yes 85 The contraband of soul 86 I betook me to the ways of Truth 87 If: or: maybe 88 It is necessary to die livingly 89 Now of two deaths 90 Within the city of my death 91 By death only. Her revival of infinity 92 I told God to go away 93 For which I designed God perishable 94 Christ adventuring in my mind 95 In the chamber of my philosophy 96 First add-subtract 97 God fears the poems of 98 Are you waiting for God’s Word 99 Now I will tell you the Future 100 Imagine God a peacock 101 With every word, with every thought 102 The wind shines 103 Then we came unsinging 104 Sphinx-mouthed Sage whose 105 I made myself to burn 106 God not looking, sudden 107 Inexplicacy of birth 108 Silentness is not Silence 109 Allow God’s cowardice 110 Days of my youth 111 When I mimic God 112 Equality? Our 113 God is Love 66 114 I will bespeak the mordaunce 115 Death, corollary to Life 116 A brilliance met me 117 In contest for myself 118 Had I not this life decreed 119 Now, there dwelt in me 120 Now that now 121 Does a mirror forget? 122 A wall is History 123 A true wrath requires reason 124 The shadow of a great man 125 Always I did want more God 126 Always and always the amaranth astir 127 Greatly imagine me, my God

A Note on Reversed Consonance

from VOLUME TWO (New Directions, 1949)

These poems from Volume Two were selected, rewritten and/or reversified by José Garcia Villa and are reprinted here as they appeared in Selected Poems and New. A Note on the Commas DIVINE POEMS

128 The,bright,Centipede, 129 Purely— 130 Much,beauty,is,less,than,the,face,of, (130) Much beauty is less than the face of 131 No; I,will,not,speak,softly— 132 Before,one,becomes,One, 133 The,Reason,Why— 134 When,I,was,no,bigger,than,a,huge, (134) When I was no bigger than a huge 135 Oh,yes,I,am,looking,for, 136 My,whoseness,is,to,me,what,I, 137 The,soul,swarms,with,angels, 138 At,the,in,of,me, 139 By,His,eyes,felt,my,eyes— 140 As,much,as,I,perceive,the,Future, 141 My,bright,Lion,coming,down. 142 In,my,undream,of,death, 143 Clean,like,iodoform,between,the,tall, 144 I,was,old,very,young: I,was,all, 145 More,miracled,and, 146 How,high,is,low, 147 How,young,art,thou? 148 The,baby,that,grows,up,from,old,age, 149 Purity…before,I, 150 Today,the,spirituality,of,the,devil, 151 What,is,defeat? 152 Came,I,then,upon,Lightning,as,still-life— 153 Somewhat,there,is,somewhere, 154 In,not,getting,there,is,perfect,Arrival. 155 To,be,central,or,God-I, 156 Jewels,do,not,glow, 157 Does,Death,revise? 158 A,living,giant,all,in,little,pieces, 159 What,is,equal,to, 160 Crisp,is,God’s,anger— 161 There,are,three,Gentlemen— 162 As,Eternity,rests,poised, 163 All,the,time,living, 164 The,hands,on,the,piano,are,armless. 165 Description of a Girl 166 And,tell,of,the,corners,of,love, 167 My,first,war,was,ten, 168 The,clock,was,not,a,clock, 169 Parthenogenesis of Genius 170 With,on,my,pencil,the,youngest,flower, 171 I,skirted,all,round,Heaven, 172 Because,thy,smile,is,primavera, 173 I,it,was,that,saw, 174 My,signature,is,that,part,of,me, 175 Elegy for the Airplane

APHORISMS, I CAPRICES

176 A Virginal 177 A,piece,of,coffee,a,piece,of,rose, 178 Moonlight’s,watermelon,mellows,light, 179 The,caprice,of,canteloupes,is,to,be, 180 David,fourteen,fifteen,a,little,pepper,and,fox, 181 A,cat,having,attained,ninehood, 182 The Emperor’s New Sonnet

APHORISMS, II

from SELECTED POEMS AND NEW (McDowell, Obolensky, 1958)

Author’s Note NEW POEMS AND ADAPTATIONS

183 Xalome 184 (Up)(in)(the)(Tree) 185 The Angel 186 A Valentine for Edith Sitwell 187 And,if,Theseus—then,Minotaur. 188 The,Verb,in,its,Lair: 189 Death and Dylan Thomas 190 The Anchored Angel (190) The Anchored Angel

APHORISMS, III A Note on the Adaptations ADAPTATIONS

191 When I Think of Rilke, 192 This being-in-the-sun and 193 The Allegory of the Cavern 194 The Admiration of Mountains 195 Everyone carries a room about 196 Think you must have it someday! 197 The language of bells 198 Death of Apollinaire 199 Dame Edith Sitwell Reading 200 Custom of the Leucadians 201 Mallarmé’s Esthetic 202 Eleanora Duse 203 That the absence of the sun 204…until the dark 205 To Become an Archer 206 In no sense can genius 207 The Golden Birds of Rimbaud 208 Do not be bewildered by the 209 The bullfight is pure art: the perfect 210 The medieval tea 211 If El Greco Was Astigmatic 212 What stood there was 213 Not all who would be are 214 Certain Indians of high 215 The Storm 216 And then suddenly 217 And I said to myself 218 You would not say 219 And when what is near 220 Strindberg 221 More single-purposed than 222 Death of Raymond Radiguet 223 Night and sleep alone 224 Dr. Vilhjalmur Stefansson 225 Military History, 226 The early Chinese probably 227 Characters in Historical Novels 228 The Manner of a Poet’s Germination 229 Through what twists and 230 Mondrian 231 Nyabongo’s Project 232 British painter Ben Nicholson 233 The brotherliness and 234 Man’s Fate 235 The Woman 236 The Bird 237 First frost comes 238 Neither beginning nor end

EARLY POEMS LYRICS

239 The Coconut Poem 240 Poem for Violeta 241 I demand brilliance and 242 Poems for an Unhumble One 243 This second is more 244 If Addition were Subtraction 245 Love Song 246 Curve of gold above her 247 Fragment 248 How beautiful is sleep. Let 249 O lovely thighs 250 One hemisphere the heart 251 The r 252 Q. And did you see Wisdom? 253 Religionist! you up-down there 254 The Nude is to be viewed 255 All saints are naked (how 256 Will you always for I can always 257 There was a perfect tree 258 Complexity’s unity

PHILOSOPHICA

259 All in the name of you whom I love 260 The preliminary is the beginning dissolution 261 Exactly what is unexact 262 When God my darling turned adulterous 263 Observe me. I do not speak. 264 From the beginning it has been the ending 265 The standstillness of unthought 266 If it is again futurity 267 I am earlier than today 268 Now is the speech of Tomorrow 269 Looking into the least mirror 270 A certain morning is 271 My portrait is my not-face 272 When what cannot run runs 273 Your profundity is very light

from APPASSIONATA: POEMS IN PRAISE OF LOVE (King and Cowen, 1979)

274 To a Lady Going to Antipolo 275 To ensnare a proud love 276 Fulfilment 277 Story 278 Have I Sung? 279 Descriptional 280 Song for the First Sweetheart 281 Pastorale 282 As of Tulips: As of Two Lips 283 Lotus 284 Go to a woman and say to her 285 Duetto for Surrender 286 Blossom Under Thee 287 Poem Written Beneath a Blue Lampshade 288 Come, Wreathe Me with Love 289 Twin Poems 290 O thou whom Love has steeded 291 Bridal Song 292 Poem of the Man-God: The Lover 293 The Sweet Song Sanora Sang After the Setting of Sun 294 And did you. Of her mouth 295 Address 296 Pretend we do not love 297 Song Unworthy of Her 298 This thing so beautiful and high 299 Invitation to Doom 300 Speech Against Love 301 And of the golden road: the faméd road 302 One life is not enough for love 303 From,peaches,are,polar,bears,made, 304 A Song for Rosemarie DUO-TECHNIQUE AND XOCERISMS

Editor’s Note on Duo-Technique: Villa’s Unpublished Versification Method

DUO-TECHNIQUE POEMS AND ADAPTATIONS

Poem Designed by a Bird Late Snow Finishing The Poem The water hollows the stone, To get Writing Poetry One Footprints (FEET ! ! In At the Deli (Ten Years Later) Thanks to NEA With nothing to do : but Blue Storm

Editor’s Note on Villa’s Unpublished Xocerisms XOCERISMS

God, Nature, Beauty Genius Sex/Love Art and Craft Poets Poetry Peotry/Peots Criticism and Critics Intellect/Intelligence Human Behavior The Artist Poetry and Prose Processes Linguistics

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