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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Poems
Beginnings: Collected Poems 1945–1946
To Josephine Miles
“Within the world of little shapes and sounds …”
The Bridge Game
“After the ocean, shattering with equinox …”
At Slim Gordon’s
“Among the coffee cups and soup tureens walked beauty …”
The Chess Game
4 A.M.
Berkeley Spring
Ash Wednesday
Palm Sunday
To the Semanticists
Karma
Chinoiserie
A Poem for a Restless Night
“I saw a thunder-blossomed tree …”
Berkeley Summer
Berkeley in a Time of Plague
A Girl’s Song
“A green wind rose in cones and shook our town …”
“The unrejected bronze lies slowly in my hall …”
“I do not see the morning traveller …”
A New Testament
“The long wind drives the rain around me now …”
Early Poems: Los Angeles, Berkeley, Minneapolis, San Francisco
“We bring these slender cylinders of song …”
“There is an inner nervousness in virgins …”
Hospital Scenes I: Penicillin
Hospital Scenes II: Evening Visitors
An Arcadia for Dick Brown
Mr. J. Josephson, on a Friday Afternoon
Ars Poetica
“Come watch the love balloon …”
The Bridge Game
“Hereafter …”
“There is a road somewhere …”
Riddle No. 1
Riddle No. 2
“The avenues of flame …”
Eucalyptus Leaves
“A pulse, a quiet lengthening of breath …”
A Poem for Nine Hours
“The screamless voice …”
The Inheritance: Palm Sunday
A Heron for Mrs. Altrocchi
Re A Poem for Josephine Miles
Breakfast / Realestate / Busfare
Orgy, Porgy, Pumpernickel, and Pie
Wham, Bam, ….
“We who have wept at the shrine of the bloodless Apollo …”
“And every boy and girl has a lover …”
“Capone in the springtime …”
“If I could hear some whisperings …”
“If autumn was a time for love …”
“This angry maze of bone and blood …”
A Night in Four Parts
“The sea is a mirror …”
Nunc, In Pulvere Dormio
“The world I felt this winter …”
“Look / The king is on the stage”
“This is June …”
“Flesh fails like words …”
“It was so cold a night …”
At a Party
Remembering You, I Leave the Music of the Inner Room
“The forward wept …”
On Falling into Your Eyes
Lost Ulysses
“The old moon is still rolling …”
“You are made out of porcelain and black ink …”
“Songs From An Enormous Birdcage …”
To a Certain Painter
“I wonder where Orpheus has been …”
“We were talking …”
“The laughing lady …”
“We are too tired to live like lions …”
“Whenever I love …”
“The new Aeneas …”
“At the sound of Apollo …”
“You thought …”
Dardenella
A Translation of George’s Translation of “Spleen” from “Les Fleurs du Mal” (Die Blumen Des Bösen)
“When your body brushed against me …”
Coffee-Time
Lives of the Philosophers: Diogenes
The Trojan Wars Renewed: A Capitulation, or The Dunkiad
The Panther - After Rilke
All Hallows Eve
Midnight at Bareass Beach
“The audience was sad to see …”
Christmas Eve: 1952
A Prayer for Pvt. Graham Mackintosh on Halloween
Epiloque in Another Language
“These woods, so fit for emperors …”
“As if a Chinese vase …”
Imaginary Elegies I–IV (Early Version)
Manhattan and Boston: 1955–1956
Manhattan
“White as southern blindness …”
“When the moon comes out …”
Central Park West
“And no one is around to see my tears …”
“Easy on squeezing …”
Orpheus Was A Poet
Hell
The Waves
“If I had invented homosexuality …”
Translator
“Goodnight. I want to kill myself …”
San Francisco and Berkeley: 1956–1965
For Kids
Sonnet Exercise
Buster Keaton’s Shadow
“The boy …”
“They are going on a journey …”
“Hmm. Tahiti …”
“I feel a black incubus …”
“It was like making love to my shadow …”
Romance Sonámbulo
A Poem Against Dada & The White Rabbit
The Clock Jungle
“Ridiculous is a word …”
“Hunters in the great Southwest …”
For Bob
For Tom
For Jerry
“An island / Is a herd of reindeer …”
“And he said there are trails …”
“Dear Russ …”
Vistas: On Visiting Spinoza’s Grave
Lamp
Carmen
Opera
Mazurka for the Girls Who Brought Me Tranquilizers
The Birds
Song For A Raincoat
Birthday Pool
Poet
“Three little waves …”
Hotel
“No daring shadows …”
The Pipe of Peace
“Billy came into the bar …”
“This poem has to do …”
Hokkus
“Big, up there …”
“Past / Remembering …”
“Loving you …”
“Bitterness …”
“It is time to clean my house …”
“Sure / Eurydice is dead …”
“In- / Visible zombies …”
“The skull is not the bones …”
“Lack of Oxygen puzzles the air …”
“Down to new beaches …”
“The slobby sea …”
Last Hokku
Jacob
“Mar - tar - dumbs - ville …”
“At the back of the age …”
“I make difficulties …”
“A hokku is something …”
“No one can rescue anyone from hell …”
“In the smallest corner of words …”
“What I miss …”
“Get away zombie …”
“Saying love …”
“Extend it in words …”
“Hell, / If you have a horror …”
“No real resting place …”
“You have to make moral decisions …”
“A million carpenters …”
“It is as if / Love had wings …”
Hokku
“It is impossible to stop …”
Blood and Sand
An Exercise
For Major General Abner Doubleday Inventor Of Baseball and First American President Of The Theosophical Society
“Daily waste washed by the tides …”
Shark Island
Stinson
For B. W.
For B. W. II
For B. W. III
“It’s dark all night …”
“Love has five muscles …”
“Thank you all for your fine funeral …”
“Jesus came to me in a dream …”
“Orpheus / Purposes …”
Against Corso
Spider Music
For Harris
For Harris II
Ch’ang Ch’eng
“Be brave to things …”
“With fifteen cents …”
A New Poem (Texts and Fragments)
The Plays
Young Goodman Brown: A Morality Play
Pentheus And The Dancers: An Adaptation
Troilus
Notes
Bibliography
Index of Titles for Poems
Index of First Lines for Poems
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