Derelict Air by Dorn, Edward -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Title Page Copyright Contents Picture Credits Preface A Note on the Text Acknowledgements Poems Sent to Corporal Gordon Taylor (1953–1954)

Untitled 5. Third Floor Night scene [Give them the statistics of death] The surrealist Rotund San F. Decorum on a Grey Day [Several gulls] A derelict air

The Righting of the Cat (1954)

The Righting of the Cat

Looking, for a Thing (1957–1959)

Report From Washington: March Th’abjective None The Poet Spends a Day at the Dump (Mt. Vernon, April 20 Poem An Idea of perfection The Fair Relief The Girls in the Bank Vile, Thot Timothy, Like I Anacortes Revisited (for Helene While driving, home An embarrassment Looking, for a thing Letter from an Agéd Aunt Two Ships that Pass Bowl of Floweres (for John Fisola february child [Come with them] A small inquisition of the mind or: The coldness of the Poetic Attitude The Point is Light The Call It is

Poems of Washington, Idaho, & Mexico (1959)

Spring Woman The Trip An April 1st Cutting Somewhere Something Small, and Ignominious Concerning Shelter (for WHH Bavarian Horses Addenda to April 1st Cutting Ten Communications from the West

Late in the Revolution (1960–1962)

And Where, Gentlemen, is the Apocalypse (for Allan Fletcher The Eyes Turn The Isolated Seed Looking into Dark Corners From the Earth First, Last, And only Haiku A Poem for Creeley Replicas Some, Man, On the Street For Nevada Dogs of the Falling Sun Comparison Late in the Revolution Say Someday Every House Needs a Cat and a Poet or: The Way the Population is Kept Down Modern Poem a general answer

Silent Guns (1961–1963)

An attempt at self-sorrow The Vague Love Bob Considine For Soblen Donald is insane they say (after James Whitcomb Riley Idaho again Sat night oct. 1962 Death was a dream Some aid to the needy When I met Red So Long Cuba: Letter to Fidel Castro Oct 29, 1962 Or: Just One More Ineffectuality from a Poet? Chansonette forever For Jimmie Workman, the Bandit, Caught in Phoenix A campaign of January 17: It is Too Late for Them to Send their Armies A Walk of Spring After Love (for R.C. On No (for Tom Raworth An Old Square Poem The Territories [and still finding] But then Again

A Circle of Songs (1964)

The late sternness] [Talk always in circles] [Where is my world love] [No love lasts forever] [My Gods] [On the bed of the vast promiscuity] [Difficulties spoken of] [Oh Gods of my disembarked soul this is sad] [When I awaken in the morning] [Made the temporary fire]

In The Face of the Liberal (1964–1968)

Morning conversation In the Face of the Liberal This is the Poem for John W. Yas suh, or: On a Picture Postcard of the Neanderthal Family Group from a Friend in Great Distress (for Tom Raworth a Poem entitled Bullshit (for J.H.P. [my wandering] Second thots on astronaut (also for Clair Oursler On first reading “As It Were An Attendant” Once, Again

A Convention is in a Wallpaper Store (1968)

Set I Set II Chants 1–5

The Grave of Diana (1968–1970)

Inauguration poem #3 To the Tower (for Tom Pickard’s anthology of the Morden Tower A Graph of Several Persons July 13th [This love is a thing] [The Grave of Diana] Four Years Later The Sam Cole Song

Gunslinger: Fragments & Satellites (1970 –1974)

Lil’s Book The Poem of Dedication Riddle of the Omega For the Boys & Girls In The FreeIdea Store (for Jenny’s amusement O’brien Five On Parmenides Dr. Flamboyant [the Slinger peered thru the window] [Standing outside the booth under the open sky] Border surrealismo The Holdup Trig Utah

The Day & Night Report (1971)

New Year’s Day Day 5, 360 days follow Day 16 Day 19 Tuesday Day 26+339 Day 30 Day 55, 310 days follow Day 57 March 1 Night 65, 300 Nights to Come Day 67 — 298 to come Night 69: the nightletter (draft) Day 72, 293 coming Saturday overtime 73rd day The evening of Day 74 76 + 289 St Ps Day Day 77 Thursday 18 March Day 79, 286 days follow Night 79 Day 80, Spring 12:38 am at Chicago Day 81st 82nd day, 282 days out 84 Day 85 Sunday 28 March Day 87 Passion Sunday Day 89, 276 days out Day 90 Day 91, uh, April 1 Day 92 — 273 days coming 93rd day Saterday 3 April 94th day, Palm Sunday 95+270 96th day 97th day — 268 days follow 98 Maundy Thursday 99 past 266 future Day 100th Holy Saturday Easter Sunday April 13 Jefferson 1743 104th, 14 April 110th day 111th day cancelled, everything up in smoke Twentytwo April One Hundred and Twelve Day 117 Friday, April 30 121st day 1 May 122nd day Third Sunday 8 May Day 128 129, Mother’s Day 10 May 130 Wednesday 132 Thursday 133 Friday 134 152nd day June 2 June 162 163rd day 202 days follow June Thirteen Sunday Corpus Christi 164 Day 165, 200 days on the pole 16 June 21 June 172nd 173rd day — 192 follow 174 Day 175: School’s Out Friday 25 June Day 177 + 188 27 June Sunday 28 180th 181 July 19th July 20th 203rd day — 162 days follow Day 205 Day 216 Day 225 Day 226 Day 229 Day 230 Day 233 The Slotkowski Sausage Company tells us it’s September 1st 245th day Evening 246 4 September Sunday Labor Day The 6th September 7 tuesday 250th day — 115 days follow Wodensday 8 September September 9th Admission Day (California UhHuh Friday Saturday Day 254 Day 255 13 Monday Tuesday Sept 14 Wednesday 258 259 Morning two six oh! 261st day Saturday 18 September 262 Monday 20 Sept. September 21 Day 265 — One Yard to go Day 267 Day 269 Day 270 Day 271 Day 272 Day 274 Day 276 Day 277 Day 278 Day 280 Day 282 Day 285 — Columbus Day Day 292 Day 293 Day 294 — 3am Day 298 — Veteran’s Day (In District of Columbia and some States) Day 313 Day 323 Day 324 Day 336 Day 341 Day 355 Day 358 Day 362

The Theater of Money (1971)

Theater of Money #1 (a small entertainment for Paul Dorn Theater of Money #2 Theater of Money #3 The Teletrak In Defense of Pure Sensation

Translations With Gordon Brotherston (1971–1975)

You have to look at me (by Marco Antonio Montes de Oca Another Anniversary of Summer (by Marco Antonio Montes de Oca Trilce: XX (by César Vallejo The Making of the Uinal The Aztec Priests’ Reply

A Mexico Scrapbook (1972)

Valladolid to Quintana Roo [The ticket seller has Sunday off . . .] Los Tilos A Poem on entering Cuernavaca Old New Yorkers Really Get My Head Cerrilla de Tavachín [he spoke with a whisper disc]

Mellow W/ Teeth (1972–1976)

Poem sent to J.H. Prynne Epithet for the Gravestone of Max Douglas Move w/ the winde A Snip from the Allegorical Barbershop (an æpisode for JDD California [The United States is the first country] On Will Return to Nature Nostalgia Interview Advice to hearty shoppers Advice to weary shoppers The Place is Grand Interim Report to the Schuchat Commission The Congoleum of Michael Myers, or Step On it We Gotta Get This Heap to the Dump Mellow w/ Teeth An autumn evening in Illinois Filler up! You can’t fall out from an at ease position Paranoia, Incorporated (a conversation Snowe Bound Ohio In admiration of endurance (for Jennifer The Nicest of Citys From Semi-Hard Shufflin Off to Buffalo

Homage to Gran Apachería (1973)

Luz [These poems are written perfectly] [It is not illumining] [In the capital] [The apache procedure is uncorrupted] Athabasca [The capacity to disembody] [One day these will all be ruins] Who will follow [one of the stupidest sentimentalities] as of Victorio [The wild tribes are treated] [We have all now heard of a sterile phone] [On one project the norte Americanos] a minor and perhaps overlooked extremity [Why Florida? There are prisons in other places]

Office Equipment (1976–1983)

[This is the picture. The Doctors] Thursday, the 5th of February, and still no paycheck Phænominon A Late Luddite Opinion Drought report from Chlorofluornia La Jolla Return Quote followed by example To Wit A Variation on Hobbes It Seems to Me I’ve Heard that Song Before Office Equipment Poor Carter In the interest of equality De Characteristic do git inflated Name for an early American punk group The Country Awards Some free & curious data: the names of Wild Bill’s pallbearers Worse than Baden-Baden An Observation on Boulder’s Mall Hardball Simile Quotation from Kidd, While Watching the Game On t.v. A Robert Service Bear Flies Imitation The Democrats The Republicans The last bumper sticker Boulder Blue How Small Can Awesome Get? Further Thoughts on Dogs: London, 9 July 1981 Let Those People Go On First Looking into Marsden Hartley Unedible is this Nation’s Blessed spirit The Ladder of Opportunity? Neutre Pronoun Things We Know

From The Wrong Side of the Partition at the Houston MLA (1980–1981)

The next morning: On the way to the Regional Fiction panel From the Bayou to the ringworm: Westheimer Bummer Returning to the Harley, on Buffalo Bayou: Early Sunday Morning The Power of a Word

More Abhorrences (1983–1989)

[There’s nothing to do w/ valentine’s day] [the bite is sharp] Revenge: as an insufficient inducement [Shuffleburger, your name was odd] Witnesses say they do not want to be identified Not to mention names Public Safety #2 The Hysteria of Left wing Bogey making Freedom of information Anykyn Crippled Clerihew I’m from Idaho A Critique of Recent Developments in Meso-America Boulder print-out Property rights are not negotiable Going Blind into Restaurants Even I End Up Living in Dogtown Copyright The Tyranny of Food The Tariff Question On Rejuvenating the Hotline For the Protection of this Whole World and Its Contents Kansas City Collapse W.C. Williams In Humble Admiration Of Decadent, Californian Tories Preposterous Propaganda New Matches for the Fall [I would say, with all due respect] Law & Order: a good way to balance the budget “Where’s the Pork?” Shopping List (For, and in memory of, Ted Berrigan “Paralyzing Affability”: An Analysis of the Reagan Voice Contact w/ the Enemy #1 A Canadienne View of the Border All the people who were craven Sticking by the duly forgotten Twice shy Dave Rudabaugh for President or looking ahead to 1988 Really great lies are expensive Legal Definitions aren’t Everything Lemma dilemma Too Latent for Fascism [Anything you can push] The Beginning of Sorrows Mean Quisine [the power of good editing] Basil Bunting Propositions from Introspection Time The speck in the Milky Way RaIsInG BlIsTeRs A Drug of greater price than coke Letter to Ethiopia Summaries and Conclusions of a September Flight [I’m haunted by my past these days] The Long So-Long Being Able [What a technical advance] That Which is Cute & Sick Republican Form Expect to be Ripped Off Forget the Jar Wars Dynamo Tedium Rose Bird Semiotics for Semidiotics On the other hand The passing of a Great Bartender, the most important of the 20th C. Without Title The Church that is Stapleton Aerodrome Anti-Literacy Campaign: TV’s only Notable Consequence (for Truman Coyote Where are we now? the twentieth or the twenty-first crusade . . . ? Easter Sunday On Principle: whatever the fans want, I’m against Outside Gart Brothers The Ollie Predicament, an old military truth Old quotes are the best [That the american people] Supreme Abhorrence [Paul Simon, answering] The tighter the orbit, the more power Don’t Forget the Mortgage Motel Superbo Platinum parachute Co-opted by the Axis [A vast gisting of the 80ies] Would you buy a Used Car from this Century?

Abominatiónes (1991)

Motto of the 90’s War is the best cure [Eagleburger says] George Herbert Walker Bush [Baker has proved] Imago Bellum Detestations incarnate Postscript to Capitalist reality

The Connection to Nowhere (1992–1999)

[The germ of failure resides] An Account of a Trip with Jeremy Prynne in January, 1992, Through the Clare Country Thinking of my life as a teacher Prosaic Justice Intervention Alley— The Revolution of the two Bills Sub Coupe Rants & Cants Fantasy Heresies ¡ A Call to Arms ! At night the cups Mo Coups [The Jaw is there] [Remember the Starling Show] [Blown fuse] On First Looking into Shakespeare’s Folios just after Christmas 1998, at the New British Library Open Letter to the Apache Nation (unrevised) Notes on Olson, 14 October 1999

Denver Skyline (1993–1999)

On Seeing Kidd Onto the London Suborbital at Stapleton, 17 Mars, 1993 Summer Critique Repulsion—Superbowl ’95 (for Tom Clark St. George Drops Dead at the Denver Zoo West of the Platte on a Saturday Naitte The Screwball Repulsion II: at the snack-crazed Safeway 2/30pm Rocky Mountain Wintertime, 31 January, 1999

Plus De Languedoc Variorum: A Defense of Heresy & Heretics (1992–1999)

1099—one hundred years after Andromeda blew up Aum: Heresy Automatic Designation Cult Unabomber as Heretic A Review of Volume Ten of the Olson/Creeley Correspondence Monotheism Jesus—He was a Handsome Man, an essay on the reconstruction of the whole Western myth Another Heretic takes wing Subtexts Nazdaks

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