Introduction xi
A Note on the Texts xix
Autobiographia Literaria
3(1)
Poem (At Night Chinamen Jump)
4(1)
Poem (The Eager Note on My Door Said ``Call Me,)
5(1)
Today
6(1)
Memorial Day 1950
7(2)
Travel
9(1)
Les Etiquettes Jaunes
10(1)
A Pleasant Thought From Whitehead
11(1)
Animals
12(1)
The Three-Penny Opera
13(2)
An Image of Leda
15(1)
Poem (If I Knew Exactly Why the Chestnut Tree)
16(1)
The Critic
17(1)
Poetry
18(1)
Song (I'm Going To New York!)
19(1)
A Rant
20(1)
Interior (With Jane)
21(1)
A Party Full of Friends
22(2)
A Terrestrial Cuckoo
24(2)
To Dick
26(1)
Commercial Variations
27(3)
Chez Jane
30(1)
Blocks
31(1)
October
32(1)
River
33(1)
Walking to Work
34(1)
Try! Try!
35(20)
On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (quick! a last poem before I go)
55(1)
To My Dead Father
56(1)
The Hunter
57(2)
Grand Central
59(2)
Homosexuality
61(1)
To a Poet
62(1)
Aus Einem April
63(1)
On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (I Am So Glad That Larry Rivers Made A)
64(1)
Epigram for Joe
65(1)
Meditations in an Emergency
66(2)
To the Mountains in New York
68(3)
Mayakovsky
71(2)
In the Movies
73(4)
Music
77(1)
To John Ashbery
78(1)
For Grace, After A Party
79(1)
Poem (I Watched an Armory Combing Its Bronze Bricks)
80(2)
Poem (There I Could Never be a Boy,)
82(1)
To the Harbormaster
83(1)
Une Journee De Juillet
84(1)
At the Old Place
85(1)
Nocturne
86(1)
Poem (Johnny and Alvin are Going Home, are Sleeping Now)
87(1)
To an Actor Who Died
88(1)
Thinking of James Dean
89(2)
My Heart
91(1)
To the Film Industry in Crisis
92(2)
On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art
94(1)
Radio
95(1)
Sleeping on the Wing
96(1)
Joseph Cornell
97(1)
[It is 1:55 in Cambridge, Pale and Spring Cool,]
98(1)
Poem (and Tomorrow Morning at O'clock in Springfield, massachusetts,)
99(1)
Poem (instant coffee with slightly sour cream)
100(1)
Returning
101(1)
In Memory of My Feelings
102(6)
[and leaving in a great smoky fury]
108(1)
A Step Away From Them
109(2)
Digression on Number 1, 1948
111(1)
[It seems far away and gentle now]
112(1)
Why I am not a painter
113(1)
Poem read at Joan Mitchell's
114(3)
John Button Birthday
117(2)
Anxiety
119(1)
Louise
120(1)
Failures of Spring
121(1)
Two Dreams of Waking
122(2)
Ode to Joy
124(2)
Ode to Willem de Kooning
126(3)
Poem (I Live Above a Dyke Bar and I'm Happy.)
129(1)
Ode to Michael Goldberg ('s Birth and Other Births)
130(10)
Ode (To Joseph Lesueur) On the Arrow That Flieth by Day
140(2)
Ode on Causality
142(2)
Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets
144(2)
A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island
146(3)
Fou-Rire
149(1)
To Gottfried Benn
150(1)
Heroic Sculpture
151(1)
The ``Unfinished''
152(3)
The Day Lady Died
155(1)
Rhapsody
156(2)
Song (Is It Dirty)
158(1)
Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul
159(2)
Joe's Jacket
161(2)
You Are Gorgeous and I'm Coming
163(1)
Poem (the Fluorescent Tubing Burns Like a Bobby-Soxer's Ankles)
164(1)
``L'amour Avait Passe Par La''
165(1)
Poem (Hate is Only One of Many Responses)
166(1)
Poem (I Don't Know as I Get What D. H. Lawrence is Driving at)
167(1)
Personal Poem
168(2)
Post the Lake Poets Ballad
170(2)
Naphtha
172(2)
Kein Traum
174(1)
Poem (Khrushchev is Coming on the Right Day!)
175(2)
Getting Up Ahead of Someone (Sun)
177(1)
In Favor of One's Time
178(1)
Les Luths
179(1)
Poem (Now the Violets are all Gone, the Rhinoceroses, the Cymbals)
180(1)
Poem ``A La Recherche D' Gertrude Stein''
181(1)
Poem (Light Clarity Avocado Salad in the Morning)
182(1)
Hotel Transylvanie
183(2)
[On the Vast Highway]
185(1)
Present
186(2)
Poem (That's Not a Cross Look it's a Sign of Life)
188(1)
Avenue A
189(1)
Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think
190(1)
A Little Travel Diary
191(2)
Beer for Breakfast
193(1)
Having a Coke with You
194(1)
Steps
195(2)
Ave Maria
197(2)
Fond Sonore
199(1)
[The Fondest Dream of]
200(1)
Cornkind
201(2)
Macaroni
203(1)
For the Chinese New Year & for Bill Berkson
204(5)
Essay on Style
209(2)
Vincent and I Inaugurate a Movie Theatre
211(1)
Early on Sunday
212(1)
St. Paul and all That
213(2)
F. (Missive & Walk) I. # 53
215(1)
Poem en Forme de Saw
216(1)
Metaphysical Poem
217(1)
Biotherm (for Bill Berkson)
218(16)
Poem (Lana Turner has Collapsed!)
234(1)
First Dances
235(1)
Answer to Voznesensky & Evtushenko
236(2)
Again, John Keats, or the Pot of Basil
238(1)
[The Light Presses Down]
239(1)
Walking
240(1)
Poem (I to You and You to Me the Endless Oceans of)
241(2)
Fantasy
243(2)
Cantata
245(1)
Little Elegy for Antonio Machado
246(13)
Appendix: Prose
Personism: A Manifesto
247(2)
[Statement for the New American Poetry]
249(1)
[Statement for Paterson Society]
250(2)
V. R. Lang: A Memoir
252(2)
A Personal Preface
254(1)
Larry Rivers: A Memoir
255(4)
Short Chronology 259(4)
Index of Titles 263