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Tables of Contents for Selected Poems
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction
xv
4
PRELUDE
xix
into the strenuous briefness
xix
I A CHILD'S WORLD
1
14
Days of Innocence
3
6
1 who are you, little i
3
1
2 in Just-
3
1
3 who sharpens every dull
4
1
4 O the sun comes up-up-up in the opening
5
1
5 maggie and milly and molly and may
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1
6 at the head of this street a gasping organ is waving moth-eaten
7
1
7 who were so dark of heart they might not speak
8
1
Adult Nursery Rhymes
9
6
1 o by the by
9
1
2 if everything happens that can't be done
10
1
3 as freedom is a breakfastfood
11
1
4 what if a much of a which of a wind
12
1
5 when faces called flowers float out of the ground
13
2
II SWEET SPONTANEOUS EARTH
15
16
Spring
17
6
1 spring omnipotent goddess thou dost
17
1
2 O sweet spontaneous
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1
3 in
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1
4 Spring is like a perhaps hand
20
1
5 the sky a silver
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1
6 now winging selves sing sweetly, while ghosts (there
22
1
Other Seasons, Other Creatures
23
8
1 SNO
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1
2 beyond the stolid iron pond
24
1
3 the hills
24
1
4 beyond the brittle towns asleep
25
1
5 may my heart always be open to little
26
1
6 now comes the good rain farmers pray for (and
27
1
7 a wind has blown the rain away and blown
27
1
8 mouse) Won
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1
9 when god lets my body be
29
2
III THE POETRY OF THE EYE
31
20
The Creative Process
34
2
1 of my
34
1
2 Picasso
35
1
The Cubist Break-Up
36
15
1 writhe and
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1
2 mr. smith
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1
3 the sky
38
1
4 l (a
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1
5 s (
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1
6 how
40
1
7 n
41
1
8 r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
42
1
9 n (o) w the
42
2
10 as if as
44
1
11 sh estiffl
45
2
12 birds ( here, inven
47
1
13 (b eLl s? bE
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3
IV PORTRAITS
51
10
1 the Cambridge ladies who live in furnished souls
53
1
2 if there are any heavens my mother will (all by herself) have
53
1
3 my father moved through dooms of love
54
3
4 Buffalo Bill's
57
1
5 little joe gould has lost his teeth and doesn't know where
57
1
6 rain or hail
58
3
V LOVE AND ITS MYSTERIES
61
12
1 O Distinct
63
1
2 My love is building a building
64
1
3 somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond
65
1
4 cherie the very, picturesque, last Day
65
1
5 along the brittle treacherous bright streets
66
1
6 you shall above all things be glad and young.
67
1
7 yes is a pleasant country:
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1
8 it is so long since my heart has been with yours
68
1
9 your homecoming will be my homecoming--
68
1
10 one's not half two. It's two are halves of one:
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1
11 silently if, out of not knowable
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1
12 hate blows a bubble of despair into
70
1
13 being to timelessness as it's to time,
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2
VI ACHIEVING THE TOGETHER-COLOURED INSTANT
73
10
1 my girl's tall with hard long eyes
75
1
2 O It's Nice To Get Up In, the slipshod mucous kiss
75
1
3 (ponder, darling, these busted statues
76
1
4 she being Brand
77
1
5 n w
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1
6 "think of it: not so long ago
79
1
7 look
80
1
8 sometimes i am alive because with
81
1
9 i like my body when it is with your
82
1
VII KITTY, MIMI, MARJ, AND FRIENDS
83
14
1 wanta
87
1
2 twentyseven bums give a prostitute the once
87
1
3 goodby Betty, don't remember me
88
1
4 little ladies more
89
2
5 "kitty". sixteen, 5'1", white, prostitute.
91
1
6 the poem her belly marched through me as
91
1
7 when you rang at Dick Mid's Place
92
1
8 nearer: breath of my breath: take not thy tingling
93
1
9 the dirty colours of her kiss have just
93
1
10 in making Marjorie god hurried
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1
11 between the breasts
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2
VIII THE DIMENSIONS OF BEING HUMAN
97
10
1 since feeling is first
99
1
2 all ignorance toboggans into know
99
1
3 the trick of finding what you didn't lose
100
1
4 there are so many tictoc
101
1
5 what time is it? it is by every star
101
1
6 wherelings whenlings
102
1
7 conceive a man, should he have anything
103
1
8 sonnet entitled how to run the world)
104
1
9 dying if fine) but Death
105
2
IX MYTHS AND ALLEGORIES
107
16
1 anyone lived in a pretty how town
109
1
2 the Noster was a ship of swank
110
1
3 one (Floatingly) arrive
110
1
4 all in green went my love riding
111
1
5 here is little Effie's head
112
2
6 the wind is a Lady with
114
1
7 death (having lost) put on his universe
115
1
8 don't get me wrong oblivion
116
1
9 suppose
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1
10 it's over a (see just
118
1
11 Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets
119
1
12 in heavenly realms of hellas dwelt
120
1
13 now two old ladies sit peacefully knitting,
121
1
14 let us suspect, cherie, this not very big
122
1
X URBAN GLIMPSES
123
14
1 the hours rise up putting off stars and it is
126
1
2 but the other
127
1
3 logeorge lo wellifitisn't eddy how's the boy
128
1
4 the skinny voice
129
1
5 a man who had fallen among thieves
130
1
6 i was sitting in mcsorley's. outside it was New York and beautifully snowing.
131
2
7 that melancholy
133
1
8 Paris; this April sunset completely utters;
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1
9 stinging
135
2
XI TARGETS OF SATIRE
137
26
War
140
6
1 a Woman of bronze
140
1
2 my sweet old etcetera
141
1
3 "next to of course god america i
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1
4 i sing of Olaf glad and big
142
2
5 ygUDuh
144
1
6 plato told
145
1
Politics
146
3
1 F is for foetus (a
146
1
2 a salesman is an it that stinks Excuse
147
1
3 the way to hump a cow is not
148
1
Communism and Fascism
149
3
1 (of Ever-Ever Land i speak
149
1
2 kumrads die because they're told)
150
1
3 red-rag and pink-flag
150
1
4 THANKSGIVING (1956)
151
1
The Literary Scene
152
6
1 POEM, OR BEAUTY HURTS MR. VINAL
152
2
2 what does little Ernest croon
154
1
3 flotsam and jetsam
154
1
4 BALLAD OF AN INTELLECTUAL
155
3
Misanthropic Moods
158
5
1 when serpents bargain for the right to squirm
158
1
2 pity this busy monster, manunkind
158
1
3 Space being (don't forget to remember) Curved
159
1
4 ("fire stop thief help murder save the world"
160
1
5 Jehovah buried, Satan dead,
161
2
XII ENDINGS
163
18
Self-Excoriation
165
2
1 a total stranger one black day
165
1
2 so many selves (so many fiends and gods
165
1
3 no man, if men are gods; but if gods must
166
1
Religious Leanings
167
4
1 i thank You God for most this amazing
167
1
2 i am a little church (no great cathedral)
167
1
3 it is winter a moon in the afternoon
168
1
4 from spiralling ecstatically this
169
1
5 brIght
170
1
Whispers of Mortality
171
10
1 old age sticks
171
1
2 for prodigal read generous
172
1
3 enter no (silence is the blood whose flesh
172
1
4 now does our world descend
173
1
5 all nearness pauses, while a star can grow
174
1
6 what is
174
2
7 when life is quite through with
176
1
8 in time of daffodils (who know
177
1
9 Now i lay (with everywhere around)
178
1
10 one
179
2
POSTLUDE
181
life is more true than reason will deceive
181
2
Index of Titles and Dates of Publication
183