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Tables of Contents for The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
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The Poetry of Kenneth Rexroth
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EARLIEST AND UNCOLLECTED POEMS
Saint John
5
4
A Lantern and A Shadow
``In that hour I have seen''
5
1
``I pass your home in a slow vermilion dawn''
6
1
``The minute fingers of a tiny wind''
6
1
``the absorbent glimmer of the night''
7
1
``I do not remember the number''
8
1
You fail an appointment
8
1
``Someone has cast an unwary match''
8
1
``All is gone now''
9
1
``There shall come faint light''
9
1
``The unpeopled, conventional rose-garden.''
10
1
``November has hung the locust''
11
1
``Et pour eux seuls, les paradis chantent encore''
11
1
To another
11
1
``Speak not, let no word break''
12
1
``The fragrance of the teapot''
12
1
Mississippi River
13
1
``Such was our garden''
13
2
Prufrock in Wonderland
15
1
Chicago Cabaret
15
1
Old Street
16
1
Requiem
16
1
Entrance
16
1
``You did not know she was eternal? There''
17
1
Portrait of a Lady
17
1
Noretorp-Noretsyh
18
1
Untitled
19
2
140 Syllables
21
1
The Working Day
21
1
Untitled, 6 September 1969
22
3
THE HOMESTEAD CALLED DAMASCUS (1920--1925)
The Homestead Called Damascus
25
38
THE ART OF WORLDLY WISDOM (1920--1930)
In the Memory of Andree Rexroth
63
3
The Thin Edge of Your Pride
66
6
Phronesis
72
8
The Place
80
2
Confusion
82
1
Fundamental Disagreement with Two Contemporaries
83
7
The Sufficient
90
2
Into the Shandy Westerness
92
3
Memorandum
95
1
Death, Judgment, Heaven, Hell
96
2
The Crisis
98
7
Okeanos and the Golden Sickle
105
1
When You Asked for It
105
12
A PROLEGOMENON TO A THEODICY (1925--1927)
A Prolegomenon to a Theodicy
117
26
IN WHAT HOUR (1940)
From the Paris Commune to the Kronstadt Rebellion
143
1
At Lake Desolation
144
1
Gentlemen, I Address You Publicly
145
1
Hiking on the Coast Range
146
1
A Letter to Wystan Hugh Auden
147
1
Requiem for the Spanish Dead
148
1
On What Planet
149
1
The Motto on the Sundial
150
1
Climbing Milestone Mountain, August 22, 1937
151
2
The New Year
153
1
A Very Early Morning Exercise
153
1
Another Early Morning Exercise
154
2
Autumn in California
156
1
New Objectives, New Cadres
157
2
August 22, 1939
159
3
North Palisade, the End of September, 1939
162
1
Toward an Organic Philosophy
163
4
A Letter to Yvor Winters
167
1
An Equation for Marie
168
1
Songs for Marie's Lutebook
169
2
Gic to Har
171
1
Falling Leaves and Early Snow
172
1
The Apple Garths of Avalon
173
2
The Heart Unbroken and the Courage Free
175
1
Organon
176
5
Dative Haruspices
181
2
Value in Mountains
183
3
Easy Lessons in Geophagy
186
3
A Lesson in Geography
189
4
Northampton, 1922--San Francisco, 1939
193
1
Ice Shall Cover Nineveh
193
12
THE PHOENIX AND THE TORTOISE (1944)
When We with Sappho
205
3
Runaway
208
1
Lute Music
209
1
Floating
210
1
Another Spring
211
1
Night Below Zero
211
1
The Advantages of Learning
212
1
Habeas Corpus
212
1
Pliny -- IX, XXXVI -- Lampridius -- XXIX
213
1
Harmodius and Aristogeiton
214
1
Inversely, as the Square of Their Distances Apart
214
2
Vitamins and Roughage
216
1
Between Two Wars
216
1
Gas or Novocain
217
1
It Rolls On
218
1
Delia Rexroth
219
1
Another One
219
1
Andree Rexroth
220
1
Precession of the Equinoxes
220
1
Again at Waldheim
221
1
Strength through Joy
222
1
Still on Water
223
1
Un Bel Di Vedremo
224
1
Adonis in Winter
225
1
Adonis in Summer
226
1
Wednesday of Holy Week, 1940
227
1
Incarnation
228
1
We Come Back
229
1
Martial -- XII, LII
230
1
Theory of Numbers
230
2
Andree Rexroth
232
1
Horny Dilemma
233
1
Incense
233
1
A Neoclassicist
233
1
Past and Future Turn About
234
5
The Phoenix and the Tortoise (1940--1944)
239
34
THE SIGNATURE OF ALL THINGS (1949)
Between Myself and Death
273
1
Monads
274
1
The Signature of All Things
275
2
For a Masseuse and Prostitute
277
1
Lyell's Hypothesis Again
278
2
Sharp in My Heart
280
1
Blues
281
1
Yugao
282
1
January Night
283
1
Delia Rexroth
284
1
Hojoki
285
3
Andree Rexroth
288
3
A Letter to William Carlos Williams
291
3
Maximian, Elegy V
294
1
Blood and Sand
295
1
The Giant Weapon
296
1
For the Chinese Actress, Gardenia Chang
297
1
Ausonius, Epistle VII
298
1
Advent
299
1
Lucretius, III, 1053--1076
300
2
No!
302
1
A Christmas Note for Geraldine Udell
302
1
Stone and Flower
303
2
Gambling
305
1
Me
305
1
The Light on the Pewter Dish
305
1
Me Again
306
1
On a Beautiful Bar Butterfly in the Black Cat
306
1
Value Neuter
307
1
Discrimination
307
1
Fact
308
1
De Fera Dormita
308
1
Bonapartisme
308
1
Further Advantages of Learning
309
1
Under Soracte
309
4
THE DRAGON AND THE UNICORN (1952)
Rosa Mundi
313
1
Leda Hidden
314
1
Golden Section
315
3
Time Spirals
318
1
Mirror
319
1
Only Years
320
1
Empty Mirror
321
1
Doubled Mirrors
322
1
The Dragon and the Unicorn (1944--1950)
323
202
IN DEFENSE OF THE EARTH (1956)
The Reflecting Trees of Being and Not Being
525
1
She Is Away
526
1
Mocking Birds
527
1
Loneliness
528
1
The Old Song and Dance
529
1
Growing
530
1
A Living Pearl
530
3
Fifty
533
8
The Lights in the Sky are Stars
Halley's Comet
534
1
The Great Nebula of Andromeda
534
1
The Heart of Herakles
535
1
A Maze of Sparks of Gold
536
1
A Sword in a Cloud of Light
536
2
Protoplasm of Light
538
2
Blood on a Dead World
540
1
Quietly
541
1
For Eli Jacobson
541
2
On a Flyleaf of Rime -- Gaspara Stampa
543
1
Time Is the Mercy of Eternity
544
5
A Singing Voice
549
1
Our Home Is in the Rocks
550
3
Xmas Coming
553
1
My Heart's As Gay As a Young Sunflower
553
2
The Mirror in the Woods
555
1
The Bad Old Days
555
2
A Dialogue of Watching
557
7
Mary and the Seasons
Dry Autumn
557
1
Spring Rain
558
1
Autumn Rain
559
1
Clear Autumn
560
2
Snow
562
1
Another Twilight
563
1
The Orphic Soul
564
1
Human, Avian, Vegetable, Blood
564
1
Thou Shalt Not Kill
565
9
The American Century
574
1
A Bestiary
574
10
Mother Goose
584
13
Epigrams and Translations
On a Military Graveyard
591
1
Survival of the Fittest
591
1
Revolt
591
1
After Sappho
592
1
Lost Etc.
592
1
Neatness Is All
592
1
Sense of Proportion
592
1
A Bread and Butter Letter
593
1
Metempsychosis
593
1
On the Post Office
593
1
After Sa'adi
593
1
Fact
593
1
From the Persian (1)
594
1
Illusion
594
1
From the Persian (2)
594
1
Valuta
594
1
Last Visit to the Swimming Pool Soviets
595
1
Portrait of the Author as a Young Anarchist
596
1
After the Anthology
596
1
They Say This Isn't a Poem
597
2
Codicil
599
4
NATURAL NUMBERS (1964)
Homer in Basic
603
1
Fish Peddler and Cobbler
604
3
Proust's Madeleine
607
10
Aix-En-Provence
Autumn
608
1
Christmas
608
2
Spring
610
1
Spring
611
1
Spring
612
1
On the Eve of the Plebiscite
612
2
Elegy on Encountering the Trouble of the World
614
1
Vicenza
Rogation Days
615
1
Ascension Night
616
1
Venice
617
2
Rose Colored Glasses
619
1
Observations in a Cornish Teashop
619
16
Written to Music
Eight for Ornette's Music
620
4
Two for Brew and Dick
624
2
Air and Angels
This Night Only
626
1
At Least That Abandon
626
1
An Easy Song
627
1
Coming
628
1
Pacific Beach
629
1
Maroon Bells
629
1
Aspen Meadows
630
1
Like Queen Christina
631
4
GODEL'S PROOF (1965)
Andromeda Chained to Her Rock the Great Nebula in Her Heart
635
3
Travelers in Erewhon
638
1
Oaxaca 1925
639
1
Gradualism
640
1
Open the Blind
640
1
High Provence
641
1
Camargue
642
1
Among the Cypresses at the End of the Way of the Cross
642
1
Sottoportico San Zaccaria
643
1
Leaving L'Atelier -- Aix-en-Provence
643
1
Time Is an Inclusion Series Said McTaggart
644
2
Phaedo
646
1
Park in the Public's or In the Public, Parks
646
1
Song for a Dancer
647
1
Ottffssente
648
2
Cinque Terre
650
1
Took
650
1
A Flute Overheard
651
1
The Wheel Revolves
652
1
Organization Men in Affluent Society
653
1
The Hanged Man
654
1
Yin and Yang
655
4
THE HEART'S GARDEN, THE GARDEN'S HEART (1967)
The Heart's Garden, the Garden's Heart
659
22
A Song at the Winepresses
681
3
The Spark in the Tinder of Knowing
684
5
LOVE IS AN ART OF TIME (1974)
Now the starlit moonless Spring
689
1
The Family
689
1
No Word
690
1
Schatten Kusse, Schatten Liebe
690
1
Hapax
691
2
Confusion of the Senses
693
1
Blue Sunday
693
1
I Dream of Leslie
694
1
Education
695
1
Privacy
695
1
Parity
696
1
It Is a German Honeymoon
696
2
Bei Wannsee
698
1
Red Maple Leaves
699
1
It Turns Over
700
1
Star and Crescent
700
1
La Vie en Rose
701
1
Void Only
701
1
Suchness
702
1
Late half moon
702
1
Your Birthday in the California Mountains
703
1
The Flower Sutra
703
12
Earth Sky Sea Trees Birds House Beasts Flowers
``Cold before dawn''
704
1
``A cottage in the mist''
704
1
``Past and future fall away''
704
1
``Slowly the moon rises''
705
1
``Moonless night''
705
1
``Spring puddles give way''
705
1
``A dawn in a tree of birds''
705
1
``Past midnight''
706
1
``As the years pass''
706
1
``In the dark forest the whisper''
706
1
``A long lifetime''
706
1
The City of the Moon
707
3
Imitations of the Chinese
The Fall of Ch'ou
710
1
Erinnerung
711
1
Lost Love
711
4
THE MORNING STAR (1979)
The Love Poems of Marichiko
715
17
The Silver Swan
732
12
On Flower Wreath Hill
744
9
About the Author
753
1
About the Editors
754
1
A Note on the Text
755
1
Appendix
756
5
Index of Titles
761