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Tables of Contents for Word of Mouth
Chapter/Section Title
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``Preface''
xvi
Timothy Liu
Edwin Denby
``The Subway''
1
1
``Summer''
1
1
``Venice''
2
1
``Villa D'Este''
2
1
``Neighbor sneaks refuse to my roof''
3
1
``At first sight, not Pollock, Kline scared''
3
1
W. H. Auden
``Three Posthumous Poems''
4
3
James Broughton
``Afternoons in Ceylon''
7
1
``Wondrous the Merge''
8
5
William Bronk
``In Our Image, After Our Likeness''
13
1
``Colloquy on a Bed''
13
1
``The Wall''
14
1
``My Shoulder for Robert. Help Us Both.''
14
1
``In April''
15
1
``Bare''
15
1
``What You Can Do''
15
1
``Scanning''
16
1
``The Near Beyond''
16
1
``17 March''
16
1
``Friendly Greeting''
16
1
``Questions for Eros''
17
1
``Duplicity''
17
1
``Your Way Too''
18
1
``Lucifer''
18
1
``Anyway''
19
1
``For My Friend, Jerry, He Drunk''
19
1
Robert Duncan
``Circulations of the Song''
20
12
James Schuyler
``A Head''
32
2
``Letter to a Friend: Who Is Nancy Daum?''
34
5
``Poem''
39
1
``Tom''
40
3
``A View''
43
2
Edward Field
``Dietrich''
45
1
``Garbo''
45
2
``Callas''
47
1
``Whatever Became of: Freud''
48
2
``Post Masturbatum''
50
1
``Getting to Know You''
51
1
from The Poetry File
52
5
Edgar Bowers
``Chaco Canyon''
57
4
Robin Blaser
``Even on Sunday''
61
5
``In Remembrance of Matthew Shepard''
66
1
Jack Spicer
``Orpheus' Song to Apollo''
67
1
``Lives of the Philosophers: Diogenes''
68
1
``When Your Body Brushed Against Mine''
68
1
``The Song of the Bird in the Loins''
69
1
``Some Notes on Whitman for Allen Joyce''
69
2
``Love Poems''
71
4
``A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Landscape''
75
4
Allen Ginsberg
``Sphincter''
79
1
``After the Party''
79
1
``C'mon Pigs of Western Civilization Eat More Grease''
80
2
``Excrement''
82
2
``You know what I'm saying'?''
84
1
``Multiple Identity Questionaire''
84
1
``Things I'll Not Do''
85
2
James Merrill
``Farewell Performance''
87
2
Frank O'Hara
``Naphtha''
89
1
``Poem (`Lana Turner')''
90
1
``Cornkind''
91
1
``For the Chinese New Year & For Bill Berkson''
92
5
John Ashbery
```They Dream Only of America'''
97
1
``Sortes Vergilianae''
98
2
``The Ice-Cream Wars''
100
1
``Forgotten Sex''
101
2
``The Laughter of Dead Men''
103
1
Stephen Jonas
``The Celibate''
104
1
``No Saints in 3 Acts''
104
1
``Black Orpheus''
105
1
``Afta a Bob Creeley Poem''
105
1
from Orgasms/Dominations: XII
106
9
Gerrit Lansing
``An Inlet of Reality, or Soul''
115
1
``Planting the Amplitudes''
116
1
``The Curve''
117
2
``Blue Decrepit Town''
119
2
``To the Boy Charioteer''
121
2
Jonathan Williams
``The Look-Out Tower at Mount Venus, Louisiana''
123
1
``Syllables in the Form of Leaves''
123
2
``The Chameleon''
125
1
``Finger Exercises''
125
1
``The Anchorite''
126
1
``The Distances to the Friend''
127
1
``Dangerous Calamus Emotions''
128
1
``The Electronic Lyre, Strung with Poets' Sinews''
129
1
``Blue Ball Blues''
130
1
``The Honey Lamb''
131
1
William Dickey
``The Arrival of the Titanic''
132
1
``The Death of John Berryman''
132
1
``Plum''
133
1
``Archæopteryx''
134
1
``T.S. Eliot at One Hundred and Seven''
135
1
Thom Gunn
``Famous Friends''
136
1
``The Problem''
137
1
``The Dump''
138
2
``A Wood Near Athens''
140
2
Richard Howard
``What Word Did the Greeks Have for It?''
142
3
``My Last Hustler''
145
2
Kenward Elmslie
``Bare Bones''
147
10
Taylor Mead
from On Amphetamine and In Europe
157
10
Leland Hickman
``Yellowknife Bay''
167
7
John Wieners
``The Garbos and Dietrichs''
174
1
``A poem for cocksuckers''
174
1
``Act #2''
175
1
``Two Years Later''
176
1
``The Eagle Bar''
177
1
``How To Cope with This?''
178
1
``Wednesday or Something''
178
1
``Youth''
179
2
``Here for the Night''
181
2
``After the Orgasm''
183
1
``The Gay World Has Changed''
183
2
Jack Anderson
``The Hurricaine Lamp''
185
1
``In the Next Room''
186
1
``A Reading of This Poem''
186
1
``True Loves''
187
1
``A Lecture on Avant-Garde Art''
188
1
``A Way of Happening''
189
2
``A Partial Index to Myself''
191
3
Ronald Johnson
``Beam 11, Finial''
194
2
``Beam 16, The Voices''
196
3
``Beam 17, The Book of Orpheus''
199
3
``Beam 18''
202
1
``August 31st---September 5th''
203
1
John Giorno
``Pornographic Poem''
204
2
``Hi-Risque''
206
3
``None of Them Wanted To Go''
209
4
James L. White
``The First Time''
213
1
``Taken to a Room''
214
1
``Making Love to Myself''
215
1
``The Salt Ecstasies''
216
1
``Oshi''
217
1
Frank Bidart
``By These Waters''
218
1
``In the Western Night''
218
3
``A Coin for Joe, with the Image of a Horse; c. 350-325 BC''
221
1
``The Yoke''
222
1
``Luggage''
222
1
``For the Twentieth Century''
223
2
Joe Brainard
from I Remember
225
9
Alfred Corn
``Seeing All the Vermeers''
234
7
J. D. McClatchy
``Ouija''
241
6
Thomas Meyer
``Love's Dial''
247
7
Aaron Shurin
``City of Men''
254
6
``Full Circle: Postscript to `City of Men'''
260
1
from Involuntary Lyrics: XVIII, LXXIII
261
2
Jaime Manrique
``1963''
263
2
``Leaving Ybor City''
265
2
``When They Informed Him''
267
1
Reinaldo Arenas
Jaime Manrique
``The Will To Live Manifests Itself''
268
1
Reinaldo Arenas
Jaime Manrique
Richard McCann
``After You Died''
269
1
``Nights of 1990''
270
6
Tim Dlugos
``Desire under the Pines''
276
1
``Summer, South Brooklyn''
277
1
``Pretty Convincing''
277
3
``Here Comes the Bride''
280
1
``Ordinary Time''
281
2
``D.O.A.''
283
3
Tom Carey
``Birthday''
286
1
``Gay Pharmacy''
287
2
``Bending In''
289
5
Boyer Rickel
``Days of'66-'73''
294
7
Brad Gooch
``Rain''
301
1
``Nude''
302
2
``Words To Be Broadcast over Eagle's Nest Sound System---I''
304
1
``Words To Be Broadcast over Eagle's Nest Sound System---II''
305
1
``An Elizabethan Sonnet for D. W.''
306
1
Daniel Hall
``Winged Torso of Eros''
307
1
``Pneuma 1967''
307
1
``Corpus''
308
2
``Mangosteens''
310
2
``The New World''
312
1
Dan Bellm
``Open House''
313
1
``Boy Wearing a Dress''
314
1
``True Story''
315
2
Kevin Killian
``Cemetery without Crosses''
317
1
``Deep Red''
317
1
``The Door into Darkness''
318
1
``Giallo''
319
1
``Inferno''
320
2
``The Stendhal Syndrome''
322
1
``Suspiria''
323
1
``Trauma''
324
1
``Zombie''
325
1
Dennis Cooper
``BL''
326
1
``My Past''
327
1
``JFK Jr. to Play Father in Film''
328
1
``Darkens''
329
1
``Teen Idol''
330
2
``Some Whore''
332
2
David Trinidad
``Hockney Blue Pool''
334
1
``Eighteen to Twenty-One''
335
3
``Red Parade''
338
2
``Of Mere Plastic''
340
2
``Chatty Cathy Villanelle''
342
1
Mark Doty
``Difference''
343
2
``Crepe de Chine''
345
3
``Where You Are''
348
4
Forrest Hamer
``Getting Happy''
352
1
``Goldsoboro Narrative #24: Second Benediction''
353
1
``Goldsoboro Narrative #28''
354
1
``A Boy Doesn't Know''
355
1
``Crossroads''
356
1
Cyrus Cassells
``Sung from a Hospice''
357
1
``Fleur''
358
3
``Amalgam''
361
7
Wayne Koestenbaum
from ``Erotic Collectibles'': ``1978''
368
1
from ``Star Vehicles'': ``I'm Not in Darling''
369
1
from ``Star Vehicles'': ``The Garbo Index''
369
2
``History of Boys''
371
3
``Poem for George Platte Lynes''
374
5
Carl Phillips
``Elegy''
379
1
``King of Hearts''
379
2
``Toys''
381
1
``Luna Moth''
382
1
``Alba: Come''
383
1
``Tunnel''
384
2
``As from a Quiver of Arrows''
386
1
``Meditation: Surrender''
387
2
Christopher Davis
``Noli Me Tangere''
389
1
``Sangre de Cristo''
389
2
``The Knower of the Field''
391
1
``The Pseudo-Homosexual''
392
1
``Why Not Pleasure the Bigot's Body''
393
2
``Nod''
395
1
``Against the See-Through Plastic Curtain of the West''
396
4
Richard Tayson
``Blood Test''
400
1
``Your Feet''
401
1
``In Sickness and in Health''
402
2
D. A. Powell
``gary asleep in his recliner''
404
1
``tall and thin and young and lovely''
405
1
``now the mirrored rooms seem comic''
406
1
``this is my last trick''
407
1
``how would ed lower himself to sleep''
408
1
``only the cruisy toilets will suffer this rascal''
409
1
``sheet wrapped as a burnoose''
410
1
``your torso''
410
1
``you're thin again handsome''
411
1
``third-world hunger strikes you''
411
1
``you don't have syphilis''
412
1
``cherry elixir''
412
1
Reginald Shepherd
``A Plague for Kit Marlowe''
413
2
``Nights and Days of Nineteen-Something''
415
3
``The Beautiful''
418
1
``Les Semblables''
419
1
``Semantics at Four P.M.''
420
2
``Little Hands''
422
3
Rafael Campo
``A Poet's Education''
425
3
``The Battle Hymn of the Republic''
428
2
Mark Wunderlich
``Difficult Body''
430
1
``Unmade Bed''
431
1
``No Place Like Home''
432
1
Mark Bibbins
``Slutty''
433
1
``Knowing You Could Is Better than Knowing You Will''
434
1
``Shine''
435
1
``Tingling in the Extremities''
435
2
Justin Chin
``Cocksucker's Blues''
437
3
``Buffed Fag''
440
1
``Lick My Butt''
441
2
``Communion, Said the Barfly''
443
3
``On Ass Tactics, Aztec Ticks, Aesthetics''
446
2
Rodney Phillips
``Afterword''
448
3
Selected Bibliography
451
3
Recommended Reading
454