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Tables of Contents for Not Orpheus
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Acknowledgements
xi
Introduction
xiii
Exhibitiong (1932)
Monologue of Mankind
3
1
The Telegraph-wires Hang over my Breath
3
1
The Man with a Stoop
4
1
People in a Waiting-room
4
1
Everything Rests on Itself
5
1
L'Homme machine bleue II
5
1
Lajaune Can't Understand a Dream
5
1
Cold I
6
1
The Dark
6
1
Ultiman
7
1
I Want to Give my Poems away
8
1
'Wine in One's Face'
9
4
Beneath the Black Sheep's Clothing (1953)
The Cry's Outing
13
1
Dismay
14
1
Glass Doors
14
1
Maundy Thursday
15
1
In a Dream I Leapt over my Death
16
3
At the Fair, Facing the Hall of Mirrors (1954)
In the Stable at B
19
1
I Have to Sing of Time
20
1
In Chicago's Hot Midday
21
2
Hares' Winter
23
1
Dispersion of a Fish
24
1
Southern Day
24
1
In the Accordion's Folds
25
4
...And Ararat (1956)
Utopian Journey
29
1
Delta Region
29
1
Sad
30
1
Great Sahara of Sleep
31
4
Pythiusa (1957)
Tabula
35
1
Precipice
36
1
Born
36
1
Gentle Chasm
37
1
Abruptly
38
1
Rubbing its Eyes
38
1
Shepherdess
39
1
The Cockerel
40
1
Down with the Sun
40
1
I saw
41
1
Cave
42
3
Fermata (1957)
Dolphin
45
1
Now
45
1
The Blue
46
1
In Balance
47
1
A Child Keeps Saying
48
1
Never Composed
49
1
Dead Sea
50
1
Fermata
51
4
Numbers and Figures (1958)
We Fall
55
1
Arrow
55
1
The Self
56
1
The Peacock
56
1
Interrogation
57
1
A Marble
58
1
Double Image
58
1
A Scrap of Newspaper
59
1
Coast
59
1
The Living
60
1
Sky of Creation
60
1
Melancholy
61
1
Whether with seven...
61
1
They laughed...
62
1
The captain's...
62
1
Give the questioning winds outside...
63
1
Reeds that, like hair...
63
1
That cell... Jerome...
64
1
What gods were once...
64
1
Not Orpheus
65
1
Probably
65
1
Sometimes
66
1
I was a Flock
66
1
Showing
67
1
Moon
67
1
More Welcome to Me
68
3
Lucid Labyrinth (1959)
Before Dropping Off
71
1
Everything's Chalk
71
1
Fall
72
3
The Formula and the Site (1960)
The Sea-bed Can't Speak
75
1
Cloud of Birds
76
1
Midday
76
1
Shadow
77
1
But what is it meet and right...
77
1
In These Parts
78
1
Yellow Dust
78
1
Vespers
79
1
Out beyond Roofs, beyond Cocks
80
1
Winterly VI
80
1
As if There Weren't Life
81
1
I Say Advent
82
3
Water and Stone (1962)
But the Masters Say
85
1
Real Tablet
85
1
The Breath of the Stones
86
1
Etudes
86
5
In this Place
91
1
A Child
92
1
An Act of Remembrance
92
3
Beyond the Beyond
95
8
New Poems (1964)
Thought, green or...
103
1
And I'm out to...
103
1
Late Talk of Gods
104
2
The Tower with the Train
106
1
Song of Man
107
1
Speaking its Language
107
1
Speech and Silence
108
3
Sign After Sign (1968)
At home...
111
1
Midday, stringed...
111
1
Flickering light, light...
112
1
Protestations, calls...
112
1
God...
112
1
I am making my bed...
113
1
Envying God, it...
113
1
Tucked up...
114
1
I saw...
115
1
The moon...
115
1
In the canopy...
115
1
The shuddering wind...
116
1
Perhaps...
117
1
I think...
117
1
As I was sitting...
118
1
Thistle, beautiful light...
118
1
O day's eye, Hades!...
119
1
Pain does not fade...
119
1
In snowy air...
119
1
Not to have to...
120
1
Even though the moment's...
120
1
The head, the comet...
120
1
Distant echo...
121
4
The Tidings Reached Us (1970)
...here, where I...
125
1
Long before...
125
1
(...thus all came to pass...)
126
1
Haven't I got it?
126
1
Was it once fabled...
127
1
Down beside the ocean...
128
1
`Someone is missing...'
128
1
Green had the...
129
1
When all's been...
130
1
The seasons come...
130
1
What is it telling us...
131
1
As though it were...
132
3
Speak the Sentence of Everything (1972)
Speak the sentence...
135
1
Many people...
135
1
One man, a teacher...
136
1
Abandoned...
136
1
Since there's no way...
137
1
You listen to me...
138
1
Being, cursed being...
138
1
Immured: a ship...
139
1
O standstill...
139
1
Loveliest lady...
140
1
Sitting at home in one's...
140
1
That was...
141
1
Not from...
142
1
Think, after...
142
1
I, a reef...
143
1
Here...
143
1
Leaning against that wall...
144
3
In the Timecrack (1976)
And what...
147
1
He, a monosyllabic customer...
147
1
He is HE, although...
147
1
HE sketches midges...
148
1
Such...
148
1
Aphrodite, her name that is...
149
1
A meal-time...
149
1
This can...
150
1
Time is long or short...
150
1
Come, be my son...
151
1
To have been a thought...
151
1
Death: what it's like?
151
1
Something I read...
152
1
You look at yourself...
152
1
To be dead...
153
1
Will you, sun, have stolen...
153
4
Wall-less Room (1979)
A false...
157
1
The thing that's...
157
1
Even now...
158
1
The ghastly guffaws...
158
1
They carry their pails...
159
1
They've got...
159
1
The old sun...
160
1
Alas, as...
160
1
The scent of some flowers...
161
1
Eternity...
161
1
The hairy tale...
162
1
The figure that goes...
162
1
A long time, it seems...
163
1
There is no creator...
163
1
Take things...
163
1
(read at Jean Ziegler's)
164
1
(on Montaigne)
164
1
(on Valery)
165
1
Drudging day-labourers...
165
1
A lifetime long...
166
1
The truly...
166
1
May it was..
167
1
The earth is...
167
1
To be dust...
168
1
Earth, be blessed...
168
1
He who knows...
169
1
Before my eyes...
169
1
Late in time...
170
3
Uncollected Poems (c.1930-1979)
The Tottering God
173
1
The Ship and the Fish
173
1
Hubbub at Seed-time
174
1
Folly enough...
174
1
The vessel...
175
1
Are you into...
175
1
The word...
176
1
O flowers!
176
1
Index of First Lines
177