From the Book - First edition.
1940s. Rep Gordon Canfield ; We leave the youthful pennants and the books, ; A night in the village ; Epitaph for a suicide ; Epitaph for a poet ; Song ; To live and deal with life as if it were a stone. ; Behold! The swinging swan --
1950s. Her engagement ; Hitch-hiking key west ; In a red bar ; What's buzzing ; Thus on a long bus ride ; We rode on a lonely bus ; There's nobody here ; On Nixon; chain poem ; Dawn ; A lion met America ; Leave the bones behind ; The real distinguished thing --
1960s. To Frank O'Hara & John Ashbery & Kenneth Koch ; Yesterday I was writing in Heaven of of Heaven ; Ayahuasca- ; Walt Whitman ; Tokyo tower ; B.C. [Bob Creeley] ; War is black magic ; Journals November 22, '63 ; May day ; In a shaking hand ; Little flower M.M. [Marianne Moore] ; Don't know who I am ; Liverpool muse ; New York to San Fran ; Entering Kansas City high ; Cleveland airport ; Busted ; Nashville April 8 ; After Wales Visitacione July 29 1967 ; Mabillon noctambules ; Genocide ; No money, no war --
1970s. May King's prophecy ; For the soul of the planet is wakening ; Six senses ; Frank O'Hara darkly ; Hum! Hum! Hum! ; The world's an illusion ; Reef mantra ; Postcard to D ; Inscribed in George Whitman's guest register ; On farm ; Wyoming ; Exorcism ; Eyes full of pitchpine smoke ; Freedom of speech ; Green notebook ; Imagination ; Spring night four a.m. ; Louis' first night in grave ; Kidneystone opium traum ; Homage to Paris at the bottom of the barrel ; Bebbe put me on your lap ; Verses included in howl reading Boston city hall ; All the things I've got to do ; No way back to the past ; A brief praise of Anne's affairs ; Popeye and William Blake fight to the death ; For school kids in New Jersey --
1980s. Second spontaneous collaboration into the air, circa 23 May 1980 ; A tall student ; Good god I got high bloodpressure answering ; Amnesiac thirst for fame ; A knock, look in the mirror ; The black man ; Thundering undies ; Trungpa lectures ; Pinsk after dark ; Two scenes ; Listening to Susan Sontag ; You want money? ; Cats scratching ; I used to live in gay sad Paris! ; As the rain drips from the gutter on the bushes of the imperial court lawn ; Having bowed down my forehead on the pavement on Central Park West ; Far away ; Back to Wuppertal ; Am I a spy from the moon? ; Awakened at dawn trying to run away- ; Grey clouds hang over ; 1/29/84 N.Y.C. ; CXXV ; Rose is gone ; 3'd day down Yangtze River, yesterday ; African spirituality will save the Earth ; Face to fact ; Who's gone? ; Bob Dylan touring with Grateful Dead --
1990s. Asia minor for Gregory ; The moon in the dewdrop is the real moon ; New Years greeting ; Hermaphrodite market ; Las conversation with Carl or in memoriam ; Dream of Carl Solomon.
