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Editor's Note and Acknowledgments
Foreword, Highest and Driest: For Philip Zenshin's Poetic Drama/Dharma
Language as Transient Act, The Poetry of Philip Whalen



Three Desert Poems
The Great American Desert
Saguaro
New Canaan
from The Temptation of St. Anthony
The Plaster Muse : 6 Poems in the Classic Mode
Moshe Sur l'Eau
Ode
Leda
Thursday in Byzantium
"A l'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles . . ."
Sonnet for Valentine's Day
Advent
"A Country Without Ruins"
In the Palace of the Heart
Invocation to the Muse
November First
An Elegy Upon the Untimely Death of Mrs. W. F.
The Road-Runner
Three Ormolu Pieces for Stanley Moore
Song
Apostrophe to a Borrowed Tiger
The Sealion
Theory
"Of Course," She Said
Three Satires
The Engineer
The Great Instauration
The Rose Festival Parade
Meta
"The Shock of Recognition"
Two Miracles
The Five Queens
Homage to Lucretius
A New Voyage
Scholiast
Out of It
Tell Me More
"Plus Ca Change . . ."
Martyrdom of Two Pagans
If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?
Sourdough Mountain Lookout
from Three Variations, All About Love
Sauced
Unfinished, 3:xii:55
Denunciation, or, Unfrock'd Again
Homage to Robert Creeley
Invocation & Dark Sayings, in the Tibetan Style
The Slop Barrel: Slices of Paideuma for All Sentient Beings
Small Tantric Sermon
Further Notice
I Give Up
The First Day of November
Esprit d'Escalier Rant, Directed at Dr. P.'s class in English 106-B
The Same Old Jazz
Anchor Steam Beer, for Michael McClure
Souffle
Takeout, 15:iv:57
For C.
A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring
Literary Life in the Golden West
Take # 4, 5:viii:57
Against the Magic War: An Open Letter to Robert Duncan
Harangue from Newport, to John Wieners, 21:ix:57
10:x:57, 45 Years Since the Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty
Apedeath
In Memory of a Statesman
LETTER, to Mme. E. T. S., 2:i:58
For My Father
"While the Patient Slept"
Translation of a Lost Play by M. M.
Senseless Commentaries on Chao-Chou
Sincerity Shot
Metaphysical Insomnia Jazz. Mumonkan xxix.
Letter to Charles Olson
Unsuccessful Spring Poem
Corvallis Down the Road
Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach
20:vii:58, On Which I Renounce the Notion of Social Responsibility
Newport North-Window View
From an Envelope Addressed to Charles Olson
Hymnus Ad Patrem Sinensis
Complaint: To the Muse
Prose Take-Out, Portland 13:ix:58
Self-Portrait Sad 22:ix:58
I Think of Mountains
Fond Farewell to the Chicago Review
From a Letter to Ron Loewinsohn, 19:xi:58
Delights of Winter at the Shore
Something Nice About Myself
[The end, of a month of Sundays]
Motion Day
a very complicated way of saying "appearances deceive"?
4:2:59 Take 1
Self-Portrait, from Another Direction
I Return to San Francisco
Take, 25:iii:59
A Reply
For a Picture by Mike Nathan
A Distraction Fit
With Compliments to E. H.
[Awake a moment . . . ]
I Am King Giant Dragon Sun
Poem for a Blonde Lady
"Everywhere I Wander"
Haiku for Mike
A Reflection on My Own Times
Address to the Boobus, with her Hieratic Formulas in reply
Boobus Hierophante, Her Incantations
Song for 2 Balalaikas on the Corner of 3rd & Market
To the Moon
All About Art & Life
Temporarily Insane
Farewell!
Since You Ask Me
New York City
To a Poet
An Irregular Ode
Haiku, for Gary Snyder
Warnings, Responses, Etc.
Goodbye & Hello, Again
[Take dandelions first salad.]
[March 3, 1960, A Beautiful Page]
Palace Cafe
A Vision of the Bodhisattvas
Itchy
Dream
Essex Was a Cowboy in Vermont
Movie Night
Historical Disquisitions
Short Explanation of Everything
[Requiescat]
[Try doing a small thing well.]
Address to a Younger Generation
Dream & Excursus, Arlington Massachusetts The Death of Boston
For Albert Saijo
[Government]
Homage to Rodin
Staying or Going
The Treasures of Rage
Real San Francisco Sunday Afternoon
San Francisco Sunday Morning Palimpsest
To Ruth
Duerden Says: "Life is Therapy"
Philippic, Against Whitehead and a Friend
Twin Peaks
[under/beneath]
Caption for a Picture
Life and Art
[Red Rover]
The Daydream
Ignorantaccio
[Driving immediately past]
[hoist great blocks of language into place]
That One
[I have eaten]
Monday in the Evening
Vector Analysis
[Coca-cola chairs]
[" . . . my FBI, my peace, my war"]
Saturday Morning
[B.C.]
Early Autumn in Upper Noe Valley
Easy Living
The Poor
The Revolutionaries
One of My Favorite Songs Is Stormy Weather
Friendship Greetings
Statement of Condition
The Idol
The Chariot
The Admonitions
To the Muse
The Prophecy
[Monday early before bedtime]
[Lamp]
[Very Early Monday]
[Tender]
There It Goes
Saturday 15:ix:62
A Short History of the Second Millennium B.C.
Fillmore Hob Nob Carburetor
The Art of Literature
The Art of Literature, 2nd part
The Art of Literature, #3, A Total Explanation
The Art of Literature, Part 4th
The Art of Literature, Concluded
[Hum]
[a community temple]
[Albert's Antarctica]
Minor Moralia
Applegravy
Sunday Afternoon Dinner Fung Loy Restaurant San Francisco 25:xi:62
The Saturday Visitations
Song to Begin R'ohatsu
The Gallery, Mill Valley
Heigh-Ho, Nobody's at Home
Hello to All the Folks Back Home
[OEconomy]
The Professor Comes to Call
The Coordinates
[a major communication]
[Worse than ever . . . ]
Spring Musick
How We Live the More Abundant Life in America
Spring Poem to the Memory of Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928)
[careful & empty]
[More light seems to fall]
Re-Take 20:xii:63 from 7:iii:63
Letter, to Michael McClure, 11:iii:63
For Brother Antoninus
Night and Morning Michaelangelo
How Beautiful
PW His Recantation
[Someplace, Neb.]
Three Mornings
World Out of Control
Life and Death and a Letter to My Mother Beyond Them Both
[Expansion]
[Obsessions]
Plums, Metaphysics, an Investigation, a Visit, and a Short Funeral Ode
[The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra]
["Chooky"]
[One Page Poem]
Friday Already Half-
Tennis Shoes
Epigram
To the Muse
Where Was I
Oh Yes. Vancouver.
Vancouver
Golden Gate Park
That Dream
Mysteries of 1961
Breughel: "The Fall of Icarus" 20:ix:63
[My karma has to do with ears]
[Octopus]
Raging Desire &c.
Social Graces
Mystery Poem, for a birthday present
The Fourth of October, 1963
Song
Illness
[For John Lee Hooker]
[The shape of it]
Somebody Else's Aesthetic
Gradus ad Parnassum
Inside Stuff
Roxie Powell
Native Speech
[aches and pains]
[Crown Fruit]
[Treasures, left panel]
[Treasures, right panel]
St. Francis Lobbies Allen G.
To a Nervous Man
The Double Take
Homage to WBY
Salamander
A Recall
Native Speech
The Walkers' Patio: Giant Plant
How Was Your Trip to L.A.?
Whistler's Mother
Last Part of an Illustrated Children's Book in a Fever Dream
Some Kind of Theory
Winter Jelly
Theophany
[Native // Folk Speech]
[Native // Folk Speech with doodles]
[Epiphany]
Papyrus Catalogue
A Botanical Phrenzy
Clean Song
The Great Beyond Denver
Technicalities for Jack Spicer
[March 1964]
Corinthian Columns
Mexico
Chagrin
Composition
The Lotus Sutra, Naturalized
A Mistake
Early Spring
The Mystery
The Problem
[Hope for the best]
Invocation and Theophany
The Metaphysical Town Hall and Bookshop
The Ode to Music
[Time Poem]
Absolute Realty Co.: Two Views
15:v:64
[The End of the line]
[Nasturtium]
Trinity Sunday 1964
Tommy's Birthday
[air and earth combine]
Late Afternoon
Magical Incantation
Goddess
Buck Rogers
The Chain of Lakes
Dying Again
To My Muse
True Confessions
The Best of It
EAMD
[Groundhog Day]
The Season
[Futility]
[The Great American Boob, Lecture Notes]
[Lecture Notes, GSS Berkeley]
[Lecture Notes--II--G.S.S. Berkeley]
Bleakness, Farewell
[skoolie-bau]
Homage to William Seward Burroughs
Fragment of Great Beauty & Stillness
The India Print Bedspread
[Dear Mr. President,]
Grand Historical Ode
Priapic Hymn
Doukhobor Proverb
"Merry Meet; Merry Part"
Disgust with an Poetickal Evening at Miss Q's House
Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring
"A Penny for the Old Guy"
Fragment of a Letter, Unsent
Art & Music
Mahayana
My Songs Induce Prophetic Dreams
April Showers Bring Rain?
Love Love Love Again
A Morning Walk
Message Before Aram Awakes
"The Sun Rises and Sets in That Child,"
The Second Day of May 1965
"California Is Odious but Indispensable"
Imagination of the Taj Mahal
T/O
"The Great Heidelberg Tun"
[Nasturtium shadows]
Sleepy
A Satire
Card #21 Le Monde
[Strange?]
1935
The Feather Truth Weighs 10,000 Pounds
M
The Life of Literature
What Finally Happened to the King
[Lightning of the sky]
[This is my life]
America!
The Education Continues Along
Giant Sequoias
Pop Doughnut
Secret
That Eyes! Those Nose!
The First of August
The Greeks
Vignette of an Ice Axe
L'Enfant Prodigue
The Mystery of the Alphabet
Genetics
Higher Criticism
The Promise
Good News and Gospel
Paranoia Revisited
The Honeymoon
Palimpsest
[the beginning of a long silence]
The Task Rejected
Homage to Dante
Tara
Labor Day
Sad Song
"Plaster of Paris: Helen of Troy."
Opening the Mountain, Tamalpais: 22:x:65
Lemon Trees
Trip, 30:x:65
Portland in the Evening
Opening Rainy-Season Sesshin
White River Ode
Eikei Soji
Ginkakuji Michi
"The Flexible Mind"
The Judgment
Sanjusangendo
Synesthesia
Crowded
A Platonic Variation
A Revolution
Above the Shrine
Point Richmond
The Trolley
The War Poem for Diane di Prima
Waiting for Claude
Some Places
Ten Titanic Etudes
Champ Clair Modern Jazz Coffee
Ushi Matsuri
The Garden
Confession and Penance
The Grand Design
"Sheep May Safely Graze"
Success Is Failure
[Another Blank Discovery!]
[I keep hunting through the house]
The Winter
Demachi
The Winter
[All of it came to nothing]
[All of it went on the wrong page]
["NEFAS"]
Poem
[Winter money gloom]
George Washington
[Pet Shop]
[What do I know is a small yellow]
The Dharma Youth League
[Outside]
Failing
To Henrik Ibsen
We Sing in Our Sleep. We Converse with the Dead in Our Dreams
The Encore
A Romantic & Beautiful Poem Inspired by the Recollection of William Butler Yeats, His Life & Work
"Never Apologize; Never Explain"
17:III:67
Something Childish but Completely Classical
Regalia in Immediate Demand !
Characteristically
Grace before Meat
A Wedding Journey, an Opera
Ultimate Frivolous Necessities
Dewey Swanson
The Apparition
The War
October Food
In the Center of Autumn
A Couple Blocks South of the Heian Shrine
International Date Line, Monday / Monday 27:XI:67
America inside & outside Bill Brown's House in Bolinas
25:I:68
Life in the City. In Memoriam Edward Gibbon.
Allegorical Painting: Capitalistic Society Destroyed by the Contradictions within Itself. (Second Five-Year Plan.)
At the Red Whale Bar & Restaurant, Stinson Beach
The Unidentified Accomplice or, The Transmissions of C. W. Moss
The Evasive Answer
The Madness of Saul
To the Revolutionary Cadres of Balboa, Malibu & Santa Barbara
To All My Friends
Larry Kearny at Stinson Beach
Duerden's Garage, Stinson Beach
Birthday Poem
Bill Brown
Scenes of Life at the Capital
Walking beside the Kamogawa, Remembering Nansen and Fud' o and Gary's Poem
May First Revolution Day
To Edward Dahlberg
Science and Language
For Kenneth Rexroth
Four Other Places, More & Less
Behind the Door
Life at Bolinas. The Last of California
For Kai Snyder
A Letter, to Bill Berkson
Allen Marlow
Leaving the Capital
"Home Again, Home Again . . . "
Many Colored Squares
"Not Heavily"
"Up in Michigan"
"Old Age Echoes"
The Letter to Thomas Clark 22:VII:71 from Bolinas where He Sat beside Me to Help to Write It
Portland Again
Untied Airlines
"Horrible Incredible Lies": Keith Lampe Spontaneously
Imaginary Splendors
Public Opinions
Monument Rescue Dim
The Summer Afternoon
"I Told Myself ": Bobbie Spontaneously
Look Look Look
Mozambique
The Turn
A Return to San Francisco from Kitkitdizze
Growing and Changing
Rejoice !
October First
Rome
New Mexico, after Many Years
Occasional Dilemmas
Minuscule Threnody
Ode for You
New Departures
Alleyway
In the Night
Weather Odes
Looking for Help
Impatient Poetry for Ted and Alice B.
Something Marvelous
"Stolen and Abandoned"
Desperately Awaiting the Arrival of the China Dinner Man
Tassajara
The Universal & Susquehanna Mercy Co. Dayton, O.
Monumental Beer
Message
Kitchen Practice
The Sesshin Epigram
The Autopsy
High-tension on Low-pressure Non-accomplishment Blues
Mask
Detachment, Wisdom and Compassion
Homage to Aram Saroyan
"La China Poblana"
Money Is the Roost of All Eagles
"The Conditions That Prevail"
Zenshinji
The Talking Picture
Dream Poems
Murals Not Yet Dreamed
Epigram, upon Himself
The Vision of Delight
Luxury in August
Pacific Telephone
How To Be Successful & Happy Without Anybody Else Finding out About It
Look Away
Organized Crime
Ice Plant
Compulsive Obligatory Paranoia Flashes
Saturday
Conclusions
For Clark Coolidge
A Crackling
Window Peak
Blossoms of the Lemon Tree
Dorje Quandary
The Bouquet
Prolegomena to a Study of the Universe
The Radio Again
Somebody Else's Problem Bothers Me
Bead
Blurb
Where or When
Escaping April
Powell & Market
La Jolla in the Morning
Brutal Landscape
Mnemonotechnique
Defective Circles
The Simple Life
Obsolete Models
Many Pages Must Be Thrown Away
Wild Talents
The Congress of Vienna
To the Memory of
Lines for a Celebrated Poet
The Wind Chimes
That the True Nature of the Universe Might Be Like a Vast Klein Bottle
Song
"Past Ruin'd Ilion"
Garden Cottage #1
"Back to Normalcy"
For a Bluejay
[A Little Sickness]
"I Used to Work in Chicago"
Messages
Switch
Tears and Recriminations
Waste. Profligacy. Fatuity.
Discriminations
Homage to St. Patrick, Garcia Lorca, & the Itinerant Grocer
Wandering Outside
The Laundry Area
Schubert Sonata
What About It?
Cynical Song
"Can't You Be a Little More Selective?"
The Inspection of the Mind in June
Treading More Water
I Can Look Any Way I Feel Like
Treading Water
The Holding Pattern
What? Writing in the Dining Room?
How Many Is Real
Lost Fragment from The Impatient Monument
Rodomontade
What's New?
Songs
La Condition Humaine
Welcome Back to the Monastery
Violins in Chaos?
Litany of the Candy Infant of Geneva
Extravagance (comma,)
Homage to Sosa-No-Wo-No-Omikoto
The Bay Trees Were About to Bloom
Dying Tooth Song
Rich Interior, After Thomas Mann
Treading Water. Backing & Filling.
Chanson d'Outre Tombe
And Then. . .
The Ghosts
The Phantom of Delight
Divine Poisons
Labor Day Again, 1979 at San Francisco
Hot Springs Infernal in the Human Beast
Homage to Hart Crane
What Are You Studying, These Days?
Mama
The Roast Is Lost
The Critic
Definition
Epigrams & Imitations
Dharmakaya
The First of 20 New Poems
Normally
Somewhere Else
Some of These Days
[Quack]
Splendors
The Elizabethan Phrase
For Shunko Enjo
"Silence in the middle of traffic"
Naturally Museum
Partition
Snow Job
The Kenwood Hotel 1928
Thanksgivening
"The Dilemma of the Occasion Is"
For Allen, On His 60th Birthday
Gamboge
Pathogenesis
Maps and Mountains
At Dharma Sangha
On the Way to the Zend'o
Gourmets
"My Fellow Americans,"
Action Traction Satisfaction
By Accident or Design
For Robert Winson
Grievances
Never Again
The Expensive Life
Oyster Music: Robert Schumann
Affliction
Jack's House
[Poeta Nascitur . . .]
Friday
The Imperfect Sonnet
Nothing Comes to Mind at the Moment
Unagi-Don
Appendixes
Contents of Whalen Books in Their First Book Publication
Calendar: Notes and Appendices
Essays and Prefaces by Philip Whalen
Goldberry Is Waiting" from The Poetics of The New American Poetry
[from Highgrade] 834
The Preface [from Every Day]
Author's Note [from On Bear's Head]
Preface [from Decompressions]
About Writing and Meditation [from Beneath a Single Moon, ed. Kent Johnson and Craig Paulenich, Shambhala, 1991]
Preface [from Enough Said]
Biography and Bibliography
Index of Titles
Index of First Lines
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The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen

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