Evergreen Review Reader 1957-1966

by Rosset, Barney

• ISBN13: 9781559702737
• ISBN10: 1559702737
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1994-10-01
• Publisher: Arcade Pub

Table of Contents

Dante and the Lobster	p. 1
Berkeley in Time of Plague	p. 7
Psychoanalysis: An Elegy	p. 7
October in the Railroad Earth	p. 8
from A Coney Island of the Mind	p. 15
Dog	p. 17
This Place, Rumord to Have Been Sodom . . .	p. 18
A Very Important Lady	p. 19
Howl	p. 25
A Step Away from Them	p. 31
from Cain's Book	p. 31
Song for a Cool Departure	p. 43
The High Bridge Above the Tagus River at Toledo	p. 44
Sappho	p. 44
The Lordly and Isolate Satyrs	p. 45
from City of Night	p. 49
Portrait of an Artist with Twenty-Six Horses	p. 53
The Animal That Died but His Eyes Still Alive	p. 58
The Three Ladies	p. 60
Franz Kline Talking	p. 61
The Cold Mountain Poems of Han-shan	p. 67
Ode to Jackson Pollock	p. 71
The Life Line	p. 73
from Pedro Paramo	p. 77
Todos Santos, Dia de Muertos	p. 84
The 5-Day Rain	p. 91
Icefloe	p. 91
Defense of the Freedom to Read	p. 91
A Poem for Early Risers	p. 96
Three Heroes and a Clown	p. 97
Red-Dirt Marihuana	p. 103
Deposition: Testimony Concerning a Sickness	p. 109
Foursome	p. 113
Charlie Parker: The Burden of Innovation	p. 118
Cuba Libre	p. 123
Bertha	p. 131
Picnic on the Battlefield	p. 134
A Talk with Louis-Ferdinand Celine	p. 143
How to Proceed in the Arts	p. 146
from Naked Lunch	p. 148
The Tunnel	p. 154
And You Think You Could?	p. 160
Once More on Petersburg	p. 160
The Night Before Thinking	p. 160
The Big House	p. 166
In This Country of Ours	p. 177
The Wide Skirt	p. 181
The Expelled	p. 187
Gentleman Alone	p. 193
Babii Yar	p. 194
Historical Disquisitions	p. 195
The Square-Shooter and the Saint	p. 205
from One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding	p. 209
from A Life Full of Holes	p. 213
Resurrection	p. 219
A Warrant Is Out for the Arrest of Henry Miller	p. 230
from The Three-Cornered Pear	p. 231
Three Polish Tales	p. 236
The Public Bath	p. 240
Houses Like Angels	p. 241
The Unfaithful Wife	p. 242
from Story of O	p. 243
from Trout Fishing in America	p. 248
from Last Exit to Brooklyn	p. 257
The Trans-Siberian Express	p. 262
Madame Edwarda	p. 272
Crack-up	p. 277
Frost and Bite	p. 277
To All the Gardeners	p. 277
Gringos	p. 279
Poem for Perverts	p. 289
On the Back Stairs	p. 291
I Don't Want to Die	p. 299
from Pinktoes	p. 301
Paris in the Twenties	p. 314
Lavish Are the Dead	p. 320
George Grosz' Ecce Homo	p. 335
The Hole	p. 345
Rhapsody	p. 346
Mamma Marcia	p. 347
Prison Poems	p. 350
Kral Majales	p. 352
Notes on Contributors	p. 354
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