Introduction | |
Acknowledgments | |
Chronology | |
About My Work | |
Philadelphia: 1970-1973 | |
Cosmogony | |
"Sit on the mountain, young gentlemen." | |
Beyond the Light and the Rocks | |
Guillaume de Lorris | |
Surf Music, Tea with Honey | |
Night Kitchen | |
Lindfors as Mother Courage | |
Loon Dance | |
Last Poem, First Morning | |
"I really like your poems," | |
"Who will have whom in the next life?" | |
"I could not find a pen" | |
Michael | |
"Nicotiana-Sensation" | |
David Cassidy | |
Last Letter | |
"All the poems I ever write won't tell me" | |
Poem for Pascal, I'm Going Away | |
After Parting | |
"Here is the blond world of Sunday morning:" | |
An Undelivered Class Presentation on the Subject of Gay Consciousness | |
"David Cassidy, I want to fuck you!" | |
A Note | |
Heading Into the City | |
Niagara | |
Watching Psycho for the First Time | |
For Michael Lally | |
For My Cousin, Christine Spring (1948-1971) | |
Were Wolf | |
Small Poem | |
"How long can one be blackly humorous?" | |
Morning Offering | |
John Tongue | |
After Separation | |
Shelly Winters | |
Letter Poem | |
Allentown | |
On TV | |
"fell asleep stoned second" | |
Dan Propper | |
Poem After Dinner | |
Note to Bob Chamberlain | |
Ash Wednesday | |
5 Poems | |
Chris Street | |
Chris Street II | |
Friday Night | |
Joe | |
Crabs? No Crabs | |
Second Anniversary | |
WASHINGTON, D.C.: 1973-1976 | |
Crazy | |
Death By Drowning | |
Ninety-One Degrees | |
Things I Might Do | |
On Seeing Gary Cooper Wake Up in Bed with Walter Brennan in The Westerner | |
Compensation | |
High There | |
Next Chapter | |
The Way We Are Now | |
Two Things a Star Wouldn't Do | |
Haiku | |
Mescaline | |
Famous Writers | |
September 12 | |
Ten Movies | |
Flaming Angel | |
Out of Love | |
Night Life | |
Incredible Risks | |
The High Air | |
After Anne Hershon's Party | |
Poem for Jeanne | |
The Third Sex | |
After a Line By Ted Berrigan | |
NYC Diary | |
Note and Sonnet | |
So Far | |
Gangster of Love | |
Day Light | |
Mallarme | |
Dream Series | |
Death Series | |
Homage to P. Inman | |
Too Far | |
American Baseball | |
Gilligan's Island | |
The Black Forest | |
Under the Sky | |
President Truman | |
Let's Go / From Journal | |
As It Is | |
Where I Stand | |
Note to J.A. | |
Great Art | |
The President's Son | |
Je Suis Ein Americano | |
Tarot for My History | |
Great Books of the 1950s | |
Some | |
Stanzas for Martina | |
Clubs I've Joined | |
"Light shines through the leaves" | |
A Fast Life | |
Prisoners of the Heart | |
At the Point | |
Poppers | |
Powder Puff | |
Strong Feelings | |
Poles Apart | |
For Years | |
Sleep with Paul | |
Lunch with Paul | |
Sonnet ("my nixon imitations cut across") | |
Sonnet ("a fast life Roscoe's, 4 p.m.") | |
Day for Paul | |
You Are There | |
Knowing It | |
Song from Dreams | |
The Death of a President | |
Sonnet ("The river fills with shining rain, the way") | |
White Petals | |
2 Fragments for Steve Hamilton | |
Jet | |
Manhattan and Brooklyn: 1976-1988 | |
Thomas Merton Lived on Perry Street | |
Note to Michael | |
Terminal Days | |
"cool air in my chest it's" | |
I Remember Spinner | |
New Hope | |
Sonnet ("The night he leaves, you find a shiny dime") | |
Key Strokes | |
Sonnet ("Fronds plummet from the treebelt to the street") | |
To JB from KW | |
Cross Dress | |
In London | |
Bindo Altoviti | |
Tetracycline Days | |
The Best of Gaucho | |
The Young Poet | |
The Steven Hamilton Sestina | |
Qum | |
"Once I Let a Man Blow Me" | |
Flipper | |
Gone with the Wind | |
Pastorale | |
How I Got My Books | |
The Rubber Lady | |
"as if Nantucket were Archangel, icebreakers" | |
Nerves | |
"Hello, I'm Johnny Cash," | |
Amsterdam | |
The Absence of Light and a Drawing by Edward | |
The Cost of Living | |
Song of Bernadette | |
Entre Nous | |
Thanksgiving Sonnet | |
New York's Numbers | |
Negative Credit | |
Chez Jane | |
Sunday, Brooklyn Heights | |
The Confessions of Zeno | |
Grist | |
From Journal ("Picking up background material for a copy assignment...") | |
Harbor Lights | |
Columbia Livia | |
Foo Dog Blues | |
East Longmeadow | |
Rego Park | |
There's Something about the Dying | |
Philip's Razor | |
If I Were Bertolt Brecht | |
Janet's Repentance | |
Tim Dlugos, Young Republican | |
Obscure Destinations | |
The Glorious Mysteries | |
To Be Young, Gifted and Black | |
Desire Under the Pines | |
Brian and Tim | |
The Lions of St. Mark's | |
A Way of Life | |
Three Wishes for the Murdered Sisters | |
A Birthday Note to Karen | |
Sodom | |
Whores de Commerce | |
Solidarity | |
Twenty-Four Hour Massage | |
For Dennis from Delirium | |
Epithalamium | |
Sometimes I Think | |
Film | |
From Journal ("The Apparition at La Salette to the children...") | |
Steve Reich and Musicians | |
Not Stravinsky | |
May Rain | |
The Bar | |
Psalm | |
From Journal ("On most perfect sunny morning of the year...") | |
Close | |
Wall Street Sauna | |
Song | |
On This Train Are People Who Resemble | |
June 25th | |
"Don't know why" | |
Failed Pilot | |
Summer, South Brooklyn | |
My Death | |
Harding's Beach | |
If We're So Fucking Smart Why Aren't We Rich | |
New Music | |
Myron and Milton's Caprice | |
To Clear Things Up, Scott | |
Columbus Day | |
No Sympathy | |
Sonnet ("Joe Jackson walks into the Ninth Circle") | |
Sonnet ("Stevie Nicks walks into the Parisian weather") | |
Spy of Love | |
The Nineteenth Century Is 183 Years Old | |
Green Acres | |
A Sense | |
Foot Gear | |
The Influence of Alcohol Upon History | |
The Morning | |
Pretty Convincing | |
Music That Makes Me Cry | |
Another You | |
Tonight | |
Week | |
This Much Fun | |
Lit | |
Spinner | |
Octavian | |
Armagnac | |
Cape and Islands | |
"Fame the insatiable cousin" | |
The Fruit Streets | |
Four Organs | |
Words for Simone Weil | |
Trinidad | |
Christopher Isherwood | |
Healing the World from Battery Park | |
July | |
King of the Wood | |
"Know you not" | |
" In which meaning is a quantity," | |
"Night goes up in... smoke? No, fog" | |
"Go gently into that good morning," | |
"O say, can you see?" | |
"Fresh as red air of Tuscany, the dawn" | |
To Walter Lowenfels | |
"Hercules becomes Celestial" | |
"Exult now, all you angels and archangles," | |
Where Is Art? | |
"Old man, look at my life" | |
October | |
"Dear heart, wish you or I were here or there..." | |
Gerrit, Bagel and | |
Here Comes the Bride | |
Destalinize the Sky | |
Moral Imagination | |
Awash in Angels | |
Fan Mail from Some Flounder | |
Retrovir | |
New Haven and Manhattan: 1988-1990 | |
The Certitude of Night | |
Come in from the Rain | |
No Voice | |
The Traps | |
West 22nd Street | |
Ash Wednesday | |
Palmer | |
Ordinary Time | |
Erosion | |
Et In Arcadia Ego | |
Friends Service | |
Signs of Madness | |
All Souls Day | |
Parable | |
Powerless | |
G-9 | |
Harmony in Red | |
Etiquette in 1969 | |
Your New House | |
Turning | |
"I used to love an architect," | |
"I'm as sick as my secrets." | |
Sonnet ("I didn't want to tell you that I kept") | |
It Used to Be More Fun | |
The Far West | |
Station | |
Prayers, Works, Joys, and Sufferings | |
Saying It Simply | |
Virgins and Martyrs | |
Radiant Child | |
The Truth | |
Fools for Christ | |
Heartless Words | |
The Sixties | |
Mehr Licht | |
Good Morning | |
Swede | |
Parachute | |
Breathing in Connecticut | |
Hoosier Rhapsody | |
Goodbye to Chrysis | |
As Alive | |
Sleep Like Spoons | |
Anne Frank House | |
Lagoon Capriccio | |
Turandot | |
D.O.A. | |
Notes | |
Index of Titles | |
Index of First Names | |
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