Foreword: On Corso's Virtues | |
Introductory Notes | |
Introduction | |
Greenwich Village Suicide | p. 3 |
In the Morgue | p. 4 |
Sea Chanty | p. 5 |
Song | p. 6 |
The Horse was Milked | p. 7 |
Requiem for "Bird" Parker, Musician | p. 8 |
12 Ash St. Place | p. 12 |
The Wreck of the Nordling | p. 13 |
A Pastoral Fetish | p. 13 |
St. Lukes, Service for Thomas | p. 14 |
Cambridge, First Impressions | p. 15 |
In the Fleeting Hand of Time | p. 21 |
Amnesia in Memphis | p. 23 |
Mexican Impression | p. 24 |
Sun | p. 26 |
Puma in Chapultepec Zoo | p. 27 |
Botticelli's "Spring" | p. 28 |
Uccello | p. 29 |
On the Walls of a Dull Furnished Room | p. 30 |
Italian Extravaganza | p. 30 |
Birthplace Revisited | p. 31 |
The Last Gangster | p. 31 |
But I Do Not Need Kindness | p. 32 |
Don't Shoot the Warthog | p. 34 |
I Am 25 | p. 35 |
Three | p. 36 |
Hello | p. 37 |
The Mad Yak | p. 38 |
This Was My Meal | p. 39 |
For Miles | p. 40 |
Doll Poem | p. 41 |
Last Night I Drove a Car | p. 42 |
Zizi's Lament | p. 43 |
Notes After Blacking Out | p. 47 |
How Happy I Used to Be | p. 48 |
Seaspin | p. 50 |
Hair | p. 51 |
Under Peyote | p. 54 |
Transformation and Escape | p. 55 |
I Held a Shelley Manuscript | p. 58 |
On Pont Neuf | p. 59 |
Poets Hitchhiking on the Highway | p. 60 |
Marriage | p. 62 |
Bomb | p. 65 |
She Doesn't Know He Thinks He's God | p. 70 |
Dream of a Baseball Star | p. 71 |
Giant Turtle | p. 73 |
A Dreamed Realization | p. 74 |
Paranoia in Crete | p. 75 |
Clown | p. 76 |
The Sacre-Coeur Cafe | p. 85 |
Mortal Infliction | p. 86 |
From Another Room | p. 86 |
Power | p. 87 |
Army | p. 93 |
1959 | p. 97 |
Man | p. 101 |
Dear Girl | p. 102 |
Writ When I Found Out His Was an Unmarked Grave | p. 104 |
Happening on a German Train | p. 105 |
European Thoughts 1959 | p. 106 |
The Love of Two Seasons | p. 107 |
Friend | p. 108 |
Halloween | p. 109 |
Stars | p. 109 |
Seed Journey | p. 110 |
The Saving Quality | p. 110 |
A Difference of Zoos | p. 111 |
Some Greek Writings | p. 112 |
Active Night | p. 114 |
A Race of Sound | p. 114 |
Writ on the Steps of Puerto Rican Harlem | p. 115 |
They | p. 117 |
For | p. 117 |
Danger | p. 118 |
The Second Night in NYC After 3 Years | p. 119 |
Writ on the Eve of My 32nd Birthday | p. 120 |
Elegiac Feelings American (for the dear memory of John Kerouac) | p. 125 |
Spontaneous Requiem for the American Indian | p. 135 |
Lines Written Nov. 22, 23-1963 - in Discord | p. 140 |
The American Way | p. 144 |
Of One Month's Reading of English Newspapers | p. 151 |
America Politica Historia, in Spontaneity | p. 152 |
God is a Masturbator | p. 156 |
Ode to Old England and Its Language | p. 157 |
Columbia U Poesy Reading - 1975 | p. 161 |
Sunrise | p. 166 |
Sunset | p. 168 |
I Met This Guy Who Died | p. 169 |
Earliest Memory | p. 170 |
What the Child Sees | p. 171 |
Wisdom | p. 171 |
For Homer | p. 172 |
For Miranda | p. 174 |
The Leaky Lifeboat Boys | p. 175 |
How Not to Die | p. 177 |
Inter and Outer Rhyme | p. 178 |
Youthful Religious Experiences | p. 179 |
Dear Villon | p. 181 |
Proximity | p. 182 |
Many Have Fallen | p. 182 |
Nevermore Baltimore | p. 183 |
When a Boy | p. 186 |
Getting to the Poem | p. 187 |
Ah ... Well | p. 189 |
Spirit | p. 190 |
I Gave Away ... | p. 191 |
Galactic Birth | p. 192 |
In Praise of Neanderthal Man | p. 194 |
Destiny | p. 197 |
The Whole Mess ... Almost | p. 199 |
When We All ... | p. 201 |
Alchemy | p. 202 |
Feelings on Getting Older | p. 203 |
For Lisa, 2 | p. 206 |
A Guide for My Infant Son | p. 206 |
Rembrandt - Self-Portrait (1960) | p. 209 |
Emily Dickenson the Trouble With You Is - (1960) | p. 210 |
One Day ... (1960) | p. 211 |
On Chessman's Crime (1961) | p. 212 |
A Bed's Lament (1962) | p. 213 |
Direction Sign in London Zoo (1962) | p. 213 |
St. Tropez, Early Morning (1962) | p. 214 |
Berlin Zoo (1962) | p. 215 |
Vermeer (1962) | p. 216 |
3 (1962) | p. 217 |
Reflection (1962) | p. 218 |
Commission Unfulfilled (1962) | p. 219 |
Apples (1962) | p. 219 |
30th Year Dream (1966) | p. 220 |
The Doubt of Truth (1980) | p. 222 |
The Doubt of Lie (1980) | p. 223 |
Window (1982) | p. 225 |
Hi (1982) | p. 228 |
Love Poem for Three for Kaye and Me (1985) | p. 230 |
Noted for Having Hard Heads (Testa Dura) (1989) | p. 232 |
Fire Report - No Alarm (1989) | p. 234 |
Poet Talking to Himself in the Mirror (1989) | p. 236 |
Field Report (1989) | p. 238 |
Drawings and Poems from a Notebook | p. 269 |
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