Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- About This Edition -- I. (1945-1956) -- Berkeley Renaissance (1945-1950) -- Berkeley in Time of Plague -- A Girl's Song -- Homosexuality -- A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Landscape -- An Apocalypse for Three Voices -- One Night Stand -- An Answer to Jaime de Angulo -- A Lecture in Practical Aesthetics -- Dialogue Between Intellect and Passion -- A Night in Four Parts (Second version) -- Orpheus in Hell -- Orpheus After Eurydice -- Orpheus' Song to Apollo -- Troy Poem -- "We find the body difficult to speak . . ." -- "They are selling the midnight papers . . ." -- "Any fool can get into an ocean . . ." -- The Scrollwork on the Casket -- The Dancing Ape -- Imaginary Elegies (I, II, III) -- Psychoanalysis: An Elegy -- Minnesota Poems (1950-1952) -- Minneapolis: Indian Summer -- Watching a TV Boxing Match in October -- Portrait of an Artist -- Sonnet for the Beginning of Winter -- On Reading Last Year's Love Poems -- Orpheus in Athens -- Train Song for Gary -- A Second Train Song for Gary -- Berkeley / San Francisco (1952-1955) -- A Postscript to the Berkeley Renaissance -- A Poem for Dada Day at The Place, April 1, 1955 -- "The window is a sword . . ." -- Imaginary Elegies (IV) -- New York / Boston (1955-1956) -- IInd Phase of the Moon -- IIIrd Phase of the Moon -- IVth Phase of the Moon -- Some Notes on Whitman for Allen Joyce -- The Day Five Thousand Fish Died Along the Charles River -- Hibernation-After Morris Graves -- Éternuement -- Song for the Great Mother -- "The city of Boston . . ." -- Five Words for Joe Dunn on His Twenty-Second Birthday -- Birdland, California -- "Imagine Lucifer . . ." -- The Song of the Bird in the Loins -- Babel 3 -- They Murdered You: An Elegy on the Death of Kenneth Rexroth -- A Poem to the Reader of the Poem -- Song for Bird and Myself.

A Poem Without a Single Bird in It -- The Unvert Manifesto and Other Papers Found in the Rare Book Room of the Boston Public Library in the Handwriting of Oliver Charming. By S. -- II. (1956-1965) -- San Francisco (1956-1965) -- Poetry as Magic Workshop Questionnaire -- After Lorca -- Admonitions -- A Book Of Music -- Socrates -- A Poem for Dada Day at The Place, April 1, 1958 -- Billy The Kid -- For Steve Jonas Who Is in Jail for Defrauding a Book Club -- Fifteen False Propositions Against God -- Letters To James Alexander -- Apollo Sends Seven Nursery Rhymes To James Alexander -- A Birthday Poem For Jim (And James) Alexander -- Imaginary Elegies (V, VI) -- "Dignity is a part of a man . . ." -- Helen: A Revision -- The Heads Of The Town Up To The Aether -- Lament For The Makers -- A Red Wheelbarrow -- Three Marxist Essays -- The Holy Grail -- Golem -- Map Poems -- Language -- Book Of Magazine Verse -- Chronology -- Notes on the Poems -- Bibliography -- Index of Titles -- Index of First Lines.