Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction: Disturbing Poetics -- Acknowledgments -- The Years As Catches: Early Poems 1939-1945 -- Introduction -- Persephone -- Passage over Water -- Toward the Shaman -- An Ark for Lawrence Durrell -- The Awakening into Dream, Love There: Out of the Dream, and Our Beautiful Child -- A History of My Family -- Fragment: 1940 -- A Spring Memorandum -- A Letter to Jack Johnson -- An Encounter -- From Richard Burton's Anatomy of Melancholy -- Variations upon Phrases from Milton's The Reason of Church Government -- Variations in Praise of Jesus Christ Our Lord -- Witnesses -- The Unresting -- Snow on Bug Hill -- Mother to Whom I Have Come Home -- Toward an African Elegy -- The Years As Catches -- King Haydn of Miami Beach -- Lovewise -- Mother Brother Door and Bed -- 7 Questions, 7 Answers -- Marriage -- Random Lines : A Discourse on Love -- Homage & Lament for Ezra Pound : May 12, 1944 -- Christmas Letter 1944 -- Upon Watching a Storm -- The End of the Year -- Song -- At an Anarchist Meeting -- Heavenly City, Earthly City -- Treesbank Poems -- I listen in the shade to one I love -- The silent throat in the dark portends -- Shall I alone make my way to my grave -- Sleep is a deep and many-voiced flood -- An Apollonian Elegy -- Berkeley Poems -- Among my friends love is a great sorrow -- An Elegiac Fragment -- A Woman's Drunken Lament -- Portrait of Two Women -- I Am a Most Fleshly Man -- Heavenly City, Earthly City -- Uncollected Work 1933-1947 -- A Moment of Ecstasy -- An Interpretation -- Song of Undine -- The Guardian of the Temple -- Ego Involneratus -- People -- Pax Vobiscum -- A Campus Poet Sprouts Social Consciousness -- Self-Portrait at 90 -- Relativity, a Love Letter, and Relative to What -- A Love Letter -- Ritual -- The Gestation -- The Protestants -- Les Questions Surréalistes -- We Have Forgotten Venus.

Hamlet: A Draft of the Prologue -- A Song for Michael Cooney -- A Pair of Uranian Garters for Aurora Bligh -- The Virgin among the cattle has hit upon the wound -- Concerning the Maze -- Fragment from a Journal -- Dreams: André Breton -- Windward: André Breton -- The blesséd Herbert in his love does sing -- A Ride to the Sea -- Faithless and many minded Muses - -- Ode for Dick Brown: Upon the Termination of His Parole: March 17, 1947 -- A Discourse on Love -- A Morning Letter -- The Homecoming -- The Temple of the Animals -- There's Too Much Sea on the Big Sur -- When the immortal blond basketball player -- The Revenant -- And Now I Have Returnd -- The New Hesperides: At Marlowe's Tomb -- Early History -- In the Street -- Domestic Scenes -- 1. Breakfast -- 2. Real Estate -- 3. Bus Fare -- 4. Mail Boxes -- 5. Matches -- 6. Bath -- 7. Radio -- 8. Electric Iron -- 9. Lunch with Buns -- 10. Piano -- Medieval Scenes -- The Dreamers -- The Helmet of Goliath -- The Banners -- The Kingdom of Jerusalem -- The Festivals -- The Mirror -- The Reaper -- The Adoration of the Virgin -- Huon of Bordeaux -- The Albigenses -- Poems 1948-1949 -- Three Songs for Jerry -- The Inexplicable History of Music -- A Weekend of the Same Event -- Sleeping All Night -- I Tell of Love -- The Venice Poem -- A Description of Venice -- Testimony -- Imaginary Instructions -- Recorso -- The Venus of Lespuges -- Coda -- 3 Poems in Homage to the Brothers Grimm -- The Robber Moon -- Strawberries under the Snow -- The Dinner Table of Harlequin -- Revival -- A Poet's Masque -- The Masque -- Uncollected Work 1948-1951 -- Jerusalem -- A Derivation from Rimbaud -- Love-A Story -- The Effort -- Poetic Disturbances -- Poetic Disturbances -- What Is It You Have Come to Tell Me, Garcia Lorca? -- The Voyage of the Poet into the Land of the Dead -- Appearances -- At Home in Eden.

From a Season in Hell -- The Conqueror's Song -- Moving in Your Sights -- We Have Left of Course -- A Game of Kings -- There Must Be a Reason -- See the Stone Lions Cry -- Before the Beautiful Things Turn Evil -- A Villanelle -- Fragments of a Disorderd Devotion -- Unkingd by affection? -- 5 Pieces -- Hero Song -- An Imaginary Woman -- From My Notebook -- Eluard's Death -- Caesar's Gate: Poems 1949-1950 -- Preface for Caesar's Gate -- Four Poems as a Night Song -- The Construction -- The Walk to the Vacant Lot -- The Waste, the Room, the Discarded Timbers -- Before Waking at Half-Past Six in the Morning -- Eye Sight -- Aurora Rose -- The Second Night in the Week -- Processionals I -- Processionals II -- Tears of St. Francis -- Upon Another Shore of Hell -- An Incubus -- Sunday -- Eyesight I -- Eyesight II -- Bon Voyage! -- Goodbye to Youth -- H. M. S. Bearskin -- He Entertains at a Dinner Party -- He Consults the Tides -- To Run with the Hare & Hunt with the Hound -- Great Grief, then, herself! -- He Lists Subjects for Great Poetry: 1950 -- He Has a Good Time There -- All the way of Forever -- A Book of Resemblances: Poems 1950-1953 -- The Horns of Artemis -- Africa Revisited -- Adam's Song -- Working Too Long at It -- An Imaginary War Elegy -- The Song of the Border-Guard -- An Essay at War -- Of the Art -- [Five Pieces] -- [Hero Song] -- [An Imaginary Woman] -- [Eluard's Death] -- Cats (1) -- Cats (2) -- [Unkingd by affection?] -- Dance: Early Spring Weather Magic -- Forced Lines -- A POEM IN STRETCHING -- Poetry Disarranged -- A Book of Resemblances -- A Dream of the End of the World -- Lord Master Mouse -- Shells -- These Miracles Are Mirrors in the Open Sky for Philip Lamantia -- A Conversion -- Salvages: An Evening Piece -- Reflections -- Salvages. Lassitude -- Friedl -- Songs for the Jews from Their Book of Splendours -- The Scattering.

Image of Hector -- The Lover -- Names of People: Stein Imitations from 1952 -- First -- A Language for Poetry -- Are Cats? -- Names of People -- Names of people -- A Leave as You May -- They are looking for shadows and mice -- Poetry Permit for Volley -- All Through -- Poetry May Be as You Please -- A Reprieve at Dawn -- A Song Is a Game -- Upon His Return -- Two Painters -- An Arrangement -- The Americans in a Scene of Ruins -- A Mark at the Top of Capitol Hill -- An About Face -- A Coat of Arms -- Remembering -- A Mexican Straight Summer -- Robert Berg at Florence -- An Evening at Home -- A Design for Flack -- Play Time Pseudo Stein: From the Laboratory Records Notebook 1953 -- arrows is arrows is arrows is arrows is -- 1942, A Story -- A Fairy Play a Play -- How -- A butter machine -- S.M.O.K.I.N.G. T.H.E. C.I.G.A.R.E.T.T.E. -- Writing Writing -- Dedication -- First a Preface -- Turning Into -- Coming Out Of -- Making Up -- Out -- A Scene -- writingwriting -- The Beginning of Writing -- Imagining in Writing -- Writing as Writing -- Possible Poetries : A Prelude -- Possible Poetries : A Postcript -- Possible Poetries : A Postcript -- An Imaginary Letter / Dear Saint Heart -- Imaginary Letter / Dearest Paul -- Imaginary Letter. / His Intention -- Motto -- Division -- Writing at Home in History -- I Am Not Afraid -- An Interlude. Of Rare Beauty -- Appendix One: Essays and Try-Outs -- Hung-Up -- The Code of Justinian. A Discourse on Justice -- The Discourse on Sin -- [A Poem in Stretching] -- No, I cant reach you -- Appendix Two: Poetics -- Descriptions of Imaginary Poetries -- [Smoking the Cigarette] -- Rhyme Mountain Particular -- An Advertisement for a Fair Play -- Progressing -- This Is the Poem They Are Praising as Loaded -- Orchards -- A Train of Thought -- The Feeling of Language in Poetry -- Sentences : Carrying Weights and Measures.

There Could Be a Book Without Nations in Its Chapters -- [6/16/53] -- 6/22/53 -- 6/27: -- Rewriting Byron -- A Morass -- Canvas Coming into Itsélf. For Jess -- How Do You Know You Are Thru? -- Increasing -- Road Piece -- Rotund Religion -- Three -- Several Poems. In Prose -- LOAD YOUR AUTOMATIC POETRY BEFORE ITS BEGUN -- Rings -- Syllables -- Stuff Ark Mower Bottle -- Another Ido -- A Birthday Dirge for Lynne Brown -- Uncollected Work 1952-1956 -- Whose this liddl boob coming? -- Walking on Kearny Street -- Uncollected Stein Imitations -- The King: A Regret -- Cloudy -- A New Version of Heavenly City Earthly City -- Imaginary Letter / dear Son, -- Young Men -- Sensational News -- Reserve Moon Handle Maker and Wing -- At the Bakery - The Cannibalistic Cookie-People -- Aubade -- Elegy Written 4.7.53 for Jack Spicer -- The Green Lady -- The Fear That Precedes -- Poems from the Limited Edition of Caesar's Gate -- Circulating Lights -- Source Magic -- Presence -- Shadows of the Smoke -- Consolations of Philosophy -- Tra[sup(ns)]versals of the Church -- SHOW -- To the Stairwell -- Spanish Lessons -- Alteration -- The Cat and the Blackbird -- Faust Foutu: A Comic Masque -- Medea at Kolchis: The Maiden Head -- Letters: Poems mcmliii-mcmlvi -- Preface: Nests -- i: For a Muse Meant -- ii: Distant Counsels of Artaud -- iii: Upon Taking Hold -- iv: First Invention on the Theme of the Adam -- v: Short Invention on the Theme of the Adam -- vi: Figures of Speech -- vii: Metamorphosis -- viii: With Bells Shaking -- ix: Light Song -- x: It's Spring. Love's Spring -- xi: At the End of a Period -- xii: Fragment -- xiii: True to Life -- xiv: Upon His Seeing a Baby Holding the Four of Hearts for Him and Another Card Conceald -- xv: Words Open out upon Grief -- xvi: Riding -- xvii: At Home -- xviii: The Human Communion. Traces -- xix: Passages of a Sentence -- xx: Re.

xxi: Brought to Love.