• INTRODUCTION
• ABOUT THIS EDITION
• I. (1945-1956)
• BERKELEY RENAISSANCE (1945-1950)
• Berkeley in a 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
• 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...”
• An Answer to Jaime De Angulo
• “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 (1950-52)
• Minneapolis 1950: 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 (1952-55)
• Postscript to the Berkeley Renaissance
• A Poem for Dada Day at The Place (April 1, 1955)
• Imaginary Elegy IV
• NEW YORK / BOSTON (1955-56)
• 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
• Eternuement
• 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
• 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 the Diary of Oliver Charming
• II. (1956-1965)
• SAN FRANCISCO (1956-1965)
• Poetry as Magic Workshop Questionnaire, photographed
• 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 part of a man...”
• [Helen: Revisited]
• The Heads of the Town Up to the Aether
• Lament for the Makers
• The Red Wheelbarrow
• Three Marxist Essays
• The Holy Grail
• Golem
• [Map Poems]
• Language
• Book of Magazine Verse
• TEXTUAL NOTES
• INDEX