Past Silver Durango Over Mexic Sierra-Wrinkles

On Neal’s Ashes

Going to Chicago

Grant Park: August 28, 1968

Car Crash

Ecologues of These States (1969–1971)

        Over Denver Again

Imaginary Universes

Rising over night-blackened Detroit Streets

To Poe: Over the Planet, Air Albany–Baltimore

Easter Sunday

Falling Asleep in America

Northwest Passage

Sonora Desert-Edge

Reflections in Sleepy Eye

Independence Day

In a Moonlit Hermit’s Cabin

Rain-wet asphalt heat, garbage curbed cans overflowing

Death on All Fronts

Memory Gardens

Flash Back

Graffiti 12th Cubicle Men’s Room Syracuse Airport

After Thoughts

G. S. Reading Poesy at Princeton

Friday the Thirteenth

Anti-Vietnam War Peace Mobilization

Ecologue

Guru Om

“Have You Seen This Movie?”

Milarepa Taste

Over Laramie

Bixby Canyon to Jessore Road (1971)

        Bixby Canyon Ocean Path Word Breeze

Hum Bom!

September on Jessore Road

IX. MIND BREATHS ALL OVER THE PLACE (1972–1977)

Sad Dust Glories (1972–1974)

        Ayers Rock/Uluru Song

Voznesensky’s “Silent Tingling”

These States: to Miami Presidential Convention

Xmas Gift

Thoughts Sitting Breathing

“What would you do if you lost it?”

Who

Yes and It’s Hopeless

Under the world there’s a lot of ass, a lot of cunt

Returning to the Country for a Brief Visit

Night Gleam

What I’d Like to Do

On Illness

News Bulletin

On Neruda’s Death

Mind Breaths

Flying Elegy

Teton Village

Sweet Boy, Gimme Yr Ass

Jaweh and Allah Battle

Manifesto

Sad Dust Glories

Ego Confessions (1974–1977)

        Ego Confession

Mugging

Who Runs America?

Thoughts on a Breath

We Rise on Sun Beams and Fall in the Night

Written on Hotel Napkin: Chicago Futures

Hospital Window

Hadda Be Playing on the Jukebox

Come All Ye Brave Boys

Sickness Blues

Gospel Noble Truths

Rolling Thunder Stones

Cabin in the Rockies

Reading French Poetry

Two Dreams

C’mon Jack

Pussy Blues

Don’t Grow Old

“Junk Mail”

“You Might Get in Trouble”

Land O’Lakes, Wisc.

“Drive All Blames into One”

Land O’Lakes, Wisconsin: Vajrayana Seminary

For Creeley’s Ear

Haunting Poe’s Baltimore

Contest of Bards

I Lay Love on My Knee

Stool Pigeon Blues

Punk Rock Your My Big Crybaby

Love Replied

X. PLUTONIAN ODE (1977–1980)

What’s Dead

Grim Skeleton

Ballade of Poisons

Lack Love

Father Guru

Manhattan May Day Midnight

Adapted from Neruda’s “Que dispierte el leñador”

Nagasaki Days

Plutonian Ode

Old Pond

Blame the Thought, Cling to the Bummer

“Don’t Grow Old”

Love Returned

December 31, 1978

Brooklyn College Brain

Garden State

Spring Fashions

Las Vegas: Verses Improvised for El Dorado H.S. Newspaper

To the Punks of Dawlish

Some Love

Maybe Love

Ruhr-Gebiet

Tübingen-Hamburg Schlafwagen

Love Forgiven

Verses Written for Student Antidraft Registration Rally 1980

Homework

After Whitman & Reznikoff

Reflections at Lake Louise

τεθνάκην δ’ όλίγω ’πιδενης ϕαίόμ’ άλαία

Fourth Floor, Dawn, Up All Night Writing Letters

Ode to Failure

Birdbrain!

Eroica

“Defending the Faith”

Capitol Air

Appendix for Collected Poems 1947–1980

Notes

Epigraphs from Original Editions

Dedications

Acknowledgments

Introduction by William Carlos Williams to Empty Mirror

Introduction by William Carlos Williams to Howl

Author’s Cover Writ

Index of Proper Names

WHITE SHROUD: POEMS 1980–1985

Acknowledgments

Porch Scribbles

Industrial Waves

Those Two

Homage Vajracarya

Why I Meditate

Love Comes

Old Love Story

Airplane Blues

Do the Meditation Rock

The Little Fish Devours the Big Fish

Happening Now?

A Public Poetry

“What You Up To?”

Maturity

“Throw Out the Yellow Journalists of Bad Grammar & Terrible Manner”

Going to the World of the Dead

Irritable Vegetable

Thoughts Sitting Breathing II

What the Sea Throws Up at Vlissingen

I Am Not

I’m a Prisoner of Allen Ginsberg

221 Syllables at Rocky Mountain Dharma Center

Fighting Phantoms Fighting Phantoms

Arguments

Sunday Prayer

Brown Rice Quatrains

They’re All Phantoms of My Imagining

White Shroud

Empire Air

Surprise Mind

Student Love

The Question

In My Kitchen in New York

It’s All So Brief

I Love Old Whitman So

Written in My Dream by W. C. Williams

One Morning I Took a Walk in China

Reading Bai Juyi—I. II. III. IV. V China Bronchitis VI. VII.

Transformation of Bai’s “A Night in Xingyang”

Black Shroud

World Karma

Prophecy

Memory Cousins

Moral Majority

The Guest

After Antipater

Jumping the Gun on the Sun

Cadillac Squawk

Things I Don’t Know

Notes

COSMOPOLITAN GREETINGS: POEMS 1986–1992

Acknowledgments

Preface: Improvisation in Beijing

Prologue: Visiting Father & Friends

You Don’t Know It

On the Conduct of the World Seeking Beauty Against Government

Hard Labor

Velocity of Money

Sphincter

Spot Anger

London Dream Doors

Cosmopolitan Greetings

Fifth Internationale

Europe, Who Knows?

Graphic Winces

Imitation of K.S.

I Went to the Movie of Life

When the Light Appears

On Cremation of Chögyam Trungpa, Vidyadhara

Nanao

Personals Ad

Proclamation

To Jacob Rabinowitz

Grandma Earth’s Song

Salutations to Fernando Pessoa

May Days 1988

Numbers in U.S. File Cabinet

Return of Kral Majales

Elephant in the Meditation Hall

Poem in the Form of a Snake That Bites Its Tail

Mistaken Introductions

CIA Dope Calypso

N.S.A. Dope Calypso

Just Say Yes Calypso

Hum Bom!

Supplication for the Rebirth of the Vidyadhara

After the Big Parade

Big Eats

Not Dead Yet

Yiddishe Kopf

John

A Thief Stole This Poem

Lunchtime

Deadline Dragon Comix

After Lalon

Get It?

Angelic Black Holes

Research

Put Down Your Cigarette Rag

Violent Collaborations

Calm Panic Campaign Promise

Now and Forever

Who Eats Who?

The Charnel Ground

Everyday

Fun House Antique Store

News Stays News

Autumn Leaves

In the Benjo

American Sentences

Notes

DEATH & FAME: POEMS 1993–1997

Acknowledgments

Foreword

New Democracy Wish List