Poems for the millennium : the University of California book of modern & postmodern poetry
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v. 1. From fin-de-siecle to negritude -- v. 2. From postwar to millenium -- v. 3. The University of California book of romantic and postromantic poetry --

v. 1. From fin-de-siecle to Negritude -- Forerunners -- Prologue to forerunners -- "Obey thou the words of the inspired man" / William Blake -- In the days of Socrates / Friedrich Holderlin -- from The kalevala / Elias Lonnrot -- This compost / Walt Whitman -- Fuses I & II / Charles Baudelaire -- Fascicle 34 poem 9 / Emily Dickinson -- Bald Mountain Zaum-Poems -- That nature is a Heraclitean fire and of the comfort of the Resurrection / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- from Maldoror / Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautreamont -- from A season in hell / Arthur Rimbaud -- from The night chant / After Bitahatini -- from Le livre / Stephane Mallarme -- A first gallery -- A throw of the dice never will abolish change / Stephane Mallarme -- Waiting for the barbarians / C. P. Cavafy -- Days of 1908 / C. P. Cavafy -- And I lounged and lay on their beds / C. P. Cavafy -- Nostalgic song for my beloved / Adolf Wolfli -- from From the cradle to the graave, or through working and sweating, suffering and hardship, even through prayyer into damnation / Adolf Wolfli -- Match factory at Chaami 1911 / Adolf Wolfli -- Far away and long ago / Ruben Dario -- To Roosevelt / Ruben Dario -- Crusoe / Paul Valery -- The Passion of Jesus considered as an uphill race / Alfred Jarry -- from Tender Buttons / Gertrude Stein -- A valentine to Sherwood Anderson / Gertrude Stein -- from Lifting belly / Gertrude Stein -- Death / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Tombs of the Hetaerae / Rainer Maria Rilke -- The first Duino elegy / Rainer Maria Rilke -- 1914 / Max Jacob -- from The cock and the pearl / Max Jacob -- from The dramatic symphony / Andrey Bely -- Horse Calligram / Guillaume Apollinaire -- Zone / Guillaume Apollinaire -- A phantom of clouds / Guillaume Apollinaire -- from Poems for Lou / Guillaume Apollinaire -- The little car / Guillaume Apollinaire -- from Victoire / Guillaume Apollinaire -- A bottle of Suze / Pablo Picasso -- Before the law / Franz Kafka -- from Love songs to Joannes / Mina Loy -- Three moments in Paris / Mina Loy -- Genoa / Dino Campana -- "The startling reality of things" / Fernando Pessoa -- from Maritime ode / Fernando Pessoa -- from Oblique rain / Fernando Pessoa -- Papyrus / Ezra Pound -- The return / Ezra Pound -- Canto one / Ezra Pound --

Chair / Hagiwara Sakutaro -- Spring night / Hagiwara Sakutaro -- Lover of love / Hagiwara Sakutaro -- So terrifyingly melancholy / Hagiwara Sakutaro -- The great fetishes / Blaise Cendrars -- from The prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France / Blaise Cendrars -- The 1914 box / Marcel Duchamp -- Three poems: Mattina/morning ; Soldiers ; Babel / Giuseppe Ungaretti -- The rivers / Giuseppe Ungaretti -- Secret / Pierre Reverdy -- Flower market / Pierre Reverdy -- Inn / Pierre Reverdy -- Squares / Pierre Reverdy -- Ars poetica / Vicente Huidobro -- Cow boy / Vicente Huidobro -- Express / Vicente Huidobro -- Futurisms -- Prologue to futurism I -- Demonstration for intervention in the war / Carlo Carra -- from The manifesto of futurism / F. T. Marinetti -- Apres la Marne, Joffre visita le front en auto / F. T. Marinetti -- from Zang Tumb Tuuum / F. T. Marinetti -- Successively / F. T. Marinetti -- from The Variety Theater manifesto / F. T. Marinetti -- Four sintesi -- Detonation / Francesco Cangiullo -- A landscape heard / F. T. Marinetti -- They are coming / F. T. Marinetti -- Colors / Fortunato Depero -- Finger-nails / Paolo Buzzi -- The stranger / Aldo Palazzeschi -- Nuns go walking / Aldo Palazzeschi -- Prologue to futurism II -- Constantinople: ferroconcrete poem / Vasily Kamensky -- from A slap in the face of public taste / D. Burliuk, Aleksandr Kruchenykh, V. Mayakovsky, Viktor Khlebnikov -- Incantation by laughter / Velimir Khlebnikov -- Four poems / Velimir Khlebnikov -- from Zangezi / Velimir Khlebnikov -- Declaration of the word as such / Aleksei Kruchenykh -- from Pomade / Aleksei Kruchenykh -- From the Sahara to America / Aleksei Kruchenykh -- Listen / Vladimir Mayakovsky -- from A cloud in trousers / Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Screaming my head off / Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Mayakovsky's suicide note / Vladimir Mayakovsky -- Europa / Anatol Stern -- Expressionism -- Prologue to expressionism -- Sounds / Wassily Kandinsky -- Chalk and soot / Wassily Kandinsky -- Chronica / Else Lasker-Schuler -- Three portraits: Georg Trakl ; George Grosz ; To the barbarian / Else Lasker-Schuler -- Encounter / August Stramm -- Urdeath / August Stramm -- Battlefield / August Stramm -- The wolf speaks / Paul Klee -- Poem / Paul Klee -- A friend / Paul Klee -- The happy one / Paul Klee -- Poem / Paul Klee -- Little Aster / Gottfried Benn -- Lovely childhood / Gottfried Benn -- Cycle / Gottfried Benn -- Man and woman go through the cancer ward / Gottfried Benn -- Night cafe / Gottfried Benn -- A bunch of drifter sons hollered / Gottfried Benn -- Sleep / Georg Trakl -- The evening / Georg Trakl -- De profundis / Georg Trakl -- Revelation and decline / Georg Trakl --

Dada -- Prologue to Dada -- Zurich Chronicle February 1916 / Tristan Tzara -- The sun / Hugo Ball -- from Flight out of time / Hugo Ball -- The complete sound-poems of Hugo Ball / Hugo Ball -- Metal coughdrops / Tristan Tzara -- Chanson Dada / Tristan Tzara -- from Dada manifesto on feeble & bitter love / Tristan Tzara -- The great lament of my obscurity three / Tristan Tzara -- "We harldy" / Richard Huelsenbeck -- L'amiral cherche une maison a louer / Richard Huelsenbeck, Marcel Janko, Tristan Tzara -- Kaspar is dead / Hans Arp -- People / Hans Arp -- The great unrestrained sadist / Hans Arp -- The man. The woman / Hans Arp -- Spermal chimney / Francis Picabia -- from Eunuch unique / Francis Picabia -- Portrait de Tristan Tzara / Francis Picabia -- Speculations / Marcel Duchamp -- SURcenSURE / Marcel Duchamp -- Cast shadows / Marcel Duchamp -- Affectionate / Else von Freytag-Loringhoven -- Holy skirts / Else von Freytag-Loringhoven -- Desire / Kurt Schwitters -- Portrait of Herwarth Walden / Kurt Schwitters -- Anna Blossom has wheels / Kurt Schwitters -- Murder machine 43 / Kurt Schwitters -- from Ur sonata / Kurt Schwitters -- Still life: the table / Theo van Doesburg -- Remembrance of the founts of night / Theo van Doesburg -- Artichokes / Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes -- The mystery corset / Andre Breton -- from The magnetic fields / Andre Breton, Philippe Soupault -- A second gallery -- from A vision and The second coming / William Butler Yeats -- Identity a poem / Gertrude Stein -- The eighth Duino elegy / Rainer Maria Rilke -- Dance of the macabre mice / Wallace Stevens -- Connoisseur of chaos / Wallace Stevens -- from Ulysses / James Joyce -- The locust tree in flower / William Carlos Williams -- Paterson / William Carlos Williams -- Tortoise shout / D. H. Lawrence -- Canto 32 / Ezra Pound -- Canto 51 / Ezra Pound -- from Tribute to the angels / H. D. (Hilda Doolittle) -- Sea unicorns and land unicorns / Marianne Moore -- [The waste land] / T. S. Eliot -- from Anabasis / St.-John Perse -- from Facade / Edith Sitwell -- Still falls the rain / Edith Sitwell -- The madwoman in the park / Edith Sitwell -- from Tristia / Osip Mandelstam -- Whoever finds a horseshoe / Osip Mandelstam -- Poem no. 286 (on Stalin) / Osip Mandelstam -- The Charlie Chaplin poem / Osip Mandelstam -- Last poems / Osip Mandelstam -- Hell / Edith Sodergran -- Vierge moderne / Edith Sodergran -- Instinct / Edith Sodergran -- from Trilce: ix, xxv, lxxv / Cesar Vallejo -- The hungry man's wheel / Cesar Vallejo -- Telluric and magnetic / Cesar Vallejo -- from Altazor: cantos i, vi, vii / Vicente Huidobro -- Distribution of poetry / Jorge de Lima -- Papa John / Jorge de Lima -- The enormous hand / Jorge de Lima -- Poem of any virgin / Jorge de Lima --

When I sleep, then I see clearly / J. V. Foix -- I arrived in that town, everyone greeted me, and I recognized no one. When I was going to read my verses, the devil, hidden behind a tree, called out to me sarcastically and filled my hands with newspaper clippings / J. V. Foix -- from The poem of the end / Marina Tsvetayeva -- No thanks, no. 70 / E. E. Cummings -- Poem, or beauty hurts Mr. Vinal / E. E. Cummings -- I will not crush he world's corolla of wonders / Lucian Blaga -- Psalm / Lucian Blaga -- To a friend who wouldn't bother to strain his noodleboard because even so it is hard to go hunting when your rifle is blunt and love is soft as an old blanket / Jacob Glatshteyn -- The lemon trees / Eugenio Montale -- The eel / Eugenio Montale -- Little testament / Eugenio Montale -- The murderers / Paul van Ostaijen -- The mango tree / Hart Crane -- The circumstance / Hart Crane -- O Carib Isle! / Hart Crane -- Night suite, for piano & poet's voice / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Ode for Walt Whitman / Federico Garcia Lorca -- Surrealism -- Prologue to surrealism -- from Manifesto of surrealism / Andre Breton -- Trance event / Robert Desnos -- Language event one -- Language event two -- A man and woman absolutely white / Andre Breton -- Free union / Andre Breton -- Poem-object / Andre Breton -- On the road to San Romano / Andre Breton -- Go for broke / Andre Breton -- Four poems: Route ; Live-saving medal ; Sporting goods ; Sunday / Philippe Soupault -- Comrade / Philippe Soupault -- Poem to shout in the ruins / Louis Aragon -- My final agonies / Benjamin Peret -- Joan of Arc / Benjamin Peret -- On all fours / Benjamin Peret -- Cuckoo / Robert Desnos -- Midway / Robert Desnos -- Epitaph / Robert Desnos -- Maison Aragon / Tristan Tzara -- from The approximate man / Tristan Tzara -- Hair tonic / Gisele Prassinos -- A conversation / Gisele Prassinos -- from The Immaculate Conception / Paul Eluard, Andre Breton -- The great masturbator / Salvador Dali -- from The hundred headless woman / Max Ernst -- All writing is garbage / Antonin Artaud -- The spurt of blood / Antonin Artaud -- "Objectivists" -- Prologue to "objectivists" -- Vortex.Pound. / Ezra Pound -- from Spring and all / William Carlos Williams -- from Poem beginning "the" / Louis Zukofsky -- Discrete series / George Oppen -- Testimony / Charles Reznikoff -- A journey away / Carl Rakosi -- from The first book of odes: "Weeping oaks grieve, chestnuts raise" ; Vestiges / Basil Bunting --

Negritude -- Prologue to Negritude -- Macumba word / Aime Cesaire -- from Discourse on colonialism / Aime Cesaire, Rene Depestre -- Speech and image: an African tradition of the surreal / Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Taga for Mbaye Dyob / Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Man and beast / Leopold Sedar Senghor -- The Kaya-Magan / Leopold Sedar Senghor -- Just like the legend / Leon Damas -- S.O.S. / Leon Damas -- Hiccups / Leon Damas -- from Notebook of a return to the native land / Aime Cesaire -- The miraculous weapons / Aime Cesaire -- A third gallery -- Requiem / Anna Akhmatova -- Chorus of the dead / Nelly Sachs -- Chorus of the stars / Nelly Sachs -- from A drunk man looks at the thistle / Hugh MacDiarmid -- David Jones -- Spring and the ashura / Miyazawa Kenji -- Daydreaming on the trail / Miyazawa Kenji -- Pictures of the floating world / Miyazawa Kenji -- First Psalm (posthumous) / Bertolt Brecht -- Three fragments / Bertolt Brecht -- Alabama song / Bertolt Brecht -- from The Harlem Gallery: book 1, the curator / Melvin B. Tolson -- from Slices of knowledge / Henri Michaux -- Tomorrow / Henri Michaux -- The oyster / Francis Ponge -- from The sun placed in the abyss / Francis Ponge -- Dead water / Wen Yiduo (Wen I-to) -- Miracle / Wen Yiduo (Wen I-to) -- City with towers / Vitezslav Nezval -- Trap door / Vitezslav Nezval -- The poplar leaf / George Seferis -- Mathios Paskalis among the roses / George Seferis -- Les Anges sont blancs / George Seferis -- Elegy in a spider's web / Laura Riding -- Logbook of a lost caravan / Gyula Illyes -- Work / Gyula Illyes -- While the record plays / Gyula Illyes -- Letters from Chankiri Prison / Nazim Hikmet -- from Montage of a dream deferred / Langston Hughes -- The dead in frock coats / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- The dirty hand / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- Motionless faces / Carlos Drummond de Andrade -- News / Lorine Niedecker -- Subliminal / Lorine Niedecker -- Don't know no English / Nicolas Guillen -- Sensemaya / Nicolas Guillen -- Wake for Papa Montero / Nicolas Guillen -- Moon / Nicolas Guillen -- The usurers / Nicolas Guillen -- from The daily daily / Nicolas Guillen -- Walkin' around / Pablo Neruda -- Sexual water / Pablo Neruda -- Only death / Pablo Neruda -- from Songs of degrees / Louis Zukofsky -- "A" 1 / Louis Zukofsky -- from Prolegomena to a theodicy / Kenneth Rexroth -- Birthday party / Kusano Shimpei -- 4 or 5 tadpoles / Kusano Shimpei -- Skylarks and Fuji / Kusano Shimpei -- Like ankle-rings, this music / Gunnar Ekelof -- If you ask me / Gunnar Ekelof -- Hangman / Gunnar Ekelof -- Absentia animi / Gunnar Ekelof -- from Leaves of hynos / Rene Char --

Preface or the drama of absence in an eternal heart / Roger Gilbert-Lecomte -- The son of the bone speaks / Roger Gilbert-Lecomte -- Old precept of the dead world / Roger Gilbert-Lecomte -- Wink / Roger Gilbert-Lecomte -- from Clavicles for a great poetic game / Rene Daumal -- Persephone that is to say double issue / Rene Daumal -- Short revelation concerning death and chaos / Rene Daumal -- The angel of dread / Miklos Radnoti -- Seventh eclogue / Miklos Radnoti -- from Crow's-eye view / Yi Sang -- Paper memorial stone / Yi Sang -- Soyong problems / Yi Sang -- from Critical condition / Yi Sang -- The dam / Muriel Rukeyser -- Hymn among the ruins / Octavio Paz -- A book of origins -- Prologue to origins -- from The great digest / Confucius, Ezra Pound -- "Songs are thoughts, sung out with the breath..." / Orpingalik -- Alcheringa definitions -- "The African image is not an image by equation..." / Leopold Sedar Senghor -- For the lord of caves / Allama Prabhu -- Placements I / Clayton Eshleman -- from Rites of participation / Robert Duncan -- from Why's/wise / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- Aborigine sound poem -- Lily events -- from The Goulburn Island cycle -- from Poemes Negres: The dance of the greased women ; Tropical winter / Tristan Tzara -- from Ifa suite in praise of the Yoruba oracle / Awotunde Aworinde -- Ex-voto for a shipwreck / Aime Cesaire -- Three for bear -- Seven songs & song pictures -- Songs from the Society of the Mystic Animals / Richard Johnny John, Jerome Rothenberg, Ian Tyson -- Telling about Coyote / Simon Ortiz -- from Cantares Mexicanos -- from The midnight velada / Maria Sabina -- The 13th horse song of Frank Mitchell -- from The I Ching: The marrying maiden -- Mani-Mani Gatha / Jackson Mac Low -- Canto 49 / Ezra Pound -- The song of Ullikummi / Charles Olson -- Tablet V / Armand Schwerner -- from The thunder, perfect mind -- from Loba / Diane di Prima -- Ol' Hannah / Doc Reese -- Black Mountain blues / Bessie Smith -- A poem for the Sefirot as a wheel of light / Naftali Bacharach -- Celestial alphabet event / Jacques Gaffarel -- from The book of questions / Edmond Jabes --

v. 2. From postwar to millennium -- Prelude: in the dark -- La preface / Charles Olson -- A death fugue / Paul Celan -- from Poem without a hero: epilogue / Anna Akhmatova -- from Poems of the atomic bomb: dying / Toge Sankichi -- Season of anger / Rene Depestre -- The time allotted / Ingeborg Bachmann -- from To have done with the Judgment of God / Antonin Artaud -- from The mother of us all: concluding Aria / Gertrude Stein -- Not ideas about the thing but the thing itself / Wallace Stevens -- from Finnegans wake / James Joyce -- from Paterson, book three / William Carlos Williams -- Canto 116 / Ezra Pound -- from Hermetic definition: red rose and a beggar (1-9) / H. D. -- The glass of pure water / Hugh MacDiarmid -- from Ode to Charles Fourier / Andre Breton -- from Saisir / Henri Michaux -- from "A" 12 / Louis Zukofsky -- from The heights of Macchu Picchu / Pablo Neruda -- from Molna elegy / Gunnar Ekelof -- The speed of darkness / Muriel Rukeyser -- from I, laminaria / Aime Cesaire -- A first gallery -- My ground / Marie Luise Kaschnitz -- Who would have thought it / Marie Luise Kaschnitz -- from A night with Hamlet / Vladimir Holan -- Imagination dead imagine / Samuel Beckett -- Psalm / George Oppen -- Myth of the blaze / George Oppen -- The meaning of simplicity / Yannis Ritsos -- Naked face / Yannis Ritsos -- Erotica XII / Yannis Ritsos -- from 3 x 111 tristychs / Yannis Ritsos -- "My memory is..." / Charles Olson -- "Peloria..." / Charles Olson -- The moon is the number 18 / Charles Olson -- Maximus, from Dogtown-II / Charles Olson -- "Added to..." / Charles Olson -- from The book of questions: "The Jew answers every question with another question" ; The book of the living ; "Have you seen how a word is born and dies?" / Edmond Jabes -- [Epigraph] "if there were a part of life dark enough..." / John Cage -- from Song Books: solo for voice 17 / John Cage -- Song with electronics (relevant) / John Cage -- Two Mesostics re Merce Cunningham / John Cage -- from Diary: how to improve the world (you will only make matters worse) 1965 / John Cage --

The Vienna group -- [Untitled] / H. C. Artmann -- "An optician has a glass heart" / H. C. Artmann -- Ostia will receive you / Friederike Mayrocker -- Chanson / Ernst Jandl -- Calypso / Ernst Jandl -- Preliminary studies for the Frankfurt readings 1984 / Ernst Jandl -- Flower piece / Gerhard Ruhm -- A few things / Gerhard Ruhm -- from The philosopher's stone / Konrad Bayer -- The white and black bones / Konrad Bayer -- The individual's soliloquy / Nicanor Parra -- from Blanco / Octavio Paz -- The sun: day / Bert Schierbeek -- The animal has drawn a human / Bert Schierbeek -- Often I am permitted to return to a meadow / Robert Duncan -- At the loom: passages 2 / Robert Duncan -- In blood's domaine / Robert Duncan -- Pilgrimage / Yoshioka Minoru -- Breathcrystal / Paul Celan -- from Formulaires / Mohammed Dib -- from My life in the bush of ghosts: television-handed ghostess / Amos Tutuola -- Didactic poem on the nature of history, A.D. 1954 / Helmut Heissenbuttel -- Combination II / Helmut Heissenbuttel -- from Textbook 10 / Helmut Heissenbuttel -- Asymmetry 205 / Jackson Mac Low -- from The pronouns, a collection of 40 dances, for the dancers / Jackson Mac Low -- 3rd light poem: for Spencer, Beate, & Sebastian Holst: 12 June 1962 / Jackson Mac Low -- Pices o' six: II / Jackson Mac Low -- from A desperate vitality / Pier Paolo Pasolini -- Burning shewolf / Vasko Popa -- The Tammuzi poets -- Cain the immortal / Yusuf al-Khal -- The wayfarers / Yusuf al-Khal -- The river and death / Badr Shakir al-Sayyab -- from A desire moving through the maps of the material / Adonis -- Executioner of flowers / Muhammad al-Maghut -- The charlatan / Unsi al-Hajj -- The Jacob's ladder / Denise Levertov -- Age of terror / Denise Levertov -- National thoughts / Yehuda Amichai -- Elegy / Yehuda Amichai -- Near the wall of a house / Yehuda Amichai -- "The spirit of '76" / Friederike Mayrocker -- from The red chair (for three voices) / Emmett Williams -- from The ultimate poem / Emmett Williams -- Image-ntion 22 (in memoriam) / Robin Blaser -- In xochitl in cuicatl / Ernesto Cardenal -- Two meditations / Rosario Castellanos -- Two poems / Rosario Castellanos -- Trustful fatigue and reality / Claude Gauvreau -- The leg of mutton createur / Claude Gauvreau -- Cobra -- from Word-pictures / Asger Jorn, with Christian Dotremont -- Logogramme / Christian Dotremont -- Some Lapland views / Christian Dotremont -- Mad talk / Karel Appel -- Elba / Gerrit Kouwenaar -- 4 variations on / Gerrit Kouwenaar --

Rousseau le Douanier / Lucebert -- 9000 jackals swimming to Boston / Lucebert -- Ad Miro / Pierre Alechinsky -- The Tollund man / Hugo Claus -- from Heroic emblems / Ian Hamilton Finlay, (with Ron Costley & Stephen Bann) -- from Images from the Arcadian dream garden / Ian Hamilton Finlay -- The garden temple / Ian Hamilton Finlay -- Curriculum vitae / Ingeborg Bachmann -- Phone call to Rutherford / Paul Blackburn -- At the well / Paul Blackburn -- The net of place / Paul Blackburn -- The whip / Robert Creeley -- Anger / Robert Creeley -- from A rainbow for the Christian West: three loas: Cap'tain Zombi ; Baron-Samedi ; Chango / Rene Depestre -- [Epigraph] "I saw the best minds..." / Allen Ginsberg -- Mescaline / Allen Ginsberg -- Kral Majales / Allen Ginsberg -- from 14 songs and 1 riddle / Robert Filliou, per George Brecht -- The day lady died / Frank O'Hara -- Homosexuality / Frank O'Hara -- Ode: salute to the French Negro poets / Frank O'Hara -- from Flow chart / John Ashbery -- "Explanation/tangent things" / Larry Eigner -- Winter (January/February 1978) / Larry Eigner -- "Ah, so, yes" / Larry Eigner -- [Three poems 1989] / Larry Eigner -- Concrete poetry -- Two poems: Mist/mountain/butterfly ; Hang and swinging hang and swinging / Eugen Gomringer -- Poster poem / Ian Hamilton Finlay -- Like attracts like / Emmett Williams -- Rain / Seiichi Nikuni -- Extension 2: Soleil / Ilse Garnier, Pierre Garnier -- from Poemes franco-japonais / Seiichi Nikuni, Pierre Garnier -- from Transient servitude / Haroldo de Campos -- Eye for eye / Augusto de Campos -- Bookforms / Karl Young -- from The tablets / Armand Schwerner -- from The Jesus papers / Anne Sexton -- from Derviche/Le Robert: the letter "K" / Bernard Heidsieck -- In the gloom on the left / Joyce Mansour -- Going and coming of sequins / Joyce Mansour -- from Lyrics for the bride of God / Nathaniel Tarn -- Two code poems from the International Code of Signals / Hannah Weiner -- from Clairvoyant Journal / Hannah Weiner -- Sand / Hannah Weiner -- from Gunslinger I / Edward Dorn -- The ninth symphony of Beethoven understood at last as a sexual message / Adrienne Rich -- The phenomenology of anger / Adrienne Rich -- Bull and egret / Chinua Achebe -- We laughed at him / Chinua Achebe -- Some "Beat" poets -- Fear and the monkey / William S. Burroughs -- from Mexico City Blues: 211th chorus / Jack Kerouac -- I AM A CAMERA / Bob Kaufman -- "All those ships that never sailed" / Bob Kaufman -- January 30, 1976: message to myself / Bob Kaufman -- America / Allen Ginsberg -- The mad yak / Gregory Corso -- Transformation & escape / Gregory Corso -- from Ghost tantras / Michael McClure -- A small secret book / Michael McClure -- Prophetissa / Diane di Prima -- Studies in light / Diane di Prima --

Stone / Kamau Brathwaite -- "O great apposition of the world" / Michel Deguy -- "You will be astonished" / Michel Deguy -- "This lady and her beautiful window" / Michel Deguy -- To forget the image / Michel Deguy -- Letter to her brother / Amelia Rosselli -- from Martial variations / Amelia Rosselli -- Dialogue with the dead / Amelia Rosselli -- What you should know to be a poet / Gary Snyder -- from Mythos & texts: First shaman song ; This poem is for bear / Gary Snyder -- The hump-backed flute player / Gary Snyder -- The art of the manifesto -- from The Meridian speech / Paul Celan -- Three statements: from The present is prologue ; A plan for a curriculum of the soul ; The resistance / Charles Olson -- from Lecture on nothing / John Cage -- from Earth / Edouard Glissant -- from All the king's men / Situationist international (Guy Debord, et al.) -- Black Dada Nihilismus / Amiri Baraka -- from When we dead awaken: writing as re-vision / Adrienne Rich -- Test / Nicanor Parra -- A manifesto for Fluxus / George Maciunas -- The shape and size of poetry / Bob Cobbing -- from Poesie sonore / Henri Chopin -- from Text-sound, energy and performance / Steve McCaffery -- Intermedia chart / Dick Higgins -- from Le Mecrit: struggle and erasure / Denis Roche -- from Investigative poetry / Edward Sanders -- The state will be served even by poets / Julian Beck -- from Otherhow: feminist poetics, modernism, the avant-garde / Rachel Blau DuPlessis -- Interior scroll / Carolee Schneemann -- from Neo-HooDoo Manifesto / Ishmael Reed -- from Preface / Adonis -- from Search for my tongue / Sujata Bhatt -- from Artifice of absorption / Charles Bernstein -- from Rant / Diane di Prima -- Preamble & statement for a Council on Counterpoetics -- A second gallery -- The treasure / Tchicaya U Tam'si -- That Dada strain / Jerome Rothenberg -- from Khurbn / Jerome Rothenberg -- The Lorca variations (XXVIII) / Jerome Rothenberg -- from The winter palace: The first poem ; The second poem / Paavo Haavikko -- The gallery / Tomas Transtomer -- To trace from Hebrew / Ece Ayhan -- The Nigger in a photograph / Ece Ayhan -- Geranium and the child / Ece Ayhan --

Some oral poets -- from The midnight velada / Maria Sabina -- The shumeekuli / Andrew Peynetsa -- Raising the mediating center and the field of evil with the twenty-five thousand accounts and the chant of the ancients / Eduardo Calderon -- Hellhound on my trail / Robert Johnson -- Abuse poems: for Kodzo & others / Komi Ekpe -- One day / Miss Queenie (Imogene Elizabeth Kennedy) -- Swordfishtrombone / Tom Waits -- Sabla y Blu / After Dizzy Gillespie -- from Some thing black: section V / Jacques Roubaud -- Endangered nouns / David Antin -- Look back into the future / Andrei Voznesensky -- On the metamorphoses brought about by emotion: the rebellion of the eyes / Andrei Voznesensky -- The genealogy of crosses / Andrei Voznesensky -- Numbers, letters / Amiri Baraka -- Das kapital / Amiri Baraka -- People of the future / Ted Berrigan -- from The sonnets / Ted Berrigan -- Alphabet 9, 10 / Inger Christensen -- "The wels a fish that lives on the bottom" / Sarah Kirsch -- "In an airplane I'm supposed to " / Sarah Kirsch -- Pandora's box / Sarah Kirsch -- from Kite-flying: Mornings ; Call ; Renting a room / Sarah Kirsch -- Postwar Japanese poetry: the Arechi & after -- My imperialism / Tamura Ryuichi -- from With silence my companion / Tanikawa Shuntaro -- Cycle of months (menstruation) / Tanikawa Shuntaro -- "Marilyn" / Ooka Makoto -- The man root / Shiraishi Kazuko -- Pulling in the reins / Yoshimasu Gozo -- Osiris, the God of Stone / Yoshimasu Gozo -- from Where is Japanese poetry?: Wolf ; Small dream / Fujii Sadakazu -- Near Kitami Station on the Odakyu Line / Ito Hiromi -- Our lady of the three-pronged devil / Clayton Eshleman -- Ode to language / Robert Kelly -- The man who loved white chocolate / Robert Kelly -- Feverish propositions / Rosmarie Waldrop -- from A key into the language of America / Rosmarie Waldrop -- Paths of the mirror / Alejandra Pizarnik -- Nighttrains / Jayne Cortez -- Four poems: "I met the Angel Sus on the Skin Bridge" ; "Slowly the old stone building walls downtown dissolve" ; [trash] ; from [three sets of three] / Kenneth Irby -- from Wound response: Of movement towards a natural place ; Landing area ; Chromatin ; Melanin ; An evening walk / J. H. Prynne -- Dedication / Rochelle Owens -- I am the babe of Joseph Stalin's daughter / Rochelle Owens -- from W. C. Fields in French light / Rochelle Owens -- from The lesbian body / Monique Wittig -- Monkey-eaters / Takahashi Mutsuo -- from Self-portraits: Myself in the disguise of an ancient queen ; Myself with a glory hole / Takahashi Mutsuo -- Winter voyage / Anne-Marie Albiach --

Neo-avaguardia -- The last stroll: homage to Pascoli / Edoardo Sanguineti -- From the novissimi / Giulia Niccolai -- from The instinct of self-preservation / Nanni Balestrini -- Tape mark / Nanni Balestrini -- To open / Antonio Porta -- The risk of abstraction / Adriano Spatola -- The poem Stalin / Adriano Spatola -- from Pythagorean silence / Susan Howe -- Scattering as behavior toward risk / Susan Howe -- from A humument / Tom Phillips -- from Six of hearts: songs for Mary Wiegold / Tom Phillips -- from Hero/Lil: the third shell / David Meltzer -- George Washington and the loss of his teeth / Diane Wakoski -- The ice eagle / Diane Wakoski -- Lion lion / Tom Raworth -- Jungle book / Tom Raworth -- Bolivia: another end of ace / Tom Raworth -- Text and commentary / Elke Erb -- Stark electric Jesus / Malay Roy Choudhury -- "Demon colors, dark" / Goran Sonnevi -- A child is not a knife / Goran Sonnevi -- from The crystal text / Clark Coolidge -- from Baffling means / Clark Coolidge with Philip Guston -- Some "language" poets -- from My life / Lyn Hejinian -- from Ketjak / Ron Silliman -- China / Bob Perelman -- Native / Rae Armantrout -- Complete thought I-XXV / Barrett Watten -- "Zero tolerance" / Bruce Andrews -- AKA / Bruce Andrews -- Of time and the line / Charles Bernstein -- Outrigger / Charles Bernstein -- Not-France / Carla Harryman -- from Tales of Samora Machel / Pierre Guyotat -- Refusal to inter / Mohammed Khair-Eddine -- Barbarian / Mohammed Khair-Eddine -- From an interview / Simon Ortiz -- The Wisconsin horse / Simon Ortiz -- Final Solution: jobs, leaving / Simon Ortiz -- Oxota, book 2 / Lyn Hejinian -- from Memory for forgetfulness / Mahmoud Darwish -- Monk / John Taggart -- Slow song for Mark Rothko / John Taggart -- Avalanche / Quincy Troupe -- from The barbizon / Nicole Brossard -- from Sun / Michael Palmer -- Sun / Michael Palmer -- Conga / Allen Fisher -- Continental walk / Allen Fisher -- A sequence of poems from The martyrology 7 / B.P. Nichol -- A parmenides machine / Charles Stein -- from Desamere / Alice Notley -- Iovis XIX: why that's a blade, can float / Anne Waldman --

The misty poets -- The answer / Bei Dao -- The August sleepwalker / Bei Dao -- "He opens wide a third eye..." / Bei Dao -- When people rise from cheese, statement #1 / Duo Duo -- North Sea / Duo Duo -- from ApeHerd / Mang Ke -- The mirror / Shu Ting -- Crocodile 1-15 / Yang Lian -- A generation / Gu Cheng -- from The Bulin file / Gu Cheng -- from Winnetou old / Pierre Joris -- A sentimental elegy / Arkadii Dragomoschenko -- Song of the Andoumboulou: 15 / Nathaniel Mackey -- from Empedocles' sandal / Habib Tengour -- Instead of an animal / Leslie Scalapino -- Five notebooks for exit art / Cecilia Vicuna -- Albania & the death of Enver Hoxha / Will Alexander -- Caminando / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- Mesa blanca / Victor Hernandez Cruz -- On contact opens its indigo pit / Coral Bracho -- On the facets: the flashing / Coral Bracho -- Isn't she not a bird / Nina Iskrenko -- Polystylistics / Nina Iskrenko -- Toward a cyberpoetics: the poem in the machine -- First collage: the poem in the machine -- Rotative demi-sphere (precision optics) with pun / Marcel Duchamp -- from Readie-soundpiece (for Bob Brown's reading machine) / Abraham Lincoln Gillespie -- from Carnival the first panel: 1967-70 / Steve McCaffery -- from Canal Street / Bernard Heidsieck -- 34th Merzgedicht in memoriam Kurt Schwitters / Jackson Mac Low -- Two intergrams / Jim Rosenberg -- from [Reveal code]: Indra's net VIII / John Cayley -- Second collage: toward a cyberpoetics -- Narrative charm for Ibbotroyd / Maggie O'Sullivan -- from Doubtless: "The dancer-" / Maggie O'Sullivan -- from Dictee: elitere: lyric poetry / Theresa Hak Kyung Cha -- Postludes: at the turning -- After a long illness / Robert Duncan -- Fin-de-Siecle identikit / Pierre Joris -- Prologomena to a poetics / Jerome Rothenberg --

v. 3. The University of California book of romantic & postromantic poetry -- Preludium -- from The social contract / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- from Reveries of the solitary walker / Jean-Jacques Rousseau -- from The spiritual diary / Emanuel Swedenborg -- from Rameau's nephew: an improvisation / Denis Diderot -- from Jubilate Agno / Christopher Smart -- from The loves of the plants: mimosa and tremella / Erasmus Darwin -- from Ossian: the songs of Selma / James Macpherson -- from Juliette, or vice amply rewarded / Donatien Alphonse Francois, marquis de Sade -- Four caprichos / Francisco Goya -- Prometheus / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- from The Rowley poems: an excelente balade of charitie: as wroten bie the goode Prieste Thomas Rowley, 1464 / Thomas Chatterton -- Seven ancient monuments: map of Rudhall and Redcliff Wall / Thomas Chatterton -- from A letter to the women of England on the injustice of mental subordination / Mary Robinson -- from America a prophecy: preludium / William Blake -- A first gallery: from Goethe & Blake to Solomos & Pushkin -- Mignon's song / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- from Scenes from the Faust of Goethe [two versions] / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- from Venetian epigrams / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- from Trilogy of passion: the Marienbad elegy / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- The metamorphosis of plants / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- from Theory of color: the blindingly bright colorless form / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- [Epigraph] Letter to Thomas Butts, 22 November 1802 / William Blake -- from Songs of innocence and of experience: The sick Rose ; The divine image ; The human abstract ; The chimney sweeper ; London ; To Tirzah / William Blake -- from An island in the moon: chap 9 / William Blake -- The mental traveller / William Blake -- from Milton, book the first: the vortex / William Blake -- from Milton, book the second: "there is a place where contrarieties are equally true" / William Blake -- from Jerusalem: the covering cherub / William Blake -- from The notebooks: 1789-1794 / Joseph Joubert -- A London summer morning / Mary Robinson -- To the poet Coleridge / Mary Robinson -- from Sappho and Phaon: six sonnets / Mary Robinson -- A red, red rose / Robert Burns -- Love and liberty. A cantata / Robert Burns -- First flower-piece: speech of the dead Christ from the top of the universe: that there is no God / Jean Paul [Richter] -- Corinne's improvisation in the Naples countryside / Germaine de Stael -- Corinne's last song / Germaine de Stael -- I once asked the muse / Friedrich Holderlin -- In the forest / Friedrich Holderlin -- Palimpsest: Columbus / Friedrich Holderlin -- Lines written in early spring / William Wordsworth -- The female vagrant / William Wordsworth -- Nine sonnets: from London to Paris, August/September 1802 / William Wordsworth -- from The prelude, book fifth: books / William Wordsworth -- Ode: "there was a time" / William Wordsworth -- from The Grasmere journals / Dorothy Wordsworth -- Grasmere, lineated / Dorothy Wordsworth -- [Epigraph] from Heinrich von Osterdingen / Novalis -- from Faith and love or the king and the queen / Novalis -- from Hymns to the night [5 and 6] / Novalis -- [Epigraph] "The heart should have fed" / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Kubla Khan: or, a vision in a dream": a fragment / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Dejection: an ode / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Urine / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Fragments from the Gutch notebook / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Fire, famine, and slaughter: a war eclogue / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- Ne plus ultra / Samuel Taylor Coleridge --

from The theory of the four movements / Charles Fourier -- The phalanx at dawn / Charles Fourier -- Dream-fugue: on the theme of sudden death / Thomas De Quincey -- Darkness / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- from Childe Harold's pilgrimage, canto three / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- from Don Juan: dedication / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- On this day I complete my thirty-sixth year / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- Eleven Roman sonnets: for the pope / Giuseppe Belli -- Song from Prometheus unbound / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- On the Medusa of Leonardo da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Queen Mab: canto VII / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- from Peter Bell the Third: hell / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- "Arethusa," with Robert Duncan's "Shelley's Arethusa set to new measures" / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Ode to liberty / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- Some Asian poets -- Prologue -- Fifteen haiku / Kobayashi Issa -- from The spring of my life / Kobayashi Issa -- Autumn landscape / Ho Xuan Huong -- On sharing a husband / Ho Xuan Huong -- Jackfruit / Ho Xuan Huong -- Weaving at night / Ho Xuan Huong -- For the courtesan Ch'ing Lin / Wu Tsao -- Bitter rain in my courtyard / Wu Tsao -- I have closed the double doors / Wu Tsao -- Before there was a hint of civilization / Bibi Hayati -- How can I see the splendor of the moon / Bibi Hayati -- Is it the night of power / Bibi Hayati -- from Gitanjali / Rabindranath Tagore -- [I am: a sonnet & a variation] / John Clare -- The badger: a sequence / John Clare -- from Letter to Messrs Taylor and Hessey / John Clare -- [Mouse's nest] / John Clare -- Emmonsails Heath in winter / John Clare -- from The progress of rhyme / John Clare -- Jack Randalls challenge to all the world / John Clare -- To John Clare / John Clare -- Letter to Mr. Jas. Hipkins / John Clare -- Butterflies, lineated / John Keats -- "What can I do to drive away" / John Keats -- from Endymion, book one: Hymn to Pan / John Keats -- Sonnet: "If by dull rhymes" / John Keats -- Meg Merrilies / John Keats -- Sonnet: "bright star" / John Keats -- Ode to psyche / John Keats -- Ode to a nightingale / John Keats -- Dream and dream sonnet: Paolo and Francesca / John Keats -- Ode on melancholy / John Keats -- "This living hand" / John Keats -- Ezra Pound, after Heine: und drang / Heinrich Heine -- Morphine / Heinrich Heine -- Heine per Gerard de Nerval: The castaway ; The dream / Heinrich Heine -- from Ludwig Borne: a memorial / Heinrich Heine -- from Germany: a winter's tale [23-26] / Heinrich Heine -- from Crimean sonnets: the ruins of the Castle of Balaklava / Adam Mickiewicz -- The romantic / Adam Mickiewicz -- from Pan Tadeusz / Adam Mickiewicz -- from Forefathers' Eve: the great improvisation / Adam Mickiewicz -- L'infinito / Giacomo Leopardi -- Saturday night in the village / Giacomo Leopardi -- from Operette Morali: announcement of prizes by the Academy of Syllographs / Giacomo Leopardi -- Broom, or the flower of the desert / Giacomo Leopardi -- The destruction of Psara / Dionysios Solomos -- The shark / Dionysios Solomos -- The woman of Zante / Dionysios Solomos -- The Emperor Nicholas I / Aleksander Pushkin -- The prophet / Aleksander Pushkin -- from The bronze horseman: introduction / Aleksander Pushkin -- Tsar Nikita and his daughters / Aleksander Pushkin -- from Eugene Onegin: Onegin at the theater / Aleksander Pushkin -- A book of origins -- Prologue -- from The marriage of heaven and hell: the ancient poets / William Blake -- from The Egyptian Book of the Dead: the chapter of changing into Ptah / E. A. Wallis Budge -- from Pistis Sophia: o light of lights [coptic gnostic] / G. R. S. Mead -- Two from Sanskrit: from The yarjurveda ; A hymn to the night / William Jones --

from The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam [Farsi] / Edward FitzGerald -- from Rig Veda Americanus: two for the goddess [Aztec] / Daniel G. Brinton -- Song of the owl [Ojibwa] / Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry Rowe Schoolcraft -- from The night chant: prayer of the first dancers [Navajo] / Washington Matthews -- Sir Patrick Spence / Francis J. Child -- Homer's hymn to the moon [Greek] / Percy Bysshe Shelley -- A poem for the goddes her city & the marriage of her son & daughter [Serbian] / Vuk Karadzic -- Hanes Taliesin/the tale of Taliesin [Welsh] / Charlotte Guest -- from Frithiof's saga [Icelandic/Swedish] / Esaias Tegner, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- Christmas gysarts [mummers] play from Bowden -- from Negro spirituals / Thomas Wentworth Higginson -- Song of the Bald Mountain witches & magic nymphs [Russian] / Anonymous -- Five dream works, from Coleridge to Freud -- from The notebooks / Samuel Taylor Coleridge -- The king of cats, a ghost narrative / Mary Shelley -- from Aurelia, or dream and life / Gerard de Nerval -- from Lenz / Georg Buchner -- from The dream-work / Sigmund Freud -- from The origin of species / Charles Darwin -- A second gallery: from Hugo & Lonnrot to Swinburne & Mallarme -- The grave and the rose / Victor Hugo -- The slope of reverie / Victor Hugo -- Russia 1812 / Victor Hugo -- from The art of being a grandfather: What the public says ; The Immaculate Conception / Victor Hugo -- from God: the threshold of the abyss / Victor Hugo -- Ma Destinee / Victor Hugo -- from Kalevala: in the beginning / Elias Lonnrot -- [Epigraph] from Death's jest book, act one / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Dream of dying / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- A crocodile / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- from Death's jest book: three songs: Isbrand's song ; A song of the deaths ; The song that Wolfram heard in hell / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Dream-pedlary / Thomas Lovell Beddoes -- Two sonnets, for George Sand / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- A musical instrument / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- from Sonnets from the Portuguese: three sonnets / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- from Aurora Leigh, fifth book [excerpt] / Elizabeth Barrett Browning -- from Gaspard de la Nuit: preface and six poems / Aloysius Bertrand -- [Epigraph] from Aurelis, or deam and life / Gerard de Nerval -- Panorama / Gerard de Nerval -- Les Chimeres / Gerard de Nerval -- Days / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Woods: a prose sonnet / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from The notebooks: "Turtle in swamp" / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Hamatreya / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Ode, inscribed to W. H. Channing / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Blight / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Bacchus / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- Sonnet: silence / Edgar Allan Poe -- The haunted palace / Edgar Allan Poe -- from Eureka, a prose poem / Edgar Allan Poe -- "Flower in the crannied wall" / Alfred Tennyson -- The Hesperides / Alfred Tennyson -- from Maud, or the madness: "Come into the garden, Maud" ; "Dead, long dead" / Alfred Tennyson -- "Heap cassia, sandal-buds and stripes" / Robert Browning -- Caliban upon Setebos, or natural theology in the island / Robert Browning -- Soliloquy of the Spanish Cloister / Robert Browning -- Eight limericks / Edward Lear -- Mr. and Mrs. Discobbolos / Edward Lear -- Letter to Mrs. Stuart Wortley: the moon journey / Edward Lear -- "How pleasant to know Mr. Lear!" / Edward Lear -- The illegible letter / Soren Kierkegaard -- from Either/or: diapsalmata / Soren Kierkegaard -- Nebuchadnessar / Soren Kierkegaard -- Some outsider poets -- Prologue -- I am Raifteiri / Antoine O Reachtabhra [Blind Raftery] -- from The first book of the American chronicles of the times / Anonymous revolutionary pamphlet -- History of Nez Perce Indians from 1805 up to the present time, 1880 / James Reuben --

from Deaths on Three-Mile Creek: 1841-1915 / Jacob Carpenter -- The boasting drunk in Dodge [1883] / Anonymous -- The song of the low / Ernest Jones -- The song of the gaggers / Ernest Jones -- from The purgatory of suicides, a prison-rhyme in ten books / Thomas Cooper -- from The strange effects of faith / Joanna Southcott -- The honest farmer's declaration [1853] / Anonymous -- My demon / Mikhail Lermontov -- Untitled poem / Mikhail Lermontov -- A dream / Mikhail Lermontov -- New Year's poem / Mikhail Lermontov -- Fragment from "The sleepers" / Walt Whitman -- from Song of myself: "I have heard what the talkers were talking" / Walt Whitman -- This compost / Walt Whitman -- Respondez! or poem of the propositions of nakedness / Walt Whitman -- I sing the body electric / Walt Whitman -- Good-bye my fancy! / Walt Whitman -- Lines: after Shakespeare / Herman Melville -- The maldive shark / Herman Melville -- from Moby Dick: Father Mapple's hymn ; The cabin ; A squeeze of the hand / Herman Melville -- from Billy Budd: Billy in the darbies / Herman Melville -- The sphinx / Cyprian Norwid -- What did you do to Athens, Socrates? / Cyprian Norwid -- Chopin's piano / Cyprian Norwid -- Correspondences / Charles Baudelaire -- Two prose poems: Get drunk ; One o'clock in the morning / Charles Baudelaire -- A carrion / Charles Baudelaire -- Litanies of Satan / Charles Baudelaire -- The voyage / Charles Baudelaire -- To the reader / Charles Baudelaire -- The madman / Sandor Petofi -- Homer and Ossian / Sandor Petofi -- from The Apostle [1, 3, 4] / Sandor Petofi -- from Dante's New life: his pitiful song / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- Troy town / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- The blessed damozel: a double work of art / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- from A trip to Paris and Belgium / Dante Gabriel Rossetti -- #1249 "Had I not seen the sun" / Emily Dickinson -- Poem fragment: "We do not think/enough of the/Dead" / Emily Dickinson -- #627 "I think I was enchanted" / Emily Dickinson -- #764 "My life had stood, a loaded gun" / Emily Dickinson -- #706 "I cannot live with you" / Emily Dickinson -- #778 "Four trees: opon a solitary acre" / Emily Dickinson -- Visual poem" "A poor, torn heart, a tattered heart" / Emily Dickinson -- To recipient unknown / Emily Dickinson -- My dream / Christina Rossetti -- The convent threshold / Christina Rossetti -- from Goblin market / Christina Rossetti -- from O guesa errante: the Wall Street inferno / Sousandrade [Joaquim de Sousa Andrade] -- Judith / Adah Isaacs Menken -- Battle of the stars [after Ossian] / Adah Isaacs Menken -- Sale of souls / Adah Isaacs Menken -- Second chorus from Atalanta in Calydon / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- A ballad of burdens / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- Anactoria / Algernon Charles Swinburne -- "Cette adorable bague" / Stephane Mallarme -- The tomb of Edgar Poe / Stephane Mallarme -- Igitur / Stephane Mallarme -- from A tomb for Anatol / Stephane Mallarme -- A book of extensions -- Prologue -- Laocoon / William Blake -- Two Shaker vision drawings: Sacred Roll ; Spirit message -- from Letters to Evelyn Baring / Edward Lear -- Concrete poem: a mouse / Lewis Carroll -- from Calligrams: the bleeding-heart dove and the fountain / Guillaume Apollinaire -- Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll -- Sound poem [Glossolalia] / The Shakers -- from Holy Trinity night: the nightingale's song / August Strindberg --

Charcoal man / Lafcadio Hearn -- A railway of rhyme / James Clarence Mangan -- Deformations / Leigh Hunt -- Vowels & colors / Arthur Rimbaud -- Writing aslant / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- Three syllogisms / Lewis Carroll -- Words / Walt Whitman -- Improvisation: contadini and improvisatori / Mary Shelley -- A telegraph harp [1851] / Henry David Thoreau -- from Themes Anglais: indefinite articles / Stephane Mallarme -- from The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, gentleman: the verbs auxiliary / Laurence Sterne -- Three alphabets -- from Jubilate Agno / Christopher Smart -- A hieroglyphic alphabet / Victor Hugo -- from The poetical alphabet / Benjamin Paul Blood -- Sadakichi's 1985 light show / Sadakichi Hartmann -- A third gallery: from Hopkins & Nietzsche to Yosano & Apollinaire -- Star images: September to December 1864 / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Two sonnets: Carrion comfort ; Spelt from Sybil's leaves / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- The leaden echo and the golden echo / Gerard Manley Hopkins -- Oedipus: soliloguies of the last philosopher / Friedrich Nietzsche -- The desert grows: woe to him who harbours deserts... / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Only a Fool! Only a poet! / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Letter to Jacob Burckhardt / Friedrich Nietzsche -- Chanson d'Automme/Autumn song / Paul Verlaine -- from Songs without words: seven poems / Paul Verlaine -- Overture / Paul Verlaine -- Sonnet to the asshole / Paul Verlaine, with Arthur Rimbaud -- The art of poetry / Paul Verlaine -- [Epigraph] "I replace melancholy with courage" / Isidore Ducasse, comte de Lautreamont -- from Poesies / Isidore Ducasse, comte de Lautreamont -- from Maldoror: shipwreck and sharks / Isidore Ducasse, comte de Lautreamont -- Undated fragment / Jose Marti -- from Notebook 5: "Movement is contagious" / Jose Marti -- Not rhetoric or ornament / Jose Marti -- Two homelands have I / Jose Marti -- from Powder from the wings of a moth / Jose Marti -- from Simple verses: "I am an honest man" / Jose Marti -- The Swiss father / Jose Marti -- Morning of drunkenness / Arthur Rimbaud -- The drunken boat / Arthur Rimbaud -- Second delirium: alchemy of the word / Arthur Rimbaud -- Bad blood / Arthur Rimbaud -- Farewell / Arthur Rimbaud -- [Epigraph] "Dans la piece les femmes vont et viennent" / Jules Laforgue -- Pierrots / Jules Laforgue -- Complaint on the oblivion of the dead / Jules Laforgue -- The coming of winter: from Lanscapes and impressions -- Some Orientalisms -- Prologue -- from The book of Los: Asia / William Blake -- Arabian ballad / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- from The Giaour: Leila as gazelle / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- from Hebrew melodies ancient & modern: the wild gazelle / George Gordon, Lord Byron -- from Les Orientales: Bounaberdi / Victor Hugo -- Brahma / Ralph Waldo Emerson -- from Passage to India / Walt Whitman -- L'invitation au voyage / Charles Baudelaire -- from Stelae: roadside Stelae / Victor Segalen -- Six from Phantasus / Arno Holz -- Childhood paradise / Arno Holz -- Nocturne III / Jose Asuncion Silva -- I look / Sigbjorn Obstfelder -- The dog / Sigbjorn Obstfelder -- Hurricane / Sigbjorn Obstfelder -- The woman in black / Sigbjorn Obstfelder -- The arrow / Sigbjorn Obstfelder --

In the land of allegory / Ruben Dario

Sonatina / Ruben Dario

Agency / Ruben Dario

To Roosevelt / Ruben Dario

Metempsychosis / Ruben Dario

Exploit in the bullring / Ruben Dario

from Exploits and opinions of Doctor Faustroll, pataphysician: Elements of pataphysics: definition ; A visit to Lucullus ; Concerning the surface of God / Alfred Jarry

from The making of Americans / Gertrude Stein

Six poems / Antonio Machado

Orpheus, Eurydice, and Hermes / Rainer Maria Rilke

The woman / Yosano Akiko

from Midaregami (hair in disorder): cochineal purple / Yosano Akiko

May it not come to pass that you die / Yosano Akiko

In praise of May / Yosano Akiko

Auguste's single strike / Yosano Akiko

Song of the letter A / Yosano Akiko

Zone / Guillaume Apollinaire

Manifestos & poetics

[Toward a world literature] / Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

from The marriage of heaven and hell: reason and energy / William Blake

from On the difference of poetic modes / Friedrich Holderlin

from advertisement for Lyrical ballads / William Wordsworth

from Shakespeare, with introductory matter on poetry, the drama, and the stage / Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Athenaeum fragment 116 / Friedrich von Schlegel

from On incomprehensibilty / Friedrich von Schlegel

from A defence of poetry: three excerpts / Percy Bysshe Shelley

To Richard Woodhouse, 27 October 1818 / John Keats

from Journey from Munich to Genoa: Heine's epitaph / Heinrich Heine

from preface to Cromwell / Victor Hugo

from The poet / Ralph Waldo Emerson

from preface to Leaves of grass / Walt Whitman

from The painter of modern life / Charles Baudelaire

from Notes from underground / Fyodor Dostoevsky

Letter to Thomas Wentworth Higginson / Emily Dickinson

from The Renaissance: studies in art and poetry / Walter Pater

from Crisis in verse / Stephane Mallarme

from Poetry and verse / Gerard Manley Hopkins

from Letter to Paul Demeny, May 15, 1871 / Arthur Rimbaud

An Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke.