Autobiographia Literaria -- Poem (At Night Chinamen Jump) -- Poem (The Eager Note on My Door Said "Call Me,) -- Today -- Memorial Day 1950 -- Travel -- Les Etiquettes Jaunes -- A Pleasant Thought from Whitehead -- Animals -- The Three-Penny Opera -- An Image of Leda -- Poem (If I Knew Exactly Why the Chestnut Tree) -- The Critic -- Poetry -- Song (I'm Going to New York!) -- A Rant -- Interior (With Jane) -- A Party Full of Friends -- A Terrestrial Cuckoo -- To Dick -- Commercial Variations -- Chez Jane -- Blocks -- October -- River -- Walking to Work -- Try! Try! -- On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (Quick! A Last Poem Before I Go) -- To My Dead Father -- The Hunter -- Grand Central -- Homosexuality -- To a Poet -- Aus Einem April -- On Rachmaninoff's Birthday (I Am So Glad That Larry Rivers Made A) -- Epigram for Joe -- Meditations in an Emergency -- To the Mountains in New York -- Mayakovsky -- In the Movies -- Music -- To John Ashbery -- For Grace, After a Party -- Poem (I Watched an Armory Combing Its Bronze Bricks) -- Poem (There I Could Never Be a Boy,) -- To the Harbormaster -- Une Journee De Juillet -- At the Old Place -- Nocturne -- Poem (Johnny and Alvin Are Going Home, Are Sleeping Now) -- To an Actor Who Died -- Thinking of James Dean -- My Heart -- To the Film Industry in Crisis -- On Seeing Larry Rivers' Washington Crossing the Delaware at the Museum of Modern Art -- Radio -- Sleeping on the Wing -- Joseph Cornell -- [It Is 1:55 in Cambridge, Pale and Spring Cool,] -- Poem (And Tomorrow Morning at 8 O'Clock in Springfield, Massachusetts,) -- Poem (Instant Coffee with Slightly Sour Cream) -- Returning -- In Memory of My Feelings -- [And Leaving in a Great Smoky Fury] -- A Step Away from Them -- Digression on Number I, 1948 -- [It Seems Far Away and Gentle Now] -- Why I Am Not a Painter -- Poem Read at Joan Mitchell's -- John Button Birthday -- Anxiety -- Louise -- Failures of Spring -- Two Dreams of Waking -- Ode to Joy -- Ode to Willem De Kooning -- Poem (I Live Above a Dyke Bar and I'm Happy.) -- Ode to Michael Goldberg ('s Birth and Other Births) -- Ode (To Joseph Lesueur) on the Arrow That Flieth By Day -- Ode on Causality -- Ode: Salute to the French Negro Poets -- A True Account of Talking to the Sun at Fire Island -- Fou-Rire -- To Gottfried Benn -- Heroic Sculpture -- The "Unfinished" -- The Day Lady Died -- Rhapsody -- Song (Is It Dirty) -- Adieu to Norman, Bon Jour to Joan and Jean-Paul -- Joe's Jacket -- You Are Gorgeous and I'm Coming -- Poem (The Fluorescent Tubing Burns Like a Bobby-Soxer's Ankles) -- "L'Amour Avait Passe Par La" -- Poem (Hate is Only One of Many Responses) -- Poem (I Don't Know as I Get What D. H. Lawrence Is Driving at) -- Personal Poem -- Post the Lake Poets Ballad -- Naphtha -- Kein Traum -- Poem (Khrushchev Is Coming on the Right Day!) -- Getting Up Ahead of Someone (Sun) -- In Favor of One's Time -- Les Luths -- Poem (Now the Violets Are All Gone, the Rhinoceroses, the Cymbals) -- Poem "A La Recherche D'Gertrude Stein" -- Poem (Light Clarity Avocado Salad in the Morning) -- Hotel Transylvanie -- [On the Vast Highway] -- Present -- Poem (That's Not a Cross Look It's a Sign of Life) -- Avenue A -- Now That I Am in Madrid and Can Think -- A Little Travel Diary -- Beer for Breakfast -- Having a Coke with You -- Steps -- Ave Maria -- Fond Sonore -- [The Fondest Dream of] -- Cornkind -- Macaroni -- For the Chinese New Year & for Bill Berkson -- Essay on Style -- Vincent and I Inaugurate a Movie Theatre -- Early on Sunday -- St. Paul and All That -- F. (Missive & Walk) I. # 53 -- Poem En Forme De Saw -- Metaphysical Poem -- Biotherm (For Bill Berkson) -- Poem (Lana Turner Has Collapsed!) -- First Dances -- Answer to Voznesensky & Evtushenko -- Again, John Keats, or the Pot of Basil -- [The Light Presses Down] -- Walking -- Poem (I to You and You to Me the Endless Oceans of) -- Fantasy -- Cantata -- Little Elegy for Antonio Machado -- Appendix: Prose -- Personism: A Manifesto -- [Statement for the New American Poetry] -- [Statement for Paterson Society] -- V. R. Lang: A Memoir -- A Personal Preface -- Larry Rivers: A Memoir.
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