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 I: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 .Josephlesueur) 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, Bonjour 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) -- Hôtel 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.