Selected Poems

Introduction - personism - a manifesto; autobiographia literaria; the muse considered as a demon lover; poem ("at night Chinamen jump"); poem ("the eager note on my door said 'call me'"); today; memorial day 1950; les etiquettes jaunes; a pleasant thought from Whitehead; animals; the three-penny opera; a poem in envy of Cavalcanti; an image of Leda; poem ("let's take a walk, you"); poem ("the ivy is trembling in the hammock"); the argonauts; the lover; the critic; poetry; Tarquin; a rant; interior (with Jane); a postcard from John Ashbery; a pastoral dialogue; poem ("I ran through the snow like a young Czarevitch!"); a sonnet for Jane Freilicher; a terrestrial cuckoo; on looking at "La Grande Jatte", the Czar wept anew; Ann Arbor variations; a Mexican guitar; Jane awake; ashes on Saturday afternoon; commercial variations; colloque sentimental; day and night in 1952; Easter; chez Jane; blocks; Alma; hatred; invincibility; Savoy; walking to work; Second Avenue; on Rachmaninoff's birthday (quick! a last poem before I go); romanze, or the music students; the hunter; the spirit ink; to Jane - and in imitation of Coleridge; to a poet; aus einem April; spleen; Kitville; on Rachmaninoff's birthday (blue windows, blue rooftops); poem in January; my heat; ode; meditations in an emergency; Mayakovsky; (JUly is over and there's very little trace); music; for Grace, after a party; poem