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by Robert Creeley


  Alighieri, Dante. Purgatorio. Trans.

  Laurence Binyon. London:

  MacMillan and Co., 1938. By

  permission of The Society of

  Authors, on behalf of the Laurence

  Binyon Estate.

  Ginsberg, Allen. “Kaddish.” In Collected

  Poems, 1947–1980. New York:

  HarperCollins, 1984. Reprinted

  by permission of HarperCollins

  and the Wylie Agency.

  ———. “Memory Gardens.” In Collected

  Poems, 1947–1980. New York:

  HarperCollins, 1984. Reprinted

  by permission of HarperCollins

  and the Wylie Agency.

  Kavanagh, Patrick. “Prelude.” In

  Collected Poems. New York:

  W.W. Norton, 1973. Reprinted by

  permission of the Estate of Patrick

  Kavanagh, Devin-Adair Publishers,

  Old Greenwich, CT. Copyright

  holder. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

  Lowry, Malcolm. Dark as the Grave

  wherein My Friend Is Laid. London:

  Jonathan Cape, 1968. Reprinted by

  permission of The Random House

  Group Ltd.

  Olson, Charles. “When do poppies

  bloom . . .” In The Maximus Poems,

  ed. by George F. Butterick. Berkeley:

  University of California Press, 1985.

  Reprinted by permission of

  University of California Press and

  the Estate of Charles Olson.

  St. Vincent Millay, Edna. “Renascence.”

  In Collected Poems of Edna St.

  Vincent Millay. New York: Harper

  Perennial, 1981. Reprinted by

  permission of the Edna St. Vincent

  Millay Society. Copyright 1912,

  1940 by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

  Stevens, Wallace. “Anecdote of the Jar.”

  In The Collected Poems of Wallace

  Stevens. New York: Vintage, 1990.

  Reprinted by permission of Alfred A.

  Knopf, Inc.

  Ziarek, Krzysztof. From Inflected

  Language: Toward a Hermeneutics

  of Nearness: Heidegger, Levinas,

  Stevens, Celan. Albany: State

  University of New York Press, 1994.

  Reprinted by permission of SUNY

  Press.

  Zukofsky, Louis. Original publication

  unknown. All Louis Zukofsky

  material Copyright Paul Zukofsky;

  the material may not reproduced,

  quoted, or used in any manner

  whatsoever without the explicit and

  specific permission of the copyright

  holder.

  Index of Titles and First Lines

  Titles appear in roman type. First lines appear in italics.

  9:45 AM, 76

  10:30 AM: Ralph Hotere’s, 9

  A big-assed, 64

  A bitter twitter, 552

  A Book, 448

  A book of such, 448

  A Calendar, 280

  A Feeling, 487

  A fresh, 64

  A Full Cup, 630

  A hand’s part, 450

  “a lot, 344

  A movie of Robert, 209

  A Note, 91

  A Note, 428

  A Valentine for Pen, 497

  A View at Evening, 449

  Absence, 625

  Abstract, 401

  Aching sense, 30

  Across bay’s loop, 104

  After, 104

  After, size of place, 259

  After Frost, 320

  After Pasternak, 295

  After School, 614

  After so many years the familiar, 428

  Afternoon it changes, 437

  Again, 263

  Age, 206

  Age, 335

  Age, 445

  Age knows little other than its own complaints, 630

  Air, 425

  “AL, 343

  Alex’s Art, 429

  Alice, 638

  All but, 31

  “All girls grown old . . . ,” 226

  “All god’s, 341

  “All I could see from where I stood, 548

  All I ever wanted was, 314

  All leaves gone, yellow, 246

  All that’s left of coherence, 424

  All the various, 463

  All the Way, 224

  All the ways to go, 359

  All this, 343

  All Wall, 370

  Almost at the dulled, 385

  Already night and day move, 281

  Always, 248

  Amazing grace, 341

  Ambition, 210

  American Love, 64

  An “outside” was always what I wanted, 573

  And as the world is flat or round, 244

  Ant pushes across rock face, 259

  Apolcalypse Now, 43

  Apostraphe, 458

  Après Anders, 261

  Archaic evolving things, 405

  Are all your, 278

  Are there still some, 119

  Around, 342

  Arroyo, 168

  Art says, 588

  Art’s a peculiar division of labors—“a small town cat before he joined the band”—, 429

  “Arthur’s friend’s,” 87

  As, 456

  As If, 570

  As if a feeling, come from nought, 570

  As we walk past crumbling, 462

  As With, 463

  As with all such, 463

  As you come and go, 456

  At the edge, fledgling, 560

  At the edge of the evening then, at, 617

  At whatever age he was, he was apt with that, 511

  Auckland, 23

  B. B., 141

  Baby Disaster, 254

  Back, 273

  Back a street is the sunken, 458

  Back in time, 250

  Back of the head, hand, the hair, 291

  Backward—as if retentive, 303

  Baler, 43

  Balling the Jack Down the Track, 537

  Bangs in street, 134

  Barcelona: February 13, 1977, 102

  Baroque, 404

  Be as careful, as rational, 212

  Be at That this, 421

  Be of Good Cheer, 228

  Beach, 104

  Bears down on, 381

  Beauty’s in eye of the proverbial beholder, 638

  Behind things, 18

  Beside Her to Lie, 225

  Better, 351

  Beyond, 211

  Bienvenu, 367

  Big Time, 446

  Billboards, 445

  Bill’s brother was partial, 356

  Bird and Calf, 408

  Birds like, 339

  Bit, 343

  Black Grackle, 321

  Black grackle’s refreshing eyeblink, 321

  Blast of harsh, 169

  Blood’s on the edge of it, 374

  Blue, 340

  Blue dressed aged blonde, 392

  Blue Moon, 353

  Blue Rabbit, 34

  Blue Skies Motel, 136

  Blue sky, a lurching tram makes, 375

  Blues, 122

  Blunted efforts as the distance, 555

  Blur of world is red smear on white page, 611

  Blurred headlights of the cars out there, 254

  Boat, 319

  Bobbie, 88

  Body, 414

  Body, 528

  Bookcase, 254

  Born and bred, 19

  Bowl, 391

  Box, 207

  Box, 318

  Bozo, 356

  Break down, 135

  Break heart, peace, 225

  Break the elliptical, 407

  Breaking Up Is Hard to Do, 38

  Breath, 498

  Breath as a braid, a tugging, 498

  Bresson’s Movies, 209

  Brick, 390 />
  Broad Bay, 296

  Brown’s another, 341

  Bruce & Linley’s House, 17

  Brutish recall, 427

  Bub and Sis, 587

  Buffalo Afternoon, 257

  Buffalo Evenings, 222

  Buildings, 57

  Building’s high bulk lifts, 383

  By the Canal/Sitting, 299

  “By the Rude Bridge . . . ,” 283

  Bye and Bye, 613

  Cambridge, Mass 1944, 575

  Can you recall, 489

  Candle Holder, 345

  Cannot want not to, 51

  Can’t live, 53

  Can’t say much, 637

  Cars, 340

  Case, 422

  Catching Cold, 10

  Cat’s rats, Mother’s brother, 423

  Cat’s up, 342

  Caves, 620

  Cebu, 39

  Chain, 402

  Cheap Thrill, 68

  Childish, 116

  Choo Choo, 300

  Christchurch, 10

  Ciano’s, 138

  Circles, 225

  Classical, 271

  Clemente’s Images, 563

  Clock, 74

  Clouds, 370

  Clumped Clares, 302

  Coda, 232

  Coda, 456

  “Come closer. Now there is nothing left, 531

  Come round again the banal, 411

  Coming Home, 227

  Common, 294

  Common’s profound bottom, 294

  Consolatio, 349

  Conversion to Her, 561

  Corn Close, 157

  Could persons be as this, 386

  Could walk on water backwards, 229

  Could you see present, 271

  Couldn’t guess it, 210

  Country Western, 35

  Crazy wheel of days, 283

  Credo, 484

  Creo que si . . . I believe, 484

  Crusoe again, confounded, confounding purposes, 631

  Curious, coming again here, 502

  Cut neat path out, 449

  Da. Da. Da da, 23

  Dam’s broke, 41

  Dance a little, 224

  Data, 424

  Davao, 42

  Davao Insular Hotel, 42

  Days, 279

  Days the weather sits, 576

  Daytime, 342

  “De, 343

  Dear, 80

  Death, 205

  Death, 400

  Den Alten, 262

  Desultory Days, 164

  Desultory days, 164

  Dialing for Dollars, 300

  Do you remember the way we used to sing, 601

  Dog Head with Crescent Moon, 407

  Dog Head with Rabbit Leg, 407

  Dog Leg Wheel, 406

  Doggie Bags, 19

  Dogs, 245

  Don’t go, 29

  Don’t take, 19

  “Don’t take your love, 38

  Door, 425

  Dover Beach (Again), 632

  Down, 341

  Down on the sidewalk recurrent, 163

  Down the road Up the hill Into the house, 420

  Drawn & Quartered, 538

  Dream, 447

  Dreams, 201

  Dreams, 327

  Dried Roses, 538

  “Dried roses . . .” Were these from some walk, 538

  Driving to the expected, 424

  Drunks leaning on your arm, 68

  Dumbass clunk plane “American, 232

  Dunedin, 7

  Dutch Boy, 431

  Duty, 422

  Each thing given, 449

  Early morning far trees lift, 285

  Early mornings, in the light still, 198

  Early Reading, 225

  Ears Idle Ears, 353

  Earth, 244

  East Street, 403

  East Street Again, 410

  Eat, 421

  Eats, 253

  Echo, 88

  Echo, 244

  Echo, 250

  Echo, 257

  Echo, 354

  Echo, 382

  Echo, 395

  Echo, 398

  Echo, 420

  Echo, 427

  Echo, 444

  Echo, 446

  Echo, 453

  Echo, 454

  Echo, 484

  Echo, 632

  Echo Again, 424

  Echoes, 116

  Echoes, 216

  Echoes, 341

  Echoes, 360

  Echoes, 372

  Echoes, 425

  Echoes, 426

  Echoes, 452

  Echoes (1), 358

  Echoes (2), 358

  Echo’s Arrow, 515

  Edenic land, Adamic person, 312

  Edge, 249

  Edge of door’s window, 389

  Edge of place, 249

  Edges, 444

  Edges, 509

  Edges and disjuncts, shattered, bitter planes, 536

  Edges of the field, the blue flowers, the reddish wash of, 444

  Ego, 342

  Eight panes, 116

  Eight Plus, 339

  Eight Plus, 360

  Elation’s ghost, 444

  Elements, 212

  Eleven AM, 459

  Emptiness, 598

  En Famille, 557

  En Route Perth, 31

  En Route San Francisco, 85

  End, 127

  End of page, 127

  Entire money, 395

  Epic, 82

  Epic, 294

  Erotica, 107

  Evening, 44

  “Eventually he dies, 101

  Ever, 100

  “Ever Since Hitler . . . ,” 368

  Ever since Hitler, 368

  Everything’s before you, 425

  Exoneration’s face, 424

  Expect the unexpected, 196

  Expectably slowed yet unthinking, 509

  Eye hold’s peculiar framed, 406

  Eye o’ the Storm, 174

  Eyes, 84

  Eyes, 343

  Eyes, 396

  Eye’s reach out window water’s, 325

  Face of my, 275

  Faded back last night, 45

  Faded in face of apparent reality, 613

  Fading Light, 383

  Fain dusky light, 35

  Faint, persistent, 88

  Faint Faces, 433

  Famous Last Words, 355

  Famous Last Words, 359

  Far, 423

  “Far be it from Harry,” 423

  Far from me, 228

  Fat Fate, 421

  Fathers, 265

  “Father’s dead,” 75

  Fearful Love, 525

  Fields, 345

  Figure of Fun, 392

  Find your way out, 454

  Fire back of grate, 17

  First Love, 385

  First Rain, 189

  First there, it proves to be still here, 529

  Five, 339

  Five Variations on “Elation,” 443

  Flakes falling, 332

  Flat out, 340

  Flaubert’s Early Prose, 101

  Fleurs, 302

  Flicker, 267

  Focus, 334

  Fools, 373

  For an Old Friend, 352

  For Anya, 573

  For Benny, 66

  For Cheryl, 31

  For Georg, 588

  For Gregory Corso, 589

  For Hannah’s Fourteenth Birthday, 550

  For J. D., 248

  For J. D. (2), 255

  For J. L., 384

  For John Chamberlain, 128

  For John Duff, 169

  For John Wieners, 613

  For Kenneth, 594

  For Nothing Else, 404

  For nothing else, 404

  For Pen, 105

  For Pen, 137

  For Pen, 139

  For Pen, 247

  For Rene Ricard, 152

  For Ric, who Loved this World, 607

  F
or Ted Berrigan, 259

  For the New Year, 253

  For the World That Exists, 329

  For Will, 550

  For You, 560

  Fort Collins Remembered, 211

  Fort William Henry/Pemaquid, 258

  Forty, 241

  Four, 280

  Four, 327

  Four Days in Vermont, 499

  Four for John Daley, 256

  Four to the round, 406

  Four Years Later, 132

  Four’s, 423

  Four’s forms, 423

  Fragment, 432

  Framed roof slope from tower’s window, 393

  Friend, 75

  Friend I had in college told, 637

  Friend Says of Job, 11

  Friend’s story of dead whale on California beach, 275

  From the outset, 143

  Funeral, 270

  Funny, 337

  Generous Life, 601

  Ghost, 344

  Gifts, 74

  Given, 489

  Giving me things, 74

  Glass roses or something else hardly expected—an, 613

  Gnomic Verses, 420

  Go, 247

  Go down obscurely, 228

  Go out into brightened, 377

  Goat’s Eye, 406

  Gods one would have, 245

  Going Home, 75

  Goodbye, 494

  Gotcha, 422

  Grandmother I’d thought, 493

  Grave, to the will, 102

  Great giggles, 256

  Great stories matter, 116

  Green, 343

  Green, how I love you green . . . , 356

  Green’s the predominant color here, 197

  Greeting Card, 196

  Grey blue, 340

  Greyed board fence, 257

  Ground Zero, 597

  Group, 343

  H’s, 319

  Had gone up to, 266

  Had never known blue air’s, 408

  Had they told you, you, 402

  Had you a dress, 272

  Haha, 261

  Hamilton, 22

  Hamilton Hotel, 22

  Hand, 527

  Hands, 264

  Happiness is its own reward, 638

  Hard to be unaddressed, 425

  Hard to begin, 280

  Hard to believe, 27

  Harvested this head’s, 407

  Harvey’s Hip, 638

  Have a Heart, 422

  Have Hannah’s happy health, 319

  Have heart Find head, 422

  Have I bricked up unbricked what, 390

  Having begun in thought there, 414

  He comes here, 320

  He comes she comes carrying carrying, 391

  He is thinking of everyone, 206

  He wants to be, 195

  He was walking, 395

  Head on backwards, 421

  Hearts, 280

  Heaven, 133

  Heaven, 452

  Heaven Knows, 241

  Heavenly Hannah, 279

  Heaven’s up, 339

  Heavy, 275

  He’d like the edge, 225

  Helen’s House, 285

  Hello, duck, 250

  Help, 341

  Help, 366

  Help, 496

  Help!, 615

  Help Heaven, 228

  Help heaven up out, 228

  Help the holes, 316

  Help’s easy enough, 615

  Helsinki Window, 365

  Helsinki Window, 377

  Her voice, 88

  Here, 83

  Here, 84

  Here, 353

  Here, 421

 

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