[In composing a gathering of
my own work over the last half-century or so, I’ve tried to construct it, with
the collaboration of Heriberto Yépez, as an assemblage on the model of earlier
works of mine like Technicians of the
Sacred & Poems for the Millennium. The experiment in this case was how to turn a
“reader” into something more than a chronological work stringing together
selections from previous books of poetry
& poetics. It’s my hope that the
table of contents which follows will give some sense of what we were doing
&, without claiming too much I hope, how it can serve as a model for yet another
kind of “grand collage,” as Robert Duncan named them, not only for myself but for
others whose work has attempted to cross over boundaries & genres. The proof however is in the work itself,
published a couple of months ago by Black Widow Press & currently open for
inspection.]
Table of Contents
Introduction
by Heriberto Yépez
Pre-face
by Jerome Rothenberg
Gallery
One: Prolegomena to a Poetics
“A Little Boy Lost”
The Night the Moon Was a
Spider
Why Deep Image?
Invincible Flowers
A Poem for the Preident
A Small PoemThe Stationmaster's Lament
The Real Revolution Is Tragic
A Conciliation
Image & Mode: A
Letter, 1960, to Robert Creeley
The Lightbulb & the
Cockeyed Queen of Poland
How Tragic It Is To Be a
King & Live in a Palace &
Never Have Time To Be Gay
A first Manifesto 1960
A Death Fugue, after
Paul CelanNever Have Time To Be Gay
A first Manifesto 1960
Walkin’ Around, after
Pablo Neruda
A Side of Beef
The Counter-Dances of
Darkness
Image & Melos: A
Letter, 1960, to Robert Duncan
The Journey Between
Summers
The Deep Image Is the
Threatened Image
A Canticle for Suicides
Found Poems from “The
Emergence Notebooks”
From The Seven Hells of the Jigoku Zoshi
The First Hell: of Measures
The Second Hell: of Thieves
The Fifth Hell: of Unclean Food
The Seventh Hell: of Smoke
A Bodhisattva Undoes Hell
From The Gorky
The Pirate
(II)
The Diary of
a Seducer
The Water of
the Flowery Mill (II)
Child of an
Idumean Night
Portrait
of Myself with Arshile Gorky & Gertrude Stein
A Commentary on The Gorky
From a Shaman’s Notebook
An
Invocation to the Rain
The Seven
Ghosts and
Shadows
The Killer
A Poison
Arrow
The Dead
Hunter Speaks through the Voice of a
Shaman
Shaman
The Stars
From SightingsSightings IV
Sightings V
Sightings VI
Sightings IX
A Note on the Measure of
Sightings
Further Sightings
The Old King
“Hell”
The Witnesses
From Conversations: Three Poems
A Second Manifesto 1964
A Reconsideration 2010
A Book of Otherings
A Paradise of Poets
From
Pre-Face to Writing Through: Translations
& Variations
Marpa: The Annunciation (
From
15 Flower World Variations (Yaqui)
The
Flight of Quetzalcoatl (Aztec)
Isaac
Luria: A Poem for the Small Face (Aramaic)
Isaac
Luria: A Poem for the Shekinah on the Feast
of the Sabbath (Aramaic)
of the Sabbath (Aramaic)
“The
Round Dance of Jesus” (Coptic)
25
Gematria (traditional)
A
Commentary on Gematria
From
Lorca’s Suites
Night: A Suite for Piano & Poet’s Voice
A Newton
From The Lorca
Variations: “Newton
A Commentary on Lorca
From 50
Caprichos after Goya
In
Goya’s World
Three Variations on Octavio Paz’s “Blanco”
Pablo Picasso: The Dream & Lie of Franco
A Commentary on Picasso
Tristan Tzara:
Two Dada Poems
Metal Coughdrops
Maison Aragon
Tristan Tzara, Dada, & Ethnopoetics
Kurt Schwitters: Five Merz Poems
Desire
“Thou”
The Meadow
Roses Abloom like Daisy Blossoms
From the Back & from the Front to Start
A Commentary on Kurt Schwitters
Nakahara Chuya: Two Poems
“A
Bone”
Poem: Sad Morning
A Commentary on Nakahara Chuya
Vitezslav Nezval: Shirt
A Commentary on Nezval
Eugen Gomringer: Four Concrete Poems
From a Letter to Eugen Gomringer 9th
November 1967
In Memoriam Jackson Mac Low
A Commentary on Jackson Mac Low
The First Horse Song of Frank Mitchell (Blue)
From “Je Est un Autre: A Talk & Talk-Poem”
poetics
& polemics 1: toward an ethnopoetics
The
Poetics of the Sacred: A Range
of Topics
Keynote Speech
Keynote Speech
On Ethnopoetics: A Collage
Primitive & Modern: Intersections & Analogies
Poets & Tricksters: Innovation & Disruption in Ritual
& Myth
& Myth
Total Translation: An Experiment in the Translation
of American Indian Poetry
of American Indian Poetry
From “New Models, New Visions”: The Poetics of
Performance
Performance
Gallery
Two: The World Turned Upside Down
A Third Manifesto 1968
A Seneca Memory
The Dream from A
Big Jewish Book
From Poland/1931
Poland/1931: The Wedding
The Beadle’s Testimony
The
Student’s Testimony
Portrait of a Jew Old Country Style
The Murder Inc. Sutra
Esther K. Comes to America
Galician Nights, or a Novel in Progress
Cokboy
From a Letter to Gary Pacernick 12/14/81
From A Seneca
Journal
I became a beaver in 1968
Seneca Journal 1: A Poem of Beavers
(Song # 1): Old Man Beaver’s
Blessing Song
Seneca Journal 7: The Dreamers
The Others
Hunters in the North the Cree
A Pre-Face for María Sabina
The Little Saint of Huautla
The
Nature Theater of Oklahoma
From That Dada
Strain
A Pre-Face
That Dada Strain
The History of Dada as My Muse
A Glass Tube Ecstasy, for Hugo Ball
A Merz Sonata, for Kurt Schwitters
A Poem in Yellow after Tristan Tzara
The Holy Words of Tristan Tzara
Hunger
Pain
A Commentary on Vienna
The Chicago
Seedings
From
Khurbn
Pre-face to Khurbn
In the Dark Word, Khurbn
Dos Oysleydikn (The Emptying)
Dos Geshray (The Scream)
Dibbukim (Dibbiks)
Der Gilgul (The Possessed)
Nokh Aushvitz (after Der Gilgul (The Possessed)
Di toyte Kloles (The Maledictions)
Peroration for a Lost
Town
A Book
of Extensions
From Songs from
the Society of the Mystic Animals
“Two Songs about a Dead Person or a Mole –
Whichever It Was” (with Richard Johnny John
and Ian Tyson)
Whichever It Was” (with Richard Johnny John
and Ian Tyson)
The Directions (with Tom Phillips)
From The Burning
Babe (with Susan Bee)
“A
Babe Sits Placidly in Schwitters’ Bau”
From 14 Stations
(with Arie Galles)
The
Ninth Station: Ravensbruck
From Gematria
Complete
Fourth Gematria: “In the Shadow”
The Leonardo Project 10 + 2
From The Pound
Project: Three Poems & Images
Esther K Comes to America
Events & Rituals
Lily
Events
Garbage
Event
Beard
Event
Gift
Event
Naming
Events
Vision
Events, I, II, III
Doings & Happenings: Notes on a Performance of the
Seneca Indian Eagle Dance, with the Scenario for
Gift Event III, Based on Its Orders
Seneca Indian Eagle Dance, with the Scenario for
Gift Event III, Based on Its Orders
From That Dada
Strain: A Hörspiel
Abraham Abulafia Visits the Pope, a Fragment of a
Steinian Opera
Steinian Opera
The Thirteenth Horse Song of Frank Mitchell (White)
A Letter to David McAllester, 1968, on the Beginnings
of Total Translation
of Total Translation
poetics
& polemics 2: eye of witness
Prologomena
to a Poetics
From
the Sibila Interview: The Poem as an Act of Witness
Khurbn
& Holocaust: “After Auschwitz There Is
Only
Poetry”
Poetry”
Harold
Bloom: The Critic as Exterminating Angel
“Secular
Jewish Culture / Radical Poetic Practice”
The Poet As Native: An Aspect of Contemporary Poetry
& Art
& Art
From A Book of
Witness: “i-Songs Exist”
Postscript to A
Book of Witness
Gallery Three: A Cruel Nirvana
Gallery Three: A Cruel Nirvana
Twentieth
Century Unlimited
Pre-face to 14
Stations
From “14 Stations”
The First Station: Auschwitz-Burkina
The Third Station: Buchenwald
The Sixth Station: Gross-Rosen
The Eleventh Station: Maidanek
The Twelfth Station: Sobibor
The Fourteenth Station: Stutthof
From The Lorca
Variations
Lorca’s Spain
Water Jets
The Return
Second New York
Coda: The Final Lorca Variation
First Night Poem, for Jackson Mac Low
Three Paris
A Poem for the Cruel Majority
At Tsukiji Market Tokyo
From China
Tibetan Boogie
The Poet at Chin’s Mausoleum
The Poet in a Field of Tombs
The Treasures of Dunhuang (performance
version)
A Commentary on China
From An Oracle for
Delfi
The Stones of Delfi, I and II
At Mykines
The Silver Trade
Spetses in Winter
From A Book of
Witness
The Case for Memory
A Cruel Nirvana
A Real Man
I Can’t Say Who I Am
I Come into the New
World
Eager to Break through Language
I Am That I Am
From 50 Caprichos,
after Goya
The Sleep of Reason
The World a Masquerade
The Company of Men
Tight Stockings
All Who Will Fall
To Speak as Who You Are
That Which We See in
Goya
A Donkey & a Monkey
A Commentary for Concealments &
Caprichos
From A Book of Concealments
The Times Are Never Right
A Man in Love with Death
The Mystery of Evil
The Sorry Mystics
A Double Schism
A Deep Romantic Chasm
Romantic Dadas
The Persistence of the Lyric Voice
In the Book of Concealments
Postscript to A Book of Concealments
poetics
& polemics 3: Toward an Omnipoetics
The
Book Spiritual Instrument
The
Anthology as a Manifesto & as an Epic Including Poetry
Poems for the Millennium: A First Pre-Face (with Pierre
Joris)
Joris)
Reconfiguring Romanticism: The Fancy as Duende &
Capricho
Capricho
A Round of Renshi & the Poet as Other: An Experiment
in
Poesis
Poesis
From
The Medusa Interview: Toward an
Omnipoetics
New
Poems: Divagations & Autovariations
From
Divagations
Divagations (I): The Birth of Time
Divagations (2): A Field on Mars
Divagations (14): The Sound of Water
Divagations (16): Where Memory & Dream
Are One
Divagations (20): The Final Word Is
Desecration
From The Jigoku
Zoshi Hells: A Book of Autovariations
Variations on the Hell of Measures
Variations on the Hell of Thieves
Variations on the Hell of Grieving Women
Variations on
the Hell of Smoke
A Commentary on the Jigoku Zoshi Hells
A Poem of Miracles
A Chronology & Memoir 2012 A Commentary on the Jigoku Zoshi Hells
A Poem of Miracles
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