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| Editor's Note | |
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| Abbreviations | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Chronology | |
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| The Dispossessed [1948] | |
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| Winter Landscape | |
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| The Statue | |
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| The Disciple | |
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| A Point of Age | |
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| The Traveller | |
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| The Ball Poem | |
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| Fare Well | |
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| The Spinning Heart | |
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| On the London Train | |
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| Caravan | |
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| The Possessed | |
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| Parting as Descent | |
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| Cloud and Flame | |
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| Letter to His Brother | |
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| Desires of Men and Women | |
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| World-Telegram | |
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| Conversation | |
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| Ancestor | |
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| World's Fair | |
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| Travelling South | |
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| At Chinese Checkers | |
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| The Animal Trainer (1) | |
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| The Animal Trainer (2) | |
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| 1 September 1939 | |
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| Desire Is a World by Night | |
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| Farewell to Miles | |
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| The Moon and the Night and the Men | |
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| White Feather | |
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| The Enemies of the Angels | |
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| A Poem for Bhain | |
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| Boston Common | |
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| Canto Amor | |
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| The Nervous Songs | |
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| Young Woman's Song | |
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| The Song of the Demented Priest | |
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| The Song of the Young Hawaiian | |
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| A Professor's Song | |
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| The Captain's Song | |
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| The Song of the Tortured Girl | |
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| The Song of the Bridegroom | |
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| Song of the Man Forsaken and Obsessed | |
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| The Pacifist's Song | |
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| Surviving Love | |
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| The Lightning | |
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| Rock-Study with Wanderer | |
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| Whether There Is Sorrow in the Demons | |
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| The Long Home | |
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| A Winter-Piece to a Friend Away | |
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| New Year's Eve | |
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| Narcissus Moving | |
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| The Dispossessed | |
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| Sonnets to Chris [1947, 1966] | |
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| "I wished, all the mild days of middle March" | |
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| "Your shining--where?--rays my wide room with gold" | |
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| "Who for those ages ever without some blood" | |
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| "Ah when you drift hover before you kiss" | |
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| "The poet hunched, so, whom the worlds admire" | |
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| "Rackman and victim twist: sounds all these weeks" | |
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| "I've found out why, that day, that suicide" | |
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| "College of cocktails, a few gentlemen" | |
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| "Great citadels whereon the gold sun falls" | |
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| "You in your stone home where the sycamore" | |
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| "I expect you from the North. The path winds in" | |
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| "Mutinous in the half-light, and malignant, grind" | |
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| "I lift--lift you five States away your glass" | |
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| "Moths white as ghosts among these hundreds cling" | |
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| "What was Ashore, then? .. Cargoed with Forget" | |
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| "Thrice, or I moved to sack, I saw you: how" | |
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| "The Old Boys' blazers like a Mardi-Gras" | |
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| "You, Chris, contrite I never thought to see" | |
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| "You sailed in sky-high, with your speech askew" | |
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| "Presidential flags! and the General is here" | |
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| "Whom undone David upto the dire van sent" | |
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| "If not white shorts--then in a princess gown" | |
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| "They may, because I would not cloy your ear--" | |
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| "Still it pleads and rankles: 'Why do you love me?'" | |
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| "Sometimes the night echoes to prideless wailing" | |
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| "Crouched on a ridge sloping to where you pour" | |
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| "In a poem made by Cummings, long since, his" | |
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| "A wasp skims nearby up the bright warm air" | |
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| "The cold rewards trail in, when the man is blind" | |
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| "Of all that weeks-long day, though call it back" | |
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| "Troubling are masks .. the faces of friends, my face" | |
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| "How shall I sing, western and dry and thin" | |
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| "Audacities and fetes of the drunken weeks!" | |
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| "'I couldn't leave you' you confessed next day." | |
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| "Nothing there? nothing up the sky alive" | |
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| "Keep your eyes open when you kiss: do: when" | |
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| "Sigh as it ends .. I keep an eye on your" | |
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| "Musculatures and skulls. Later some throng" | |
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| "And does the old wound shudder open? Shall" | |
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| "Marble nor monuments whereof then we spoke" | |
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| "And Plough-month peters out .. its thermal power" | |
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| "The clots of age, grovel and palsy, crave" | |
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| "You should be gone in winter, that Nature mourn" | |
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| "Bell to sore knees vestigial crowds, let crush" | |
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| "Boy twenty-one, in Donne, shied like a blow" | |
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| "Are we? You murmur 'not'. What of the night-" | |
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| "How far upon these songs with my strict wrist" | |
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| "I've met your friend at last, your violent friend" | |
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| "One note, a daisy, and a photograph" | |
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| "They come too thick, hail-hard, and all beside" | |
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| "A tongue there is wags, down in the dark wood O" | |
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| "A sullen brook hardly would satisfy" | |
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| "Some sketch sweat' out, unwilling swift and crude" | |
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| "It was the sky all day I grew to and saw." | |
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| "When I recall I could believe you'd go" | |
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| "Sunderings and luxations, luxe, and grief-" | |
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| "Our love conducted as in tropic rain" | |
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| "Sensible, coarse, and moral; in decent brown" | |
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| "Loves are the summer's. Summer like a bee" | |
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| "Today is it? Is it today? I shudder" | |
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| "Languid the songs I wish I willed .. I try .." | |
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| "Tyranny of your car--so far resembles" | |
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| "Here too you came and sat a time once, drinking." | |
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| "The dew is drying fast, a last drop glistens" | |
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| "Once when they found me, some refrain 'Quoi faire?'" | |
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| "Astronomies and slangs to find you, dear" | |
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| "Faith like the warrior ant swarming, enslaving" | |
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| "Where the lane from the highway swerves the first drops fell" | |
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| "For you am I collared to quit my dear" | |
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| "October's both, back in the Sooner State" | |
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| "Our Sunday morning when dawn-priests were applying" | |
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| "A Cambridge friend put in,--one whom I used" | |
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| "Demand me again what Kafka's riddles mean" | |
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| "All I did wrong, all the Grand Guignol years" | |
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| "Swarthy when young; who took the tonsure; sign" | |
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| "The two plantations Greatgrandmother brought" | |
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| "Fall and rise of her midriff bells. I watch." | |
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| "On the wheat-sacks sullen with the ceaseless damp" | |
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| "I dreamt he drove me back to the asylum" | |
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| "Infallible symbolist!--Tanker driven ashore" | |
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| "Four oval shadows, paired, ringed each by sun" | |
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| "Why can't, Chris, why shouldn't they fall in love?" | |
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| "Impossible to speak to her, and worse" | |
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| "How shall I do, to pass the weary time" | |
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| "Spendthrift Urethra--Sphincter, frugal one" | |
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| "Our lives before hopelessly our mistake!" | |
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| "Is it possible, poor kids, you must not come out?" | |
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| "Anomalous I linger, and ignore" | |
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| "'If long enough I sit here, she, she'll pass.'" | |
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| "For you an idyl, was it not, so far" | |
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| "Itself a lightning-flash ripping the 'dark" | |
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| "What can to you this music wakes my years" | |
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| "The man who made her let me climb the derrick" | |
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| "Most strange, my change, this nervous interim.--" | |
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| "'Old Smoky' when you sing with Robin, Chris" | |
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| "It will seem strange, no more this range on range" | |
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| "I say I laid siege--you enchanted me .." | |
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| "Mallarme siren upside down,--rootedly!" | |
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| "A murmuration of the shallow, Crane" | |
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| "I am interested alone in making ready" | |
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| "Because I'd seen you not believe your lover" | |
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| "A penny, pity, for the runaway ass!" | |
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| "A 'broken heart' .. but can a heart break, now?" | |
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| "A spot of poontang on a five-foot piece" | |
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| "Three, almost, now into the ass's years" | |
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| "Began with swirling, blind, unstilled oh still" | |
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| "Darling I wait O in my upstairs box" | |
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| "I owe you, do I not, a roofer: though" | |
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| "Menage a trois, like Tristan's,--difficult! .." | |
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| "'Ring us up when you want to see us ...'--'Sure'" | |
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| "Christian to Try: 'I am so coxed in it'" | |
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| "I break my pace now for a sonic boom" | |
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| "'I didn't see anyone else, I just saw Lies'" | |
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| "You come blonde visiting through the black air" | |
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| "As usual I'm up before the sun" | |
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| "Outlaws claw mostly to a riddled end" | |
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| "All we were going strong last night this time" | |
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| Homage to Mistress Bradstreet [1953] | |
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| from His Thought Made Pockets and the Plane Buckt [1958] | |
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| Venice, 182- | |
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| Scots Poem | |
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| The Mysteries | |
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| They Have | |
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| The Poet's Final Instructions | |
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| from The Black Book (i) | |
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| from The Black Book (ii) | |
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| from The Black Book (iii) | |
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| A Sympathy, A Welcome | |
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| Not to Live | |
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| American Lights, Seen From Off Abroad | |
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| Note to Wang Wei | |
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| Formal Elegy [1964] | |
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| Love and Fame [1971] | |
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| Her and It | |
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| Cadenza on Garnette | |
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| Shirley and Auden | |
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| Freshman Blues | |
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| Images of Elspeth | |
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| My Special Fate | |
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| Drunks | |
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| Down and Back | |
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| Two Organs | |
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| Olympus | |
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| Nowhere | |
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| In and Out | |
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| The Heroes | |
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| Crisis | |
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| Recovery | |
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| Away | |
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| First Night at Sea | |
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| London | |
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| The Other Cambridge | |
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| Friendless | |
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| Monkhood | |
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| Views of Myself | |
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| Transit | |
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| Meeting | |
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| Tea | |
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| The Search | |
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| Message | |
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| Relations | |
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| Antitheses | |
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| Have a Genuine American Horror-and-Mist on the Rocks | |
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| To a Woman | |
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| A Huddle of Need | |
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| Damned | |
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| Of Suicide | |
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| Dante's Tomb | |
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| Despair | |
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| The Hell Poem | |
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| Death Ballad | |
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| 'I Know' | |
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| Purgatory | |
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| Heaven | |
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| The Home Ballad | |
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| Eleven Addresses to the Lord | |
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| "Master of beauty" | |
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| "Holy, as I suppose" | |
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| "Sole watchman" | |
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| "If I say Thy name" | |
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| "Holy, and holy" | |
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| "Under new management" | |
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| "After a Stoic" | |
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| A Prayer for the Self | |
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| "Surprise me" | |
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| "Fearful I peer" | |
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| "Germanicus leapt" | |
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| Delusions etc of John Berryman [1972] | |
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| Opus Dei | |
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| Lauds | |
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| Matins | |
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| Prime | |
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| Interstitial Office | |
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| Terce | |
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| Sext | |
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| Nones | |
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| Vespers | |
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| Compline | |
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| Washington in Love | |
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| Beethoven Triumphant | |
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| Your Birthday in Wisconsin You Are 140 | |
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| Drugs Alcohol Little Sister | |
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| In Memoriam (1914-1953) | |
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| Gislebertus' Eve | |
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| Scholars at the Orchid Pavilion | |
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| Tampa Stomp | |
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| Old Man Goes South Again Alone | |
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| The Handshake, The Entrance | |
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| Lines to Mr Frost | |
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| He Resigns | |
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| No | |
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| The Form | |
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| Ecce Homo | |
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| A Prayer After All | |
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| Back | |
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| Hello | |
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| Scherzo | |
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| Navajo Setting the Record Straight | |
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| Henry By Night | |
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| Henry's Understanding | |
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| Defensio in Extremis | |
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| Damn You, Jim D., You Woke Me Up | |
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| Somber Prayer | |
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| Unknowable? perhaps not altogether | |
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| Minnesota Thanksgiving | |
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| A Usual Prayer | |
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| Overseas Prayer | |
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| Amos | |
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| Certainty Before Lunch | |
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| The Prayer of the Middle-Aged Man | |
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| 'How Do You Do, Dr Berryman, Sir?' | |
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| The Facts and Issues | |
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| King David Dances | |
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| Early Poems | |
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| from "Twenty Poems" in Five Young American Poets [1940] | |
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| Song from "Cleopatra" | |
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| The Apparition | |
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| Meditation | |
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| Sanctuary | |
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| The Trial | |
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| Night and the City | |
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| Nineteen Thirty-Eight | |
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| The Curse | |
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| Ceremony and Vision | |
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| from Poems [1942] | |
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| The Dangerous Year | |
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| River Rouge, 1932 | |
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| Communist | |
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| Thanksgiving: Detroit | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendices | |
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| Berryman's Published Prefaces, Notes, and Dedications | |
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| Editor's Notes, Guidelines, and Procedures | |
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| Copy-Texts and Variants | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |