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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| (1950-1960) On Out | |
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| This Book Is for Magda | |
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| Chicago Poem | |
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| A Round of English | |
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| Memo Satori | |
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| I Fly to Los Angeles | |
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| Taxi Suite | |
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| After Anacreon | |
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| Passenger Poem, the Nurse | |
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| Passenger Poem, Mrs. Angus | |
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| Passenger Poem, the Mailman | |
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| Top of the Mark | |
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| Leo Poems | |
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| Barbara/Van Gogh Poem | |
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| Leo, Pleased | |
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| Leo, in Absence of Fire | |
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| Song of a Self | |
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| Entire Sermon by the Red Monk | |
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| In Safeway Parking Lots, Old Men Drive Slowly. Backwards. | |
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| The First Warm Day of the Year | |
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| Apotheosis of Leo | |
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| Circle Poems | |
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| Seasons | |
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| Eliotica Revisited | |
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| Skunk Cabbage | |
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| Corinna's Gone A-preying | |
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| Atlantis Was Crete | |
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| A Parable of Wasps | |
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| You Can't Burlesque It Anymore, - | |
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| 55 In Answer to a Question from P.W. | |
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| Compleynt at 38 | |
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| Virgin at the Bus Stop | |
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| Concerning the Murder of Birds | |
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| Goldilocks | |
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| The Four Stories of Apple | |
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| Hiking Poem / High Sierra | |
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| Four Studies in Perception | |
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| Wobbly Rock | |
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| Two Like Villanelles | |
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| Lines to an Urban Dawn | |
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| Notes from a Pioneer on a Speck in Space | |
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| [I rate my fury with the] | |
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| (1960-1964) Hermit Poems | |
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| Preface to Hermit Poems, The Bath | |
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| [Not yet 40, my beard is already white.] | |
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| [I know a man's supposed to have his hair cut short,] | |
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| [Apparently wasps] | |
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| [I burn up the deer in my body.] | |
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| [Step out onto the Planet.] | |
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| [The Empress herself served tea to Su Tung-po,] | |
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| [Whenever I make a new poem,] | |
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| [The image, as in a Hexagram:] | |
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| [I saw myself] | |
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| (1960-1964) The Way Back | |
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| He Prepares to Take Leave of His Hut | |
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| He asks for Guidance | |
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| He Writes to the Donor of His Bowl | |
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| He Thanks His Woodpile | |
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| A Song to His Secret Farm | |
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| Farewell to His Birds and Animals | |
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| He Praises His Canyons & Peaks | |
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| He Greets, Again, the Open Road | |
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| He Finally Reaches the City | |
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| He Locates the Live Museum | |
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| He Begins to Recount His Adventures | |
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| He Explains It Another Way | |
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| (1964-1968) Din Poem, Courses | |
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| Din Poem | |
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| Supermarket Song | |
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| Courses | |
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| Course College Credo | |
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| Geography | |
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| History | |
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| Aesthetics | |
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| Math | |
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| Theology | |
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| Psychology | |
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| Botany | |
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| Philosophy | |
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| The Basic Con | |
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| Course College Graduation Address | |
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| Course College Oath | |
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| (1969-1971) the Song MT. Tamalpais Sings | |
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| The Song Mt. Tamalpais Sings | |
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| Olema Satori | |
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| Sausalito Trash Prayer | |
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| Prayer to a Mountain Spring | |
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| The Riddle of Hands | |
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| The Riddle of Bowing | |
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| The Rider Riddle | |
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| Redwood Haiku | |
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| Difficulty along the Way | |
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| Warning of Tamalpais | |
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| Springtime in the Rockies, Lichen | |
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| Song of the Turkey Buzzard | |
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| Uncollected Poems | |
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| Editor's Note | |
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| The Importance of Autumn | |
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| Monologue of One Whom the Spring Found | |
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| Unaccompanied | |
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| Breakfast, One Easter | |
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| Sweet Death | |
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| Anecdote of Tangerines | |
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| Olympia Oysters | |
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| Not This Gradual Intelligence | |
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| The Uses of Poetry | |
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| Utensil | |
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| The Epiphany of Toffy Belsky | |
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| David Is Dead | |
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| Epithalamion | |
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| Compleynt of His Mistress | |
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| Words to That Effect | |
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| A Matter of Organ Stops and Starts | |
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| Large Little Circle | |
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| Seventh Grade | |
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| For Joseph Kepecs | |
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| Nightclub Scene: 20/Nov/58 | |
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| For a Kyger Known by Another Name | |
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| Invention Against Invention | |
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| [First you must love your body, in games] | |
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| Pawn to Queen 4 | |
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| "Everybody Calls Me Tricky, But My Real Name's Mr. Earl": A Sermon | |
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| Orange Take | |
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| In & Out, In & Out | |
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| [Three Songs in Rat Flat] | |
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| Without a Rifle, on a Cloudy Day | |
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| Shasta! | |
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| Buddhist Bard Turns Rat Slayer | |
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| [What a thing to know!] | |
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| Dane Poem | |
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| Graffiti | |
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| Small Turned on Song | |
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| Not Ready for Me | |
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| Small Book to Break The Brain | |
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| A Very Important Letter | |
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| Leo's Poet-Plight | |
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| Leo Gives Himself Yet Another Name | |
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| Lewie, You're a Goddam Jewel | |
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| Doctor, Can You Spell Nebuchadnezzar | |
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| Without Any Z? | |
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| Acedia | |
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| Maitreya Poem | |
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| How to Give Yourself Away: The Sermon of Gladness | |
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| [Postgraduate Courses] | |
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| Law | |
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| Comportment | |
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| A Poem for Gerard Malanga | |
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| [Prepositions] | |
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| I Sometimes Talk to Kerouac When I Drive | |
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| Dear Joanne, | |
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| Cement | |
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| Our Lady of Refused Love | |
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| Whalen's Feet | |
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| Small Sentence to Drive Yourself Sane | |
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| Dream Poem / Mother | |
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| Getting Bald | |
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| Mustache | |
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| A Memorable Fancy | |
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| Inflation | |
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| Frozen Pigeons | |
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| The Wanderer | |
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| A Statement of Poetics | |
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| Language Is Speech | |
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| A Brief Chronology | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |