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| Editor's Note | |
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| Noir Cacadou, or The Fatal Music of War | |
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| A Doppelganger | |
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| Poem (Green things are flowers too) | |
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| Entombment | |
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| A Slow Poem | |
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| In Gratitude to Masters | |
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| Poem (Suppose that grey tree, so nude) | |
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| Poem (Poised and cheerful the) | |
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| Song (I'm going to New York!) | |
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| A Pathetic Note | |
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| Poem (Just as I leave the theatre) | |
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| Windows | |
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| A Byzantine Place | |
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| Lines Across the United States | |
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| An Epilogue: To the Players of Try! Try! | |
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| Poem (I can't wait for spring!) | |
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| Poem (This vessel I've chosen) | |
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| Voyage a Paris | |
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| A Party Full of Friends | |
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| A Curse | |
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| A Portrait | |
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| Mr. O'Hara's Sunday Morning Service | |
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| The Soldier | |
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| Parties | |
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| [In the street of children the sun is cold] | |
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| Form and Utterance | |
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| Round Objects | |
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| Sky Rhymes | |
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| The Air and Sex of Early Day | |
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| A Virtuoso | |
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| A Classical Last Act | |
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| The Ideal Bar | |
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| The Painter's Son | |
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| A Military Ball | |
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| Poem ("Green oboes!" the parrot cries,) | |
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| Serenade (Starlings are singing) | |
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| Vernissage Jane Freilicher | |
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| Shelter | |
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| Schoenberg | |
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| [It is a weak cold morning and I roll] | |
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| Poem (The tough newspaper boy will wear) | |
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| On a Friend's Being Insulted | |
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| To Dick | |
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| The Puritan | |
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| A Romantic Poet to His Muse | |
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| A Greek Girl at Riis Beach | |
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| Poets up in the Air | |
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| [I walk through the rain] | |
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| Chanty | |
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| Grace and George, An Eclogue | |
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| It's the Blue | |
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| Jacob Wrestling | |
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| Poem (Rat's nest, at home bungling, up) | |
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| A Darkened Palette | |
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| Poem ("It's only me knocking on the door") | |
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| The Beach in April | |
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| A Wind at Night | |
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| Prose for the Times | |
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| [Tent-digging on the vacant lakes we appled] | |
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| Maurice Ravel | |
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| "Red" | |
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| Serenade (This night this forest) | |
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| A Sunday Supplement | |
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| Kra Kra | |
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| A Protestant Saint | |
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| What Sledgehammer? or W. C. Williams's Been Attacked! | |
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| Latinus | |
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| The War | |
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| The Builders | |
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| [With the minute intentions of a boa heroic constrictor] | |
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| Changing Your Ways | |
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| Study of Women on the Beach 2 | |
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| Poem (The rich cubicle's enclosure) | |
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| August Afternoon, A Collage | |
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| [The azure waves grumble and languish] | |
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| [Fish smells in the hallway] | |
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| Poem About Jane | |
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| [Rooftops blocks away from me] | |
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| A Birthday | |
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| [Of all community of mind and heart] | |
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| A Wreath for John Wheelwright | |
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| [See the tents and the tanks and the trees of March!] | |
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| Intermezzo | |
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| [My country, leafy and blue with infinite breaths] | |
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| Clouds | |
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| Causerie de Gaspe Peninsula | |
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| St. Simeon | |
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| Light Cavalry | |
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| Addict-Love | |
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| [En route to the burial in Long Island] | |
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| Perfumes | |
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| [Lace at your breast] | |
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| Joseph | |
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| Spleen | |
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| Forest Divers | |
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| The Weekend | |
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| The Lights Over the Door | |
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| Bridlepath | |
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| Indian Diary | |
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| "Light Conversation" | |
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| Southern Villages, A Sestina | |
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| Green Words, A Sestina | |
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| Tschaikovskiana | |
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| Palisades | |
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| Bill's Body Shop | |
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| A Little on His Recentness | |
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| [There's such an I love you!] | |
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| Poem (Water flow strongly O clouds) | |
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| Dear Bobby | |
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| To Bobby | |
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| [So the spirit of music, the cascades!] | |
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| Sonnet (O at last the towers!) | |
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| [A face over a book] | |
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| [Into the valley they go] | |
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| [She hefted her leg onto the table and] | |
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| On a Back Issue of Accent | |
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| The Last Day of the Zoo | |
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| To the Meadow | |
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| Benjamin Franklin, or Isadora Duncan | |
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| Augustus | |
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| Poem (The paralysis of power and ease) | |
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| The Mike Goldberg Variations | |
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| Room | |
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| [Dumb urns in syncamore temples] | |
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| Lexington Avenue, An Eclogue | |
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| [In the pearly green light] | |
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| Poem (Here we are again together) | |
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| [Pussywillows! Oh you're still here,] | |
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| Movie Cantata | |
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| [O resplendent green sea! I slowly pierce] | |
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| [Five sobs lined up on the doorstep] | |
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| Epigram for Joe | |
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| Ode (I don't eat wheat) | |
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| Jackie (After John Gower) | |
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| [The brittle moment comes] | |
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| [On the world's first evening] | |
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| F# | |
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| [Now It Seems Far Away and Gentle] | |
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| Corresponding Foreignly | |
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| Song (J'arrive au casserole at je casse une croute) | |
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| Bagatelle, or The Importance of Being Larry and Frank | |
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| Pitcher | |
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| Collected Proses, An Answer | |
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| Une Journee de Juillet | |
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| [Dusk. Dawn. The land. An albatross thinks of Spain.] | |
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| Attacca | |
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| Chopiniana | |
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| [She, has she bathed in sound] | |
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| [It is 1:55 in Cambridge, pale and spring cool,] | |
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| To John Ashbery on Szymanowski's Birthday | |
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| Poem (Flower! you are like synthetic feelings,) | |
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| Un Chant Contre Paroles | |
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| [And leaving in a great smoky fury] | |
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| [Three Parodies] | |
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| Episode | |
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| The Stars | |
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| Springtemps | |
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| To Ned | |
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| Platinum, Watching TV, Etc. | |
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| [There's nothing more beautiful] | |
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| [Have you ever wanted] | |
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| Fou-rire | |
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| Two Poems and a Half | |
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| Callas and a Photograph of Gregory Corso | |
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| To Violet Lang | |
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| Poem (I could die) | |
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| University Place | |
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| [It is 4:19 in Pennsylvania Station] | |
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| Maria Kurenko (Rachmaninoff Sings) | |
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| [Why is David Randolph such a jerk] | |
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| Kein Traum | |
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| [On the vast highway] | |
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| Poem ("We'll probably pay for it in August" the radio says) | |
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| Poem (You do not always seem to be able to decide) | |
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| Old Copies of Life Magazine | |
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| "Chez William Kramps" | |
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| Young Girl in Pursuit of Lorca | |
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| [How wonderful it is that the Park Avenue Viaduct is being rehabilitated] | |
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| A Trip to the Zoo | |
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| Dear Vincent | |
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| [The fondest dream of] | |
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| What Happened to "The Elephant Is at the Door" | |
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| After a Meeting of The 2nd Coming | |
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| Poem During Poulenc's Gloria | |
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| The Trout Quintet | |
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| F.Y.I. #371 (The Nun) | |
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| F.Y.I. #371a (Haiku Day for the Nuns) | |
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| F.Y.I. #371b (Parallel Forces Excerpted) | |
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| Le Domaine Musical | |
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| [Like a barbershop that's closed on Saturday, me heart] | |
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| Off the Kerb and After Emily Dickinson | |
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| Shooting the Shit Again | |
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| [How poecile and endearing is the Porch] | |
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| Conglomerations in the Snow of Christmas Eve 1961 | |
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| Un Homme Respectueux | |
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| Le Boeuf sur le Toit | |
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| My Day | |
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| [I will always remember] | |
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| Poem (Hoopla! yah yah yah) | |
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| Poem (It's faster if you late but may never occur) | |
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| To Lotte Lenya | |
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| Lawrence | |
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| Song (I ate out your heart) | |
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| Pedantry | |
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| Poem (In that red) | |
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| [What strange cataract the peculiar] | |
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| [The ancient ache, quick false move] | |
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| Poem (lost lost) | |
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| [I know that you try even harder than I] | |
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| [Not to confirm dolors with a wild laugh] | |
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| [Long as the street becomes] | |
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| [Just as I am not sure where everything is going] | |
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| [Why are there flies on the floor] | |
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| Notes on the Poems | |
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| Index of Titles and First Lines | |