Selected Poems Book

Introduction

From Harmonium (1923, 1931)
Earthy Anecdote The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage The Plot Against the Giant Domination of Black The Snow Man Le Monocle De Mon Oncle Nuances of a Theme by Williams Ploughing on Sunday Cy Est Pourtraicte, Madame Ste Ursule, Et Les Unze Mille Vierges The Doctor of Geneva The Comedian as the Letter C From the Misery of Don Joost Anecdote of Men by the Thousand Floral Decorations for Bananas A High-Toned Old Christian Woman Banal Sojourn The Emperor of Ice-Cream Tea at the Palaz of Hoon Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock Sunday Morning Six Significant Landscapes Bantams in Pine-Woods Anecdote of the Jar 49
Frogs Eat Butterflies. Snakes Eat Frogs.
Hogs Eat Snakes. Men Eat Hogs Life Is Motion Gubbinal To the One of Fictive Music Peter Quince at the Clavier Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird The Man Whose Pharynx Was Bad The Death of a Soldier Sea Surface Full of Clouds

From Ideas of Order (1936)
Farewell to Florida Sailing After Lunch Sad Strains of a Gay Waltz How to Live. What to Do Waving Adieu, Adieu, Adieu The Idea of Order at Key West The American Sublime Mozart, 1935
The Sun This March Botanist on Alp (No. 1)
Botanist on Alp (No. 2)
Evening Without Angels Re-Statement of Romance The Reader Anglais Mort à Florence The Pleasures of Merely Circulating A Postcard from the Volcano Autumn Refrain Gallant Château

From the Man with the Blue Guitar & Other Poems (1937)
The Man with the Blue Guitar The Men That Are Falling

From Parts of a World (1942)
Poetry Is a Destructive Force The Poems of Our Climate Study of Two Pears The Glass of Water Add This to Rhetoric The Man on the Dump On the Road Home The Latest Freed Man The Dwarf A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts Girl in a Nightgown Connoisseur of Chaos Poem Written at Morning The Common Life The Sense of the Sleight-of-Hand Man A Dish of Peaches in Russia Of Hartford in a Purple Light Bouquet of Belle Scavoir Yellow Afternoon Martial Cadenza Of Modern Poetry Arrival at the Waldorf Landscape with Boat On the Adequacy of Landscape Woman Looking at a Vase of Flowers The Well Dressed Man with a Beard Of Bright & Blue Birds & the Gala Sun Mrs. Alfred Uruguay Asides on the Oboe Metamorphosis Contrary Theses (I)
Phosphor Reading by His Own Light Contrary Theses (II)

From Transport to Summer (1947)
God Is Good. It Is a Beautiful Night The Motive for Metaphor No Possum, No Sop, No Taters So-and-So Reclining on Her Couch Somnambulisma Crude Foyer The Creations of Sound Holiday in Reality Esthétique Du Mal The Bed of Old John Zeller Less and Less Human, O Savage Spirit Flyer’s Fall Debris of Life and Mind Description Without Place Late Hymn from the Myrrh-Mountain Man Carrying Thing Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion The House Was Quiet and the World Was Calm Burghers of Petty Death The Red Fern The Dove in the Belly Credences of Summer Notes toward a Supreme Fiction

From the Auroras of Autumn (1950)
The Auroras of Autumn Page from a Tale Large Red Man Reading This Solitude of Cataracts The Beginning The Countryman The Ultimate Poem Is Abstract Bouquet of Roses in Sunlight A Primitive Like an Orb The Woman in Sunshine World Without Peculiarity Puella Parvula What We See Is What We Think Questions Are Remarks An Ordinary Evening in New Haven Angel Surrounded by Paysans

From “Three Academic Pieces” in the Necessary Angel (1951)
Someone Puts a Pineapple Together

From the section The Rock in The Collected Poems (1954)
The Plain Sense of Things Lebensweisheitspielerei The Hermitage at the Center The Green Plant Madame La Fleurie To an Old Philosopher in Rome Vacancy in the Park The Poem That Took the Place of a Mountain Two Illustrations That the World What You Make of It Prologues to What Is Possible Song of Fixed Accord The World as Meditation Long and Sluggish Lines A Quiet Normal Life Final Soliloquy of the Interior Paramour The Rock St. Armorer’s Church from the Outside The Planet on the Table The River of Rivers in Connecticut Not Ideas About the Thing But the Thing Itself

From Opus Posthumous (1957, 1989)
As You Leave the Room The Sick Man The Course of a Particular The Dove in Spring Farewell Without a Guitar A Child Asleep in Its Own Life Two Letters Reality Is an Activity of the Most August Imagination Local Objects Artificial Populations A Clear Day and No Memories July Mountain Of Mere Being

Short Chronology
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index of Titles