Thus Spake the Corpse: An Exquisite Corpse Reader 1988-1998: Volume 1: Poetry and Essays Book

	Introduction: Corpse Readers, Take Heart	13
	Essays
	Lecture	21
	Revolutionary Proposal	26
	Is Literature Useful?	27
	The Revolution at St. Mark's Church	29
	Rakosi to Weinberger	37
	The Wider Education of Students: Cadavers, Composition, and the Press	40
	So Long, Rodgers and Hart	44
	Letters	46
	Nan and Warren	51
	J. Edgar Hoover and Julius Lulley	53
	J. Hillman on J. Edgar: Food & Fingerprints	54
	Secrets	55
	What I Learned from TV	58
	The American Male	60
	Hermaphrodite, Mon Amour	62
	Twenty Seven in a Row or a Blow	66
	American Princess	67
	Two by Edouard Roditi	68
	Abbott on Roditi	70
	My Abortion	70
	Masturbation as Social Revolution	73
	Was Narcissus a Narcissist?: An Alternative Reading of the Ancient Myth	74
	Genesis of a Quip	75
	Smokers in the Hands of an Angry God	76
	The Luddite Devolution	83
	Prose on Nisbet	94
	The Surre(gion)alist Manifesto	96
	Questions of Accent	105
	Pop or Not	119
	Jabes Upheld	120
	How Dare This Turk	123
	More Falls the Accent	124
	Post Modernism	127
	Report from the Seattle Post-Structuralist Conference	129
	Dysfic Manifesto	131
	On the Language of Creation	133
	Poetics & Poetry
	Not a Form At All But a State of Mind	143
	from How on Earth	148
	Anselm the Great	150
	O, Sexton! Oh Shelley, O Sappho! O, Goethe, O, Schiller!	152
	Wine Not	154
	California State of Mind	155
	Common Cold	156
	Bluebirdness	156
	Free Advice	157
	Penultimate Sublime	157
	The Miserable Student	158
	Goodbye	159
	Karl Marx's Eyes	160
	Work is Speech	162
	Pendant Eros	163
	Peasant Literature	165
	In Defense of American Peasants (And in Reply to Gerald Burns)	166
	Detail of Delights or Small Snapshots Inside the Big Picture (On Reading Gerald Burns)	171
	Rhyme	173
	The Day I Was Dead	173
	The Old Man's Lament	174
	The Sufis	174
	Carrots	174
	Visiting James Laughlin, or The Bus to Nude Erections	175
	Sirventes on a Sad Occurrence	179
	Ships Passing in the Night	182
	Country Epitaphs	183
	The Irish Boy	183
	Once Upon a Time	184
	Episode	184
	A Closet Named Love	184
	Separate Windows	185
	Rome in the Age of Justinian	185
	from Metropolitan Corridor	186
	Letter #6	187
	Home Alone	188
	A Vision for You	190
	Alice Gaines Played the Harp	191
	The Operation	192
	Our Holocaust	193
	Between Shit & Shinola	195
	Armed Humanitarians	197
	Fever Vortex #666	198
	White Bread Blues	199
	My Father	200
	If You Really Want To Work	201
	Wanted: Frycook	203
	Eyeglasses	204
	Memos From Big Joy	205
	I Sleep With Elegies	207
	Thinking About Death	207
	James Broughton, The Love Guru	208
	The Broughton Fountain	222
	Lucky Trees	224
	God	226
	February	227
	New York City Public Library Lions	227
	Higher Authority	228
	Radical Comma	228
	Theory Sonnet	229
	Princess Bride	229
	Rub on a Thigh	230
	Fuck Me	231
	The Sex Life of Politicians	232
	Tits	234
	Senryu	235
	The Future of Vaginas and Penises	235
	I Probably Would've Made a Good Little Nazi	236
	Jan Erik	236
	Pastiche of My Subjectivity	238
	Thank You	239
	The Aroma of Angels	241
	The Sweetness of Life	241
	Some Names of Venus from Lempriere's Classical Dictionary	242
	Bodybuilder	243
	The Function of Art	244
	Genealogy	245
	Famous For Fifteen Minutes	245
	The Opposite of Gravity is Humor	246
	Death Trip	247
	Flaubert's Kitchen	247
	Favorite Color	247
	What Do Books Say?	248
	Police Story	248
	The Seven Deadly Sins	248
	Why I Write	249
	Voice of the World	250
	Boat	250
	The Evidence Was Slight	251
	Impulse and Nothingness	251
	The Water Dog	253
	Farewell to Texas Poem	257
	July 4th, 1994	258
	In the Black Forest before the Birth of Rilke	258
	The First Date	259
	She Said It	259
	Betrayal	260
	Hayden Carruth: The Babe Ruth of Poetry	261
	from The Heniad
	Feathered Friends	264
	The Darkling Chicken	265
	A Study in Aesthetics	266
	Crazy Bill to the Bishop	266
	Berthold Brecht Enters Heaven	267
	Against Science Fiction	268
	Golf	269
	When Will Uncle Vania Take the Train to Moscow?	270
	From His Hotel Room in Paris	270
	Legacy	272
	Waiting for the Communists	274
	Post Masturbatio	275
	Academic	276
	Joe	276
	Old Photo	278
	Artificial Light	278
	Time	279
	My Hypertrophic Devotion	279
	Sonar	280
	Picking Kronos' Pockets	280
	Scum & Slime	281
	Sucking Mud	283
	Findings
	Ctesias	285
	Herodotus	285
	Xenophon	285
	Lucian	286
	Angel-Skate	286
	Pregnant Saint	287
	Hermaphroditismus Genitalis	288
	Somewhere Over the Rainbow	290
	On the Line	291
	Ramming Speed	291
	In The Dream of Love	292
	Poetry Lives	293
	Brick Tea	294
	In Time	294
	Poem	295
	Poverty	296
	Erotics	297
	On the Premises	297
	They	299
	the swirl of your hands	300
	three poems past midnight	301
	Plug-ugly and Multifarious	302
	Cute is Better Than Bitter	303
	Some of the Things I Told Her	305
	Permanent Face	307
	Time's Ma	308
	How the Word "Coox" Came to Represent Beelzebub	309
	Borrowed Sleep	311
	Flipping Through	312
	Rim	313
	The Rose of Sharon	313
	Longing	315
	Myself Contains Multitudes	315
	Closing Time	315
	Condo, Condom, Condemnation	316
	In My Boozy Loneliness	318
	Tampons in Space	319
	Dromedary	319
	The Martini Clinic	320
	Living the Lie	321
	Play and The Continual Present	322
	Punk Rock	322
	Not Fucking: A Complex System	323
	This is a Thank You to That Fat Bouncer God Who Threw Me Out When at Eighteen I Tried to Enter the Suicide House Forever	324
	The River	327
	Dream 1812	328
	The Right Thing To Do or Not To Do	329
	Schizophrenia	331
	Mercy	331
	Nana
	On Crucifixion	332
	On Women	332
	On Food	332
	On Kerouac	332
	On Contraceptives	332
	Hal's Mom	333
	Mom & Dad	333
	All in the Family	334
	My Mother	335
	The Body Bag & Riffs & Tiffs in the Corpse
	The Best of the Body Bag	347
	Burns Raps Bag	379
	Burn Burns	380
	Aquinas Again	381
	Body Bag, Cont	381
	Corpse, The Devil	381
	New Math	382
	Neo-Hoodoo Support	382
	Word Balloons: Petroleum Fumes	383
	The Innuendo Is Reality, or, Unmodern Observations on Definition	384
	Thank You for Letting Us Look at Your Work	385
	Feets Do Your Stuff!	386
	The Sonnet Lives	389
	Letter from New Heaven	391
	Dark Concerns	392
	On Scofield's Challenge	393
	Editor Rapped, Poetry Upheld	393
	Report from the Field	394
	Not Another Fucking Poetry Reading	395
	What American Mags Won't Print	396
	Pub Puke Poetry	398
	The Late Word	399
	Sober at Last	400
	Contributor Notes	403