The Collected Poems of Philip Whalen Book

Editor's Note and Acknowledgments Foreword, Highest and Driest: For Philip Zenshin's Poetic Drama/Dharma - Gary Snyder Language as Transient Act, The Poetry of Philip Whalen - Leslie Scalapino

IV VIII XVIII

Three Desert Poems The Great American Desert Saguaro New Canaan

from The Temptation of St. Anthony

The Plaster Muse : 6 Poems in the Classic Mode I. Moshe Sur l'Eau II. Ode III. Leda IV. Thursday in Byzantium V. "A l'Ombre Des Jeunes Filles . . ."
VI. Sonnet for Valentine's Day

Advent
"A Country Without Ruins"
In the Palace of the Heart Invocation to the Muse November First An Elegy Upon the Untimely Death of Mrs. W. F.
The Road-Runner Three Ormolu Pieces for Stanley Moore Song Apostrophe to a Borrowed Tiger The Sealion Theory
"Of Course," She Said Three Satires The Engineer The Great Instauration The Rose Festival Parade Meta
"The Shock of Recognition"
Two Miracles The Five Queens Homage to Lucretius A New Voyage Scholiast Out of It Tell Me More
"Plus Ca Change . . ."
Martyrdom of Two Pagans If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?
Sourdough Mountain Lookout from Three Variations, All About Love Sauced Unfinished, 3:xii:55
Denunciation, or, Unfrock'd Again Homage to Robert Creeley Invocation & Dark Sayings, in the Tibetan Style The Slop Barrel: Slices of Paideuma for All Sentient Beings Small Tantric Sermon Further Notice I Give Up The First Day of November Esprit d'Escalier Rant, Directed at Dr. P.'s class in English 106-B The Same Old Jazz Anchor Steam Beer, for Michael McClure Souffle Takeout, 15:iv:57
For C.
A Dim View of Berkeley in the Spring Literary Life in the Golden West Take # 4, 5:viii:57
Against the Magic War: An Open Letter to Robert Duncan Harangue from Newport, to John Wieners, 21:ix:57
10:x:57, 45 Years Since the Fall of the Ch'ing Dynasty Apedeath In Memory of a Statesman LETTER, to Mme. E. T. S., 2:i:58
For My Father
"While the Patient Slept"
Translation of a Lost Play by M. M.
Senseless Commentaries on Chao-Chou Sincerity Shot Metaphysical Insomnia Jazz. Mumonkan xxix.
Letter to Charles Olson Unsuccessful Spring Poem Corvallis Down the Road Trying Too Hard to Write a Poem Sitting on the Beach
20:vii:58, On Which I Renounce the Notion of Social Responsibility Newport North-Window View From an Envelope Addressed to Charles Olson Hymnus Ad Patrem Sinensis Complaint: To the Muse Prose Take-Out, Portland 13:ix:58
Self-Portrait Sad 22:ix:58
I Think of Mountains Fond Farewell to the Chicago Review From a Letter to Ron Loewinsohn, 19:xi:58
Delights of Winter at the Shore Something Nice About Myself
[The end, of a month of Sundays]
Motion Day a very complicated way of saying "appearances deceive"?
4:2:59 Take 1
Self-Portrait, from Another Direction I Return to San Francisco Take, 25:iii:59
A Reply For a Picture by Mike Nathan A Distraction Fit With Compliments to E. H.
[Awake a moment . . . ]
I Am King Giant Dragon Sun Poem for a Blonde Lady
"Everywhere I Wander"
Haiku for Mike A Reflection on My Own Times Address to the Boobus, with her Hieratic Formulas in reply Boobus Hierophante, Her Incantations Song for 2 Balalaikas on the Corner of 3rd & Market To the Moon All About Art & Life Temporarily Insane Farewell!
Since You Ask Me New York City To a Poet An Irregular Ode Haiku, for Gary Snyder Warnings, Responses, Etc.
Goodbye & Hello, Again
[Take dandelions first salad.]
[March 3, 1960, A Beautiful Page]
Palace Cafe A Vision of the Bodhisattvas Itchy Dream Essex Was a Cowboy in Vermont Movie Night Historical Disquisitions Short Explanation of Everything
[Requiescat]
[Try doing a small thing well.]
Address to a Younger Generation Dream & Excursus, Arlington Massachusetts The Death of Boston For Albert Saijo
[Government]
Homage to Rodin Staying or Going The Treasures of Rage Real San Francisco Sunday Afternoon San Francisco Sunday Morning Palimpsest To Ruth Duerden Says: "Life is Therapy"
Philippic, Against Whitehead and a Friend Twin Peaks
[under/beneath]
Caption for a Picture Life and Art
[Red Rover]
The Daydream Ignorantaccio
[Driving immediately past]
[hoist great blocks of language into place]
That One
[I have eaten]
Monday in the Evening

Vector Analysis
[Coca-cola chairs]
[" . . . my FBI, my peace, my war"]
Saturday Morning
[B.C.]
Early Autumn in Upper Noe Valley Easy Living The Poor The Revolutionaries One of My Favorite Songs Is Stormy Weather Friendship Greetings Statement of Condition The Idol The Chariot The Admonitions To the Muse The Prophecy
[Monday early before bedtime]
[Lamp]
[Very Early Monday]
[Tender]
There It Goes Saturday 15:ix:62
A Short History of the Second Millennium B.C.
Fillmore Hob Nob Carburetor The Art of Literature The Art of Literature, 2nd part The Art of Literature, #3, A Total Explanation The Art of Literature, Part 4th The Art of Literature, Concluded
[Hum]
[a community temple]
[Albert's Antarctica]
Minor Moralia Applegravy Sunday Afternoon Dinner Fung Loy Restaurant San Francisco 25:xi:62
The Saturday Visitations Song to Begin R'ohatsu The Gallery, Mill Valley Heigh-Ho, Nobody's at Home Hello to All the Folks Back Home
[OEconomy]
The Professor Comes to Call The Coordinates
[a major communication]
[Worse than ever . . . ]
Spring Musick How We Live the More Abundant Life in America Spring Poem to the Memory of Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928)
[careful & empty]
[More light seems to fall]
Re-Take 20:xii:63 from 7:iii:63
Letter, to Michael McClure, 11:iii:63
For Brother Antoninus Night and Morning Michaelangelo How Beautiful PW His Recantation
[Someplace, Neb.]
Three Mornings World Out of Control Life and Death and a Letter to My Mother Beyond Them Both
[Expansion]
[Obsessions]
Plums, Metaphysics, an Investigation, a Visit, and a Short Funeral Ode
[The San Francisco Symphony Orchestra]
["Chooky"]
[One Page Poem]
Friday Already Half-
Tennis Shoes Epigram To the Muse Where Was I Oh Yes. Vancouver.
Vancouver Golden Gate Park That Dream Mysteries of 1961
Breughel: "The Fall of Icarus" 20:ix:63
[My karma has to do with ears]
[Octopus]
Raging Desire &c.
Social Graces Mystery Poem, for a birthday present The Fourth of October, 1963
Song Illness
[For John Lee Hooker]
[The shape of it]
Somebody Else's Aesthetic Gradus ad Parnassum Inside Stuff Roxie Powell Native Speech
[aches and pains]
[Crown Fruit]
[Treasures, left panel]
[Treasures, right panel]
St. Francis Lobbies Allen G.
To a Nervous Man The Double Take Homage to WBY Salamander A Recall Native Speech The Walkers' Patio: Giant Plant How Was Your Trip to L.A.?
Whistler's Mother Last Part of an Illustrated Children's Book in a Fever Dream Some Kind of Theory Winter Jelly Theophany
[Native // Folk Speech]
[Native // Folk Speech with doodles]
[Epiphany]
Papyrus Catalogue A Botanical Phrenzy Clean Song The Great Beyond Denver Technicalities for Jack Spicer
[March 1964]
Corinthian Columns Mexico Chagrin Composition The Lotus Sutra, Naturalized A Mistake Early Spring The Mystery The Problem
[Hope for the best]
Invocation and Theophany The Metaphysical Town Hall and Bookshop The Ode to Music
[Time Poem]
Absolute Realty Co.: Two Views
15:v:64
[The End of the line]
[Nasturtium]
Trinity Sunday 1964
Tommy's Birthday
[air and earth combine]
Late Afternoon

Magical Incantation Goddess Buck Rogers The Chain of Lakes Dying Again To My Muse True Confessions The Best of It EAMD
[Groundhog Day]
The Season
[Futility]
[The Great American Boob, Lecture Notes]
[Lecture Notes, GSS Berkeley]
[Lecture Notes—II—G.S.S. Berkeley]
Bleakness, Farewell
[skoolie-bau]
Homage to William Seward Burroughs Fragment of Great Beauty & Stillness The India Print Bedspread
[Dear Mr. President,]
Grand Historical Ode Priapic Hymn Doukhobor Proverb
"Merry Meet; Merry Part"
Disgust with an Poetickal Evening at Miss Q's House Japanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring
"A Penny for the Old Guy"
Fragment of a Letter, Unsent Art & Music Mahayana My Songs Induce Prophetic Dreams April Showers Bring Rain?
Love Love Love Again A Morning Walk Message Before Aram Awakes
"The Sun Rises and Sets in That Child,"
The Second Day of May 1965
"California Is Odious but Indispensable"
Imagination of the Taj Mahal T/O
"The Great Heidelberg Tun"
[Nasturtium shadows]
Sleepy A Satire Card #21 Le Monde
[Strange?]
1935
The Feather Truth Weighs 10,000 Pounds M
The Life of Literature What Finally Happened to the King
[Lightning of the sky]
[This is my life]
America!
The Education Continues Along Giant Sequoias Pop Doughnut Secret That Eyes! Those Nose!
The First of August The Greeks Vignette of an Ice Axe L'Enfant Prodigue The Mystery of the Alphabet Genetics Higher Criticism The Promise Good News and Gospel Paranoia Revisited The Honeymoon Palimpsest
[the beginning of a long silence]
The Task Rejected Homage to Dante Tara Labor Day Sad Song
"Plaster of Paris: Helen of Troy."
Opening the Mountain, Tamalpais: 22:x:65
Lemon Trees Trip, 30:x:65
Portland in the Evening Opening Rainy-Season Sesshin White River Ode Eikei Soji Ginkakuji Michi
"The Flexible Mind"
The Judgment Sanjusangendo Synesthesia Crowded A Platonic Variation A Revolution Above the Shrine Point Richmond The Trolley The War Poem for Diane di Prima Waiting for Claude Some Places Ten Titanic Etudes Champ Clair Modern Jazz Coffee Ushi Matsuri The Garden Confession and Penance The Grand Design
"Sheep May Safely Graze"
Success Is Failure
[Another Blank Discovery!]
[I keep hunting through the house]
The Winter Demachi The Winter
[All of it came to nothing]
[All of it went on the wrong page]
["NEFAS"]
Poem
[Winter money gloom]
George Washington
[Pet Shop]
[What do I know is a small yellow]
The Dharma Youth League
[Outside]
Failing To Henrik Ibsen We Sing in Our Sleep. We Converse with the Dead in Our Dreams The Encore A Romantic & Beautiful Poem Inspired by the Recollection of William Butler Yeats, His Life & Work
"Never Apologize; Never Explain"
17:III:67
Something Childish but Completely Classical Regalia in Immediate Demand !
Characteristically Grace before Meat A Wedding Journey, an Opera Ultimate Frivolous Necessities Dewey Swanson The Apparition The War October Food In the Center of Autumn A Couple Blocks South of the Heian Shrine International Date Line, Monday / Monday 27:XI:67
America inside & outside Bill Brown's House in Bolinas
25:I:68
Life in the City. In Memoriam Edward Gibbon.
Allegorical Painting: Capitalistic Society Destroyed by the Contradictions within Itself. (Second Five-Year Plan.)
At the Red Whale Bar & Restaurant, Stinson Beach The Unidentified Accomplice or, The Transmissions of C. W. Moss The Evasive Answer The Madness of Saul To the Revolutionary Cadres of Balboa, Malibu & Santa Barbara To All My Friends Larry Kearny at Stinson Beach Duerden's Garage, Stinson Beach Birthday Poem,
Bill Brown Scenes of Life at the Capital Walking beside the Kamogawa, Remembering Nansen and Fud' o and Gary's Poem May First Revolution Day To Edward Dahlberg Science and Language For Kenneth Rexroth Four Other Places, More & Less Behind the Door Life at Bolinas. The Last of California For Kai Snyder A Letter, to Bill Berkson Allen Marlow Leaving the Capital
"Home Again, Home Again . . . "
Many Colored Squares
"Not Heavily"
"Up in Michigan"
"Old Age Echoes"
The Letter to Thomas Clark 22:VII:71 from Bolinas where He Sat beside Me to Help to Write It Portland Again Untied Airlines
"Horrible Incredible Lies": Keith Lampe Spontaneously Imaginary Splendors Public Opinions Monument Rescue Dim The Summer Afternoon
"I Told Myself ": Bobbie Spontaneously Look Look Look Mozambique The Turn A Return to San Francisco from Kitkitdizze Growing and Changing Rejoice !
October First Rome New Mexico, after Many Years Occasional Dilemmas Minuscule Threnody Ode for You New Departures Alleyway In the Night Weather Odes Looking for Help Impatient Poetry for Ted and Alice B. *
Something Marvelous
"Stolen and Abandoned"
Desperately Awaiting the Arrival of the China Dinner Man Tassajara The Universal & Susquehanna Mercy Co. Dayton, O.
Monumental Beer Message Kitchen Practice

The Sesshin Epigram The Autopsy High-tension on Low-pressure Non-accomplishment Blues Mask Detachment, Wisdom and Compassion Homage to Aram Saroyan
"La China Poblana"
Money Is the Roost of All Eagles
"The Conditions That Prevail"
Zenshinji The Talking Picture Dream Poems Murals Not Yet Dreamed Epigram, upon Himself The Vision of Delight Luxury in August Pacific Telephone How To Be Successful & Happy Without Anybody Else Finding out About It Look Away Organized Crime Ice Plant Compulsive Obligatory Paranoia Flashes Saturday Conclusions For Clark Coolidge A Crackling Window Peak Blossoms of the Lemon Tree Dorje Quandary The Bouquet Prolegomena to a Study of the Universe The Radio Again Somebody Else's Problem Bothers Me Bead Blurb Where or When Escaping April Powell & Market La Jolla in the Morning Brutal Landscape Mnemonotechnique Defective Circles The Simple Life Obsolete Models Many Pages Must Be Thrown Away Wild Talents The Congress of Vienna To the Memory of Lines for a Celebrated Poet The Wind Chimes That the True Nature of the Universe Might Be Like a Vast Klein Bottle Song
"Past Ruin'd Ilion"
Garden Cottage #1
"Back to Normalcy"
For a Bluejay
[A Little Sickness]
"I Used to Work in Chicago"
Messages Switch Tears and Recriminations Waste. Profligacy. Fatuity.
Discriminations Homage to St. Patrick, Garcia Lorca, & the Itinerant Grocer Wandering Outside The Laundry Area Schubert Sonata What About It?
Cynical Song
"Can't You Be a Little More Selective?"
The Inspection of the Mind in June Treading More Water I Can Look Any Way I Feel Like Treading Water The Holding Pattern What? Writing in the Dining Room?
How Many Is Real Lost Fragment from The Impatient Monument Rodomontade What's New?
Songs La Condition Humaine Welcome Back to the Monastery Violins in Chaos?
Litany of the Candy Infant of Geneva Extravagance (comma,)
Homage to Sosa-No-Wo-No-Omikoto The Bay Trees Were About to Bloom Dying Tooth Song Rich Interior, After Thomas Mann Treading Water. Backing & Filling.
Chanson d'Outre Tombe And Then. . .
The Ghosts The Phantom of Delight Divine Poisons Labor Day Again, 1979 at San Francisco Hot Springs Infernal in the Human Beast Homage to Hart Crane What Are You Studying, These Days?
Mama The Roast Is Lost The Critic Definition Epigrams & Imitations Dharmakaya The First of 20 New Poems Normally Somewhere Else Some of These Days
[Quack]
Splendors The Elizabethan Phrase For Shunko Enjo
"Silence in the middle of traffic"
Naturally Museum Partition Snow Job The Kenwood Hotel 1928
Thanksgivening
"The Dilemma of the Occasion Is"
For Allen, On His 60th Birthday Gamboge Pathogenesis Maps and Mountains At Dharma Sangha On the Way to the Zend'o Gourmets
"My Fellow Americans,"
Action Traction Satisfaction By Accident or Design For Robert Winson Grievances Never Again The Expensive Life Oyster Music: Robert Schumann Affliction Jack's House
[Poeta Nascitur . . .]
Friday The Imperfect Sonnet Nothing Comes to Mind at the Moment Unagi-Don

Appendixes appendix a: Contents of Whalen Books in Their First Book Publication appendix b: Calendar: Notes and Appendices appendix c: Essays and Prefaces by Philip Whalen Goldberry Is Waiting" from The Poetics of The New American Poetry
[from Highgrade] 834
The Preface [from Every Day]
Author's Note [from On Bear's Head]
Preface [from Decompressions]
About Writing and Meditation [from Beneath a Single Moon, ed. Kent Johnson and Craig Paulenich, Shambhala, 1991]
Preface [from Enough Said]
appendix d: Biography and Bibliography Index of Titles Index of First Lines