Selected Prose Book

	The impossible : Gertrude Stein	11
	Review of Michel Butor's La modification	15
	A note on Pierre Reverdy	19
	Antonin Artaud : poet, actor, director, playwright	24
	On Raymond Roussel	33
	Introduction to Raymond Roussel's "In Havana"	46
	A conversation with Kenneth Koch	55
	Brooms and prisms : Jasper Johns	68
	Tradition and talent : Philip Booth, Stanley Moss, and Adrienne Rich	73
	Frank O'Hara, 1926-1966	78
	Writers and issues : Frank O'Hara's question	80
	Jerboas, pelicans, and Peewee Reese : Marianne Moore	83
	The decline of the verbs : Giorgio de Chirico	88
	Introduction to a reading by Robert Duncan	92
	Up from the underground : Jane Bowles	94
	Alfred Chester's sweet freaks	97
	A game with shifting mirrors : Jorge Luis Borges	100
	Ecrivain Maudit : Witold Gombrowicz	104
	Straight lines over rough terrain : Marianne Moore	108
	The New York School of Poets	113
	Comment on Lee Harwood's The white room	116
	Review of Ted Berrigan's The sonnets	117
	Throughout is this quality of thingness : Elizabeth Bishop	120
	Further adventures of Qfwfq, et al. : Italo Calvino	124
	Introduction to The collected poems of Frank O'Hara	128
	North light : Louisa Matthiasdottir	134
	In the American grain : A. R. Ammons and John Wheelwright	137
	Jacques Rivette : Rivette masterpiece(s?)	148
	Introduction to E. V. Lucas and George Morrow's What a life!	153
	The figure in the carport : Kenward Elmslie	159
	Second presentation of Elizabeth Bishop	164
	A reminiscence : Frank O'Hara	171
	Schubert's unfinished : David Schubert	176
	On the poetry of F. T. Prince	178
	Introduction to Fairfield Porter's The collected poems with selected drawings	181
	Introduction to Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre's Fantomas	183
	Featured poet : Nicholas Moore	191
	An unpublished note : Raymond Roussel	197
	A note on "Variation on a noel"	198
	Foreword to The third rose : Gertrude Stein and her world	200
	Introduction to The best American poetry	202
	Introduction to a reading by James Schuyler	208
	Poetical space	210
	Introduction to a reading by Michael Palmer and James Tate	216
	Introduction to Raymond Roussel's Documents to serve as an outline	219
	Introduction to Gerrit Henry's The mirrored clubs of hell	223
	Preface to Mary Butts's From altar to chimney-piece	225
	Review of Mark Ford's Landlocked	231
	Introduction to Pierre Martory's The landscape is behind the door	237
	Introduction to a reading by Robert Creeley and Charles Tomlinson	241
	Robert Frost medal address	243
	Introduction to Robert Mapplethorpe's Pistils	252
	Introduction to Joe Brainard : retrospective	257
	Introduction to Trevor Winkfield's pageant	259
	Frederic Church at Olana : an artist's fantasy on the Hudson River	261
	Introduction to a reading by Charles North	267
	Obituary for Pierre Martory	268
	Foreword to Mark Ford's Raymond Roussel and the republic of dreams	272
	Introduction to exhibition catalogue : Lynn Davis	276
	On Jane Freilicher's View Over Mecox (yellow wall)	278
	Introduction to James Schuyler's Alfred and Guinevere	279
	Introduction to a reading by Tony Towle	285
	Larry Rivers was dying : he asked to see friends	286
	New York? Mais Oui! : Rudy Burckhardt	290
	Foreword to Mark Ford's Soft sift	291
	Preface to Paul Killebrew's Forget Rita	294
	On the poetry of Joan Murray	296
	On Val Lewton's The seventh victim	299
	On F. T. Prince's "The moonflower"	304