Guide to the Paul D. Carroll Papers 1950-1996

Poems, 1953, 1980, 1994

• "Poem" ("Since it seems apparent…")
• "Tea with Wittgenstein"
• "Crucifixion Scene"

Poems, 1972

• "Poem in Which I Move, Bag & Baggage, Into the Art Institute of Chicago and For Good"
• "Caribbean"
• "Songs from Thursday December 7th"
• "Thanksgiving"
• "Poem Found in Plato's Place; or, Hello Dr. Freud"
• "Lines Written in Reply to Dr. Ruth's Statement on the Urgency of Me to Tell Her Which Group of Patients I belong in, the Psychoanalytical Ones or the One Able to be Satisfied with Psychotherapy"
• "Ode to Darwin Aboard the HMS Beagle"
• "Song" ("Immaculate as the immortal…")
• "Lines: In Appreciation of Lionel Johnson's 'Alone I Go to the alone,/Divine Into Divinity'"
• "Song from the Woods of the University of California at Santa Cruz"
• "Song from the University of California at Riverside"
• "The Media is a Bad Poet"
• "Snow Poem"
• "Poem of the Foureye Butterflyfish Whose Tail's an Oriental Masterpiece and the other Fish in the Coral Reef Tank in the Shedd Aquarium"
• "Stanza Left by Some Young Poet at the Party Held in Honor of My Christmas Tree"
• "New Year's Song"
• "San Francisco Poem"

Poems, 1972-1977

• Photocopies of Carroll's Published Poems and Books
• "To a Dragonfly in Lincoln Park"
• Untitled ("waves./His eyes the traps")
• "Ode to St Mary-of-the-Woods College in Terre Haute"
• "Alcohol"
• "Song" ("Ascending and descending immense elegant steps…")
• "To Mies, In Heaven"
• "Hymn to God the Father, the Son, and the Holy Ghost"
• "Ode" ("'You must begin at zero.'…")
• "Song From the Beach at Fullerton"
• "To Jules Supervielle, not Knowing Whether He's Dead or in a Bed de la Terre Ou se Font les Arbres"
• "Song at the Bridge at Lake Shore Drive"
• "On a Photograph of Eakins Naked on his Horse"
• Untitled ("Without you/we'd see fewer clouds…")
• "Poem from Norris McNamera's Motorboat on Lake Geneva"
• "Words for Neruda"
• "Ode to Darwin Aboard the HMS Beagle"
• "Lines: In Appreciation of Lionel Johnson's 'Alone I go to the Alone,/Divine Into Divinity'"
• "Song from the Woods of the University of California at Santa Cruz"
• "Poem of the Foureye Butterflyfish Whose Tail's an Oriental masterpiece and the Other Fish in the Coral Reef Tank in the Shedd Aquarium"
• "New Years Song"
• "Snow Poem"

Poems, 1978

• "'What Do You Read, My Lord?'"
• "Holle Der Voegel"
• "To a Work of Art, In the Dark"
• "Hymn. The View from the Sculpture Factory"
• "Hymn. To Egon Schiele's Selbstbildnis 1910"
• Photocopy of "Thirteen Ways of Looking at the Great Chicago Blizzard"
• "Thamyrūs"

Poems, 1978-1981

• "Ode to Thomas Eakins & the All-American Jock"
• "Dillinger"
• "A Stanza of Lines Remembered Not Included in the First Writing of the Ode Today"
• "Ode to the Honorable Richard M. Nixon, President, the United States of America"
• "Postscript"
• "Musa Mihi Causas Memora"
• "These Are the Ties that Bind"
• "Chicago Poems"
• "Yule Poem for Douglas Macdonald"
• "To the Wild Bird Sanctuary in Lincoln Park"
• "Hymn: to the Melody 'Swing Low Sweet Chariot'"
• "Ode to Work"
• "Sessha's Long Scroll"
• "Elegy for Rue Shaw"
• "Ode to Joy"
• "Hymn to Spring in Lincoln Park"
• "Ode to the Photo Album"
• "Ode. Against Ms. Hollie West's Profile in The Washington Post Entitled: 'His Immortal Hits Aren't Enough for Hoagy Carmichael'"
• "Ode to Cavafy & John Ashbury from Roditu's Greek Restaurant on Halsted Street"
• "Day After Thanksgiving"
• "Poem for Three Black Drivers"

Poems, 1985-1988

• "In a Park in Old Town – II"
• "St. Michael's Church in Old Town on a Rainy Day"
• "Halloween"
• "Poem in the Park in the Shadow of St. Michael's Steeple"
• "October in a Park in Old Town"
• "The Five Proofs for the Existence of God"
• "Shams"
• "A Virgilian Moon"
• "To a Tree, at the Corner of Fern Court and Menomonee in Old Town"
• "To Celebrate a 60th Birthday"
• "Ode" ("Then try to sit in silence…")
• "Thirteen Mornings on a Bench in Lincoln Park"
• "Côte d'Ivoire"
• "Ghost Town"
• "Couple on a Couch (On a Photograph by Joni Sternbach)"
• "Couple on a Couch II"
• "Song" ("Where is the wind when it's not here")

"Poems," 1985-1988

• "A Note on Han-Shan's Line 'I Feel Bound by the Spell of the Cinnamon Trees'"
• "Birthday Poem for Federico Garcia Lorca"
• "Poem for Decimus Magnus Ausonius (4th Century Ad)"
• "Poem for Junior"
• "A Note on Han-Shan's Line 'I Feel Bound by the Spell of the Cinnamon Trees'"
• "Song in Treasure Island"
• "My Friend the Cyclist on La Grande Jatte"
• "Th: Nast"
• "The Steeple of St. Michaels' Church, On a Rainy Day"
• "Song" ("A butterfly, zigzagging above the circle of sand")
• "Elegy for St. John Perse"
• "On Reading Neruda's 'Art of the Birds'"
• "Poem" ("The wind's voice is soft as a rabbit's ear")
• "Poem in a Park in Old Town"
• "Poem" ("Heaven must be/like writing poems ceaselessly")
• "Poem" ("Only a rumor of rain")
• "Poem" ("The squirrels are bringing the fall…")
• "Song, Early Autumn in a Park in Old Town"
• "Of Lust"
• "Stabat Mater"
• "St. Sebastian His Arrows"
• "(Title to Come)" ("A row of flying hats…")
• "He Was a Man, Horatio…"
• "Halloween"
• "This Poem's For Any Man With a Good Wife"
• "Ode. To Chief Big Foot of the Hminneconious Sioux"
• "Cruikshank & Gilray – God Bless Them"
• "Poem Written in Rage"
• "That an Empty Purse Need Not Inhibit the Power of Art"
• "'But Age, Allas…'"
• "Letter to Luke"
• "Nuns Fishing at Diversey Harbor"
• "Poem" ("I'm glad I was a Catholic…")
• "Elegy for St. John Perse"
• "Insect"
• "To a Bird"
• "Bequest"
• "Et in Arcadia Ego"
• "Landscape"
• "St. Michael's Church, on a Rainy Day"
• "Aquinas Tunbelly, Frate Porcospino"
• "In a Park in Old Town"
• "(Untitled)" ("It feels fresh here…")
• "Song" ("The rain is shy as a herd of deer")
• Untitled ("That great bald oak")
• Untitled ("The clouds are as endless as our thoughts of love")

Poems, 1985-1988

• "Original Sin"
• "Song for a Marriage Anniversary"
• "Song in Early Spring"
• Chicago Poems
• "Hymns"

Poems, 1985-1988

• "Shams"
• "Black Dog"
• "Depression"
• "Poem" ("Groucho's son recalled")
• "Rain"
• "Song in Early Autumn"
• "Fish"
• Untitled ("A bedsheet tattooed…")

Poems, 1985-1988

• "Third Song in the New Year"
• "Second Song in the New Year"
• "To My Old Psychoanalyst on the Feast of the Epiphany"
• "Spiritus Sanctus"
• "Christmas"
• "Poem about the Devil'
• "Poem with the Devil in It"
• "Poem on the Feast of SS Fabian & Sabastian Martyers"
• "New Years Day at Diversey Harbor"
• "Gluttony"
• "Pride"
• "Anger"
• "Greed"
• "Sloth"
• "Decimus Magnus Ausonius"
• Original Manuscript, Poems

Hymns First Drafts, 1985-1986

• "A Note on Wallace Stevens' Aphorism: 'A Poet Looks on the World the Way a Man Looks on a Woman'"
• "A Note Towards Giving Out the Text: The Soul Can Be as Blind"
• "A Prayer to the Logos"
• "Hymn" ("This faint, half-flush of blue")
• "To James Wright, at Christmas"
• "A Huddle of Gulls on the Ice"
• "(Untitled)" ("It feels like being really horny")
• "(Untitled)" ("Hoping that you'll have to write a poem today")
• "Notes on Olson's Felicitious Phrase 'Archaeologist of Morning'"
• "Holographic Image of Africa's Taung Child, One to Two Million Years Old"
• "Portrait d'une Femme"
• "St. Michael's Steeple, in a Snowstorm"
• "Poem" ("It's pure Arabian nights")

Hymns in the Dead of Winter, 1986

• "Harpo with Crown of Juniper Leaves"
• "Hymn in the Dead of Winter"
• "Hymn at 4 o'clock"
• "Third Hymn in the Dead of Winter"
• "Fourth Hymn"
• "Fifth Hymn"
• "Hymn in the Rain"
• "Hymn to Claude Monet at Giverny"
• "Bequest"
• "In a Park in Old Town"
• "A Virgilian Moon"
• "Song" ("The rain is shy as a herd of deer")
• "Insect"
• "Et in Arcadia Ego"
• "Landscape"
• "Bird"
• "Nuns Fishing at Diversey Harbor"
• "Halloween"
• "In a Park in Old Town"
• "But Age, Allas…"
• "Poem" ("I'm glad I was a Catholic…")
• "Fish"
• "Aquinas Tunbelly, Frate Porcospino"
• "A Note on Wallace Stevens' Remark: 'A Poet Looks at the World the Way a Man Looks at a Woman'"
• "To the Logos"
• "Hymn" ("How many times have you tramped by")
• "Hymn" ("This faint, half-flush of blue")
• "To James Wright, at Christmas"
• "A Huddle of Gulls on the Ice"
• "A Note on Olson's Felicitious Phrase: 'Archaeologist of Morning'"
• "Holographic Image"
• "Portrait d'une Femme"
• "St. Michael's Church, in a Snowstorm"
• "(Untitled)" ("It is quite possible to have a feeling about the world")
• "Postcard with Head of a Lonan"
• "Song" ("Snow all of a sudden")
• "Pulvis et Umbra Sumus"
• "Archaic Smile"
• "The Statues of the Saints"
• "St. Michaels Church, in an Ordinary Light"

Poems, 1986

• Untitled ("What could be more dazzling")
• "Psalm"
• "Psalm. On Neruda's Line 'The Rain No Longer Knows Me'"
• "Psalm. Zen and the Art of Riding Your Bike"
• "Ode at the Beach at Fullerton"
• "A Note on the Line in Humbodt's Gift: 'I Felt Showered by Green Within'"
• "Nota: That Love is an Everyday Thing"
• "Poem" ("The wilderness is always with us - here")
• "Ave Atque Vale"
• "John A. Carroll"
• "Words for June Leaf's Drawing 'Paul's Park' (1957)"
• "Hasidic Songs"
• "'Take Hands Together, My Dear Children, and You Will Be Happy Together and Your Hearts Will Love Each Other'"
• "Ode to Fletcher Christian"
• "Small Hasdic Song. For a 59th Birthday"
• "Second Small Hasidic Song"
• "(Untitled)" ("Those smothering, bone-numbing, summer Sunday noons")
• "Song for the Guy Who Won the Game for the Gipper"
• "Jack"
• "To Dick Buckley"
• "North Avenue Beach Ourbade"
• "Hymn in the Dead of Winter"
• "To Carlos Castanada"
• "On a Postcard of a Head of a Loman"
• "Hymn" ("It always should be 4 o'clock")
• "Another Hymn in the Middle of Winter"
• "Third Hymn in the Dead of Winter"
• "Fourth Hymn"
• "Hymn to Claude Monet at Giverny"
• "Fifth Hymn"
• "Sixth Hymn"
• "St. Michael's Church, in an Ordinary Light"
• "Song" ("Snow's sudden, delicate as a caress")
• "Puluis Et Umbra Sumus"
• "Archaic Smile"
• "The Statues of the Saints"

New Poems, 1986

• "After Horace (Odes 4.7)"
• "Stabat Mater"
• "Father"
• "Saint Sebastian His Arrows"
• "(Title to Come)" ("A row of flying hats…")
• "675 North Michigan Avenue"
• "In a Park in Old Town"
• "Proem"
• "To the Ghost of the Totem Pole in the Park at Addison"
• "Variation on Burns' Lines, 'The white moon sets behind the white wave,/ and time is setting on me, o,' and Joel Oppenheimer's 'ass like a valentine'"
• "Air"
• "A Prayer to St. Mary Magdalene at Easter"
• "Song of the Places of Power in Chicago"
• "Song on the Hill of the Chinese Poets Facing the Lagoon at Fullerton"
• "Song at the Beach at Fullerton. Easter."
• "Easter"
• "Spring in Lincoln Park"
• "To Miró, with Thanks for his Painting 'Dog Barking at the Moon'"
• "Song on a Saturday in April"
• "Horae Canonical"
• "Smokestack in the Lincoln Park Zoo"
• "Robert Frank's Photographs in Nova Scotia"
• "To Jim Wright"
• "Supplementum Lyricis Graecis"
• "To Alleman, My New Friend"
• "Song for a Park Without a Name"
• "Hasidic Songs"
• "A Song to St. Francis of Assissi on a Rainy Saturday in May in Lincoln Park"
• "Song" ("These small white cottonwood balls")
• "Variation on Lorca's Line: Verde Que te Quiero Verde"
• "Psalm of the Buddhist Gardners"
• "Psalm for My Wife's Birthday"
• "Psalm"

Poems, 1987

• Untitled ("Now here's a metaphor of our itch for/immortality")
• "Poem for Robert Desnos"
• "Song from the Beach at Fullerton"
• "(Untitled)" ("I want a language I have never known")
• "Shams"
• "An Ordinary Week in Winter at Diversey Harbor"

Poems, 1987-1990

• "(Untitled)" ("The older man looks Canadian and kind")
• "Poem with the Devil in It"
• "Black Dog"
• "Song for Two European Women on a Bench"
• "Song for Di Chirico"
• "Song"
• "Poem (for Benedict Ashley OP)"
• "Wild Dog"
• "All Saints Day"
• "Last Sunday in Advent"
• "In Front of St. Michael's Church in Old Town"
• "Ode on the Feast of the Nativity of Our Lord"
• "Song on the Feast of the Epiphany"
• "To the Christ of the Last Supper"
• "Augustine"
• "Poems to Atone a Sin Against the Holy Ghost"
• "Poem for the Beginning of a New Book"
• "First Poem"
• "Second Poem"
• "Third Poem"
• "Fifth Poem"
• "A Poem for Vesalius"

Poems Rejected from Final MS Poems to Atone a Sin Against the Holy Ghost, 1988

• "Elegy for John Logan (1923-1987)"
• "Letter to a Young Poet"
• "Soul"
• "Sham's Songs"
• "Thanksgiving"
• "To My Old Psychoanalyst on the Feast of the Epiphany"
• "Rimbaud"
• "Notes for a Song of a Shaman"
• "The Seven Deadly Sins"
• "Song from the Beach at Fullerton"
• "Three Songs"
• "La Condition Humaine I"
• "For Robert Desnos"
• "Song for June Leaf"
• "Spiritus Sanctus"
• "Christmas"
• "Second Song in the New Year"
• "Third Song in the New Year"
• "Rimbaud"
• "Couple on a Couch"
• "Song for a Lost Poem"
• "Song for a Theologian"
• "Journal"
• "Envy"
• "Anger"
• "Greed"
• "Sloth"
• "Pride"
• "Gluttony"

Poems, 1988-1989

• Untitled ("The traffic light turns green…")
• "Untitled" ("If I could write a poem mysterious")
• "Snow"
• "Poem" ("Two rows of captured navy pilots wearing")
• "Postcard from a Village Around Caesarea Phillipi in Palestine"
• "Poem to St. John Perse from the Boat Harbor at Diversey"
• "Circe and Her Lovers in a Landscape"
• "Footnote to Porphyry's (His Reading that the Wandering of Odysseus is an Allegory for the Journey of the Soul)"
• "Mother"
• "Father"
• "Self-Portrait"
• "Undeveloped Photo"
• "Instruction Manual"
• "Mother"
• "Father"
• "Another Postcard"
• "First Poem"
• "Second Poem"
• "Third Poem"
• "Fourth Poem"
• "Poem for André Kertész"
• "(Untitled)" ("The lake today's locked tight")
• "Footnote for Melville's Observation that 'There Can Be No Wonder in the External World Unless an Interior Wonder Meets It'"
• "Song to a Tree"
• "Primavera"
• "Poem"
• "A Christmas Carol for Fats Waller"
• "Instruction Manual"

Poems, 1989

• "Et in Arcadia Ego"
• "Ego Te Absolvo"
• "'Vanity of Vanities' Saith the Preacher 'All is Vanity'"
• "Theologian Growing Old"
• "'In the Lost Childhood of Judas Christ Was Betrayed'"
• "Early Summer Song"
• "Chanson Innocente"
• "Variations on a Line by Lorca"

First Drafts and Deletions, 1989

• "September Log"
• "All Poems are the First Poem in the World"
• "(Untitled)" ("This peace I feel")
• "Poem Beginning with the Zen Advice 'Think of Nothing'"
• "Variation on a Line by Lorca"
• "Poem for Iamblichus"
• "Songs"
• "Song After Making Love"
• "September 1st 1989"
• "Three Labor Day Poems"
• "(Untitled)" ("It feels strange trying to talk with you")
• "September 23rd"
• "The Art of Poetry"
• "(Untitled)" ("I know more about this 2" scar that runs")
• "Song" ("Sometimes I feel like Guliette Masini in La Strada")
• "Second Poem"
• "Third Poem"
• "Fourth Poem"
• "Song" ("Our best questions have no answers")
• "The Curé of Ares"
• "Prolegomenon for a Druid"
• "Druid Song"

Poems, 1989

• "Poem" ("Some days are ugly…")
• "Poem" ("Leaving everything to be")
• "Poem" ("And if you were to step…")
• "Poem" ("The day when it finally…")
• "Poem" ("The way you were able…")
• Untitled ("Hearing John McCormick singing")
• Untitled ("What a lot of sweet talk")
• "Poem to the Oracles and Mysteries"
• "Poem that Wants to Talk with Iamblichus About the Mysteries"
• "Poem to Blaise Pascal"
• "The Cure of Ares"
• "A Question for Pascal"
• "To the Christ in the Tabernacle in St. Philip Neri Church"
• "Ode Against Myself"
• "Halloween"
• "62"
• "In Defense of the New Critics"
• Untitled ("And if one finds oneself…")
• Untitled ("What if there is no soul")
• "Poem on St. Francis' Remark 'Brother Rain'"
• "Song at the End of Summer"
• "St. Michael's Park in Old Town"
• "St. Michael's Park in Old Town Revisited"
• "Canticle from the Beach at Fullerton"
• "'Words, Words, Words'"
• "Poem for Delmore Schwartz"
• "Lines on the Day Before Labor Day"
• "Lines on the Day After Labor Day"
• "Litany"
• "Things I Won't Have to Do Today"
• "To My Wife"
• "September 23rd"
• "The Art of Poetry I"
• "The Art of Poetry II"
• "The Art of Poetry III"
• "Second Poem"
• "September 23rd"
• "September 24th"
• "September 25th"
• "Poem Beginning with the Zen Advice 'Think of Nothing'"
• "Poem for Imbalichus and the Mysteries"

Poems, 1989

• Unidentified Book Introduction
• "This Poem is For Any Man With a Good Wife"
• "To a Tree, at the Corner of Fern Court and Menomonee in Old Town"
• "Ode. To Chief Big Foot of the Dakota Sioux"
• "Cruikshank & Gilray – God Bless Them"
• "Poem Written in Rage"
• "That an Empty Purse Need Not Inhibit the Power of Art"
• "Letter to Luke"
• "Elegy for St. John Perse"
• "Postcard (From a Village Near Caesarea Phillipi in Palestine)"
• "Ode in Early Spring"
• "Instruction Manual"
• "Words for Humpty Dumpty"
• "Song in Hope of Spring"
• "Poem" ("Leaf/color of old parchment")
• Untitled ("I want to walk")
• "(Untitled)" ("Where do our dreams go once we are awake")
• "Poem" ("Mist/drifting over the lagoon")
• "Poem" ("And what if the lake were like a friend")
• "(Untitled)" ("We're only tenant farmers here")
• "(Untitled)" ("A grey day in May…")
• "Fragments from an Abandoned Poem"
• "[Untitled]" ("A day has its own look…")
• "Ode on the Eighth Day of Spring"
• "Ode on the Seventh Day of Spring"
• "Song in Hope of Spring"
• "Footnotes for a Lost Book on Theology"
• "Words for Humpty Dumpty"

Poems, 1950-1990

• Photocopies of Poems for New and Selected Poems
• "October"
• "November"
• "December"
• "February"
• "September"
• "Thirteen Mornings on a Bench in Lincoln Park"
• "Ancestral Song"
• "Poem on a 60th Birthday"
• "July"
• "Poem Beginning with the Zen Advice 'Think of Nothing'"
• "(Untitled)" ("The devil has the face of a goat")
• "Song After Making Love"
• "(Untitled)" ("I know more about this 2" scar that runs")
• "In Hope of Exorcism"
• Photocopy of "Shams"

New and Selected Poems, 1950-1990

• Photocopies of Poems for New and Selected Poems
• "October"
• "November"
• "December"
• "February"
• "September"
• "Thirteen Mornings on a Bench in Lincoln Park"
• "Ancestral Song"
• Photocopy of "Shams"
• "Poem on a 60th Birthday"
• "July"
• "Poem Beginning With the Zen Advice 'Think of Nothing'"
• "(Untitled)"
• "Song After Making Love"
• "(Untitled)"
• "In Hope of Exorcism"

My Original is the Region of the Summer Stars, 1992

• "Pascal"
• "Poem" ("I'm sitting here in our apartment…")
• "(Untitled)" ("You've never given a second thought…")
• "Talisman"
• "May Days"

My Original is the Region of the Summer Stars, 1992

• "Pascal"
• "Poem" ("I'm sitting here in our apartment…")
• "(Untitled)" ("You've never given a second thought…")
• "Talisman"
• "May Days"
• "Ode"
• "Songs to My Soul"

My Original Country is the Region of the Summer Stars, 1992

• "Pascal"
• "Poem" ("I'm sitting here in our apartment…")
• "(Untitled)" ("You've never given a second thought…")
• "Talisman"
• "May Days"

Poems, 1992

• "Poem on a 65th Birthday"
• "Lines on Leaving Chicago Forever"
• "(Untitled)" ("Souls return on Halloween tonight")
• "Odes I"
• "Odes II"
• "Odes III"

Poems, 1992-1993

• "Canto XXI"
• "Canto XX"
• "Canto XVIX"
• "Canto XIII"
• "Canto X"
• "Self-Portrait at 66"
• "Ode to Masturbation"
• "On Reading an Old Fragment of a Newspaper Story"
• "Song of Mr. Tester (Caretaker of the Bethel Road Dumpster)"
• "Variation on the Theme 'April Showers Bring May Flowers'"
• "Question for Anthony Comstock"
• "Ode to the Old-Time Jazz Musicians"
• "Dream for Little Joe"
• Untitled ("Well here we are sweet meat")
• Untitled ("And asshole let me ask you this")
• Untitled ("Would you walk into the wilderness…")
• "Easter"
• "Poem" ("A long solid like black…")
• "Ode to St. Francis of Assisi and the Birds & Trees the Grass & Clouds"
• "Names"
• "To the Prettiest Checkout Gal in the Winn-Dixie Supermart in Boone"
• "Canto XXV"
• "St. Patrick's Day"
• "Wind"
• "Canto XXVI"
• "Canto XXII"
• "Canto XXIII"
• "Robin"
• "Canto XXIV"
• "Ode to the Ghosts of the Cherokee Nation in North Carolina"
• Untitled ("Lazy and good-looking")
• "Wataqua County as a Map"
• "Ode to 3 All Americans"
• "Ode to Fats Henry & the Gipper"
• "A Poem at Christmas"
• "Poem from the Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem"
• "Poem Jeykll Island in Georgia"
• "First Song on Beaver Dam Road"
• "Cow"
• "Reply to an Elder of the Beaver Dam Baptist Church"
• "Hiking on George's Gap"
• "Country Graveyard on a Hill"
• "Early Fall"
• "Maryrose"
• "Song of the Creek on the Beaver Dam Road"
• "Harvest Moon"
• "Song" ("That clothesline of clouds")
• "Maryrose"
• "Night"
• "Last Will & Testament"
• "(Untitled)" ("Abruptly/Like when suddenly you see…")
• "Falling Leaves"
• "Halloween"
• "November 1st"
• "The Dying of the Fall"
• "Song of the Fist Snow"
• "(Untitled)" ("In the middle of the night my wife exclaimed")
• "Thanksgiving"
• "A Baptist Recalls a Visit by Cole Younger"
• "A Cherokee Shaman's Song"
• "Daniel Boone's Song"
• "Traffic in North Carolina"
• "Poem" ("The winter leaves lie on the hills")
• "Song" ("The early winter sun among…")
• "To the Ghost of a Cherokee Medicine Man"
• "(Untitled)" ("It never/Ever fails…")
• "Poem" ("The way every bowel movement feels unique - today")
• "Poem" ("Such abundant bundles of marmalade…")
• "Love Poem"
• "Stars"
• "Clouds"
• "Poem for Dylan Thomas"
• "Poem" ("Learning today from a flyer from Wilde Life Magazine")
• Untitled ("Why do some dreams seem")
• "The Mystery & Melancholy of the Fog"
• "Two Songs"
• "Poem for John Logan"
• "Snow on Beaver Dam Road"
• "Poem" ("Omnl animale post-coith triste est")
• "(Untitled)" ("It feels great to be a man")
• "The Dull Days After Christmas"
• "Poem" ("The rain soft and squirmy as an egg yoke")
• "Poem" ("A good art gallery or museum…")
• "(Untitled)" ("Feeling your soul grow")
• "Fog on George's Gap"
• "(Untitled)" ("The fog that's gliding…")
• "Song on Beaver Dam Road II"
• "Song of the Wind on George's Gap"
• "Lines on George's Gap"
• "Poem for Senator Jesse Helmes"
• "(Untitled)" ("Looking at a landscape every day")
• "Song" ("When an early morning mist slowly moves")
• "Song of the Hills on George's Gap"
• "Fog on George's Gap"
• "Snow"
• "The Gift of the Raw"
• "Fog"
• "Poem from the Baptist Hospital in Winston-Salem"

Appalachian Spring, 1995

• "Appalachian Spring"
• "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"
• "(Untitled)" ("I've always hoped to write a poem about nothing")
• "Self-Portrait"
• "Song – Words Are Mummies"
• "Song of the Country"
• "Song – Sunday Morning"
• "Song – 'And Then There Were None'"
• "Nonesense Song"
• "Das Unbewusst"
• "Normal"
• "Everything's a Miracle"
• "Poem About Nothing"
• "A Poem for Kenneth Koch"
• "Poem on George's Gap"
• "Poem with 25 Questions"
• "Sex With Orgasm"
• "The Road on Beaver Dam Road"
• "Self-Portrait"
• "Poem" (So why bother about making a good poem again")
• "Poem in Favor of Our Fucking One Another"
• "To Any Bigot Who Hates Niggers Here in North Carolina"
• "Ode" ("Whenever the moon is blue")
• "Poem" (This waiting for a new poem to come")
• "A Poem for Ziggy"
• "Residence on Beaver Dam Road George's Gap"
• "A Note on the Many Selves We Are"
• "As the World Turns"
• "Poem Without Plot or Sunglasses"
• "Home is Where the Heart Is"
• "(Untitled)" ("And what if you never wrote another poem?")
• "Saturday August 4th"
• "August 7th"
• "August 8th"
• "August 10th"
• "August 11th"
• "August 14th"
• "August 22nd"
• "Song in an Early Autumn Afternoon"
• "Poem" ("Going over old poems")
• "Song of the Ravens of Bethel Road"
• "Song" ("You couldn't see a dozen ravens…")
• "Poem" ("To be taken daily")
• "Poem" ("Nothing's more ominous")
• "Whenever We Make Love"
• "Ode" ("Has anybody ever hammered out")

Applachian Spring & Other Poems, 1995

• "Applachian Spring"
• "February 1st"
• "Today's as Grey as the Flight of Winter Geese"
• "Rain"
• "We're Naked as the other Animals"
• "Clouds Over Mountains"
• "Ice Storm in Spring"
• "Bee"
• "Wind"
• "Song" ("The horses are standing motionless…")
• "Butterflies and Flying Fish"
• "Spring Like a Woman Who Won't Come"
• "For All We Know this Show's the Breath of God"
• "Poem for Fats"
• "There's Nothing Left to Do but Dance"
• "Oh the Happiness of the Angels"
• "Ode" ("The secret life of body and its bones")
• "Good Friday"
• "Poem for Mr. Bill Tester on Easter Saturday"
• "Easter"
• "To a Brown Moth"
• "Blowing Rock"
• "Song" ("In the hay field beyond…")
• "The TWA Corbies"
• "To a Young Baptist Preacher"
• "To a Handsome Middle-Aged Lady in a Doctor's Office in Boone"
• "To the Prettiest Check-Out Gal in the Winn-Dixie Supermarket in Boone"
• "To a Receptionist in a Doctor's Office in Boone"
• "Ode to the Ghosts of the Cherokee Nation"
• "Holiday in Chattanooga"
• "Poem for Pablo Neruda"
• "Oh Learning to be Versed in Country Things"

Appalachian Spring, 1995-1996

• "Autumn Comes to George's Gap"
• "Appalachian Spring"
• "Map"
• "In Dreams Begin Responsibilities"
• "Autumn Comes to George's Gap"
• "Song" ("And would you have wanted to be there")
• "Song of the Ravens of Bethel Road"

Poems, 1995

• "Ode to St. Francis of Assisi and the Birds and Trees and Grass the Clouds and Brother Sun and Sister Moon and the Wind When it's a Clown"
• "Forward"
• "Childhood"
• Autobiography
• "Ode to the Ghosts of the Cherokee Nation in Watagua County, North Carolina"
• "Poem" ("Somedays I wonder what God…")
• "Poem" ("It hardly has to be spectacular")
• "Poem" ("August is the month without a face")
• "Poem" ("I dig hearing how these monks")
• "Poem" ("If we ever have the luck…")
• "Poem" ("After the Technicolor of a good orgasm")
• "Poem" ("The way a sister and a brother once sailed")
• "Poem" ("Is there anything more welcome and exciting")
• "Poem" ("As if it happened over night")
• "Poem" ("Such a rich odor")
• "Poem" ("And it isn't so much that…")
• "Poem" ("Autumn comes to Watagua County when we see")
• "Poem" ("The most beautiful thing today")
• "Poem" ("Maroon brown")
• "Poem" ("The way a dream's always…")
• "Poem" ("If you're able to keep…")
• "Poem" ("And what if we begin turning…")
• "Poem" ("And what if there's nothing after death")
• "Poem" ("That tall maple tree")
• "Poem" ("Tooling along this narrow…")
• "Poem" ("Or are we like those cows")
• "Poem" ("The way we like to think")
• "Poem" ("This early autumn mist that almost covers")
• "Poem" ("Its mean lean mouth frozen open forever")
• "Poem" ("As I grow old…")
• "Poem" ("That bumblebee")
• "To Autumn"
• "(Untitled)" ("Walking into autumn feels like…")
• "To T.S. Eliot in Purgatory"
• "To Pablo Neruda"
• "On Learning to be Versed in Country Things"

Poems, 1995-1996

• "Among School Children"
• "Questions are Answers"
• "Song for Neruda"
• "Autumn Comes to George's Gap"
• "(Untitled)" ("Some days you feel as if…")
• "(Untitled)(A Day in Early Autumn)"
• "(Untitled)(Song)" ("Today feels like getting…)"
• "(Untitled)('Unmarked Road Ahead')"
• "Dawn"
• "Labor Day"
• "Directions"
• "A Walk Along Beaver Dam Road"
• "Calendar"
• "Dusk"
• "Naked To Mine Enemies"
• "Directions"
• "Dictionary"

Poems, 1995-1996

• "Lines Attempting to Refute the Old Medieval Saw 'Timor Mortis Conturbat Me' (The Fear of Death Causes Consternation in Me)"
• "Night"
• "Bestiary"
• "June in Honor of Another Failure"

God and Other Poems, 1996

• "Ode" ("North Carolina A southern state…")
• "(Untitled)" ("Body you've turned into my enemy")
• "Slouching Towards Golden Pond"
• "(Untitled)" ("I only want to be myself again")
• "(Untitled)(Death)"
• "Purge"
• "(Untitled)" ("I've never been a sky-diver…")
• "67"
• "Oh Learning You May Have an Infection in the Prostate Gland"
• "Hoc Est Enim Corpus Meum"
• "'I Will Lift Up Mine Eyes Unto the Mountains'"
• "Ode" ("I've known them since the ocean of the womb")
• "Mappa Mundi"
• "(Untitled)" ("This winding mysterious map…")
• "The Body as Old Battlefields"
• "Colonoscopy"
• "'Ain't Got No Tatters…'"
• "Lines After the Old Saying 'Ain't Sex the Nuts?'"
• "(Untitled)" ("You handsome Amazon…")
• "Baptist"

God & Other Poems, 1996

• "Song in Honor of the Coming in of the Day"
• "Ode to Diarrhea"
• "Lines"
• "Omne Animale Post Colity Trixie Est"
• "Body"
• "Night"
• "Day"
• "Death"
• "Life"
• "Time"
• "Eternity"
• "Woman"
• "Left Hand"
• "Right Hand"
• "Philip Drunk"
• "Tweedledum & Tweedledee"
• "God"
• "Song" ("To be able to walk along and see")
• "An Ordinary Evening on Beaver Dam Road"
• "'Everything is Water/If You Look Long Enough' – Creeley"
• "Poem" ("What if tomorrow begins like an empty blackboard")
• "Cry to the God of This World (From Grandfather Mountain Near Boone NC)"
• "(Untitled)" ("Who are you anyway?")
• "Fragments from an Abandoned Ode"
• "Ode" ("My original country…")
• "Applacian Spring"
• "Spider"
• "(Untitled)" ("You're walking through a door…")
• "(Untitled)" ("I want to write a poem…")
• "Cancer"
• "Song of the Blind Pygmy"
• "Muskrat"
• "Rimbaud"
• "Knowledge Begins in Wonder"
• "Firefly"
• "Poem" ("Cat as customary…")
• "Poem" ("It so happens I'm tired of being a man")
• "Poem" ("What if today the world we're walking in")
• "Questions of Answers"
• "Poem" ("Is it the absence of angles?")
• "Poem" ("That middle-aged blue-collar…")
• "Sex After 69"
• "Self-Portrait at 69"
• "Poem" ("I'm sitting in a spaceship…")
• "Another Poem About Poetry"
• "Poem" ("What if we were ants?")
• "Poem" ("Animals don't lie")
• "Poem" ("Flavin-6 plus new advanced formula")
• "Poem" ("In our grad school class…")
• "Poem" ("Let the wind move about inside the poem")

In the Year of the Hare, undated

• "October"
• "November"
• "December"
• "January"
• "February"
• "March"
• "April"
• "May"
• "June"
• "July"
• "August"
• "September"
• Drafts of Table of Contents for Late Have I loved You, O Beauty So Ancient and So New; Poems to Atone a Sin Against the Holy Ghost; The Garden of Earthly Delights; and Poems

Poems, undated

• "Hospital"
• "License"
• "Retirement"
• "Alcohol"
• "Questions are Answers"
• "(Untitled. Breathing Dreams BMs an After-Life and Love)"
• "An Ordinary Day in Chicago"
• "Poem" ("Where is the poem that will tell…")
• "Footnote for an ARC Poetica"
• "A Note for the Anatomy of Melancholy"
• "Cor Ad Cor Loquitor"
• "A Note on Solon's Remark to Xerxes the Magnificent 'Count No Man Happy Until He's Dead'"
• "Listening to a Record of the Eddie Condon Band Playing 'Some Sunny Day'"
• "Poem" ("Having feelings often is like…")
• "Answers are Questions"
• "Questions"
• "Horae Canonical"
• "Notes from an Anatomy Lecture"
• "The Inn of the Poets"
• "Dedication"
• "On First Looking Into Oscar Williams' A Little Treasury of Modern Verse (1946)"
• "A Gathering of Poets"
• "A Garland for Theobald of Oxford"
• "Poetica Hascitar Non Fit"
• "A Reading of 'Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird'"
• "Pascal"

Poems, undated

• "Notes for a Song of a Shaman"
• "Envy"
• "Anger"
• "Greed"
• "Sloth"
• "Pride"
• "Gluttony"
• "Poem with the Devil In It"
• "Spiritus Sanctus"
• "Christmas"
• "To My Old Psychoanalyst on the Feast of the Epiphany"
• "New Year's Day at Diversey Harbor"
• "Second Song in the New Year"
• "Third Song in the New Year"
• "Sham's Song"
• "Ode" ("When suddenly radically unexpectedly")
• "Soul"
• "Thanksgiving"
• "Rimbaud"

Poems, undated

• "Ode" ("I've longed to listen to you, Shams")
• "'What is that Word Known to All Men?'"
• "Poem" ("Be quiet now…")
• "Poem" ("The first stirrings…")
• "Poem for Tom Scarff"
• "Ballad"
• "'But Age, Allas!...'"
• "L'Abeille"
• "'…That When I Wak'd/I Cried to Dream Again'"
• "Poem for a Birthday"
• "Two Poems for Horatio"
• "The Garden of Earthly Delights"
• "Ada Street, 1600 N, 1300 W"
• "Ode. End of August"
• "Ode to Ed Paschke"
• "To Max Jacob to Prove to Him That I'm a Poet"
• "To the Catholic Poets"
• "Retraction"
• "Football Weather"
• "When They Were Jung and Easily Freudened"
• "Ode in October"
• "Addendum"
• "The Royal Road to the Unconscious"
• "Symphony in White No. 1: The White Girl"
• "To Jo"
• "Song. Olive Park"
• "Poem for Herman Serota, MD"
• "Parade Amoureuse"
• "Elegy for Charlie Brown"
• "Poem" (I need to talk with you again…")
• "Shams"
• "On a Photograph of Robert Penn Warren"

Reel-to-Reel; Interview with Claes Oldenburg, re "Proposals for Monuments and Buildings," 1968

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