Overtime: Selected Poems

OvertimeIntroduction/The Road-RunnerHomage to Lucretius"Plus Ça Change . . ."If You're So Smart, Why Ain't You Rich?The Slop Barrel: Slices of the Paideuma for All Sentient BeingsSourdough Mountain LookoutFurther NoticeSouffléLiterary Life in the Golden West10:x:57, 45 Years Since the Fall of the Ch'ing DynastyFor My FatherMetaphysical Insomnia Jazz. Mumonkan xxix.O:vii:58, On Which I Renounce the Notion of Social ResponsibilityHymnus Ad Patrem SinensisComplaint: To the MuseProse Take-Out, Portland, 13:ix:58Self-Portrait Sad, 22:ix:58Something Nice About MyselfTake, 25:iii:59A Distraction FitHaiku for MikeAddress to the Boobus, with her Hieratic Formulas in ReplyBoobus Hierophante, Her IncantationsTo the MoonSong for 2 Balalaikas on the Corner of 3rd & MarketSince You Ask MeTo a PoetAn Irregular OdeHaiku, for Gary SnyderA Vision of the BodhisattvasDreamHistorical DisquisitionsDream & Excursus, Arlington MassachusettsFor Albert SaijoHomage to RodinThe DaydreamThat OneVector AnalysisOne of My Favorite Songs Is Stormy WeatherFriendship GreetingsEarly Autumn in Upper Noe ValleyThe ChariotSong to Begin RohatsuSpring MusickFor Brother AntoninusLife and Death and a Letter to My Mother Beyond Them BothPlums, Metaphysics, an Investigation, a Visit, and a Short Funeral OdeThree MorningsRaging Desire &c.The Fourth of October, 1963Inside StuffNative SpeechCompostitionThe Lotus Sutra, NaturalizedEarly SpringThe Metaphysical Town Hall and BookshopThe Ode to MusicGoddessTrue ConfessionsThe PrefaceBleakness, FarewellHomage to William Seward BurroughsDear Mr PresidentJapanese Tea Garden Golden Gate Park in Spring"A Penny for the Old Guy"MahayanaLove Love Love AgainApril Showers Bring Rain?A Morning Walk"The Sun Rises and Sets in That Child," so my grandmother used to say,"California Is Odious but Indispensible"Imagination of the Taj MahalT/OThat Eyes! Those Nose!MThe Life of LiteratureAmerica!Giant SequoiasL'Enfant ProdigueGood News and GospelPalimpsestLabor DaySad SongLemon TreesEAMDWalking3 Days Ago5th PositionGinkakuji MichiSanjusangendoCrowdedWhite River OdeA RevolutionThe War Poem for Diane di PrimaThe GardenConfession and PenanceThe Grand DesignSuccess Is FailureThe WinterThe Winter for Burton Watson"NEFAS"All of it went on the wrong pageThe Dharma Youth LeagueFailingA Romantic & Beautiful Poem Inspired by the Recollection of William Butler Yeats, His Life & WorkInternational Date Line, Monday / Monday 27:XI:67America Inside & Outside Bill Brown's House in BolinasLife in the City. In Memoriam Edward GibbonAllegorical Painting: Capitalistic Society Destroyed by the Contradictions Within Itself. (Second Five-Year Plan.)To the Revolutionary Cadres of Balboa, Malibu & Santa BarbaraDuerden's Garage, Stinson BeachWalking Beside the Kamogawa, Remembering Nansen and Fudo and Gary's PoemBehind the DoorLife at Bolinas. The Last of CaliforniaBirthday PoemExcerpts from"Scenes of Life at the Capital"Many Colored Squares"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"Horrible Incredible Lies": Keith Lampe SpontaneouslyImaginary SplendorsPublic OpinionsMonument Rescue DimThe TurnLook Look Look"I Told Myself": Bobbie SpontaneouslyGrowing and ChangingOctober FirstOccasional DilemmasOde for YouAlleywayIn the Night"Stolen and Abandoned"TassajaraThe Universal & Susquehanna Mercy Co. Dayton, O.MessageHigh-tension on Low-pressure Non-accomplishment BluesMaskDetachment, Wisdom and CompassionMoney Is the Roost of All Eagles"The Conditions That Prevail"The Talking PictureDream PoemsMurals Not Yet DreamedThe Vision of DelightLuxury in AugustHow to Be Successful & Happy Without Anybody Else Finding Out About ItCompulsive Obligatory Paranoia FlashesFor Clark CoolidgeThe Radio AgainSomebody Else's Problem Bothers MeBeadDefective CirclesObsolete ModelsMany Pages Must Be Thrown AwayThe Congress of ViennaTo the Memory Of"Past Ruin'd Ilion"Tears and RecriminationsDiscriminationsHomage to St. Patrick, Garc&ía Lorca, & the Itinerant GrocerWhat About It?Treading More WaterTreading WaterWhat? Writing in the Dining Room?What's New?Violins in Chaos?The Bay Trees Were About to BloomDying Tooth SongRich Interior, After Thomas MannChanson d'Outre TombeHot Springs Infernal in the Human BeastHomage to Hart CraneWhat Are You Studying, These Days?DharmakayaSome of These DaysEpigrams & ImitationsFor Allen, on His 60th BirthdayBibliography