My Vocabulary Did This to Me: The Collected Poetry of Jack Spicer

INDEX OF TITLES

IInd Phase of the Moon 53 IIIrd Phase of the Moon 53 IVth Phase of the Moon 54 A Birthday Poem for Jim (and James) Alexander 223 A Book of Music 169 A Book of Music 178 A Diamond 119 A Fake Novel about the Life of Arthur Rimbaud 281 A Girl’s Song 5 A Lecture in Practical Aesthetics 14 A Night in Four Parts (Second Version) 16 A Poe-/m Ronnie Wrote The Other Evening 262 A Poem for Dada Day at The Place, April 1, 1955 46 A Poem for Dada Day at The Place, April 1, 1958 180 A Poem to the Reader of the Poem 65 A Poem Without a Single Bird in It 73 A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Landscape 6 A Postscript for Charles Olson 168 A Postscript to the Berkeley Renaissance 45 A Red Wheelbarrow 323 A Red Wheelbarrow 325 A Second Train Song for Gary 41 A Textbook of Poetry 299 A Valentine 171 Admonitions 155 After Lorca 105 Afternoon 152 Alba 125 An Answer to Jaime de Angulo 13 An Apocalypse for Three Voices 10 “Any fool can get into an ocean . . .” 23 Apollo Sends Seven Nursery Rhymes to James Alexander 217 Aquatic Park 131 Army Beach With Trumpets 176 Awkward Bridge 261 Babel 3 63 Bacchus 119 Ballad of Sleeping Somewhere Else 137 Ballad of the Dead Boy 140 Ballad of the Little Girl Who Invented the Universe 109 Ballad of the Seven Passages 111 Ballad of the Shadowy Pigeons 117 Ballad of the Terrible Presence 136 Baseball Predictions, April 1, 1964 375 Berkeley in Time of Plague 5 Billy the Kid 183 Birdland, California 60 Blood 280 Book of Magazine Verse 403 Booth Tarkington 266 Buster Keaton Rides Again: A Sequel 142 Buster Keaton’s Ride 113 Cantata 172 Car Song 251 Coda 270 Concord Hymn 252 Conspiracy 177 Crabs 279 Dash 278 Dear Joe, 157 Dear Lorca, (These letters are to be . . .) 110 Dear Lorca, (When I translate . . .) 122 Dear Lorca, (I would like to make . . .) 133 Dear Lorca, (When you had finished . . .) 138 Spicer: My Vocabulary Did This to Me page 457 Index of Titles 457 INDEX OF TITLES Dear Lorca, (Loneliness is necessary . . .) 150 Dear Lorca, (This is the last . . .) 153 Dear Robin, 163 Debussy 112 Dialogue Between Intellect and Passion 15 “Dignity is a part of a man . . .” 233 Dillinger 277 Dover Beach 317 Drugs 271 Duet for a Chair and a Table 176 Elegy 259 Éternuement 57 Ferlinghetti 265 Fifteen False Propositions Against God 193 Five Words for Joe Dunn on His Twentysecond Birthday 58 For Billy 162 For Dick 161 For Ebbe 158 For Ed 159 For Hal 167 For Harvey 160 For Jack 166 For Jerry 167 For Joe 164 For Judson 165 For Mac 160 For Nemmie 158 For Robert 165 For Russ 159 For Steve Jonas Who Is in Jail for Defrauding a Book Club 192 For Willie 166 Forest 132 Fort Wayne 272 Four Poems for Ramparts 411 Four Poems for The St. Louis Sporting News 414 Friday, the 13th 147 Frog 113 Ghost Song 175 Golem 359 Good Friday: For Lack of an Orchestra 174 Graphemics 397 He Died at Sunrise 135 Helen: A Revision 235 Helen: A Revision 237 Hibernation—After Morris Graves 56 Hisperica Famina 269 Homage to Creeley/Explanatory Notes 249 Homosexuality 6 Imaginary Elegies (I) 26 Imaginary Elegies (II) 27 Imaginary Elegies (III) 29 Imaginary Elegies (IV) 48 Imaginary Elegies (V) 230 Imaginary Elegies (VI) 231 “Imagine Lucifer . . .” 61 Improvisations on a Sentence by Poe 171 Intermission I 387 Intermission II 388 Intermission III 388 Intermissions 387 Introduction 107 It Is Forbidden to Look 276 Juan Ramón Jimenez 109 Jungle Warfare 173 Lament for the Makers 315 Lament for the Makers 322 Language 371 Letters to James Alexander 203 Love 325 Love 8 327 Love II 325 Love III 326 Love IV 326 Love Poems 382 Love V 326 Love VI 327 Love VII 327 Magic 264 Map Poems 365 Spicer: My Vocabulary Did This to Me page 458 458 Index of Titles [Map Poems] 111 367 [Map Poems] 137 367 [Map Poems] 155 368 [Map Poems] 185 368 [Map Poems] 217 369 Minneapolis: Indian Summer 37 Morphemics 391 Mummer 174 Narcissus (“Poor Narcissus”) 134 Narcissus (“Child,”) 139 Ode for Walt Whitman 126 On Reading Last Year’s Love Poems 39 One Night Stand 13 Orfeo 172...