Contents xxvii
Night Winds 525
The Warning 526
DON MARQUIS
The Coming of Archy 526
VACHEL LINDSAY
General William Booth Enters into Heaven 528
Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight 529
The Leaden-Eyed 530
WALLACE STEVENS
Peter Quince at the Clavier 531
Disillusionment of Ten O'clock 533
Sunday Morning 533
Domination of Black 536
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird 537
Metaphors of a Magnifico 539
Anecdote of the Jar 539
The Snow Man 540
Le Monocle de Mon Oncle 540
The Emperor of Ice-Cream 544
The Comedian as the Letter C 544
O Florida, Venereal Soil 558
To the One of Fictive Musice 559
To the Roaring Wind 560
WITTER BYNNER
Tiles 560
The Highest Bidder 560
from Spectra
Opus 6 561
ANNE SPENCER
Letter to my Sister 561
KAHLIL GIBRAN
The Madman (Prologue) 562
ARTHUR DAVISON FICKE
The Three Sisters 563
Sonnet 563
WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS
from Kora in Hell: Improvisations 564
from The Wanderer: A Rococo Study [First Version]
Paterson-The Strike 565