New directions in prose and poetry 50

Playroom/Mary BarnardCasablanca/Elizabeth BishopJanuary the twenty-fourth, New York/Kay Boylefrom The Laic mystery/Jean CocteauThree poems/E.E.CummingsThis country road, with the engine running/Dudley FittsHeinrich Heine and the grain dance/Eugene JolasPreface: New Directions/The glacier and love's ignorant tongue/James LaughlinInto the night life/Henry MillerSee in the midst of fair leaves/Marianne MooreNew Directions in economics/Gorham MunsonThe president of the holding company/Lorine NiedeckerThe romantic museum/Montagu O'ReillyCanto XLVI/Ezra PoundThe transcarnation of Acumen and Decible/Tasilo RibischkaA water-fall and a piano/Gertrude SteinMystic garden & middling beast/Wallace StevensElegies/John WheelwrightHow to write/Perpetuum Mobile: the city/William Carlos Williams"Mantis"/Louis Zukofsky

Happiness/Walter Abish

from The structuralist/David Antin

37 Haiku/John Ashbery

Night-sea journey/John Barth

The school/Donald Barthelme

Two poems/Charles Bernstein

Comrades/Frederick Busch

Lana/Hayden Carruth

The compartment/Raymond Carver

Three poems/Cid Corman

Was Papa Haydn born April 1st?/Gregory Corso

Five poems/Robert Creeley

Wild clover/Guy Davenport

The surgeon/Coleman Dowell

Two poems/Robert Duncan

He with the beating wings/Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Plutonian ode/Allen Ginsberg

The life and death of kisses/Allen Grossman

A little bit of the old slap and tickle/John Hawkes

The showings: Lady Julian of Norwich, 1342-1416/Denise Levertov

From the cutting-room floor/James Merrill

Exercise/W.S.Merwin

Two poems/Michael McClure

Quartet/Joyce Carol Oates

The scourging at the pillar/Toby Olson

Two poems/George Oppen

(Baudelaire Series)/Michael Palmer

When we were here together/Kenneth Patchen

Rapture/James Purdy

The signature of all things/Kenneth Rexroth

Visions of Jesus/Jerome Rothenberg

Night song of the Los Angeles basin/Gary Snyder

Four poems/Jonathan Williams

Mother Yaws/Tennessee Williams.