Compositions

Publications

1920

The First Season by “Dunn Wyth.” (c. 1920-1928) [collection of early poems; none published except for “I Sent Thee Late” in “A”-18]

1920

“Dawn After Storm,” Varsity (Nov.).

“Monody,” The Morningside 9.2 (Nov.): 38.

“Youth,” The Morningside 9.3 (Dec.): 99.

1921

1921

“Walking Down the White Sand Street of Kamakura,“ The Morningside 9.4 (Jan.).

“Undulations,” The Morningside 9.5 (Feb.).

“Sea-Nymph’s Prayer to Okeanos,” Varsity (Feb.): 8.

“Dark Room,” “Silver Moment,” Varsity (March): 19.

“The Faun Sees,” The Morningside 9.7 (April): 239; Pagan (Aug.-Sept.).

“Mood,” Pagan (Oct.-Nov.).

“Earth Counts a Day” [a play], The Morningside 10.1 (Nov.): 1-8.

“Louis XIV Chamber”; “The Mystic Song,” The Morningside 10.2 (Dec.): 42.

1922

Vast, tremulous [I Sent Thee Late]

1922

“Autumn Sunrise,” The Morningside 10.3 (Feb.): 157.

“Sun and Rainbow,” The Morningside 10.4 (March).

“Autumn Sunrise”; “Moments”; “Spare Us of Dying Beauty”; “Louis XIV Chamber”; “The Mystic Song,” The Morningside 10.5-6 (April-May): 157-158.

“Autumn Sunrise,” The Philadelphia Public Ledger (7 Oct.).

“An Immortality,” The Morningside 11.1 (Nov.): 10.

1923

The movement of clouds have not a mind’s precision (3 May) [DP]

A Parable of Time (Summer?)

No sound, but sun (16 Aug.)

What shall I do for money, my friend (17 Sept.) [DP]

Their shapely throats breathe as of song (22 Nov.) [DP]

tam cari capitis (27 Nov.) [29P 24]

Would what oppresses a night (23 Dec.) [DP]

Seeing, the eyes [DP]

1923

“An Immortality,” The Forum 69.2 (Feb.).

“This Earth”; “Glamour” Rhythmus 1.3 (March).

“Youth’s Ballad of Singleness”; “Vision”; “Reflections,” The Morningside 12.3-4 (March-April): 47-48.

“Louis XIV Chamber,” Voices 2.5 (Aug.-Sept.).

1924

Not much more than being (24 Jan.) [29P 2]

Millennium of sun– (22 Feb.) [29P 12]

Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography (original version 7 May)

The people change and the birds in the air (25 May) [DP]

Tall and singularly dark you pass among the breakers– (6 July) [29P 18]

All the stars have filled the heavens (6 July)

It is well on this June night (7 July)

Always the May-day sun (17 Aug.)

September among the headstones (21 Sept.)

Cars once steel and green, now old (29 Dec.) [29P 17]

1924

“Of Dying Beauty,” Poetry 23.4 (Jan.): 197.

“The Seer”, “Sun and Rainbow,” “Louis XIV Chamber.” Columbia Verse: An Anthology of Verse Published in Undergraduate Magazines of Columbia University from 1897-1924, ed. Cargill Sprietsma (NY: Columbia UP).

1925

Ferry (16 Jan.) [29P 5]

Comes a day when the round tracts of sky (18 Feb.)

Passing tall (12 April) [29P 10]

And looking to where shone Orion (28 April) [29P 15]

And they rest: the manifold light rays— (15-16 June) [DP]

Constellation: Memory of V.I. Ulianov (3 Aug.) [29P 1]

Play lost, banjos! Across the areas of ocean’s flowing (23 Aug.)

The sun—sign on the wave (6 Sept.)

Aubade, 1925 (24 Sept.) [29P 16]

(The Sadness After) (Fall)

Run on, you still dead to the sound of a name (15 Oct.) [29P 19]

Across the smoke, over all past living (17 Oct.)

And about these lights, they are  the lights (8 Nov.)

Close your eyes (21 Dec.) [29P 20]

O sleep, the sky goes down behind the poplars (21 Dec.) [29P 21]

1925

“A Parable of Time,” Two Worlds 1.1 (Sept.): 56.

“The Sadness After,” Two Worlds 1.2 (Dec.): 126.

1926

Like the oceans, or the leaves of fine Southern (Jan.) [29P 25]

We are crossing the bridge now (10 Jan.) [29P 13]

And the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders (27 Jan)

During the Passaic Strike of 1926 (18 April) [29P 7]

Stubbing the cloud-fields—the searchlight, high (3 May) [29P 11]

(I Wait for the Train) (10 May)

(For a Thing by Bach) (14 June)

How many / Times round (19 July) [29P 6]

Only water– (30 Aug.) [29P 14]

A Preface (dated 17 Oct.) [for unpublished sequence “18 Poems to the Future”]

Poem beginning “The” [55 Poems]

1926

“February 18, 1925,” The Lavender 3.6 (Jan.).

1927

Song Theme (26 Jan.) [29P 23]

(Spinoza in a Winter Season) (26 Jan.)

What are these smoke-stacks (26 Jan.)

My watch (7 March)

“He Came Also Still” (9 March)

The silence of the good that you were wrought of (10 March)

O lowering belts (14 March)

Someone said, “earth, bowed with her head, we mourn” (15 March)

During lunch hour I shall stretch opposite (15 March)

And human heat-beats; star-falling, engine-beats (8 April)

Critique of Antheil (April)

A dying away as of trees (19 April) [29P 9]

(Awake) / Propped on the earth (28 April)

(These States 1927) [Preface 1927] (dated 11 July)

Autumn, then autumn—what of it (13 Sept.)

N.Y. 1927 (13 Sept.)

Mr. Cummings and the Delectable Mountains (Review of E.E. Cumming’s Him) [“Him” in Prep]

1927

1928

Cactus rose-mauve and gray, twin overturned (29 Jan.) [29P 22]

Postscript to Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography (21 April) [Prep]

“A”-1

Ask of the sun (2 June) [29P 26]

Finer was the dead artist’s hand (2 June)

Cocktails (7 June) [29P 3]

Beginning Again with William Carlos Williams (postscript to Henry Adams) (9 Oct.) [Prep]

 “A”-2 (10 Oct.)

And to paradise which is a port (29 Oct.) [29P 8]

O autumn fields, if we should break, beyond (31 Oct.)

Blue light is the night harbor-slip (1 Nov.) [29P 27]

Buoy—no, how (1 Nov.) [29P 4]

1928

“Poem beginning ‘The,’” The Exile 3 (Spring): 7-27.

“Mr. Cummings and the Delectable Mountains”; “Preface—1927”; “Critique of Antheil”; “Constellation: In Memory of V.I. Ulianov”; “A Preface,” The Exile 4 (Autumn): 75-88.

“tam cari capitis”; “Song Theme”; “Someone said, ‘earth’”; “The silence of the good,” The Dial 85.6 (Dec.): 458-459.

1929

Two Dedications: D.R. (2 Feb.) [29P 29]

Two Dedications: Tibor Serly (5 Feb.) [29P 28]

“A” 3-4 (11 July)

Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography (Hound & Horn version 14 Aug.)

Ezra Pound: His Cantos (original version 10 Aug.) [Prep]

“A”-5 (9 Sept.)

1929

“No sound. But Sun”; “Millennium of sun—,” Blues 1.1 (Feb.): 19.

“Cocktails and signs of ‘ads,’” Transition 15 (Feb): 125.

“Across the smoke, over all past living”; “’And the strong men shall bow themselves’”; “And about these lights (East Rockaway, L.I.),” Blues 1.2 (March): 43-44.

“(Spinoza in a Winter Season)”; “September among the headstones,” The Criterion 8.32 (April): 420-421.

“Autumn, then autumn, what of it?”; “Finer was the dead artist’s hand”; “And to paradise which is a port”; “O autumn fields, if we should break” Blues 1.4 (May): 93-94.

“Siren and Signal” [sequence including “’He came also still’”; “All the stars have filled the heavens”; “Play lost banjos”; “North River Ferry” [Ferry]; “Cars once steel and green”; “Comes a day when the round tracts of sky”; “During lunch hour”], Poetry 34.3 (June): 146-149.

1930

Sincerity and Objectification I-V (4 Feb.) [Prep]

Words by William Carlos Williams Re-Written by LZ (16 Feb.) [included in An “Objectivist” Anthology]

American Poetry 1920-1930 (2 June) [Prep]

“A”-7 (4-7 Aug.)

“A”-6 (12-16 Aug.)

Ezra Pound XXX Cantos (7 Sept.)

Imagisme (Review of René Taupin’s L’Influence de Symbolisme sur la Poésie Américaine de 1920 à 1920) [two paragraphs extracted as “Influence” and “Poetic Values” in Prep]

1930

Translation of Anton Reiser’s Albert Einstein. NY: A. & C. Boni [LZ requested his name not appear].

“Cactus, rose-mauve and gray,” Pagany 1.1 (Jan.-March): 79.

Four Poems (1926-1927) [“My watch! / Star-darkness”; “A dying away as of trees”; “And human heart-beats”; “(I wait for the train),” Blues 8 (Spring): 14-15.

Three Poems (1924-1926) [“It is well in this June night”; “And looking to where shone Orion”; “Only water,” Pagany 1.2 (April-June): 21-22.

“Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography—part I,” Hound & Horn 3.3 (April-June): 333-357.

“Cantos d’ Ezra Pound,” Échanges 1.3 (Juin): 145-172 [trans. René Taupin].

“Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography—part II,” Hound & Horn 3.4 (July-Sept.): 518-530.

Group from Ten Poems (1924-26) [I: “Not much more than being”; III: “Always the May-day sun”; VI: “The sun— / sign on the wave”; “Tibor Serly (from Two Dedications),” Blues 9 (Fall): 40-43.

“For a Thing by Bach,” Pagany 1.4 (Oct.-Dec.): 23.

“Henry Adams: A Criticism in Autobiography—part III,” Hound & Horn 4.1 (Oct.-Dec.): 46-72.

“Poem” [“Ask of the Sun”], Front 1 (Dec.): 31.

“Dedication—D.R.,” Morada 5 (Dec.): 14-15.

1931

Program “Objectivists” 1931 [Prep]

Review of Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum (Feb.)

Madison, Wis., remembering the bloom of Monticello (1 March) [29S 1]

Prop. LXI (16 April) [29S 3]

Train-Signal (26 May) [29S 4]

Happier, happier, now (30 Nov.) [29S 8]

“Recencies” in Poetry (dated 19 Aug.) [Prep]

—“her soil’s birth” (22 Aug.) [29S 6]

The Gathering (Nov.) [trans. from Apollinaire] [DP]

Immature Pebbles [29S 2]

1931

“American Poetry 1920-1930,” The Symposium 2.1 (Jan.): 60-84.

“A” (Seventh Movement); “University: Old Time” [as Joyce  Hopkins]; “Program: ‘Objectivists’ 1931”; “Sincerity and Objectification” I, II, III; Note to Symposium by Parker Tyler and Charles Henri Ford; Translation of René Taupin, “Three Poems by André Salmon”—I, Poetry 37.5 (Feb.): 242-246, 268-285, 287-288, 289-293 [“Objectivists” issue].

“Aubade 1925”; “Beginning again with William Carlos Williams” (Postscript to “Henry Adams”), Hound & Horn 4.2 (Jan.-March): 229-230, 261-264.

Four Poems (1924-1928) [“Buoy—no, how”; “(Awake!) / Propped on the earth”; “Tall and singularly dark you pass among the breakers—”; “Passing tall,” Pagany 2.1 (Jan.-March): 89-90.

Translation of René Taupin, “Three Poems by André Salmon”—II, Poetry 37.6 (March): 333-339.

“The February Number” (reply to Stanley Burnshaw), Poetry 38.1 (April): 55-57 [with Burnshaw’s letter responding to the “Objectivists” issue].

“The Cantos of Ezra Pound (one section of a long essay),” The Criterion 10.40 (April): 424-440.

“Cantos di Ezra Pound.” L’Indice (Genoa) (10 & 25 April, 10 May 1931) [trans. Emanuel Carnevali].

“Poems (1927) 1 and 2” [“What are these smoke-stacks”; ”O lowering belts”], The Left 1.1 (Spring): 40.

“N.Y. 1927”; Review of R. Hillyer, The Gates of the Compass, L. Speyer, Naked Heel & K.T. Young, Ten Poems, Nativity 2 (Spring): 20.

“Blue light,” Pagany 2.2 (April-June): 79.

“’A’: third and fourth movements, ‘out of the voices’”; “Imagism” (review of René Taupin, Poésie Américaine), The New Review 2 (May-June-July): 83-88, 160-161.

“’London or Troy?’ ‘Adest’” (review of Basil Bunting, Redimiculum Matellarum), Poetry 38.3 (June): 160-162.

“Ezra Pound’s XXX Cantos,” Front 4 (June): 364-367.

 “Completely and accurately” (review of The Poems of Wilfred Owen), The N.Y. Sun (10 Oct.): 13.

“(Train-Signal),” Pagany 2.4 (Oct.-Dec.): 80.

1932

Who endure days like this (9 April) [29S 7]

The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire (completed 19 April)

In Arizona (28 April) [29S 9]

Arizona (29 April) [29S 10]

The water lifted me (with Jerry Reisman & George Oppen) (10 May) [DP]

It’s a gay li – ife (26 May) [29S 5]

Song 11: And the least see (27 May) [DP]

After “Les Collines” (with Jerry Reisman) (27 May) [An “Objectivists” Anthology]

Whatever makes this happening (20 June) [29S 12]

in that this happening (22 June) [29S 13]

Thanks to the Dictionary (begun July) [CF]

The sand: For the cigarette finished (3 Aug.) [29S 14]

Do not leave me (15 Aug.) [29S 15]

Crickets’ / thickets (15 Aug.) [29S 16]

Imitation (10 Nov.) [29S 17]

The mirror oval sabers playing (28 Nov.) [29S 18]

No One Inn (1 Dec.) [29S 25]

Ears beringed with fuzz (5 Dec.) [29S 20]

Snows’ night’s winds on the window rattling (13 Dec.) [29S 21]

To my wash-stand (13 Dec.) [29S 22]

1932

An “Objectivists” Anthology, ed. LZ. Le Beausset, France and NY: To Publ. (Summer). [includes “Preface: ’Recencies’ in Poetry,” “A” 1-7, “—Her Soil’s Birth,” “Prop. LXI,” “Madison, Wis., Remembering the Bloom of Monticello (1931),” “Program: ‘Objectivists’ 1931,” collaborations with Kenneth Rexroth, Jerry Reisman, R.B.N. Warriston and WCW].

Translation of René Taupin, “The Classicism of T.S. Eliot,” The Symposium 3.1 (Jan.): 64-82.

“(Ferry)”; “Madison, Wis., Remembering the bloom of Monticello (1931),” Contact 1.1 (Feb.): 40-42.

“It’s a gay li – ife,” Contempo 1.21 (1 April): 2.

“A” (Second Movement), Poetry 40.1 (April): 26-29.

“Run on, you still dead to the sound”; “Poem—1925,” Fifth Floor Window 1.4 (May): 6.

“The Transition” (review of Wyndham Lewis, The Doom of Youth), The Saturday Review of Literature (30 July): 18.

“A” (First Movement), Pagany 3.3 (July-Sept.): 9-13.

“in that this happening” (with Latin translation by Basil Bunting), Il Mare (1 Oct.).

“The Open Mind: Physiology and a Poem,” The Lion & Crown 1.1 (Fall): 40-42 [Published as “Anonymous”; a short essay without any poem but with note suggesting it was submitted by LZ on behalf of a student, although later hand-written note indicates dictated by LZ to Jerry Reisman].

“Song 9” (In Arizona); “Song 10” (“arch animals’” [Arizona]), Contact 1.3 (Oct.): 75-76.

“Poem beginning ‘The,’ 3rd-5th movements.” Profile: An Anthology Collected in MCMXXI, ed. EP. Milan: Giovanni Scheiwiller (May).

1933

N.Y. (24 Jan.) [29S 29]

A Further Note on XXX Cantos of Ezra Pound (23 Feb.) [in Active Anthology, ed. EP]

A Junction (7 Aug.) [29S 26]

This Fall, 1933 (12 Nov.) [29S 24]

Home for Aged Bomb Throwers—U.S.S.R. (11-22 Nov.) [29S 11]

Checkers, checkmate and checkerboard (29 Nov.) [29S 19]

Song—¾ time (8 Dec.) [29S 27]

1933

“Imitation / N.Y. 1932”; “Song 22,” The Symposium 4.2 (April): 178-181.

“Objectivists Again,” Poetry 42.2 (May): 117 [letter to the editor replying to Morris U. Schappes’ review of An “Objectivists” Anthology in Poetry 41.6 (March 1933) with brief response by Schappes 117-118].

“A Further Note on XXX Cantos by Ezra Pound,” The Windsor Quarterly 1.1 (Spring): 88-94.

“mirror fugue to ‘The Gnat’ by Carl Rakosi,” The Windsor Quarterly 1.2 (Summer): 138-139.

“Song 19,” Pesti Naplo (13 Aug.): 37 [included in English with an interview translated into Hungarian (see Misc. Writings)].

“Song 29,” Poetry 42.6 (Sept.): 312.

“The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire: Le Flâneur, (I)—Il y a” (with René Taupin), The Westminster Magazine 22.4 (Winter): 9-50.

“Poem beginning ‘The’”, from “A” 5th & 6th movements, “A Further Note on [EP’s] XXX Cantos. Active Anthology, ed. EP. London: Faber & Faber (12 Oct.). 111-153, 247.

1934

“Specifically, a writer of music” (24 Feb.) [29S 28]

“The Immediate Aim” (7 March) [29S 23]

Sequence from “The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire” (1 April) [selection of brief translations from Apollinaire]

Alba [Alba, 1952] (original version 1 May)

“Mantis” (27 Oct.) [55 Poems]

“Mantis,” An Interpretation (dated 4 Nov.) [55 Poems]

1934

Le Style Apollinaire, trans. René Taupin. Paris: Les Presses Modernes.

“Ezra Pound: His Cantos, parts I & II,” The Observer (Memphis, TN) 2.2 (Jan.-Feb.): 3-4, 8.

“The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire: (II)—Le Poète Ressuscité, (III)—& Cie” (with René Taupin), The Westminster Magazine 23.1 (Spring): 7-46.

“Sequence from ‘The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire,’” The Columbia Review 15.4 (May).

“How many / times round / deck,” Negro Anthology of 1931-1933, ed. Nancy Cunard. London: Wishart & Co. (16 Feb.).

“Tibor Serly (from Two Dedications),” “Madison, Wis., Remembering the Bloom of Monticello (1931).” Modern Things, ed. Parker Tyler. NY: The Galleon Press (Sept.). 73-75

1935

“Further than”— (20 Jan.) [55 Poems]

A madrigal for 3 voices (27-28 Feb.) [Anew 27]

“A”-8 (begun 5 Aug.)

A Test of Poetry (begun)

Review of Lewis Carroll’s Russian Journal and Other Works [“Lewis Carroll” in Prep]

1935

“‘Mantis,’” Poetry 45.6 (March): 320-321.

from 29 Songs [“Home for Aged Bomb Throwers”; “American Bank-Note Factory”; “A Junction”; “Song ¾ time”], Bozart-Westminster 8.1/24.1 (Spring-Summer): 28-30.

“Review of Lewis Carroll’s Russian Journal,” New Masses 17.2 (8 Oct.): 24.

1936

Arise, Arise (original version 27 Jan.; revised 27 June)

Modern Times (18 March) [Prep]

A Test of Poetry (cont.)

1936

“‘Mantis’”; ”‘Mantis,’ an Interpretation.” New Directions in Prose and Poetry, ed. James Laughlin IV. Norfolk, CT: New Directions. 167-175.

1937

Motet (15 Jan.) [I’s]

che di lor suona su nella tua vita (4 Feb.) [Anew 1]

One lutenist played look (2 March) [Anew 2]

“A”-8 (revised and completed 14 July)

The green plant grows (2 Dec.) [Anew 3]

1937

“The Labor Process (from “A”-8),” New Masses 24.5 (27 July): 16.

“Trio for Workers” [Madrigal for 3 voices]. Contemporary American Men Poets: An Anthology of Verse by 459 Living Poets, ed. Thomas Del Vecchio (NY: Henry Harrison). 141.

“Aubade: 1925,” “Ferry” [“How many / Times”], “Madison, Wis., Remembering the Bloom of Monticello (1931),” “Constellation (Memory of V.I. Ulianov),” “Poem” [“And looking to where shone Orion”], “Poem: Train Signal” [“With stars past troughs”]. Poetry Out of Wisconsin, eds. August Dereth & Raymond E.F. Larsson (NY: Henry Harrison Poetry Publ.). 310-314.

1938

So sounds grass, and if it is sun or no sun (27-28 Feb.) [Anew 4]

Ah spring, when with a thaw of blue (2 March) [Anew 5]

Anew, sun, to fire summer (1-4 Aug.) [Anew 6]

“A”-9, first half (begun, 9 Aug.)

“Aids” and restatement for The First Half of “A”-9 (begun, 9-21 Aug.)

American Ironwork 1585-1856 (27 Aug.) [Useful Art]

When the crickets (28 Aug.) [Anew 7]

Chalkware (26 Sept.) [Useful Art]

Glad they were there (22 Nov.) [Anew 29]

Has the sum (5 Dec.) [Anew 8]

For you I have emptied the meaning (6 Dec.) [Anew 9]

What are these songs (6 Dec.) [Anew 10]

A Test of Poetry (cont.)

1938

“March Comrades (from “A”-8),” New Masses 27.6 (3 May): 14.

“A”-8. New Directions 1938, ed. James Laughlin (Norfolk, CT: New Directions): 93-149.

“’The’ (third movement)” [from “Poem beginning ‘The’”]. Biographical Dictionary of Contemporary Poets. NY: Avon House.

1939

American Tinware (9 Jan.) [Useful Art]

The rains, the rains (7 March) [Anew 28]

The lines of this new song are nothing (7 March) [Anew 20]

American Kitchenware (3 April) [Useful Art]

A last cigarette (15 May) [Anew 13]

Preface to Sincerity and Objectification (22 June?) [unpublished selection of criticism]

Thanks to the Dictionary (final arrangement 16 Aug.)

Gulls over a rotting hull (1-3 Sept.) [Anew 23]

Henry Adams (revised)

Drive, fast kisses (12-13 Oct.) [Anew 33]

My nephew (20-21 Oct.) [Anew 31]

The men in the kitchens (28 Oct.) [Anew 24]

Catullus viii (Nov.?) [Anew 22]

A Pair of New York Water Pitchers (7 Nov.) [Useful Art]

The Henry Clay Figurehead (16 Nov.) [Useful Art]

American Tinsmiths (21 Nov.) [Useful Art]

Binnacle Figure—1851 (18 Dec.) [Useful Art]

“Wide Awake” Lantern and Eagle (29 Dec.) [Useful Art]

A Test of Poetry (cont.)

1939

1940

Duncan Phyfe (11 Jan.) [Useful Art]

Carpenters of New Amsterdam (24 Jan.) [Useful Art]

Remmey and Crolius Stoneware (8 Feb.) [Useful Art]

Light 2: A house where every (25 Feb.) [ST]

The Caswell Carpet (29 Feb.) [Useful Art]

Friendship Quilts (14 March) [Useful Art]

“A”-9, first half (completed 1 April)

“Aids” and Restatement for The First Half of “A”-9 (completed 2 April)

Cotton Historical Prints (4 April) [Useful Art]

“A”-10 (10 June-31 July)

Light 15: I’m a mosquito (4-5 Aug.)

The bird that cries like a baby (30 Sept.) [Anew 18]

The world autumn (26 Nov.) [Anew 37]

Arise, Arise (revised 30 Nov.)

Light 11: Who in snow (original version 3 Dec.) [ST]

A Test of Poetry (completed)

1940

First Half of “A”-9. NY: privately printed (Nov.).

1941

Light 10: A Round (original version 1 Jan.) [ST]

No road! (1 Jan; rev. 28 April) [DP]

A Keystone Comedy (19 Jan.) [CF]

Light 14: It never pours, it draws (14 Feb.) [ST]

Ferdinand (begun Feb.) [CF]

Belly Locks Shnooks Oakie (7 April) [Anew 38]

And so till we have died (8 April) [Anew 19]

Light 11: Who in snow (revised 8 April) [ST]

Strange (28 April) [Anew 36]

Light 8:  See, 10: A Round (revised), 13: Why daylight saving (28 April) [ST]

1892-1941 (6 June) [Anew 26]

Light 6: An ornament of sentiment (19 July) [ST]

It was (begun 4 Aug.) [CF]

Guillaume de Machault (1300-1377) (5-6 Nov.) [Anew 17]

Light 9: I was walking in the park (3-4 Dec.) [ST]

No it was no dream of coming death (3-5 Dec.) [Anew 15]

In the midst of things (original version 5 Dec.) [Anew 11]

1941

55 Poems. Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker (Oct.).

“A”-9 (First half), Poetry 58.3 (June): 128-130.

“Paris” (“A”-10). Calendar: An Anthology of 1941, ed. Norman MacLeod. Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker. 8-20.

1942

Celia’s birthday poem (21 Jan., 30 March) [Anew 40]

Or a valentine (14 Feb.) [Anew 35]

One friend (22 March) [Anew 39]

In the midst of things (revised 29 March) [Anew 11]

Ferdinand (completed 17 June)

“A” 1-6 (revised 19 July-6 Aug.)

Dometer Guczul (12 Aug.) [Prep]

Can a mote of sunlight defeat its purpose (15 Sept.) [Anew 21]

“One oak fool box”; —the pun (2 Dec.) [Anew 14]

The need to have you (16 Dec.) [trans. from Alain Bosquet]

A marriage song for Florence and Harry (30-31 Dec.) [Anew 30]

1942

“1892-1941,” Poetry 59.6 (Sept.): 314-315.

From Anew [“Ben Jonson [One lutenist played look],” “Ah, Spring,” “When the crickets,” “Glad they were there,” “The rains, the rains,” “What I did not say (or a Valentine)”]. Calendar: An Anthology of 1942 Poetry. Ed. Norman MacLeod. Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker. 32-34.

1943

To Begin Again With Your Body (2 Feb.) [trans. from Alain Bosquet] [DP]

After Charles Sedley (14 Feb.) [Anew 41]

Light 3: Because Tarzan triumphs (31 March-3 April) [ST]

Light 12: R.A.E. (1 April) [ST]

You three: —my wife (27 May) [Anew 42]

To my baby Paul (23 Oct.) [Anew 43]

Basic (26 Nov.) [Prep]

Light 7: With passion for a baby (1 Dec.) [ST]

Light 5: Wire home (1-6 Dec.) [ST]

Light 1: (completed 1944) [ST]

To Go On [trans. from Alain Bosquet] [DP]

1943

“from Anew” [A last cigarette / a companion], The Old Line 12.6 (April): 19.

“The Need to Have You” (translation of Alain Bosquet), View 1.3 (April): 22.

“Dometer Guczul,” View 3.3 (Fall): 87-88, 95.

Basic (a report on Ogden & Richards, Basic English). NY: Hazeltine Electronics Corp. (Dec.).

1944

Sequence 1944-6 1: I look at the pines on the hillside (16 Jan.) [ST]

It’s hard to see but think of a sea (17 Jan.) [Anew 12]

Even if love convey (20-21 Feb.) [Anew 32]

The Letter of Poor Birds (1-5 March) [Anew 34]

for Zadkine (7 May) [Anew 25]

I walk in the old street (29 May-22 June) [Anew 16]

1944

“Pluck the Cascade” (translation of Alain Bosquet), Maryland Quarterly 1: 19.

1945

Sequence 1944-6 2: But lose patience (original version 13 Feb.) [ST]

Light 4 (3 April) [ST]

A Song for the Year’s End 2 (16 April) [ST]

Poetry/For My Son When He Can Read (May, finished 22 Dec.) [Prep]

Sequence 1944-6 4: Having outlived self-offense (original version 2-3 Sept.) [ST]

Sequence 1944-6 3: Heart too human (original version 7-8 Sept.) [ST]

A Song for the Year’s End 1 (30 Sept.) [ST]

1945

1946

A Song for the Year’s End 3: I look at the pines (14 Feb.) [ST]

Sequence 1944-6 5: (Flushing Meadow) (23 March-12 April) [ST]

1946

Anew. Prairie City, IL: The Press of James A. Decker (March).

“To his own hurt” [“A Song for the Year’s End”: “Daughter of Music”; “I shall go back to my mother’s grave”; “Because he was crying”], Yale Poetry Review 5 (Autumn): 25-26.

“A Note on the Work of William Carlos Williams,” Briarcliff Quarterly 3.11 (Oct.): 198-201 [concluding section of “American Poetry 1920-1930”].

1947

Sequence 1944-6 2, 3, 4 (revised 4 March) [ST]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (begun Summer; Preface 8 Sept.)

Michtam 1: Les-Wiat, from Caul Gate (22 Aug.) [ST]

que j’ay dit devant 2 (26 Aug.) [ST]

que j’ay dit devant 1 (22 Oct.) [ST]

1947

“Sequence 1944-46,” Partisan Review 14.4 (July-Aug.): 390-392.

1948

So That Even A Lover (11 Jan.) [ST]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (Part One 15 Feb.)

Light 1-15 (arranged 17 May) [ST]

Michtam 2: Romantic Portrait (20 May) [ST]

“A”-9, second half (begun Aug.)

Michtam 3: with a capital P (14 Nov.) [ST]

An Old Note on William Carlos Williams [Prep]

“Work/Sundown” [Prep]

1948

A Test of Poetry. NY: The Objectivist Press (Sept.).

“Poetry / For My Son When He Can Read,” Cronos 2.4 (March): 22-30.

“Little wrists”; “Hello, little leaves,” The Golden Goose 1 (Summer): 31.

“Light,” The Golden Goose 2 (Autumn): 6-13.

“Statement” [Work/Sundown]. The Case of Ezra Pound, ed. Charles Norman. NY: Bodley Press. 55-57.

1949

Xenophanes (10 Feb.) [ST]

Non Ti Fidar (19 Feb.) [ST]

Some time has gone (25 Feb.) [ST]

Chloride of Lime and Charcoal I (13-16 Aug., 7 Sept.) [ST]

Chloride of Lime and Charcoal II (28 Oct.) [ST]

Chloride of Lime and Charcoal III (29 Oct.) [ST]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (cont.)

1949

“Poem” [“Cocktails”]. Transition Workshop, ed. Eugene Jolas. NY: Vanguard Press, 1949. 271-271.

1950

Reading and Talking (6, 10-11 Jan.) [ST]

A Statement for Poetry (31 Jan.)

“As To How Much” (1 Feb.) [ST]

George Washington (22 Feb.) [ST]

Review of Vivienne Koch’s William Carlos Williams (19 March)

And Without (1 April) [ST]

Perch Less (2 June) [ST]

 “A”-9, second half (completed 18 Aug.)

Little Baron Snorck, chapters 1-8 (completed 12 Nov.) [Little]

You Are Old Dr. Gluillens (12-15 Nov.) [Little]

Air (24 Dec.) [ST]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (cont.)

1950

“Poetry in a Modern Age” (review of Vivienne Koch, William Carlos Williams), Poetry 76.3 (June): 177-180 [incorporates “An Old Note on Williams Carlos Williams’].

“Some Time” (“Chloride Of Lime and Charcoal I”; “Non Ti Fidar”; “Some time has gone”), Botteghe Oscure 5: 375-380.

“Xenophanes,” New Mexico Quarterly 20.2 (Summer): 209-210.

Ferdinand (first half), Quarterly Review of Literature 5.3: 255-292.

Ferdinand (second half), Quarterly Review of Literature 5.4: 373-400.

“As to How Much,” Imagi 13, 17.

1951

Pamphylian (22-23 Jan.) [ST]

To My Valentines (13 Feb.) [ST]

“A”-11 (11 April-12 May)

“A”-12 (22 June-19 Oct.)

Review of George Santayana’s Dominations and Powers [“Effacement of  Philosophy” in Prep]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (cont.)

1951

“Air,” Tomorrow 10.9 (May): 41.

“Day that passes,” Tomorrow 10.10 (June): 17.

“Perch Less,” New Mexico Quarterly 21.2 (Summer): 225.

“A”-11, Botteghe Oscure 8: 326-327.

1952

On Valentine’s Day to Friends (28 Jan.) [ST]

Old (10-11 May) [ST]

Alba (1952) (revised 17 May, 12 Aug.) [ST]

Spook’s Sabbath, Five Bowings (6-15 July) [ST]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (cont.)

1952

A Test of Poetry [English edn]. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul (Sept.).

“Poetry (1952)” [“A Statement for Poetry”], Montevallo Review 1.3 (Spring): 49-54.

1953

“All Wise” (2 Jan.) [ST]

For Selma Gubin’s Umbrellas (5 Jan.) [ST]

SONGS OF DEGREES 1: With a Valentine (the 12 February) (12 Feb.) [ST]

SONGS OF DEGREES 2: With a Valentine (the 14 February) (14 Feb.) [ST]

SONGS OF DEGREES 3: ‘Nor did the prophet’ (original version 28 July) [ST]

The Judge and The Bird (23 Oct.-3 Nov.) [ST]

All of December Toward New Year’s (21 Dec.) [ST]

H.T. (27 Dec.) [ST]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (cont.)

1953

“Love speaks” [last 3 strophes of the Second Half of “A”-9]; “The Effacement of Philosophy” (review of George Santayana, Dominations and Powers), Montevallo Review 1.4 (Summer): 44, 62-64.

“All Wise”; “Alba (1952)”; “Spooks’ Sabbath, Five Bowings”; “Old,” Accent 13.3 (Summer): 135-139.

Preface and Part I of Bottom: on Shakespeare, New Directions 14, ed. James Laughlin (NY: New Directions): 288-307.

1954

Bottom: on Shakespeare (Part Two, section 1, 1 Jan.)

SONGS OF DEGREES 4: Happiest February (13 Feb.) [ST]

It was (revised 19 March)

SONGS OF DEGREES 5: William Carlos Williams alive! (30 Aug.) [ST]

1954

from “A”-12, The Beloit Poetry Journal 5.1 (Fall): 1-3.

“The Judge and the Bird,” Poetry 85.2 (Nov.): 74-76.

1955

SONGS OF DEGREES 6: A wish (17 Jan.) [ST]

SONGS OF DEGREES 3: ‘Nor did the prophet’ (revised 21 Jan.) [ST]

SONGS OF DEGREES 7: March first (2-5 March) [ST]

The Guests (21 Aug.) [ST]

Shang Cup (5 Nov.) [ST]

Claims (5-6 Nov.) [ST]

The Laws Can Say (5-6 Nov.) [ST]

An Incident (16 Nov.) [ST]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (cont.)

1955

from “A”-12, Black Mt. Review 2.5 (Summer): 52-53.

from Bottom: on Shakespeare [“Shakespeare’s theme”], The Pound Newsletter 8 (Oct.): 18.

1956

The Record (6 Feb.) [ST]

Barely / and / widely / love (30 March) [BW]

Preface to Jonathan Williams, Amen/Huzza/Selah (7 April)

This is after all vacation (19-20 June) [BW 1]

You who were made for this music (19-21 June) [BW 2]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (cont.)

1956

Some Time. Stuttgart, Germany: Jonathan Williams (Sept.).

“The Guests,” Poetry 87.6 (March): 346-348.

“The Summing Up,” The Pound Newsletter 10 (April): 3 [brief note on EP].

“Songs of Degrees”; from Bottom: on Shakespeare Part Two [“Music’s Master”] (including CZ’s “Gower Chorus” from Act 1 of Pericles), Black Mt. Review 6 (Spring): 15-25, 119-157.

“All of December toward New Year’s”; “Reading and Talking”; from “A”-12, The Quarterly Review of Literature 8.3: 190-198.

“Michtam”; “George Washington,” Ark 2/Moby 1 (1956/1957): 6-7.

1957

The green leaf that will outlast the winter (1 Jan.) [BW 3]

A Valentine (2 Feb.) [BW 4]

The Heights (25-27 Feb.) [BW 5]

Send regards to Ida the bitch (9 May) [BW 6]

4 Other Countries (begun Summer) [BW 12]

Stratford-on-Avon (1 & 4 July, 4 & 30 Aug.) [BW 7]

Review of Robert Creeley’s The Whip (15 Oct.)

“A”-8 (revised Oct.)

Bottom: on Shakespeare (cont.)

1957

Bottom: on Shakespeare Part Two [“The Object is simple”], Black Mt. Review 7 (Autumn): 95-133.

“Barely and widely,” Ark 3 (Winter): 3-4.

“Catullus 8.” Latin Poetry in Verse Translation, ed. L.R. Lind. Boston: Houghton Mifflin/Riverside. 30.

1958

Catullus 1, 2, 2a, 3, 4, 5 (begun 8 Feb.)

This year (22 Feb.) [BW 8]

Ashtray (3 April) [BW 9]

Another Ashtray (8 April) [BW 10]

Forward [5 Statement on Poetry] (9 May)

William Carlos Williams: A Citation (20 May) [Prep]

Head Lines (13 July) [BW 11]

4 Other Countries (completed 1 Sept.) [BW 12]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (cont.)

1958

5 Statements for Poetry. San Francisco: SF State College (25 June).

Barely and widely. NY: Celia Zukofsky (Sept.) [limited ed.].

“The Heights,” The Colorado Review 2 (Spring): 7.

“What I Come To Do Is Partial” (review of Robert Creeley, The Whip), Poetry 92.2 (May): 110-112.

“The Best Human Value (A Citation for William Carlos Williams),” The Nation 186.22 (31 May): 500-502.

Two from Barely and widely, Poetry 92.3 (June): 133-138 [“Stratford-on-Avon” & “This year”].

“Strange.” 14 Poets, 1 Artist (Jargon 31). NY: Jonathan Williams, Publisher (12-14 Dec.) [loose-leaf collection of poems handwritten by the poets with drawings by unidentified artist; also includes poems by Ginsberg, Blackburn, Levertov, Jonathan Williams, Bob Brown Walter Lowenfels, Paul Goodman, Edward Dahlberg].

1959

I’s (pronounced eyes): Hi, Kuh (15 Jan.) [I’s]

Homage (17 Jan.) [I’s]

I’s (pronounced eyes): Fiddler Age Nine (5 Feb.) [I’s]

1959 Valentine (6-7 Feb.) [I’s]

To Friends, for Good Health (28 Feb.-2 March) [I’s]

Wire (1-2 March) [I’s]

Peri Poietikes (27 March) [I’s]

Little (outline for chapters 9-35, 29 March)

I’s (pronounced eyes): Red azaleas (2 May) [I’s]

I’s (pronounced eyes): HARBOR, FOR, Angelo & SEVEN DAYS A WEEK (13 June) [I’s]

Her Face the Book of—Love Delights in—Praises (18-19 June) [I’s]

Jaunt (20-21 July) [I’s]

Hill (27 Oct.) [I’s]

I’s (pronounced eyes): TREE-SEE? (29 Oct.) [I’s]

I’s (pronounced eyes): ABC (6 Nov.) [I’s]

I’s (pronounced eyes): A SEA (10 Nov.) [I’s]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (cont.)

1959

“A” 1-12. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press (Sept.).

from “4 Other Countries,” Poetry Pilot (Jan.).

“1959 / Valentine,” Wagner Literary Magazine (Spring): 56.

“To Friends, For Good Health”; from “Thanks to the Dictionary,” Combustion 10 (May): 6, 8-9.

“Three from Gaius Valerius Catullus” (with CZ) [Catullus 1-3], Poetry 94.3 (June): 148-149.

“The Heights”; “Air,” Brooklyn Heights Press (18 June).

From “A”-12, Return (Aug.).

From “A”-12, Return 4 (Fall).

“Peri Poietikes,” The Nation 189.15 (7 Nov.): 336.

“A Valentine (This / is / not)”; “The Green Leaf,” Neon 4: 15-16.

1960

Julia’s Wild (13 Jan.) [Bottom]

Bottom: on Shakespeare (completed 8 May)

I’s (pronounced eyes): AZURE (23 May) [I’s]

“A”-13 partita (23 Sept.)

Catullus 6-9, 8 (31 Oct.)

(Ryokan’s scroll) (16 Dec.) [I’s]

1960

From “A”-4, “A”-8, “A”-12, The Galley Sail Review 5 [2.1] (Winter 1959/60): 8-10.

Choice of Favorites, Poetry Pilot (The Academy of American Poets) (Jan.): 4-14 [selection of passages appearing throughout LZ’s work adapted/translated from Shakespeare, Homer, Xenophanes, Catullus, Lucretius, Guillaume de Machault, Spinoza and Psalms 16; see full contents here].

“Jaunt,” Poetry 95.5 (Feb.): 296-299.

“It was,” Nomad 5/6 (Winter-Spring): 48-50.

“All eyes!” (from Bottom: on Shakespeare), Folio (Indiana) 25.2 (Spring): 7-13.

“A Preface?” Jonathan Williams. Amen/Huzza/Selah. Karlsruhe-Durlach, Germany: Jargon (Summer).

From Bottom: on Shakespeare [“Ember eves” & “Z”], Poetry 97.3 (Dec.): 141-152.

1961

Daruma (27 Oct.) [AI’s]

Catullus 10-17, 21-50

Bottom, a weaver [Prep]

Translating Catullus (LZ & CZ) [Prep+]

1961

It Was. Kyoto, Japan: Origin Press (Nov.) [includes “It Was,” “A Keystone Comedy,” “Ferdinand” & “Thanks to the Dictionary’].

“Hill,” San Francisco Review 1.8 (March): 78.

“A”-13, partita i & ii; “(Ryokan’s scroll)”; Catullus VI & VII (with CZ); L.Z. letters to Cid Corman (7/11//60, 8/13/60, 8/25/60); from Bottom: on Shakespeare [from Part Two 67-77], Origin 1, second series (April): 1-30, 44-63.

from Bottom: on Shakespeare [Part Two 77-94], Origin 2, second series (July): 34-62.

“A”-13, partita iii, Origin 3, second series (Oct.): 1-14.

“The green leaf,” The Albuquerque Review 1.15 (28 Dec.).

“Old Testament’s Odyssey” (from Bottom: on Shakespeare), Damascus Road 1: 23-24.

“Modern Times,” Kulchur 4: 75-82.

1962

The Old Poet Moves to a New Apartment 14 Times (22-26 Feb.; begun 25 Nov. 1960) [AI’s]

Atque in Perpetuum A.W. (21 June) [AI’s]

The (21 June) [AI’s]

Pretty (25 June) [AI’s]

The Ways (2 July) [AI’s]

Catullus 51-63, 65

Prefatory Note to Prepositions (revised 4 Sept.)

Found Objects (1962-1926) [Prep]

1962

16 Once Published. Edinburgh, Scotland: Wild Hawthorn Press (Sept.).

“An Old Note on WCW,” The Massachusetts Review 3.2 (Winter): 301-302.

 “A”-13, partita iv & v, Origin 4, second series (Jan.): 53-64.

“Daruma,” The Nation 194.5 (3 Feb.): 103.

Catullus 16 (with CZ), Trobar 4 (Feb.): 4.

Catullus 4, 5, 9, 10-14, 15 (with CZ), Origin 5, second series (April): 20-27.

Little Baron Snorck; “Translating Catullus”; 3 Carmina & 3 Cats [41, 42 & 63, with Catullus’ Latin] (with CZ), Kulchur 5 (Spring): 3-19, 47-53.

Arise, Arise, Kulchur 6 (Summer): 66-100.

Catullus 17, 21, 23-25, 27-38 (with CZ), Origin 6, second series (July): 50-64.

“The Ways”; “Pretty,” Burning Deck 1 (Fall): 44-45.

“4 Other Countries,” The Texas Quarterly 5.3 (Autumn): 113-126 [with drawings by Cyril Satorsky, who did the artwork for Bottom].

5 Statements for Poetry (“Foreword”; “Program: ‘Objectivists’ 1931”; “Sincerity and Objectification”; “‘Recencies’ in Poetry”), Kulchur 7 (Autumn): 63-84.

Catullus 39, 40, 44, 46-48 (with CZ), Origin 7, second series (Oct.): 62-64.

“Atque in Perpetuum A.W.,” Poetry 101.1 & 2 (Oct.-Nov.): 143.

Two Poems [“Her Face the Book of—Love Delights in—Praises“; Catullus VIII (1939 version)], National Review 8.20 (20 Nov.): 394.

5 Statements for Poetry, Cont’d (“Poetry / For My Son When He Can Read”), Kulchur 8 (Winter): 75-86 [with music by PZ for “Songs of Degrees” 1, 2, entitled “Variants”: 31-39].

“You who were made for this music” (from Barely and widely). Anthologie des Poètes Américains, ed. Jacques Cardonnet. Paris: La Revue Moderne.

1963

Finally a Valentine (9 Feb.) [AI’s]

Beginning Again with William Carlos Williams (revised 10 April) [Prep]

“A”-17 (12-13 March)

“A”-16 (23 May)

“A”-20 (30 Oct.)

After Reading (15 Dec.) [AI’s]

Catullus 66-69

1963

I’s (pronounced eyes). NY: Trobar Press (May).

Bottom: on Shakespeare. Austin, TX: Ark Press, U of Texas (Sept.).

Catullus 49-54a, 57, correct version of 39 (with CZ), Origin 8, second series (Jan.): 29-31, 64.

“The Old Poet Moves to a New Apartment 14 Times,” Poetry 101.6 (March): 373-382.

Catullus 55, 58-60 (with CZ), Origin 9, second series (April): 63-64.

“The / desire / of / towing,” Poor.Old.Tired.Horse 6 (May): [2].

5 Statements for Poetry, Cont. (“A Statement for Poetry (1950)”), Kulchur 10 (Summer): 49-53.

“Poem 29” from Anew [“Glad they were there”], Cleft 1.1 (June): 35.

Catullus 56, 45 (with CZ), Origin 10, second series (July): 63-64.

Statement on Prepositions [included in Notes on Contributors]; “Ezra Pound: His Cantos (1-27),” Kulchur 11 (Autumn): 3, 39-56.

Catullus 62 (with CZ), Origin 11, second series (Oct.): 61-64.

“A”-17: A Coronal, Poetry 103.1 & 2 (Oct.-Nov.): 124-137.

3 Poems from Barely and widely [“Send regards to Ida the bitch”; “Another Ashtray”; “Head Lines”]; from a 11 Aug. 1951 letter, Blue Grass 2 (Winter): 12-13.

“tam cari capitis”; “Song Theme”; “Some one said, ‘earth’”; “The silence of the good that you were wrought of.” A Dial Miscellany, ed. William Wasserstrom. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse UP. 332-333.

“It’s a gay li-ife,” “che di lor suona,” No it was no dream of coming death,” “An Incident.” English with Italian translations by Carlo Izzo. Poesia Americana del ‘900, ed. Carlo Izzo. Parma: Ugo Guanda.

1964

Catullus 70-80

The Translation (1 Feb.) [AI’s]

“A”-14 (13 Aug.-14 Sept.)

“A”-15 (3 Oct.-1 Dec.)

“The Form” of “A”-9 (revised 9 Dec.) [from First Half of “A”-9, translated into German for 1966 edn. of “A”-9]

“A”-18 (begun 26 Dec.)

“A” Libretto (excerpts compiled 29 Oct.)

1964

Found Objects 1962-1926. Georgetown, KY: H.B. Chapin (April).

After I’s. Pittsburgh, PA: Boxwood Press/Mother Press (Sept.).

A Test of Poetry [2^nd US edn.]. NY: Jargon/Corinth Books (Dec.).

Catullus 63: Attis (with CZ), Origin 12, second series (Jan.): 60-63.

“Preface (1962)” (from Found Objects); “Song 28,” Wild Dog 1.5 (Jan.): 1-4.

A version from “A”-13, The Review 10 (Jan.).

“Poem 33 (1939) from Anew,” Granta 68.1234 (7 March): 5.

Catullus 65 (with CZ), Origin 13, second series (April): 35.

Catullus 22 & 26 [with Latin originals] (with CZ), The Resuscitator 2 (April): 8-11.

“A”-11, Helicon 3.1 (Spring): 16-17.

“After reading, a song,” Joglars 1.1 (Spring): 39.

“A”-16, Origin 14, second series (July): [back cover].

“Song 27” (from 55 Poems), El Corno Emplumado/the Plumed Horn 11 (July): 74-77.

Catullus 70, 72 & 73 [with Latin originals] (with CZ), Paris Review 32 (Summer-Fall): 74-75.

“Poem 21” (from Anew), Lines 1 (Sept.): 1.

Catullus 66 (with CZ), The Resuscitator 3 (Sept.): 10-13.

“Versions of Catullus” (Quod mihi fortuna, with CZ) [Catullus 68, 68a], Poetry 105.3 (Dec.): 155-160.

From “A”-6; “For Zadkine (Anew 25); Anew 7 & 16; “A”-7; “A”-11; from “A”-12; “Songs of Degrees” 1 & 2; “The Guests” (from Some Time); from “4 Other Countries” [I: “The birds of / Périgueaux” to “To perfect / makes / practice” (174-175), II: “That song / is the kiss” to “Of the / Triumphant God” (180-182), III: “Rome is a low / city” to “In the ground / of the overhead cloister / to look / also” (187-194)]; from Bottom: on Shakespeare [a mosaic of short quotations from Bottom and others, such as Robert Duncan and Marshall McLuhan, by Tomlinson]; from undated LZ letter, Agenda 3.6 (Dec.): 7-35 [LZ issue, ed. Charles Tomlinson].

 “Finally a Valentine.” Of Poetry and Power: Poems Occasioned by the Presidency and by the Death of John F. Kennedy, eds. Erwin A Glikes & Paul Schwaber. NY: Basic Books. 129.

1965

Pronounced Golgonoozà (25 Feb.) [Prep]

Catullus 81-116 and fragmenta (completed 19 Oct.)

Catullus 64 (begun)

Henry Adams (final revision 7 April) [Prep]

Prefatory Note to Prepositions (revised)

1965

Finally a Valentine. Stroud, UK: Piccolo Press (1 Jan.) [limited ed. card].

ALL: The Collected Short Poems 1923-1958. NY: W.W. Norton (April).

An Unearthing. Cambridge, MA: Adams House and Lowell House Printers (May) [limited ed.].

I Sent Thee Late. Cambridge, MA: LHS (June) [limited ed.].

“A” Libretto. NY: privately printed (Aug.).

Catullus 67 (with CZ) [with Latin original], Yale Literary Magazine 133.5 (April): 24-26.

Catullus 77 (with CZ) [with Latin original], Riata (Spring): 9.

“A”-14; “Pronounced Golgonoozà?,” Poetry 107.1 (Oct.): 1-51, 65-68 [issue devoted to LZ].

Catullus 82 (with CZ) [with Latin original], Harvard Advocate 100.1 (Nov.): 21.

“On Basil Bunting”: “‘London or Troy? Adest’ (1930) a review of Redimiculum Matellarum”; from Bottom: on Shakespeare; two quotations on Basil Bunting from poems by Louis Zukofsky [“…Dear whilom friend champing with the bad teeth of Rudaki” (from “A”-13 i) and “With a Capital P” (“Michtam” 3), King Ida’s Watch Chain: A Moving Anthology: Link One: Basil Bunting issue, ed. Tom Pickard [looseleaf assemblage].

“Poem beginning ‘The’”; “So that even a lover”; “Chloride of Lime and Charcoal”; “The Guests”; “This is after all vacation”; “You who were made for this music”; “The green leaf”; “Peri Poietikes”; “A”-11. A Controversy of Poets, eds. Robert Kelly & Paris Leary. Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor. 504-522.

1966

Catullus 64 (completed 1 Feb.)

“A”-19 (12 Feb.-29 May)

“A”-18 (8 March-28 April)

“A”-21 (begun 15 Aug.)

“A”-24 by CZ (begun 24 Dec.)

1966

“A”-9. Stuttgart, Germany: Futura 5, edn. hansjörg mayer (Feb.).

ALL: The Collected Short Poems 1923-1958 [English edn.]. London: Jonathan Cape (May).

“A” 1-12 [English edn.]. London: Jonathan Cape (Oct.).

ALL: The Collected Poems 1956-1964. NY: W.W. Norton (Nov.).

Catullus 94 [with Latin original] (with CZ), Island 6/Combustion 15 (June): 30.

“A”-20, Agenda 4.3 & 4 (Summer): 37-38.

“A”-15, Poetry 108.6 (Sept.): 357-375.

Catullus 102 (with CZ), Agenda 4.5 & 6 (Autumn): 17 [subtitled “To Basil Bunting” for BB special issue].

from “A”-8, Poetry Book Society Bulletin (London) 51 (Dec.): 2.

“Catullus 8” [from Anew]. Roman Culture: Weapons and the Man, ed. Garry Wills. NY: George Braziller.

1967

Foreword “A” 1-12 (25 Feb.) [Prep+]

“A”-21 (completed 14 May)

“A”-24 by CZ (finished first version 24 May)

Little (chapters 1-8 revised 9 Aug.)

Little, chapter 9 & 10 (begun 4 Oct.)

“A” / Cantata [one page selection of passages from the fifth section of “A”-13 with assigned voices: tenor, soprano and chorus]

An Objective (revision and combination of “Sincerity and Objectification,” “Program ‘Objectivists’ 1931” & “’Recencies’ in Poetry”) [Prep]

William Carlos Williams (revision and combination of “Beginning Again with WCW,” “An Old Note on WCW” & “WCW: A Citation”) [Prep]

1967

“A”-14. London: Turret Books (June) [limited ed.].

Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky. London: Rapp & Carroll (June).

“A” 1-12 [U.S. edn.]. NY: Doubleday (Paris Review Editions) (Sept.).

ALL: The Collected Poems 1956-1964 [English edn.]. London: Jonathan Cape (Oct.).

Little A Fragment for Careenagers. San Francisco: Black Sparrow Press (Dec.) [limited ed.].

Catullus 83, 87, 107, 109 (with CZ), The Journal of Creative Behavior 1.2 (Spring).

“A” Cantata 13 v, The Journal of Creative Behavior, Poetry Supplement, 1.3 (July); 20-21.

“Song,” The New York Times (3 Aug.): 32 [passage from “A”-21.499.15-500.5].

“A”-18, Poetry 110.5 (Aug.): 281-303.

“A”-19, Poetry 111.2 (Nov.): 82-111.

“A”-13, partita iii. The New Writing in the U.S.A., ed. Donald Allen & Robert Creeley. Harmondsworth, UK: Penguin.

From “All of December Toward New Year’s” [2], 1968 Peace Calendar & Appointment Book: Out of the War Shadow: An Anthology of Current Poety, ed. Denise Levertov. NY: War Resisters League. [week of Dec. 2].

“Julia’s Wild.” Poezie (experimentální poezie), eds. Josef Hiršal & Bohumila Grögerová. Prague: Edice Odeon.

1968

Interview (conducted by L.S. Dembo, 16 May) [Prep+]

L.Z. Masque [“A”-24] (revised by CZ beginning 17 Sept.)

Little, chapter 10 (completed), chapters 11-27

1968

Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays of Louis Zukofsky [U.S. edn.]. NY: Horizon Press (March).

From Thanks to the Dictionary. Buffalo, NY: The Galley Upstairs (March) [broadside].

Ferdinand/ including It Was. London: Jonathan Cape; NY: Grossman Publ. (Nov.).

From Bottom: on Shakespeare [“St. Thomas”; “Crashaw”; “Art is to see”; “Plato”], Origin 8, third series (Jan.): 18.

Catullus 38. Caterpiller 3/4 (April-July): 93 [in a Test of Translation].

“Preface” & “Young David” (from “Thanks to the Dictionary”), Monks Pond 2 (Summer): 1-2.

From “A”-21, Acts I & II, Poetry 112.5 (Aug.): 297-322.

From “A”-21, Act III, Poetry 112.6 (Sept.): 402-417.

“Julia’s Wild” [from Bottom] (with translation into Portuguese by Augusto de Campos), Artes Hispanicas 1.3 & 4 (Winter-Spring): 219-220 [concrete poetry issue, ed. de Campos].

From “A”-15. The American Literary Anthology 1, ed. Peter Ardery and George Plimpton. NY: Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 429-436.

Catullus 60 (with CZ). the silent Zero, in search of Sound: An Anthology of Chinese Poems from the Beginning Through the Sixth Century, ed. Eric Sackheim. NY: Grossman. 155.

“Julia’s Wild” [with Portuguese translation by Augusto de Campos]. Concrete Poetry: A World View. Introduced by Mary Ellen Solt and ed. with Willis Barnstone. Indiana UP. 219-220.

1969

Little, chapters 28-35 (completed 28 July)

L.Z. Masque [“A”-24] (completed by CZ, 27 Sept.)

To Daryl Hine for Nov. 1969 Poetry for Henry Rago [unpubl. note, qtd. Scroggins Bio 427-428]

Autobiography (arranged)

1969

Catullus Fragmenta. London: Turret Books (Jan.) [limited ed.].

Catullus (with CZ). London: Cape Goliard; NY: Grossman Publ.

“A” 13-21. London: Jonathan Cape; NY: Doubleday.

“The ‘Objectivist’ Poet” [Interview], Contemporary Literature 10.2 (Spring): 203-219.

“Peliaco Quondam” (with CZ) [Catullus 64], Poetry 114.4 (July): 219-233.

“An Incident.” Texas Times (University of Texas, Austin) (Nov.-Dec.): 10

“A”-18. The American Literary Anthology 2, eds. George Plimpton and Peter Ardery. NY: Random House. 389-408.

“Buoy—no, how,” “(Awake!) Propped on the earth,” “Tall and singularly dark,” “Passing tall,” “A”—First Movement. A Return to Pagany: The History, Correspondence and Selections form a Little Magazine, 1929-1932. Eds. Stephen Halpert & Richard Johns. Boston: Beacon Press. 254-255, 460-464.

1970

“A”-22 (begun 14 Feb.; “AN ERA” dated 24 Feb.; Initial written same year)

Introduction to reading from Little on WNYC-FM Radio (15 Sept.) [“With Little/For Careenagers” in Prep exp ed.]

About the Gas Age (corrected 23 Sept., 30 Dec.) [Prep exp ed.]

Foreword to “A” 1-12 (revised)

1970

Autobiography. NY: Grossman Publ.

An Era. Santa Barbara, CA: Unicorn Press (May) [postcard].

Initial. NY: Phoenix Book Shop (Christmas) [limited ed.].

Little / for careenagers. NY: Grossman Publ.

From Bottom: on Shakespeare, Workshop No. Nine (April): 9-10.

From Bottom: on Shakespeare, Tree 1 (Winter): 25.

“Catullus XI, XLV, LI, LVIII, XCVI” (with CZ), Grosseteste Review 3.4 (Winter): 37, 39, 41, 42, 44 [Special Catullus/Zukofsky issue].

“Cars Once Steel and Green, Now Old,” “It’s Hard to See but Think of a Sea,” “I Walk in the Old Street,” “The Lines of This New Song Are Nothing,” “The Green Leaf That Will Outlast the Winter,” “Non Ti Fidar,” “Reading and Talking,” from “A” (“A”-4 & -11). The Voice That Is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century, ed. Hayden Carruth. NY: Bantam. 249-258.

From “A”-13 partita I; from “A”-14 beginning An; Light 1; Anew 12, Inside Outer Space: New Poems of the Space Age, ed. Robert Vas Dias. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday. 361-369.

“Poem beginning ‘The’.” Possibilities of Poetry: An Anthology of American Contemporaries, ed. Richard Kostelanetz. Dell Publ. 140-151.

 “American Poetry 1920-1930,” The Plastic Age (1917-1930), ed. Robert Sklar. NY: George Braziller. 166-178.

“Song” [excerpt from “A”-21]. New York Times Book of Verse, ed. Thomas Lask. NY: Macmillan. 66.

From “Ezra Pound (1929)” and “American Poetry 1920-1930 (1930).” Ezra Pound: A Critical Anthology, ed. J.P. Sullivan. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1970. 113-114.

1971

Wallace Stevens Memorial Lecture (taped 29 April, revised 3 Aug.) [“For Wallace Stevens” in Prep exp ed.]

1971

1972

“A”-22 (cont.)

1972

“A”-24. NY: Grossman Publ.

From “A”-22. Cambridge, MA: Pomegranate Press.

 “Program: ‘Objectivists’ 1931,” Poetry 121.1 (Oct.): 45-48.

From Barely and widely [“Barely / and / widely,” #1 “This is after all vacation,” #2 “You who were made for this music,” #5 “The Heights,” #7 “Stratford-on-Avon 1957,” #11 “Headlines”]. The East Side Scene: American Poetry, 1960-1965, ed. Allen De Loach. Garden City, NY: Doubleday (Anchor Books). 303-308.

“The ‘Objectivist’ Poet” [interview]. The Contemporary Writer: Interviews with Sixteen Novelists and Poets, eds. L.S. Dembo and Cyrena N. Pondrom. Madison: U of Wisconsin P [Rpt. 1969 interview in Contemporary Literature].

1973

“A”-22 (completed 14 April)

“A”-23 (begun 13 April)

1973

Arise, arise. NY: Grossman Publ.

“The Iyyob Translation from ‘A’-15.” Alcheringa 5 (Spring-Summer): 3-4.

[Reply to] Questionnaire on Rhythm: from America. Agenda 11.2 & 3 (Spring/Summer): 66.

from “A”-22 [“AN ERA” to “Nature says, this wet, vine” 508-527], Poetry 122 (July): 215-234.

Mirror Canon of “Glad they were there.” Counter/Measures 2: 8-9.

“A”-4; “A Sea”; “Julia’s Wild”; “Songs of Degrees 5.” America a Prophecy, eds. Jerome Rothenberg & George Quasha. NY: Random House. 347-350, 432-433, 553-554.

“A Statement for Poetry.” The Poetics of the New American Poetry, eds. Donald Allen & Warren Tallman. NY: Grove Press. 142-146.

“Tall and singularly dark you pass among the breakers,” “Ask of the sun,” “In Arizona,’ “For you I have emptied the meaning,” Catullus viii” [“Miserable Catullus”], “Light” 2 & 4. The Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, eds. Richard Ellmann & Robert O’Clair. NY: Norton. 657-661.

“A”-15. Open Poetry: Four Anthologies of Expanded Poems, eds. Ronald Gross & George Quasha. Simon and Schuster. 231-242.

“It’s Hard to See But Think of a Sea,” “To My Washstand.” Shake the Kaleidoscope: A New Anthology of Modern Poetry, ed. Milton Klonsky. Simon & Schuster (Pocket Books). 205-208.

1974

“A”-23 (completed 21 Sept.)

80 Flowers, Epigraph (27-29 Dec.)

1974

from “A”-22 [“Centuries (place) telescope Sun” to end 527-535], Poetry 124.1 (April): 35-44.

“Addenda to Prepositions: The Collected Critical Essays” [“For Wallace Stevens”; “With Little for careenagers”; “About The Gas Age”]. Journal of Modern Literature 4.1 (Sept.): 91-108.

“All of December Toward New Year”; “Reading and Talking,” Contemporary Poetry: A Retrospective from the Quarterly Review of Literature, eds. T. Weiss and Renée Weiss. Princeton UP. 176-179.

“Two Songs” [“It’s a gay li-fe,” “No One Inn”], from “Poem beginning ‘The’” [Fifth movement], “Song 22, To My Wash-Stand,” “Mantis,” “’Mantis,’ An Interpretation,” “A”-1, from Autobiography #36 [“Strange to reach that age”; with CZ’s musical score]. Revolution of the Word: A New Gathering of American Avant Garde Poetry 1914-1945, ed. Jerome Rothenberg. NY: Seabury Press. 239-259.

1975

80 Flowers 1-23 [Starglow – White Begonia (25 Jan.-24 Dec.; 24 African Violet begun 25 Dec.)

1975

“A” 22 & 23. NY: Grossman Publ.

from “A”-23 (“His gain mother earth” to “go on in peace”). Agenda 13.2 (Summer): 10-12.

from “A”-23 (“An unforeseen” to “sound one”). Transatlantic Review 52 (Autumn): 5-8.

"A Translator's Florilegium: from Bottom: on Shakespeare." Modern Language Notes 90.6 (Dec.): 923-924.

From Bottom: on Shakespeare [Part Two 67-97]; Two letters to Cid Corman; “A”-13, iv; Catullus 4, 11, 31 & 37. The Gist of Origin 1951-1971, ed. Cid Corman. NY: Grossman Publ. 149-160, 170-190, 209-214, 219-220, 231-232.

“To Basil” (with CZ). Madeira & Toasts for Basil Bunting’s 75th Birthday. Ed. Jonathan Williams. Dentdale, UK: Jargon Society. n.p. [2 line poem].

1976

80 Flowers 24-50 [African Violet – Chokecherry] (24 completed 2 Jan.-22 Oct.)

Index to “A”

Index to Prepositions

Prefatory Note to Prepositions (final version)

1976

1977

80 Flowers 51-76 [Snowdrop – Vines] (11 April-28 Dec.; 77 Weeds begun 30 Dec.)

1977

“A” 22 & 23 [English edn.]. London: Trigram Press.

from “A”-23 (“An art of honor” to “are but us”). Singe 5 (Winter).

“‘Tall and singularly dark you pass among the breakers’,” “Catullus viii.” The Penguin Book of American Verse, ed. Geoffrey Moore. 416-417.

1978

80 Flowers 77-80 [Weeds – Zinnia] (77 completed 2 Jan.-21 Jan.)

Much ado about trees (5-11 Feb.) [Gamut: 90 trees]

1978

80 Flowers. Lunenburg, VT: Stinehour Press (June) [limited ed.].

“A”. Berkeley, CA: U of California Press (Dec.).

“A foin lass bodders.” Paideuma 7.3 (Winter): 409-411.

“The Iyyob Translation from ‘A’-15”; from Bottom: on Shakespeare; from “A”-12; “Her face the book of—love delights in—praises.” A Big Jewish Book, ed. Jerome Rothenberg. Garden City, NY: Anchor/Doubleday. 167-168, 188-189, 350-355, 561-562.

“Of Dying Beauty,” “’Mantis’,” “1892-1941.” Poetry Anthology, 1912-1977, eds. Daryl Hine & Joseph Parisi. Houghton Mifflin Co. 88-89, 152-154, 234-235.